Apple: The Apple Music Awards honor achievements in music across five distinct categories — Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Top Song of the Year, and Top Album of the Year — and winners are chosen thr…
Lees meerAn AI that can play Tetris (via Kottke.org). Watching this play is very satisfying, especially when it hits the "kill screen" that takes out the vast majority of human players (about 7 minute in). But it goes way beyond that. Interesting to watch i…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: The madness in this case is Safari background tabs spontaneously coming to the front again, an obviously undesirable behavior. Read the blog post for the specifics on what causes this (props to Jeff for figuring it out). To give …
Lees meerApple's retail price for the base model 14" M1 MacBook Pro is $1999.99. Follow the headline link to B&H Photo and save $200, a pretty great deal. Interestingly, the discount only applies to the Space Gray model. Want Silver? Pay full price. Not sur…
Lees meerBefore you watch the video (embedded below), take a moment to watch my personal favorite Apple holiday ad, Misunderstood. Hard to top that one. Below the new ad, there's a "making of" ad, starring father and son Oscar-nominated (for Up in the Air) …
Lees meerMy thanks to BBEdit for sponsoring The Loop this week. There's a lot to love about software I've been using for more than 20 years and now BBEdit, the power tool for text, is ready for Big Sur and M1-powered Macs and was just updated to version 14!
Lees meerThis week Rene Ritchie joins me to talk about all things Apple. We dig into the the new MacBook Pro M1 and how the new Pro and Max chips are setting Apple up for success. Well also talk about what's great about the iPad 13 and the new iPads Apple re…
Lees meerMore than a year ago, at the 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced that it would be adding third-party music service support to HomePod. A few months later, Apple highlighted some of the apps that would take advantage of the new…
Lees meerThere's a lot to love about software I've been using for more than 20 years and now BBEdit, the power tool for text, is ready for Big Sur and M1-powered Macs and was just updated to version 14!∞ Read this on The Loop
Lees meerYou pissed off people by somewhat breaking your app, and they’re leaving angry reviews. How can you salvage your reputation? Apple just found one incredibly effective way — get listeners to submit better reviews by interrupting their podcast expe…
Lees meerApple announced its Self Service Repair program this week and, of course, Dave and I have different views on the topic. We talk about the pros and cons of the program and who will benefit. We also talk about a feature in Google Maps called "busyness…
Lees meerVictoria Song, The Verge: Starting with watchOS 8, Apple introduced a new accessibility feature called Assistive Touch. The cool thing about this feature is that it allows you to control the watch via gestures and your arm movements. Meaning, no…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: This appears to be a cause for celebration in right-to-repair circles, but I don’t see it as a big deal at all. Almost no one wants to repair their own cracked iPhone display or broken MacBook keyboard; even fewer people are actuall…
Lees meerIf you follow the Right to Repair movement, you are certainly familiar with Louis Rossman. He's made passing Right to Repair legislation his life's work. As you are no doubt aware, yesterday Apple announced their Self Service Repair program. Louis …
Lees meerJuli Clover, MacRumors: Back in August, Apple said that it would pay out $100 million and make several changes to the App Store to settle a class-action lawsuit brought about by developers, and the settlement offer received preliminary approval …
Lees meerChance Miller, 9to5Mac: Apple yesterday released the third developer and public betas of iOS 15.2, and in addition to the changes reported yesterday, the update also includes a notable tweak to the Music application. For the first time, you can …
Lees meerApple: Apple today announced Self Service Repair, which will allow customers who are comfortable with completing their own repairs access to Apple genuine parts and tools. Available first for the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 lineups, and soon to be f…
Lees meerSarah Scire, Nieman Lab: Discovering they had to get on the phone to cancel a subscription they signed up for online rankled several respondents in our survey looking at why people canceled their news subscriptions. The reaction to the call-to-c…
Lees meerGoogle Maps blog: Whether you’re heading to your hometown or exploring a new city, you can use Area Busyness, a new feature that combines live busyness trends to help you instantly spot when a neighborhood or part of town is near or at its busie…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito, 9to5Mac: It’s no secret at this point that Apple is becoming more interested in the sports segment, as the company has been investing and hiring related professionals to work in its TV division. 9to5Mac has now found evidence to…
Lees meerChaim Gartenberg, The Verge: Qualcomm is looking to seriously beef up its PC processors, with the company announcing plans for a next-generation Arm-based SoC “designed to set the performance benchmark for Windows PCs” that would be able to go h…
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