Passenger’s iPhone Survived, Intact, 16,000-Foot Fall From Alaska Airlines Plane

Humane Lays Off 4 Percent of Employees Before Releasing Its AI Pin

Hey Calendar App Is Now in the App Store

Passenger’s iPhone Survived, Intact, 16,000-Foot Fall From Alaska Airlines Plane

★ Heyja Vu: App Store Rejects 37signals’s New Hey Calendar App

I just don’t get it. Apple has nothing to gain by this — *nothing, not a cent — but a lot to lose.

Passenger’s iPhone Survived, Intact, 16,000-Foot Fall From Alaska Airlines Plane

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Alaska and United Airlines Report Loose Parts in Boeing 737 Max 9 Door Panels

Alaska and United Airlines Report Loose Parts in Boeing 737 Max 9 Door Panels

Mac Liquid Detection

Filipe Espósito (via Hacker News): macOS Sonoma 14.1 includes a new system daemon named “liquiddetectiond,” which, as the name suggests, can identify when the computer has been exposed to liquids. More specifically, this daemon runs in the backgroun…

SwiftData Fetching Pending Changes

Keith Harrison: If you don’t want the pending changes included in the fetch results you should be able to override the default by setting includePendingChanges to false in the fetch descriptor[…] Unfortunately, I don’t seem to be able to get that to…

The Boeing 737 MAX and Alaska Airlines Flight 1282

Luke Bodell (via Hacker News): In August, the FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) warning MAX operators about using the engine anti-icing system in dry air. The AD came about following in-flight testing, which found that deploying the anti-ic…

Is Objective-C BOOL a Boolean Type?

Juan Cruz Viotti: While BOOL might look trivial, its definition is rather complex. It depends on which Apple platform and architecture you are targeting, which can result in unexpected behavior. […] Recently, I stumbled into a case where for the sam…

★ Heyja Vu: App Store Rejects 37signals’s New Hey Calendar App

I just don’t get it. Apple has nothing to gain by this — *nothing, not a cent* — but a lot to lose.

‘Get Ready’

Vision Pro Pre-Orders Start January 19 (Next Friday), Available Starting February 2

Apple Vision Pro Available February 2

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced Apple Vision Pro will be available beginning Friday, February 2, at all U.S. Apple Store locations and the U.S. Apple Store online. Vision Pro is a revolutionary spatial computer that transforms …

Xcode 15.2

Apple (downloads): Xcode 15.2 includes SDKs for iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, tvOS 17.2, watchOS 10.2, macOS Sonoma 14.2, and visionOS. The Xcode 15.2 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 12 and later, tvOS 12 and later, and watchOS 4 and later. Xco…

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The CEO of HyperVerse, a Collapsed Crypto Ponzi Scheme, Does Not Appear to Exist

Finally, Our First ‘Finally’ of the Year Nominee for 2024