When I try to examine the threat of facial-recognition software dispassionately, I see the problem boiling down to two basic questions. The first is: Do we trust the government agencies that have access to such systems? If we do, then the benefits of preventing terrorism or child abuse might well outweigh the potential abuses and inaccuracies. If we don’t, then it seems our first task should be to bring these agencies under democratic accountability. After all, if the government is out to get us, it has enough tools to do so even without AI.
The second question is: How much do we value our privacy? There’s been renewed discussion in recent years of the putative “right to privacy” that, in a celebrated 1890 article, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis argued was derivable from existing U.S. law. But if it exists—and this remains debatable—such a right comes, even in its original formulation, with a host of exceptions. A right to privacy can in many cases come into conflict with the better-established First Amendment right to free expression. Most of the photos held in vast corporate databases (think of your Facebook photos) or government databases (think of your passport photo) were gathered with the explicit or implicit permission of the subjects. Experts have long been familiar with the “privacy paradox,” whereby we say we value our privacy while uploading our photos to public forums, opting into requests to monitor and share our online behavior, and so forth.
But does this fear (my fear) help or hinder my kids from growing up and finding their feet – and their autonomy? How much should we really be tracking our kids online?
Apple TV+ has announced that shooting on the fourth season of the beloved sports comedy series has begun in Kansas City, with additional filming due to take place in London. [...]
It was previously reported that Jason Sudeikis would be returning as Ted Lasso for Season 4. Now, it is confirmed that original cast members Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, and Jeremy Swift will all be back as well.
Apple today updated its Sports app with support for the FA Community Shield, the annual English football pre-season opener where the reigning champions of the Premier League take on the FA Cup winners.
One of Apple’s key selling points for decades has been its warranty service. Yes, the company has had some notable points of irritability—some of which have led to apologies or consumer lawsuit settlements—but, by and large, you don’t have to fight or fight much less hard to get your devices repaired.
When it comes to stuff you buy that works with Macs, iPhones, and iPads, the track record is a little murkier, partly because it’s not always clear what warranty service is available and under what terms.
Apple today announced that South Korea's Tmoney card can now be added to the Wallet app, allowing users to pay for public transportation with a tap of their iPhone or Apple Watch at subway stations and on most buses throughout the country. The card is also accepted at many major convenience stores in the country.
The online store launched today, seven months after Apple announced that a direct online purchasing option for Saudi Arabia was in the works. Prior to now, Apple users in Saudi Arabia could only shop from Apple Authorized Resellers.
The app includes features for organizing text clips, support for shortcuts to trigger text snippets, duplicate prevention, and code formatting, among other things.
I promise you, if every Apple leaker and rumour site disappeared tomorrow, Apple would celebrate. And keep making great products.
During WWDC25, Apple announced new versions of its on-device and cloud-based foundation models. Now, they have published a tech report detailing how those models were trained, optimized, and evaluated. And the report includes some genuinely interesting under-the-hood tidbits.
Apple was a charter member of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC) and an early proponent of using a smartphone for digital car key functions, launching that capability as early as 2020. Last week, the company played a key role in an event that will spread digital key capabilities to more vehicles and mobile devices.
The tech giant hosted the CCC’s 13th Plugfest at its headquarters in Cupertino, California, where a broad range of companies from the automotive and mobile device sectors convened to test Version 4 of the CCC’s Digital Key specification. The Plugfest activities were aimed at further improving cross-platform interoperability and cross-version compatibility as digital key adoption continues to grow rapidly.
It seems inevitable to me that, firstly, our faces will all get captured by CCTVs and whatnots, and secondly, face recognition software will be good enough to link all our face captures up.
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The ecosystem of hype and speculation surrounding every Apple launch inevitably generates more buzz and more interest. It feeds on itself. And while the company understandably doesn’t want the iPhone 17 to be completely revealed before launch day, it would, I think, be sorry to lose the worldwide interest that starts to build long in advance.
There are many apps for tracking what people eat. Few have what RxFood does: serious credentials, and the blessing of major health care players who are referring the app to diabetics.
It is backed by a dozen clinical studies that show people using RxFood have significantly improved the accuracy of their carb-counting efforts, reduced their glucose levels and saved time managing their diabetes by reducing the amount of time needed to monitor and record their food intake.
One Second (1SE) [...] is a dedicated app that helps you manage your daily memories so you can focus solely on capturing the required content. I thought this could be just the app I needed to finally make the movie of my life. With that in mind, I put on my imaginary director’s hat, downloaded the app, and cracked on with my life’s movie.
Beware of websites claiming rumors are good for Apple. Especially when said websites also sell you rumor articles with advertisements.
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Could I switch away from Apple? Sure, I could ditch my iPhone and buy another phone, and I could ditch my Mac and buy a laptop with Linux, I guess. But the only thing I’d be accomplishing is to make life easier for myself, and I’d also stop using software developed by those developers I care about. And also, nobody would care. Because nobody should. Tools are tools; they either do the job you need them to do or they don’t. And the sad reality of this world we live in is that most big companies out there are awful. If you spend some time digging, you’ll find despicable things done by probably 99% of CEOs of big companies.
At the same time, though, whether people care or not about tech companies, they end up purchasing their products, and perpetuate a vicious circle at the macro level: these companies remain in business, thrive, and grow. And keep being bad actors. That’s why I’m always glad when there’s governmental regulation aimed at protecting the citizens and customers. But that’s not enough.
Many people want to do a better job monitoring their diet and eating habits, but don’t exactly know where to start. Nunch is a fantastic new app to make the process a lot more seamless.
A big part of Notion’s appeal is its versatility. It’s like Google Docs, Trello, Wikipedia, and Apple Notes, all rolled into one app–with a dash of artificial intelligence on top. You can use it in a host of different ways, for everything from grocery lists to project management, and you get all the basics for free as an individual user.
The EU’s preliminary findings had flagged that Corning may have abused its dominant position by locking OEMs and glass processing companies into exclusive or near-exclusive supply arrangements, unfairly shutting out competing glass manufacturers.
However, while Corning does supply Apple with specialty cover glass, the Commission found that those particular products fell outside the scope of the investigation, “as these have special compositions and are only used by Apple.”
Good art often comes from bad people. Because people are bad.
And don't get me started about companies and corporations full of people.
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Apple is famous for its design sense, having produced a bewildering array of gorgeous gadgets over the years. But perhaps no device has embodied that sense as truly as the Power Mac G4 Cube, a sleek block of aluminum and plastic that turned heads and wowed onlookers when it launched in July 2000.
Unfortunately, it was also a commercial flop, lasting just one year until it was discontinued forever. Steve Jobs later admitted that it was overdesigned and overpriced, and while it stands a perhaps the purest expression of Apple’s design sensibilities, it’s also a cautionary tale of what can go wrong in the world of computer design.
When Apple themselves have not yet reasonably prescribed what standard UI elements look like in this new design system, how can any developer responsibly implement them in good conscience? Isn’t there something about this that just reeks? Adopting a standard control means it can change without your involvement. This has always been true to some extent, but the stink of it keeps getting worse as trust in the company’s vision erodes over time, right?
Another reason that the industry is showing signs of reluctance is because Alan Dye did not prove he understood the platform, any platform, before he assumed the role of its lead designer. He’s not just a newcomer to these platforms, but to software design as a whole. He never had any experience creating anything for Apple platforms before he was entrusted with this position. That’s crazy.
To be a leader at a company, one merely needs the job title. But to be a leader in an industry, you must earn its respect. Steve Jobs earned that respect. Many developers had little issue with following his vision. To a large extent, Jony Ive earned that respect, too. I don’t see that ever happening with Alan Dye, however.
It’s expensive, but Cyberpunk 2077 creates an atmospheric and exciting futuristic world for you to explore. Whether you’re hanging out with Keanu Reeves, tackling side quests, or collecting fancy cars, there are all sorts of activities to keep you busy. The varied skills and abilities you can learn will keep even die-hard RPG fans busy for weeks – and there’s not a dragon in sight.
In the age of near-sweeps, this trend has become a norm. And as a pundit who’s covered the Emmys for years, I’ll admit: it’s getting harder not to expect it. But should it be this way?
If past is prologue, Apple TV+’s cerebral drama “Severance,” the high-concept satire “The Studio,” and the gritty British crime miniseries “Adolescence” are poised to be the next major sweepers.
Plenty of great apps have been created using the Mac’s scripting languages, but commercial developers have largely relied on compiled languages used and supported by Apple for app and system development. Over the years those have included Object Pascal, C/C++, Objective-C and most recently Swift. This article provides a brief overview of how those changed.
The G4 Cube remains the best-looking Mac computer ever. I wanted it, but I didn't need it, and I definitely didn't have the spare money for it. It may be fortunate, because best-looking doesn't mean much for a computer.
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Ultra extends beyond the strictly “phone” functions of traditional CarPlay to now encompass more robust vehicular integration, including climate control, drive modes, and the entire gauge cluster readout. Running Ultra, therefore, requires a digital gauge cluster. So far, not many automakers other than Aston have signaled their intent to join the revolution: Kia/Hyundai/Genesis will adopt Ultra next, and Porsche may come after that.
Before future partnerships come to fruition, I spent a week with a DB12 Volante to test Ultra's use cases and conceptual failure points, most critically to discover whether this generational leap actually enhances or detracts from an otherwise stellar driving experience.
Apple Arcade is celebrating SpongeBob SquarePants this month, and several Apple Arcade titles will be updated with special SpongeBob-themed events.
Apple today shared a new iPhone 16 ad that highlights the Clean Up feature that's available in the Photos app. In the spot, a man snaps a photo of a woman with her cat, and then removes the cat from the image using Clean Up.
Both the cat and the woman are upset with the change, so he undoes it, demonstrating the reversible nature of the feature.
Flo is branching out to help people track symptoms of perimenopause, the transitional period between menstruation and menopause. The new in-app offering will be called "Flo for Perimenopause," and provide personalized guidance for those who are in, about to enter, or curious about this stage of life.
Video hosting and sharing platform Vimeo today announced the launch of an updated Apple TV app, bringing Vimeo back to the Apple TV App Store for the first time in two years.
In order to protect its trade secrets, Apple has filed the lawsuit to request an injunction against further disclosure of Apple's confidential trade secret information and is seeking damages over the misappropriation of them.
If I recall correctly, the last time Apple sued a rumor website, Think Secret, a settlement was reached and the website closed down.
But that was when Steve Jobs was still the CEO.
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The Emoji Game was initially unveiled at WWDC earlier this year as an iOS 26 feature, but to coincide with World Emoji Day today, Apple has released the game for all Apple News subscribers running iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, macOS 15.4, or newer.
"The reason we have emoji is that words alone don't really convey the emotional meaning or content of what we're trying to express," Dr. Helen Riess, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and founder of Empathetics in Boston, told ABC News. "In digital texting, all of that is missing, and so there's just so much opportunity for misunderstandings."
OpenAI has expanded access to Record Mode in ChatGPT for macOS, bringing the AI-powered transcription feature to Plus subscribers after its initial rollout to business users last month.
Google has announced that version 138 of its Chrome browser for Mac is the last version that can run on macOS 11 Big Sur. According to a support document, Big Sur is “outside of its support window with Apple,” and that “running on a supported operating system is essential to maintaining security.”
We’re pleased to announce enhancements to our Listening Reports in Apple Podcasts Connect for creators offering a subscription on Apple Podcasts. We now provide four reports: Episode, Show, Channel, and Provider Listening reports. All are available to download daily, weekly, and monthly.
These reports provide more granular, timely, and actionable insights into content performance and audience engagement, empowering you to understand the impact of marketing campaigns, free and paid listener counts, and more.
The Apple escrow account has been closed, resulting in the transfer of almost €14.25 billion to the exchequer, the Department of Finance has revealed.
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Last September, the ECJ delivered its final verdict in the long-running tax case, ruling against Apple’s latest bid to overturn the Commission’s decision. Its ruling “set aside” a ruling by the EU’s second-highest court, the General Court, four years ago, which had quashed the commission’s decision that Apple owed the Republic the back taxes.
Apple has now told us that no iPhones are affected by the ban. This is likely because the ban applies to specific OLED screen types not used in iPhones. The company said: "Apple is not a party to this case, and the order has no impact on any Apple products."
The practice allows malicious scripts and early-stage malware to fetch binary files without having to download them from suspicious sites or attach them to emails, where they frequently get quarantined by antivirus software. That’s because traffic for DNS lookups often goes largely unmonitored by many security tools. Whereas web and email traffic is often closely scrutinized, DNS traffic largely represents a blind spot for such defenses.
I prefer emoticon to emojis most of the time, just because I am lazy and don't want either to take my hands off my keyboard or to switch to another keyboard.
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A plain-text reading of this year’s most-nominated networks and platforms does not tell you the whole story of today’s Emmys announcement. HBO (an umbrella that includes the flagship HBO and its streaming sibling, HBO Max) managed to break its own record with its most-ever nominations, a total of 142. Netflix, as has often been the case during its existence, is chasing with 121. Hefty numbers to be sure, buoyed by wide-net programming strategies (Netflix) and a decadeslong reputation for excellence in dramatic television (HBO). But the real story lies in the 79 nominations for Apple TV+, which, in only its sixth Emmy season, has landed the most overall series nominations — 27 total for the second season of Severance — as well as the most nominations for a comedy with The Studio’s 23.
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Emmys-wise, there are still mountains for Apple to climb. HBO remains the gold standard in prestige television, and that is felt all over the Emmys ballot: seven directing nominations across drama, comedy, and limited series (to Apple’s four) and seven writing nominations (to Apple’s three). But Apple is more than keeping pace in the areas that get the most attention.
It’s in the guest-star categories, however, that The Studio’s dominance starts to feel as absurd as the show itself. Bryan Cranston got a Guest Actor nomination for his fictional character, the former Continental head Griffin Mill, but Dave Franco, Ron Howard, Anthony Mackie, Martin Scorsese, and Zoë Kravitz all got nominated for playing themselves. Five out of six nominated male guest stars are guys from The Studio. It’s them and Jon Bernthal in noted comedy The Bear. This is also Ron Howard’s first acting nomination! And he was on Happy Days! While Scorsese has three Emmys already (for Outstanding Directing, of course), it’s possible he’ll go home with his first acting award. Imagine you see all those guys nominated and you vote for someone who’s not Scorsese? He looks so sad in The Studio when they tell him they won’t be making his Jonestown movie.
“It’s thrilling and gratifying,” Apple TV+’s head of development Matt Cherniss said. “I think most of all, I’m just happy for the shows themselves, the talent involved, all the time and effort that they put into doing something original and different, and all the risks that they take along the way. To see that rewarded in shows like Severance and The Studio and Shrinking, it’s just great.”
Apple Watches do a lot of things, from tracking your health and fitness to fielding notifications. As with other wearables, we do a mix of year-round experiential testing and benchmarks. So while we may not take a tumble down a flight of stairs, we’ll note if organically tripping during a walk triggers Fall Detection. (Or doesn’t.) We also check to see how accurate sleep tracking, heart rate, and GPS is versus long-term control devices, like the Oura Ring or a Garmin. We’ll also note how the various Apple Watch models compare to each other on factors like durability, performance, and battery life.
The sleep apnea detection feature that Apple's most recent Apple Watch models offer has expanded to several more countries in Europe, Asia, South America, and more.
While the WPC lists Qi2.2 as having been introduced in April 2025, and Apple was reported to be working on a new MagSafe charger with Qi2.2 compatibility last month, no products using the standard have gone on sale yet. That’s set to change soon, with eight products now listed in the WPC’s product database with the latest Qi2.2.1 standard, all certified on July 15th.
A regulatory listing spotted last month indicated Apple may be working on a MagSafe charger than supports 45W, rather than the 25W maximum of the Qi2.2 standard. No current iPhone supports this speed, but that suggests the iPhone 17 line-up may allow even faster wireless charging.
With Hot Corners, you can assign different actions to each of the four corners of your Mac's display. For example, I like moving my mouse to the top right corner to open Notification Center. It makes it easier to see my widgets at a glance, without needing to click. But there's a lot more you can do with this feature.
The inspiration for Opal came from Schlenker’s time working at Google, around 2008. There, he saw how software was beginning to be designed to “hack your attention,” he said, with new interfaces and alert systems optimized to get users hooked. During the following decade, he watched app addiction spread from tech insiders to everyone else, including his relatives, young and old. He founded Opal in 2020 in order to add what he called “productive friction” to online user experience. “The entire tech industry is about removing friction, and we do the opposite,” he said.
In the age of newsletter pop-ups, cookie disclaimers and overloaded website designs, the app formats pages and removes layout clutter to ensure the text is optimally readable on mobile devices.
[Substage] floats under every Finder window, meaning you see it only when you're browsing files in macOS. You can type English-language sentences into it to do things like rename, convert, or compress files. The application uses the large language model to create a command, like what you could run in the Terminal. The application then shows it to you and asks whether you actually want to run it.
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is a complete version of the open-world action RPG in which players control V, a mercenary operating in a futuristic city focused on power, technology, and body modification.
Wheels of Aurelia is a 2016 visual novel about a young woman on a road trip in 1970s Italy and the people she meets along the way, and it’s about to get delisted from the App Store. Developer Santa Ragione says Apple is doing that because the game hasn’t been updated in years, even though it’s feature-complete and runs just fine on modern iPhones, accusing the tech giant of undermining “cultural and artistic products” with arbitrary policies.
A new Apple-backed study, in collaboration with Aalto University in Finland, introduces ILuvUI: a vision-language model trained to understand mobile app interfaces from screenshots and from natural language conversations.
Apple would be banned from the US sale of any iPhone whose display was made by China’s BOE, after the company was found to have stolen manufacturing techniques from Samsung.
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BOE makes only non-ProMotion displays, so Pro models would be unaffected, but other iPhone 16 models would be.
I enjoy comedies, and I've watched four of the Emmy-nominated comedy series, and I feel that all of the four I've watched are great, but all I really want to say is this: The Bear is not a comedy series.
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Apple Intelligence—really, generative AI overall—emphasizes a sad reality. The history of personal-computer interfaces is also a history of disappointments. At first, users had to type to do things with files and programs, using esoteric commands to navigate up and down the directory structures that contained them. The graphical user interface, which Apple popularized, adapted that file-and-folder paradigm into an abstraction of a desktop, where users would click and move those files around. But progress produced confusion. Eventually, as hard disks swelled and email collected, we ended up with so much digital stuff that finding it through virtualized rummaging became difficult. Text commands returned via features such as Apple’s Spotlight, which allows a user to type the name of a file or program, just as they might have done 50 years ago.
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Using a computer to navigate my work or home life remains strangely difficult. Calendars don’t synchronize properly. Email search still doesn’t work right, for some reason. Files are all over the place, in various apps and services, and who can remember where? If computationalists can’t even make AI run computing machines effectively, no one will ever believe that they can do so for anything—let alone everything—else.
Cloud synchronization makes it easy to have a copy of your stuff everywhere, and, through optimization, to avoid filling your local storage with your least-accessed files or media, which is often the majority of those items.
But what if you want an active, up-to-date replica of these synced files?
Earlier this year, Apple pledged a $500 billion investment in the United States over the next four years. Now, the company is further expanding that pledge with a $500 million plan to “launch an all-new recycling facility for processing recycled rare earth elements.”
With this investment, Apple will work with MP Materials and commit to buying American-made rare earth magnets developed in Fort Worth, Texas. The two companies will build out MP Materials’ “state-of-the-art Texas factory” with a “series of neodymium magnet manufacturing lines specifically designed for Apple products.”
Apple recently updated its website with a list of products eligible for upcoming 2025 sales tax holidays in select U.S. states, including Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Hidden Bar is the perfect solution to a cluttered menu bar, so if you’re juggling tons of menu bar items, don’t miss this handy tool.
I love playlists for discovering new music, but sometimes I just want to listen to an entire album. Adrian Schönig’s Longplay app, which makes it fun to browse and play favorite albums, has been a favorite of mine since it debuted on iOS in 2020. At long last, Longplay is now out for the Mac and I got to take it for an early spin.
The ESD420 can be attached to the back of a MagSafe-compatible iPhone and connected using the appropriate cable, such as a USB-C to USB-C cable. It supports iPhone video recording features that require an external SSD, such as 4K ProRes video recording.
Pressing a button on the tracker will activate a loud siren and flashing light to alert anyone nearby that you’re in trouble, while also triggering the app to send a notification to an emergency contact.
Matt Corey has once again gathered indie developers to organize a huge sale today and tomorrow. Corey, the maker of Bills to Budget and Signals, has organized a collection of over 250 apps that will be offered at a discount through Wednesday.
As much as we often may miss Steve Jobs, even with all his flaws, it’s important to recognize that CEOs with a “l’entreprise, c’est moi” attitude are just not great in general and are often an absolute menace.
Tim Cook isn’t perfect, but at least he’s boring.
Should tech companies have free access to copyrighted books and articles for training their AI models? Two judges recently nudged us toward an answer.
I like talking to computers because if you say what you meant, the computer will do what you meant. Unlike meat-based lifeforms.
Why do I want to talk to a gen-AI chatbots if they are behaving like unpredictable error-prone meat-based lifeforms? I avoid talking to humans my entire life just so you can invent a stupid-er human for me to talk to?
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The guidance I – and, I’m sure, others – have provided multiple times to Apple is that motion that cannot be controlled by the user should ideally be removed; which, in reality, has meant being replaced by a crossfade – good enough for most users with vestibular issues. You’ll see this if you activate Reduce Motion on your iPhone. The 3D zoom ‘blast’ when opening folders will be gone. As will other animations, such as when you move through menu hierarchies. (At least in software that doesn’t use its own proprietary animations that ignore Reduce Motion, such as RSS client Reeder.)
What people often don’ realise is that even small/fast pop-out menu animations can be enough to ‘blast’ someone to the point they can be made dizzy. Additionally, transforming static to animated UI via refraction is a potential trigger. (For example, when playback controls start animating because the content beneath them is being refracted.) Both of those things are strewn throughout the ’26’ systems. Beyond that, there are bigger issues too, such as the current iPadOS dev beta windowing having zooming/flyout animations when you tap on the ‘desktop’. If I accidentally watch that, I’m dizzy for minutes. Other people have it much worse than I do.
The conclusion here is that if you’re looking for a high-quality purchasing experience with refurbished tech, Apple refurbished can be a great option. It just isn’t the only one, and you should always cross-shop before making a purchase.
OWA says these barriers include insufficient testing tools outside of the US, hostile legal terms, and forcing browser developers to create entirely new apps to ship their own engines, causing developers to lose their existing European user base.
Other people have a day phone and a night phone. Me? I have a day podcast app, and a night podcast app.
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However, the lack of accountability carried by companies that brick customer devices neglects the people who support smart tech companies. If tech firms can't support the products they make, then people—and perhaps the law one day—may be less supportive of their business.
Smart tech businesses have many challenges that, for the sake of innovation, they hopefully overcome. But it’s hard to watch customers shouldering the burden in the meantime.
During January’s unprecedented wildfires in Los Angeles, Watch Duty—a digital platform providing real-time fire data—became the go-to app for tracking the unfolding disaster and is credited with saving countless lives. Six months out from the fires, Watch Duty’s founder and CEO, John Mills, shares how his small nonprofit responded in the heat of the crisis and became a trusted source—even for government agencies. As wildfire season rages on and Texas recovers from devastating floods, Watch Duty’s story underscores both our growing vulnerability to natural disasters driven by climate change and the power of community-based solutions to keep us safe and connected when it matters most.
Planning things accordingly can be hard. Timescape aims to make that easier by providing you a big picture look at your entire year, making it easy for you to see what long-term events you may already have booked.
At least for DRM-ed media, there is still a sliver of chance that you can somehow get a tool somewhere that perhaps able to de-DRM the material. Maybe.
But for discontinued IoT devices -- good luck.
What's are the solutions? Time for device makers to do subscriptions/rentals rather than purchases, just like all the streaming services, instead of buying a license to watch or listen or read from iTunes store?
Hmmmm.... service. That magic word from Cupertino.
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There’s no one right way to browse the Web, but looking at the history of where these navigational aids came from and what they were designed to do might help you think about how you interact with online information. We’ll start with multiple windows, move on to bookmarks, browser history, and search engines, take a look at tabs, and then focus on pinned tabs.
Apple updated its vintage and obsolete products list to add several Macs, iPads, accessories, and more. The 2013 "Trash Can" Mac Pro was added to the vintage list, 12 years after it was first introduced.
The offer remains far above the $85 million to $90 million that ESPN is currently paying per annum, and far beyond what ESPN offered to counter. In the wake of those conversations, I’m told, it now appears that Liberty Media is likely to accept Apple’s offer, though a formal agreement has yet to be reached. I’m also reliably told that Apple and ESPN are the only suitors at the table.
A battle for data sovereignty is brewing from Africa to Asia.
Developing nations are challenging Big Tech’s decades-long hold on global data by demanding that their citizens’ information be stored locally. The move is driven by the realization that countries have been giving away their most valuable resource for tech giants to build a trillion-dollar market capitalization.
Is Apple still throwing money around just to get stuff to show on Apple TV? How about throwing some money outside of U.S.?
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A new Apple-supported study argues that your behavior data (movement, sleep, exercise, etc.) can often be a stronger health signal than traditional biometric measurements like heart rate or blood oxygen. To prove it, the researchers developed a foundation model trained on behavioral data collected from wearables, and it performed surprisingly well.
“We’re so grateful for the response that ‘Murderbot’ has received, and delighted that we’re getting to go back to Martha Wells’ world to work with Alexander, Apple, CBS Studios and the rest of the team,” the Weitz brothers said in a statement.
So Murderbot is fiction, because machine intelligence right now is fiction.
A large language model that pattern matches words, sometimes sort of sounds vaguely like it might be talking to you and sometimes sounds like it’s just putting patterns together in ways that look really bizarre—that’s not anywhere close to sentient machine intelligence.
Chris and Paul Weitz adapt the hero of Martha Wells’ book series “The Murderbot Diaries” with keen awareness of everything their audience has been taught to know and fear about artificial intelligence. We’ve long been sold fables about robots yearning to be more human — to love us, guard us and sympathize with us before replacing us.
Instead of speaking to that anxiety, however, the show floats an alternate and infinitely more entertaining possibility: What if machines simply didn’t care enough about humans to deal with us at all?
Here's a bunch of apps I regularly use that track your TBR (to be read) pile, the books you DNFed (did not finish), and offer suggestions for your next read. Some are prettier than others, most will allow you to import your Goodreads data.
Belkin has announced that it is ending support for most of its Wemo smart home products. Customers will lose access to the Wemo app, any features that rely on cloud connectivity, customer support, and more. It’s effectively the end of the Wemo smart home brand.
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For Apple users, however, there’s at least one piece of good news. “Wemo products configured for use with Apple HomeKit will continue to function via HomeKit in the absence of Wemo cloud services and the Wemo app,” Belkin says.
Apple, Visa and Mastercard have persuaded a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to suppress competition in the payments network market and causing merchants to pay inflated transaction fees.
U.S. District Judge David Dugan in Illinois ruled on Wednesday that the merchants had not provided enough evidence to support their claim that Apple illegally declined to launch a competing payment network to rival Visa and Mastercard.
I saw a reference to "M5 MacBook Pro", and my old eyes mistaken M5 as MS, and I was very confused for a few seconds.
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In 2023, Apple said that it would spend $1 billion a year on films that would play exclusively on the big screen before hitting Apple TV+. But after several major box office debacles, including Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, Apple retreated. Now, it has come thundering back with the Brad Pitt starrer F1, directed by Joseph Kosinski and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer of Top Gun: Maverick fame. While a win for Apple, it may have trouble turning a profit after costing as much as $300 million to produce.
Top Apple exec Eddy Cue — a Formula 1 fan and a driving force behind the movie — made a splash when meeting with exhibitors at CinemaCon in April. Industry sources confirm that Apple wants to be in the movie business but say the company remains undecided in terms of making a foray into distribution, or whether it will continue to partner with an established studio to release and market its titles (Warners is handling F1).
Children are increasingly taking breaks from their smartphones to better manage their mental health, personal safety and concentration spans, research has revealed.
They are reacting to growing concerns that spending too much time online can be harmful by taking control of their own social media and smartphone use rather than relying on parents to enforce limits, according to experts.
Your AirPods are getting even better with iOS 26 later this year. As well as new features like camera remote and sleep detection to pause media, Apple is also improving the charging experience.
With the new update, your iPhone can automatically remind you when your AirPods are running out of juice. These alerts can show even when your AirPods are not currently in your ears, but stored in their case, that is running low on battery.
Apple's annual Back to School offer for university students and educational staff is now available in many European countries, after initially launching in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Singapore, India, and the United Arab Emirates last month.
Microsoft is rolling out a new backup system in September for its Authenticator app on iOS, removing the requirement to use a Microsoft personal account to back up TOTP secrets and account names.
We’re less than 60 days out from the start of the 2025 NFL regular season, and football fans have something new to get ready for kickoff. Many NFL team iPhone apps are coming to Apple CarPlay, starting with three team apps that are already live.
TrueMeeting’s main focus is on developing technology that allows users to create responsive 3D avatars in real time by scanning their faces with smartphones. These avatars can be used in various video applications.
How patience can Apple be with their movie (and television) business, when there are competitors and regulators breathing down Apple's neck in all their other products?
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As a designer, I’m meant to dislike settings. As a user, I love them. Every year I celebrate Settings Day: a day when I take a look at the options and toggles in all the apps I use. I do this out of curiosity – what was added since the last time I looked? – but also because I love this way of getting to know software: peeking under the hood, walking the back alleys, learning what has been tricky or important enough to be equipped with a checkbox.
During the last Settings Day, I had a realization that the totemic 1984 Mac control panel, designed by Susan Kare, is still to this day perhaps the only settings screen ever brought up in casual conversation.
I kept wondering about that screen, and about what happened since then. Turns out, the Mac settings have lived a far more fascinating life than I imagined, have been redesigned many times, and can tell us a lot about the early history and the troubled upbringing of this interesting machine.
Twenty years ago, Mac OS X Tiger introduced us to a search feature that would stand the test of time: Spotlight. And while at the time I found myself ambivalent about its many quirks, some of which were maddening, with the benefit of hindsight, it’s hard not to be impressed by how far Spotlight has come.
Almost every year, Apple has made Spotlight a little better, and macOS Tahoe is its biggest and most impressive upgrade ever. So let’s celebrate Spotlight for what it was, what it is, and what it’s about to become.
As reported by German tech news website Heise last month, Apple has introduced new APIs that allow for developers to implement support for making cellular phone calls and sending and receiving SMS/MMS/RCS messages in third-party apps, but only iPhone users in the EU will be able to take advantage of this functionality.
Apple TV+ has had its best year ever so far, and it’s bound to continue with returning hits this fall like the recently announced Slow Horses season 5. But with another announcement today, Apple confirmed we’ll keep getting new Slow Horses episodes for a long while yet: seasons 6 and 7 are now both official.
Apple is in talks to acquire the US rights to screen Formula 1 as the tech giant chases the success of its hit movie based on the race car series and delves further into showing live sport.
The iPhone maker is challenging Disney’s ESPN — Formula 1’s current American broadcaster — when the broadcast contract becomes available next year, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
Apple today announced that four additional games will be added to the Apple Arcade library on Thursday, August 7, including Play-Doh World.
Exclusive to Apple Arcade, Play-Doh World lets you create digital Play-Doh characters and more.
Apple has announced that Jeff Williams is stepping down as chief operating officer later this month. Sabih Khan, Apple’s senior vice president of Operations, will assume the COO role as part of what Apple describes as a “long-planned succession.”
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When Williams officially retires later this year, Apple says that the design team will transition to reporting directly to Tim Cook.
The whole thing seems amicable and orderly, and thus completely in line with everything we know about Williams’s and Cook’s seemingly similar personalities. After a long and successful career, Apple’s COO is retiring and his longtime lieutenant is being promoted to replace him this month. Apple’s operations aren’t just world-class, they’re almost certainly world-best. Even their leadership transitions are operationally smooth.
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Post-Williams, Apple’s operations will clearly remain under excellent, experienced leadership under Sabih Khan. But the company will be left with its design teams reporting directly to Cook — who is three years older than Williams. Six years after Jony Ive’s departure, today’s announcements leave it less clear than ever whose taste, ultimately, is steering the work of the company into the future.
I've finally watched Oppenheimer, the movie, now that it is out on Netflix.
Still haven't watched Barbie.
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Sorry or you’re welcome? Apple’s new Liquid Glass visual element is getting any icy design change in some places before it reaches customers. iOS 26 developer beta 3, which will likely be iOS 26 public beta 1 later this month, reduces the transparency effect in a number of places like navigation bars in certain apps.
It is not evidence Apple has been wrong all along when it comes to the ideas behind Liquid Glass, though it indicates the unique problems faced when working with transparency. But, also, you would think a company that has been working with transparent interfaces for twenty-five years would have some institutional memory and know what to avoid.
Apple has increased contrast and eliminated the black bar, making it much easier to spot the active tab at a glance.
This “shake to find” feature comes in handy when you’re not sure where your cursor is at any given moment.
And now in iPadOS 26 beta 3, the same feature is coming to the iPad.
With today’s beta seed, Apple included a new “Tahoe Day” screen saver that glides across the surface of Lake Tahoe’s rocky shoreline, with snow-capped mountains in the background.
Why would his iPhone ignore his attempts to limit charging? We need to dig into how Apple balances battery safety and reducing wear against our stated preferences.
Replacing that M1 Air, possibly with an A18-powered version that uses the exact same design, fills a gap in the Mac lineup that Apple has filled in all of its other product families. Buyers would be able to rest easier, knowing they were buying a modern product with years of software support ahead of it (Apple sometimes cuts off its "cheap" devices a year or two before higher-end ones, but it varies from device to device). And Apple has already proven that it can make and sell a MacBook that serves basic needs for way less than $1,000, without (apparently) totally wrecking demand for new MacBook Airs and Pros.
Apple Inc. successfully challenged a National Labor Relations Board ruling that it violated federal labor law by coercively interrogating a worker and removing union literature from a break room.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the NLRB lacked substantial evidence for its finding that Apple committed those unfair labor practices at its World Trade Center store in Manhattan.
Apple asked a U.S. appeals court on Monday to overturn a trade tribunal's decision which forced it to remove blood-oxygen reading technology from its Apple Watches, in order to avoid a ban on its U.S. smartwatch imports.
Yes, I do wonder why Apple need to have these betas out in the public to realize some of the problems with Liquid Glass.
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Apple is appealing against a €500m (£430m; $586m) fine handed down by EU regulators over alleged anti-competitive behaviour on its App Store.
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"As our appeal will show, the [Commission] is mandating how we run our store and forcing business terms which are confusing for developers and bad for users," Apple said in a statement.
"We implemented this to avoid punitive daily fines and will share the facts with the Court."
Apple’s future film strategy won’t hinge solely on the success of “F1.” And more importantly, the racing drama isn’t close to climbing out of the red. “F1” cost more than $250 million to produce and roughly $100 million more to market, which means the tentpole will require multiple laps around the track to justify its massive price tag. But these ticket sales, which are encouraging for any adult-skewing original film, at least give Apple a reason to stay the course. Oh yeah, it also helps that Apple has a $3 trillion market cap and doesn’t face the same financial pressure of traditional studios.
Dropover is a simple app that uses shelves to help you move items like files, folders, URLs, web images, and text snippets, between locations on your Mac more efficiently.
Although !Camera solely exists in software, its unique 3D interface makes your iPhone feel like a new device. The colorful, customizable UI is not intended to look realistic, exactly, but the combination of visual effects and haptic feedback is surprisingly believable.
Apple need to have good and successful movies and shows outside of that billion pockets. Whether they are successful financially or successful award-wise, it doesn't matter. But Apple cannot be seen relying on the iPhone.
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Ed Sheeran, the Weeknd and Drake are just a few of the artists topping Apple Music‘s Top 500 Streamed Songs list, honoring 10 years of the streaming service.
Sheeran’s “Shape of You” is the most-streamed song on the tally, which Apple has been rolling out in batches by the hundred throughout the week. As the No. 1 most-played song globally, “Shape of You” had over 1,000 days where the song reached No. 1 on the all-genre Top Songs chart in at least one country, and upon release, it broke the record for biggest pop song in Apple Music history in worldwide first-day streams.
As someone who uses a MacBook Pro all day, every day; I didn’t realize how much use I’d get out of a cheap used Mac mini. As I build up my smart home ecosystem, I’ve taken to using Apple’s “tiny PC” as a local hub.
Though there are plenty of great choices for your Home Assistant server, the Mac mini just happens to be one of the most versatile. Here’s why.
Sequel is an all in one app that makes it easy to keep track of all of the movies, TV shows, books, games, and more that you’d like to follow. It packs an intuitive interface and a number of delightful features to make it the ultimate media manager for your iPhone or iPad.
Cupertino, in collaboration with VTA and Caltrans, can move forward with the Interstate 280 and Wolfe Road interchange improvement project thanks to a roughly $4 million donation from Apple to bridge the remaining funding gap. The $124-million project was nearly canceled this month due to a funding shortfall. The city and transit agency had exhausted state and federal grant opportunities. But with Apple’s contribution, Cupertino can save the project and mitigate traffic gridlock as hundreds of homes come online.
Besides this Intel-based Mac mini that I am using right now, I also have devices that I charge with Lightning cables. All of which I still want to continue to use, but I got to have some 'transition' plans back in my mind.
Some of these 'transitions', I am thinking, may mean eliminating particular devices in my life altogether.
I'm probably reaching the phase in my life where I, once again, have more free time than free money.
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Durability is one of the important parameters that OEMs are focusing on today, as it has a multidimensional impact on consumers and aligns with environmental responsibilities, while increasing device longevity and reliability. During Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2025, the company gave a select group of participants, including those from Counterpoint, a glimpse into how it builds products to last. We visited one of the 200 labs that Apple operates to conduct rigorous testing of its hardware before it reaches consumers.
Apple quietly dropped a new AI model on Hugging Face with an interesting twist. Instead of writing code like traditional LLMs generate text (left to right, top to bottom), it can also write out of order, and improve multiple chunks at once.
The result is faster code generation, at a performance that rivals top open-source coding models.
I think everyone knows what an “Easter egg” is with regard to software. It was fun to learn about or share an Easter egg that you learned about with other Macintosh fans. Working within Apple was no exception. I mean the engineers that had created the Easter eggs were now in the same building I was in. From time to time someone might pull up a new easter egg that I was not aware of.
The color pickers I had written seemed like a place I could sneak in an Easter egg of my own.
Perhaps you are reading this and thinking, “Ahhh, this is when he almost gets fired.” And you would be correct.
The problem I have with knowing how to do just enough programming is that whenever I get frustrated with any software, my first thought wasn't how to workaround the shortcomings, but to figure out how much free time I still have left in order to write some un-scaleable and un-maintainable bundle of scripts to replace that software.
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A father who said he wanted to find a more positive way of getting his son interested in technology and reading has developed a free personalised story app.
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Jason said that although he loves reading a "good old-fashioned book", the reality is screens are here and part of society's future.
"That's why hopefully this resonates with other parents and educators to see how we align ourselves with it [technology] and use it for good," he added.
As part of Apple’s broader initiative to combat spam outreach, iOS 26 provides the option of silencing texts from unknown numbers and hiding them inside a separate area inside Messages.
A new Apple Store is opening later this month in Japan, and alongside the first details, the company has released beautiful new wallpapers for iPhone, iPad, and Mac featuring custom artwork.
Angry Birds Bounce is the star of this month’s drop, adding a twist to its iconic slingshot gameplay: rather than simply flinging birds at towers, there’s now an arcade-style brick-breaker mechanic for a faster-paced, combo-heavy experience.
They have a new guest mode system, which allows you to browse and discover new authors, download samples without having to login to your Kobo account. Bookmarks, highlights, notes sync across all Kobo apps and devices. When reading e-books there is a new vertical scroll system, which acts as an infinite scroll.
And that’s it. That’s the issue I’m seeing. I’m seeing repeated instances of exactly this problem. Overthinking it. Pretending this solves problems rather than creates them. Creating a narrative that supports the direction and presenting it in an overly pretentious way.
At the point when you have to blur the content area to make the UI stand out from it, how can you possibly argue that it gets out of the way? It makes no sense.
Sometimes, I have nothing to say. No words. Just sighs.
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Another new feature was just discovered in the iOS 26 beta: FaceTime will now freeze your call’s video and audio if someone starts undressing.
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It’s unclear whether this is an intended behavior, or just a bug in the beta that’s applying the feature to adults when it should only apply to child accounts.
Canadian frequent flyers like Ms. Tuck are increasingly turning to innovative, often inexpensive, tech tools to support their wellness on the go – from reducing stress to tracking sleep quality or staying present while exploring.
Dory is the latest app switcher application for Mac, one that is as flashy as it is about sheer substance. Instead of asking users to shift their hands from the keyboard deck to the trackpad or asking them to remember a special keyboard shortcut, Dory takes things to the elementary stage.
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All you need to do is hit the button of your choice on the keyboard, or the mouse. After that, you’re just an identifier key away from launching the app of your choice.
There’s real value in faster prototyping, scaffolding, and automation. But LLMs don’t remove the need for clear thinking, careful review, and thoughtful design. If anything, those become even more important as more code gets generated.
If I point my webcam to a television playing, say, Oppenheimer (Academy Awards for Best Picture 2023), and start FaceTime, does the video cut off immediately when Apple Intelligence detects nudity, or does the video cut off immediately once A.I. ascertains this is copyrighted materials?
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First off, the M1 MacBook Air can’t be sold forever. I’m sure the margins on a five-year-old product are great, but Apple and TSMC surely want to stop making M1 chips at some point! So how do you make a new product that’s still well below the $999 of the (incredible value) M4 MacBook Air?
Using the same A18 Pro processor found in the iPhone 16 Pro might be a good start.
The M1 Air won’t stick around forever, and I can see a cheaper, USB-C-only MacBook powered by an A Series chip slotting into that low-end price point nicely.
Apple mentioned the feature during its Worldwide Developers Conference, but it was highlighted as an AirPods feature. Code discovered by MacRumors contributor Steve Moser suggests that the option is also available for Beats headphones.
The ad shows a photographer quickly grabbing photos with the Camera Control on the iPhone 16 Pro, using gestures to zoom in and change Photographic Styles rapidly.
ToothFairy is a one-click Bluetooth utility that adds a dedicated button for each Bluetooth device right to your menu bar. Click once, and the device will be connected (as long as it’s powered on, and around you). Click again, to disconnect. It couldn’t be simpler. No need to hunt down menus.
The Addigy Prebuilt App Catalog is designed to automate macOS app deployments and updates across your Apple fleets. The catalog includes a growing list of commonly used apps that can be deployed and updated without writing any scripts or configuring profiles. Each app comes prepackaged with all the required device management profiles, including system extensions and Privacy Preferences Policy Control settings.
Foxconn Technology Group has asked hundreds of Chinese engineers and technicians to return home from its iPhone factories in India, dealing a blow to Apple Inc.’s manufacturing push in the South Asian country.
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It’s not immediately clear why Apple’s biggest iPhone assembler sent the workers home. Earlier this year, officials in Beijing verbally encouraged regulatory agencies and local governments to curb technology transfers and equipment exports to India and Southeast Asia in what is a potential attempt to prevent companies from shifting manufacturing elsewhere, Bloomberg News has reported.
The rumored MacBook with A-series chip should come in 12-inch and 14-inch sizes, I say, as I fondly remember the MacBook Air 11-inch that I used to bring to everywhere I went.
I don't think Apple will ever do a 11-inch Mac, but the previous MacBook was at 12-inch size.
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The company’s lawyers said Monday that tools such as an encrypted “visited places” service that tracks and records where users have been won’t be rolled out in the EU when it releases its iOS 26 software update later this year.
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“We’ve already had to make the decision to delay the release of products and features we announced this month for our EU customers,” Kyle Andeer, Vice President, Apple Legal, told a workshop with EU officials and developers in Brussels. Andeer said users’ security could be compromised if the company is obliged to open up its ecosystem to competitors.
“We want this to be an open house for artists, songwriters or any creator to come in, hang out and create content, connect with their fans or connect with other artists,” Apple Music’s top executive Oliver Schusser tells The Hollywood Reporter. “This is our interpretation of the intersection between technology and the arts.”
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“We intentionally made it so it could be highly adaptable to any sort of creative,” says Apple Music co-head Rachel Newman. “It’s a blank space on purpose, so that an artist can come in and create whatever they want. Radio was always a front door for us to work closer with artists, and now they’ll be able to do so much more. Photography, writers rooms. We wanted the ability to scale and fit into any kind of vision the artist might have.”
So there was a growing internal sense that if a crowd-pleaser like “F1” didn’t work on the big screen, Apple would be forced to abandon the movie business in favor of television, where its successes include “Severance” and “Ted Lasso.” Though Apple’s future film strategy won’t hinge on a single film, insiders at the company now believe that momentum behind “F1” gives Apple a reason to at least stay the course.
Something that I really appreciate about the iOS 26 redesign is an emphasis on moving more toolbars and primary controls to the bottom of the screen, bringing them closer to the user’s thumb. Especially for Max-sized phones, starting a search for an old conversation in Messages used to require finger gymnastics to tap on the bar that was placed just below the navigation header. Now, that search bar is positioned at the bottom of the screen, and thereby easily reachable with one-hand no matter what form factor phone you are using.
At the same time, Apple’s new design guidelines also heavily evangelise making these bottom bars recede when not in use, such as minimising when the user scrolls down the page. I don’t appreciate this behaviour so much.
The aesthetics for icon design may have changed dramatically in the intervening years, but I just find it sad that, with the gorgeous displays we have today, Apple recommends simple designs made out of a few boring shapes, and everything is now in service of a ‘liquid glass’ effect the system superimposes on every aspect of the user interface — as if this surface gimmick is more important than the elements it distorts.
Moving from my beloved 27-inch iMac and ancient Thunderbolt Display to the 14-inch MacBook Pro with a pair of Apple Studio Displays has been more than just a hardware upgrade—it has been an opportunity to reconsider some long-standing ways of working. Starting fresh without Migration Assistant, although more time-consuming, has helped me create a cleaner, more intentional setup that should reduce quirks for years to come. Even without Migration Assistant, cloud storage significantly reduced the potential headaches of migrating much of my data. The addition of a third screen to hold ambient apps has proven welcome, and although I’ve liked the MacBook Pro’s keyboard and trackpad overall, I’m still addressing some ergonomic challenges of using it on a standing desk. In the end, what’s important is that the new MacBook Pro feels fast and fresh while still retaining the most essential aspects of my everyday Mac experience.
Pixelmator is now owned by Apple, so it was only a matter of time before the suite of photo apps was updated with Apple Intelligence support. Today, Pixelmator Pro for Mac is the first in Apple’s trio of products to get new AI features alongside accessibility improvements and more.
After twelve weeks of refining the public beta, DEVONtechnologies has released version 4 of its DEVONthink document and information manager. It’s a major upgrade with support for external AI providers (DEVONthink Pro required), an updated user interface, and a bounty of powerful new features.
This free, open source application by developer Uli Kaufmann places your entire second display in a window on your primary display. The basic idea is that you'll be able to see the presentation on your laptop without having to turn around and look at the display behind you. This means you can see the slides in front of you, instead of having to turn around to look at the presentation screen. It also means you can see and scroll through your notes and take control of the presentation, all on one screen.
In the latest beta of iOS 18.6, there is code that says automatic upgrades are coming.
The case’s progress is still early, and the judge isn’t ruling on any of the government’s claims just yet. But he is saying that the allegations are “sufficient” to support the claims that Apple acted in an anti-competitive manner. Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The watchdog’s investigation will determine if apps embedded in the handsets at the time of purchase in 2023 and 2024 limited user choice.
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Under the act, handset makers and operators are prohibited from unjustifiably blocking users from deleting pre-installed apps that are not essential to the functionality of the device.
Speaking of moving toolbars and stuff to the bottom of the screen, does Apple know that we still have to move our thumb all the way to the top of the iPhone screen to pull down the Control Center? Is the company doing anything to fix that?
Of all the older iOS designs that is no longer with us, the swipe-up-from-bottom-of-screen gesture to get to Control Center is the one major thing that I still miss.
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