I loved the Brr blog, which was written by an IT expert during a year in Antarctica. The author is home now, but here’s a surprise bonus post, full of information about how slow the Internet is in Antarctica and why modern software is terrible at wo…
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Lees meerFascinating blog post from Panic designer Neven Mrgan about the feeling of getting a letter from a friend written by AI: Where exactly would I draw the line between helpful features (“make this red shirt green instead”) and offensive takeovers (“…
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Lees meerTechnology improvements are a bit like going to a movie or a magic show: you want to be wowed, but it works best when you don’t see what’s going on behind the scenes.…
Lees meerIt’s time for a Vision Pro check-in. How are we using it, and how should Apple sell it? Also, some EU app marketplace developers just want to go home.…
Lees meerSpeaking to Chance Miller at 9to5Mac, Apple explained the issue (patched in the recent iOS 17.5.1 update) that caused old photos to spontaneously appear in some users’ libraries: Apple confirmed to me that iCloud Photos is not to be blamed for th…
Lees meerThere’s been a lot of buzz lately involving a bug in Photos that caused some deleted items to reappear in libraries, including some (apparent) misinformation that blew the entire story out of proportion.…
Lees meerDo we multitask on our iPads? What AI uses do we actually find helpful? Plus, the email apps we use and whether we’ve experimented with cloning our voice.…
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Lees meerPicture this. (Photo illustration by Joe Rosensteel) For the past year, pressure has really been ramping up on the tech industry to do stuff with AI.…
Lees meerIt’s kind of hard to believe today, given how wildly successful the iPhone has been, but in the product’s early days there was only a single iPhone model for sale.…
Lees meerMyke returns to the show to give his personal iPad Pro review, and we discuss Apple’s accessibility announcements, worrying Apple AI reports, and some mystifying rumors about future iPhones for this year and next.…
Lees meerWhy the “great rebundling” isn’t the return of the cable bundle; recalibrating how talent is paid for streaming shows; Paramount twists in the wind; Spulu gets a real name; the NFL makes a deal with Netflix; and Diamond Sports meets with skepticism.…
Lees meerYet another incredible story on Cabel Sasser’s blog, this one about a supposedly vintage Apple Employee badge: Wow. Someone was selling Apple Employee #10’s employee badge?!…
Lees meerOur Apple Watch interaction frequency, thoughts on Spotify’s “Daylists” and our ideal playlist name, interest in Google’s AI features at Google I/O, and essential travel tech for “One Bag Travel.”…
Lees meerOur reactions to AI events, iPads and John Ternus.…
Lees meerThe consensus about the new iPad Pro is in: the hardware is more powerful and impressive than ever, but it’s still largely hampered by software that just hasn’t managed to keep up.…
Lees meerI linked to this in my iPad Pro review, but in case you missed that, Federico Viticci has done everyone who writes about iPadOS a service and written a detailed account of what we mean when we say “the iPad hardware is let down by its software”: …
Lees meerSteve Troughton-Smith details all the ways iPadOS lacks… and not for the first time: You can summarize every iPad review for the past decade: iPad hardware is writing checks that its OS simply can’t cash.…
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