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The new features of the iPhone in 2024 were leaked

Apple wants to add several new features to the iPhone and the iOS operating system next year.

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As 2023 draws its last breaths and 2024 is ready to sit, it is not a bad idea to take a look at the previously announced or rumored features that will make their way to the current and future versions of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 17 and iOS 18, next year.

Among the features that we should expect to see on iOS next year according to MacRumors , we can mention: group music playlists in Apple Music, AirPlay for hotel TVs, sideloading of apps in the European Union, the next generation of CarPlay, the ability to help Satellite-based roadside assistance outside the US, RCS support in the Messages app, and generative AI for Cupertino's voice assistant, Siri.

Group music playlists in Apple Music

It is worth considering that this feature was originally supposed to reach users this month with the iOS 17.2 update; But for unknown reasons, Apple decided to remove it at the last minute of beta testing. Now, the iPhone manufacturer's website has promised the return of the mentioned feature in one of the iOS 17 updates in 2024.

Airplay on hotel TVs

Following the release of iOS 17.2, Apple updated its website to announce the delay of the AirPlay feature on hotel TVs until next year.

With the help of the discussed feature, iPhone users will be able to connect with AirPlay by scanning a QR code on hotel TVs and wirelessly stream videos, images and music from their Apple phones. Of course, users of the Google operating system can now stream content from their Android phone to the TVs of some hotels thanks to the Chromecast feature.

The spread of this feature is first of all due to the will of hotels to use it in their equipment; Apple announced some time ago that the multinational company IHG Hotels & Resorts is one of the first names that will use this feature in its collections.

Sideload applications in the European Union

With this feature, which is expected to be available only in European countries at first, users can install apps on their Apple phones from a source other than the Apple Store. Garman recently predicted that the app sideloading feature will arrive in the first half of 2024 in one of the iOS 17 updates.

The next generation of Carplay

Apple's website still announces "late 2023" as the time to introduce the first cars equipped with next-generation CarPlay; But with just under three weeks to go until the end of the year, it's unlikely that Apple's timeframe will be right. Finally, the next generation of CarPlay probably won't be available until next year.

Satellite roadside assistance capability outside the United States

When Apple announced the feature, it said it would be available "initially" in the US; Therefore, we expect that from 2024, users of other countries will also have access to it.

RCS support

Support for the RCS standard will bring the following improvements to the default messaging experience between iPhone and Android phones:

High resolution images and videos

Voice messages

Writing status indicators

Message read report

Messaging over Wi-Fi between iPhones and Android devices

Improved group chat functionality, including allowing iPhone users to leave a conversation that includes Android users

Improved encryption over SMS

These updated features are now available in iPhone-to-iPhone communications via blue iMessages and other messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram; The addition of RCS support on the iPhone also brings these features to the green bubbles in the Messages app.

Smarter Siri

Information previously reported that combining large language models (LLMs) with Siri will allow users to automate more complex tasks through deeper integration with the Shortcuts app. The report also predicted that the feature would be added to iPhones next year through a software update, likely to be iOS 18.

The addition of artificial intelligence capabilities to iPhones should be seen as the result of the sudden popularity of this technology after the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot. It was then that technology giants such as Google and Microsoft revealed their different perceptions of productive artificial intelligence in the shortest possible time.

Previously, Google released the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro phones with a strong focus on AI-based features; It is expected that in the near future, starting with the Galaxy S24 series , future models of Samsung phones will also be equipped with these features. It seems that Apple will have no choice but to board the train of this high-profile technology in order to keep up with its competitors.

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Danger for Xiaomi Band; The new Samsung bracelet will charge for 21 days

New information from the Galaxy Fit 3 reveals its specs and an impressive 21-day battery life.

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Samsung hasn't released any new fitness bands in the last three years, and the company has focused more on new Samsung smartwatches than fitness bands.

Apparently, Samsung is planning to launch the Galaxy Fit 3 to compete with newer fitness bracelets and low-cost smartwatches from Chinese companies like Xiaomi Band.

The Galaxy Fit 3 might launch around the same time as the Galaxy S24 , as images of it have been leaked several times over the past few months.

According to rumors, the Galaxy Fit 3 will have a battery life of up to 21 days on a single charge. That's a week longer than the Galaxy Fit 2's claimed 15-day battery life , and up to 10 times longer than typical Samsung Galaxy watches running Wear OS.

The Galaxy Fit 3 probably won't have wireless charging, but it's more than worth it for people who don't like charging their watch every other day.

Galaxy Fit 3 will be available in three colors: gray, pink, gold and silver. This wristband will probably have accelerometer, gyroscope, heart rate monitor and sleep tracking.

Such thin devices usually don't have built-in GPS, but a few do. So, we are not sure about GPS in Galaxy Fit 3. According to previously leaked information, the price of the Galaxy Fit 3 smartwatch will probably be around $80.

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The new cheap Hilo watch has an old display and 7-day charging

Hilo Watch R8 smart watch was introduced with 60 Hz OLED display and various fitness features at a very affordable price.

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Hailo, the Chinese accessory brand that was once part of the Xiaomi ecosystem, has launched a range of affordable smartwatches.

Some Hailo products are also sold under other brand names. For example, the OnePlus Nord Watch smart watch is actually the Hilo RS4 Plus smart watch .

By publishing a post on Weibo , Hilo has introduced a new economic smart watch for the Chinese market. This device is officially sold under the name of Haylou Watch R8 and provides various features to users.

The Hilo Watch R8 smart watch uses a classic design and is equipped with a 1.43-inch circular OLED display. This product also uses a metal frame.

Other features of the mentioned device include a resolution of 466 x 466 pixels, a pixel density of 376 ppi and a refresh rate of 60 Hz. This watch is also equipped with Always On Display (AOD).

The Hilo Watch R8 smart watch uses Bluetooth 5.3 and is compatible with devices equipped with Android 6 and above and iOS 9 and above. The mentioned device also supports NFC and Baidu Maps navigation system. This product uses a 300 mAh battery and is charged wirelessly.

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Your organs may age at different rates

Your chronological age is really just a number, and what is much more important to know about your risk of disease is the biological age of each of your organs.

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It seems that your chronological age, or the number of births you've had, is less important than ever in assessing your health. A new study shows that the body's organs age at very different rates, and the biological age of each organ can be at odds with a person's age on paper.

A new study , which has just been published in the journal Nature, has identified one out of every five healthy adults over 50 as "extremely old"; That is, a person who at least one of his body parts ages at a much higher rate compared to a group of his peers. Out of every 60 adults present in the study, one person had two or more limbs that were aging rapidly.

The study team measured proteins from organs such as the brain, heart, immune tissue and kidneys. The researchers hope their findings will lead to the development of a future blood test that can identify rapidly aging organs and allow doctors to target them for treatment before symptoms begin.

It is hoped that in the future it will be possible to identify rapidly aging organs with blood tests

The research team sampled the blood of more than 5,500 people, all without active disease or abnormal biomarkers, to look for proteins that originate in specific organs. By measuring their gene activity, scientists were able to determine where these proteins came from. When genes for a protein are expressed four times more in an organ, they specify its origin.

In the next step, the researchers measured the concentration of thousands of proteins in a drop of blood and found that almost 900 of them (about 18% of the measured proteins) were assigned to a single organ. When these proteins differed from the expected concentration for a given chronological age, this indicated rapid aging in the relevant organ.

" We can say with reasonable confidence that [a particular protein] probably comes from the brain and somehow gets out of the bloodstream," says Stanford University neurology professor and one of the study's co-authors. "If the protein concentration changes in the blood, it is likely that it should also change in the brain, and this tells us something about how the brain ages."

By comparing the specific proteins of the members of the study participants, the researchers were able to estimate their age gap (the difference between the biological age of the organ and the chronological age). Depending on the organ involved in their accelerated aging, participants found that at least one of these organs faced a higher risk of disease and mortality over the next 15 years; For example, people whose hearts were older than normal were more than twice as likely to develop heart failure as people with normal old hearts. Aging of the heart is also an important determinant of heart attack.

Similarly, people whose brains age rapidly are more likely to experience cognitive decline. Accelerated aging in the brain and vascular system is able to predict the progression of Alzheimer's disease with the same power as a clinical blood biomarker (plasma pTau-181) predicts for these patients. Severe aging of the kidneys was also a strong predictor of high blood pressure and diabetes.

Paul Shiels , professor of cellular gerontology from the University of Glasgow, believes that the recent study was well done with statistically significant groups; But according to him, the age range of the people who were present was a little limited. According to Shils, this study only examined older people and was not representative of a complete life span.

Measuring biological aging is an evolving science. "Epigenetic clocks" are a pioneering approach pioneered by Steve Horuth of biotechnology research startup Altos Labs. These watches determine tissue age more accurately than other biological age estimators by examining DNA changes.

As people age, the body begins to accumulate DNA markers that can tell how old a cell or organ is. This makes it possible to estimate age; But according to Viscora, epigenetic clocks estimate the age of the organism as a whole instead of the specific age of the organism.

Previous research by Stanford University geneticist Michael Snyder has classified aging into 4 distinct pathways by creating “age types”: through the kidneys, liver, immune system, and overall metabolism. Current research by Viskorai and colleagues extends these aging pathways to more organs and body systems.

Viskorai predicts that his research could lead to the development of a simple blood test capable of guiding the prognostic process . In other words, a test that can help predict people's future illness. "You can start interventions before the person gets sick," Coray says. In addition, this accelerated aging can potentially be reversed or slowed down."

"Interventions can be started before a person becomes ill"

Recent research is part of the growing field of personalized diagnostics. This science states that several biological indicators of organ health can help doctors target treatment. Blood measurement is traditionally used to detect disease in the body, and doctors diagnose the disease after a person passes the threshold of a certain index; But as protein markers become more sensitive, you may be able to detect an abnormal change before there are clinical manifestations, says Cora.

A single organ cannot tell the whole story of aging; Because the deterioration processes are related to each other and affect the whole organism. "We know a lot about the aging process at the micro level," says Shiels. But many of the factors that cause age-related organ dysfunction (such as lifestyle, pollution, the food we eat, and gut microbes) are environmental.

Viscora believes that every organ is essential for overall health. He compares the human body to a machine and says, "If one part doesn't work well, other parts start to suffer." "If you maintain the original parts, you can increase the life of the car."

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Samsung wants to sell 35 million Galaxy S24 in one year

Samsung achieved good sales success with the Galaxy S23 series and wants to continue this way with the Galaxy S24 series.

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The Galaxy S23 series has been a huge success for Samsung. The Galaxy S23 Ultra was the sixth best-selling smartphone in the world for several seasons. Reports suggest that overall sales of the Galaxy S23 series have crossed the 25 million mark, and Samsung thinks that more will be sold than the Galaxy S24.

According to a new report by TheElec , Samsung plans to sell more than 35.2 million Galaxy S24 series phones by the end of next year. The company expects Galaxy S24 sales to reach 13.5 million units, Galaxy S24 Plus sales to 5.8 million units, and Galaxy S24 Ultra sales to 15.9 million units.

Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24 Plus will be equipped with Exynos 2400 processor in most countries and Snapdragon 8 generation 3 processor in some countries. However, the Galaxy S24 Ultra will exclusively use a custom Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor with slightly higher clock speeds for the CPU and GPU.

The Galaxy S24 series phones are said to feature a screen with a maximum brightness of 2,600 nits (on the Galaxy S24 Ultra), improved performance, better camera quality, and newer software. Also, the Galaxy S24 Ultra will use a titanium frame for more strength.

Galaxy S24, S24 Plus and S24 Ultra use 4,000, 4,900 and 5,000 mAh batteries, respectively. All three phones will have stereo speakers, GPS, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, NFC, USB 3.2 Type-C port, ultrasonic fingerprint sensor, IP68 certification, wireless charging and reverse wireless charging.

The Samsung Galaxy S24 series phone is expected to be unveiled on January 17 (December 27) and Samsung will announce the full details and price of the phone at the same time.