Siri Is Coming to Third Party Devices With HomeKit Update

Siri Is Coming to Third Party Devices With HomeKit Update

Apple announced new updates to its HomeKit smart home platform at WWDC 2021, helping to diversify the ecosystem and operating system for all of its home-focused devices. This means the HomePod mini will have many more integrations with other HomeKit-compatible devices. The launch of Homekit’s latest update will come with the release of iOS 15,…

Chinese lidar maker Hesai lands $300M led by Hillhouse, Xiaomi, Meituan – ProWellTech

Chinese lidar maker Hesai lands $300M led by Hillhouse, Xiaomi, Meituan – ProWellTech

The rush to back lidar companies continues as more automakers and robotaxi startups include the remote sensing method in their vehicles. Latest to the investment boom is Hesai, a Shanghai-based lidar maker founded in 2014 with an office in Palo Alto. The company just raised over $300 million in a Series D funding round led…

Apple’s new encrypted browsing feature won’t be available in China, Saudi Arabia and more: report – ProWellTech

Apple’s new encrypted browsing feature won’t be available in China, Saudi Arabia and more: report – ProWellTech

Apple announced a handful of privacy-focused updates at its annual software developer conference on Monday. One called Private Relay particularly piques the interest of Chinese users living under the country’s censorship system, for it encrypts all browsing history so nobody can track or intercept the data. As my colleague Roman Dillet explains: When Private Relay…

Apple Health Lets You Share Data With Doctors And Family

Apple Health Lets You Share Data With Doctors And Family

Apple has announced important new app updates at its June 2021 WWDC event, and these provide interesting new health-oriented capabilities as Apple continues to encourage broader use of its Health and Fitness apps. Most notably, the Health app will now have a Sharing feature that will allow patients to send the health data the app…