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The Series-of-Digits Edition Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Forgot Your Apple Vision Pro’s Passcode? You May Have To Take It Back To Store, by Mark Gurman, Bloomberg

The company is telling users who forget their code — typically a series of digits — that they’ll have to bring the device to a store or mail it to AppleCare customer support if they want to get it working again. Apple will then erase and reset it.

The issue is one of a few early customer-service snags surrounding the $3,499 device, which went on sale Friday.

YouTube Says A Vision Pro App Is ‘On The Roadmap’, by Nilay Patel, The Verge

Here’s a little bit of an about-face: YouTube now says it has a Vision Pro app on its roadmap. I mean this literally, as YouTube spokesperson Jessica Gibby just emailed me the following statement: “We’re excited to see Vision Pro launch and we’re supporting it by ensuring YouTube users have a great experience in Safari. We do not have any specific plans to share at this time, but can confirm that a Vision Pro app is on our roadmap.”

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Exclusive Apple Music USHER Content, Ahead Of Super Bowl Show, by Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac

Apple Music is offering a wide range of exclusive USHER content, ahead of the singer’s Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday.

Apple TV+ Sets Spring & Summer Release Dates For Series Including ‘Acapulco’, ‘The Big Door Prize’, ‘Loot’ & More, by Denise Petski, Deadline

Apple TV+ today announced release dates for a slew of new and returning series on the first day of the Television Critics Association’s Winter 2024 press tour. They include new seasons of returning series including Acapulco, The Big Door Prize, Acapulco, The Reluctant Traveler With Eugene Levy and Trying.

Feeeed: Embracing Feed Diversity And Personal News Curation, by Niléane, MacStories

Today, with our favorite content scattered across social media platforms, apps, blogs, and newsletters, it’s honestly really hard to keep up, and there is clearly a demand for an app that could juggle with all of them. feeeed is an attempt at embracing that diversity, and letting you build your own feed, merging all those sources into one continuous and beautifully designed stream.

Da Vinci Eye For Apple Vision Pro Projects Transparent Art Over Any Canvas For Inspiration, by Zac Hall, 9to5Mac

Speaking of ways creatives can use Apple Vision Pro, check out this augmented reality art projector app from Da Vinci Eye. It uses Apple Vision Pro’s Passthrough feature to let you see your own canvas as you project a transparent layer of art for inspiration over it.

Apple Vision Pro Has An App That Can Help Manage Anxiety, by Teodosia Dobriyanova, Mashable

Inspired by ancient meditation practices like Tibetan singing bowls, the app lets users interact with virtual instruments to create their own relaxing soundscapes. This immersive 3D environment uses RealityKit, Spatial Audio, and hand gestures, and each user can regulate the app’s immersion levels based on their own preferences.

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Apple Opens The 2024 Swift Student Challenge To Submissions, by John Voorhees, MacStories

Apple has opened up submissions for the 2024 Swift Student Challenge. [...] Eligible students have from today through February 25, 2024, to submit their app playgrounds on a topic of their choosing.

Apple Just Launched A New Open-source Programming Language, by Luke Hughes, TechRadar

Apple has released Pkl, a new open source ‘embeddable configuration language’, hoping to take the stress out of ‘small to large, simple to complex, ad-hoc to repetitive configuration tasks’.

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iOS 17 Adoption Is Slower Than iOS 16 Adoption, by Juli Clover, MacRumors

iOS 17 is installed on 76 percent of iPhones released in the last four years, according to newly released iOS 17 adoption statistics provided today by Apple.

Spotify Subscribers Rise To 236 Million After Record Year, by Jon Porter, The Verge

The results cap off a year that included both cost-cutting and price increases for the world’s largest audio streaming service.

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If not for all the podcasts that I listen to, there will still be quite a few English words that I would probably be pronouncing wrongly.

Especially many of the California-places macOS releases.

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