Vratislav Holub In this regular column, every day we look at the most interesting news that revolves around the California company Apple. We focus here exclusively on main events and we leave all speculations or various leaks aside. So if you are interested in current events and want to be informed about the apple world, definitely spend a few minutes on the following paragraphs.
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Pavel Jelic Adobe Acrobat contained a huge security flaw
The macOS apple operating system can deal with PDF documents through the native Preview application. But there are many users in the world who rely on Adobe Acrobat Reader. The latter, especially in the paid version, offers several bonus functions, which u Preview in short, you won't find it. However, the security of this software from Adobe is often questioned. Security engineer of the multinational corporation Tencent, Yuebin sun, in addition, recently pointed out three other huge flaws that can be used by an attacker to gain root privileges and take complete control of your Mac. Fortunately, Adobe has responded relatively well to this problem quickly and a security patch is already available. But it is necessary that you have the current version installed on your device. For this reason, you should open the Adobe Acrobat Reader application, click on the button in the top menu bar Help and choose the last option Check for updates.
Adobe Acrobat Reader for macOS contained huge security flaws that could allow an attacker to gain root rights and access sensitive data.❗️ The bug was only fixed this week, so you should update the app as soon as possible.?https://t.co/rFO6aRj3db
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Apple Watch could detect the coronavirus
Nowadays, the Apple Watch is increasingly popular. You benefit mainly from your own health functions, when they can warn you about, for example, high heart rate, noise in your surroundings, potential cardiovascular disease and many others. When it is such a perfect and sophisticated piece of technology, there would be no way that a watch could do that as well predict the presence of the disease COVID-19? They asked themselves exactly this question at the prestigious one Stanford University, where they recently started a completely new studio. The researchers want to use data from the ECG sensor and information about the user's breathing to determine the mentioned disease even before the first symptoms appear. However, the entire study is still in its infancy. Anyway, if you fall into one of the three categories, you can study on your own to participate and thus help with the whole research.
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Namely, Stanford University looking for people, who have been diagnosed with (or are suspected of having) COVID-19, people who have been in direct contact with an infected person, or people who are at greater risk of infection (people in the healthcare sector, etc.). If you decide to participate in the study, you will have to wear the Apple Watch all the time, download the appropriate application and fill out a questionnaire daily, which will ask you about any symptoms and will take you a maximum of 2 minutes. At the same time, you will have to agree to export your profile from the application Health. The whole study should take two years, but it is expected that we will get interesting data within a few weeks.
Facebook adds multitasking support for iPadOS
Facebook has finally listened to its users and along with the latest update brings a great news. Support for splitting the screen into two parts arrived on iPadOS (Split View), which will allow the users themselves great multitasking directly within the application itself. At the same time, we also received support for a very popular function Slide Over. With the help of Split View, you can now have Facebook open together with another app, which can be especially useful when sharing things outside of Facebook. As for the Slide Over function, it allows you to quickly switch to this blue social network while you are in another application.
