This holiday season, Wallace & Gromit have decorated London’s Battersea Power Station, home to Apple’s U.K. headquarters.
From 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. today, and every day until New Year’s Eve, a pair of Christmas trees will light up the two wash towers on the landmark’s river-facing façade. Visitors will see the two characters decorate the giant trees in their own inimitable styles, despite the intervention of the mischievous Feathers McGraw. Aardman follows in the footsteps of David Hockney, who last year created Bigger Christmas Trees, drawn on iPad Pro.
Apple just released iOS 18.1.1, but it’s iOS 18.2 that will come with exciting image generation features, such as “Image Playground,” Apple’s image creation feature that creates cartoon-like images from text descriptions.
Here’s what you need to know about the Apple Intelligence feature, including what it is, how to use it, and when it launches.
HomePass is a must-have app for HomeKit and Matter users, making it easy to keep track of all your accessories. This week, developer Aaron Pearce has unveiled HomePass 2, a complete rewrite of the app that adds several excellent new features for HomeKit enthusiasts.
Meanwhile, Apple merrily approves emulators that barely work and are exploitative crap. A cynic might wonder whether this is intent, to showcase the worst of emulation and put people off. Although given app review’s history, it’s perhaps more realistic to instead go for the old saying that you should never put down to malice what could be explained by incompetence.
The group accused the company of complicity in what they described as "genocide" and child labor abuse.
I took an afternoon walk in Thomson Nature Park. I've met a family of monkeys in the park. I've had Maggi goreng for dinner.
I hope I am now happy enough to face whatever bad news come next week.
~
Thanks for reading.