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Google’s debut foldable makes a strong first impression. But if recent Pixels are anything to go by, the company has a lot to prove when it comes to performance and dependability.
Apple has introduced Crash Detection optimizations in the last several iOS 16 updates to try to cut down on false calls, and now the company has new recommendations for users that accidentally activate the crash detection feature. In an updated Crash Detection support document, Apple directs users not to hang up if an accidental call is placed, and to instead explain to the emergency responder that help is not required.
If the call has been made, but you don’t need emergency services, don’t hang up. Wait until a responder answers, then explain that you don’t need help.
Apple also removed a line in the support document that suggested users cancel a call during the timer period. “If you don’t need to contact emergency services, tap Cancel and confirm that you don’t need emergency services,” read the sentence that has been pulled from the document.
The Crash Detection support site continues to suggest that users should dismiss an alert if they are able to do so, but Apple appears to want to put a stop to iPhone users canceling or hanging up on an already-started emergency call and leaving emergency responders wondering what happened.
Emergency dispatchers around ski slopes have been particularly unhappy with the number of accidental calls that are being received from Crash Detection. Skiing and snowboarding tumbles are able to trigger Crash Detection, and with the heavy clothing worn with these activities, iPhone and Apple Watch users sometimes don’t notice that an emergency call has been placed.
In Colorado’s Summit County, for example, 185 accidental Crash Detection calls were received in a week in January, wasting time and resources needed for actual emergencies. Summit County emergency services director Trina Dummer said in February that the situation threatens to “desensitize dispatchers and divert limited resources from true emergencies.”
Apple in response sent four representatives to Summit County to observe the emergency call center, and further optimizations have since been added.
Crash Detection is available on the iPhone 14 models and the latest Apple Watch models. Using sensors like the accelerometer and gyroscope, it can detect a severe car crash and automatically call emergency services if a user does not respond to an alert within 20 seconds.
This article, “Apple Directs Users Not to Hang Up on Operators in Accidental Crash Detection Calls” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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A new Sons of the Forest patch is here, adding in a ton of features, and fixing plenty of bugs and glitches too.
Sons of the Forest recently launched into early access, so obviously things aren’t pitch perfect at the moment. It might be a bit of a glitchy mess, and likely won’t be a smooth experience until the full release, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t still a lot of fun. Endnight Games is working fast though, as the first patch is already here, adding in a large number of features, both big and small, as well as some gameplay balances, improvements, and a long list of fixes. One of the biggest features added with this update is the introduction of hang gliders, something that will be obviously useful to get around the mountainous landscape.
Binoculars have also been added in, surely a useful item to help you spot the island’s cannibals from a distance. You’ll have to play the game to find out what it’s like, but a boss fight has also been added into the food bunker, for some added challenge. There are some new story elements too, and you’ll be able to more easily view story paper pickups with the added zoom function. Keep an eye on the trees too, as “angry regular cannibals,” (possibly my favourite way I’ve heard cannibals be described) can attack by jumping out of trees.
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Welcome to VG247’s Best Games Ever Podcast: Episode 37 – The best game with followers you would never hang out with IRL.
Video Games often, through necessity, make us hang out with people we wouldn’t necessarily want to in any other context.. Looking after rich idiots? Helping demon-possessed adventurers find peace in hell? Chatting with disembodied skulls who have terrible behavioural issues? (it’s amazing how often that last one crops up). NPC followers or party members might be useful in a scrape, usually, but they’re generally not the sort of people you’d like to spend your downtime with. Or your uptime, tbh.
But which games have the worst folllowers? And of them, which is the best? If those are questions that you have, then you’re in luck, because that’s what this podcast is all about. Yes, this one here. You lucky people!