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Dade Hayes Finance EditorApple Watch has a new feature to help combat COVID-19, sensing that a person wearing the watch is washing their hands and then ensuring they keep washing for the recommended 20 seconds.“Our approach here is using machine learning models to determine motion which appears to be hand washing,” Apple VP of technology Kevin Lynch said Monday during the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference, “and then we use audio to confirm the sound of running water or squishing soap on your hands.”During the washing, he added, the watch will count down 20 seconds (which is what health experts say is the standard threshold), offer coaching to encourage thoroughness and then light up with a “well done” message at the end.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Apple has nixed its plans to build an electric vehicle — a project that had been in the works at the tech giant for a decade, according to a new report. Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, reported Apple’s decision to wind down the EV project, code-named Project Titan. In a surprise announcement, Apple COO Jeff Williams and Kevin Lynch, the VP overseeing the project, on Tuesday informed the nearly 2,000 employees who were working on the project that it would be scrapped, per the report.