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Your iPhone could soon contain your entire medical history While most tech companies are scrambling to climb the machine learning mountain, Apple has its sights on a different goal. Sure, it did just dip its fingers in the smart home speaker jar, but its interests apparently lie elsewhere. According to insiders, Apple is looking to turn your iPhone into a one-stop shop for your medical information, with the goal of making it easier for users to share their information with health care personnel without having to go through the hoops and potential errors involved in traditional health care systems. That Apple is interested in the health industry isn’t exactly that big of a secret, but never has its ambitions been regarded to be this big. Its current HealthKit platform, for example, has mostly been concerned with the basics like activities, calories, weight, and heart rate. There have also been talks about hardware and software to aid diabetics, supposedly a matter near and d...

CEO Apple Tim Cook Apple has shed new light on its top-secret driverless car project, as chief executive Tim Cook described the challenge of building autonomous vehicles as “the mother of all” artificial intelligence projects. Cook said Apple was ploughing resources into developing technology to control driverless vehicles, although he refused to rule out the Silicon Valley firm building its own car at some point. The Apple boss spoke as shares in his company and other US tech firms came under pressure this week amid investor concerns that a sector-wide boom is losing steam. Cook attempted to restore faith in Apple’s ability to strike out into new territory by giving his most detailed comments yet about a car venture that has been shrouded in secrecy. “We’re focusing on autonomous systems,” said Cook in an interview with Bloomberg TV . “Clearly one purpose of autonomous systems is self-driving cars. There are others. We sort of see it as the mother of all AI [artificial in...