John Martellaro and Andrew Orr join Jeff Gamet to share their thoughts on reported features coming in HomePod OS 12, plus John explains why some people are overreacting to processor throttling in the i9 Touch Bar MacBook Pro.
Lees meerApple Business Chat, which the company unveiled with iOS 11.3, is expanding to 10 new partners and five new platforms.
Lees meerDue to App Store guidelines, AdGuard Pro in its current form is being discontinued. The company shared a blog post detailing what happened.
Lees meerWe have a deal on a three year subscription to VPN Unlimited. The service features unlimited bandwidth, servers in more than 70 locations and 24/7 support. They support a wide variety of languages, and it works on Mac, iOS, Android, Linus, and Windo…
Lees meerWhy did Planet of the Apps tank? It’s not because it wasn’t compelling or that it was poorly edited; it’s because Apple sucked at marketing the series. Or at least that’s what Gary Vaynerchuk says. Business Insider caught his comments from an Ask Ga…
Lees meerStar Trek: Discovery season 1 was pretty awesome, and the trailer for season 2 makes it look like we have plenty to look forward to when new episodes start airing in early 2019. We get to meet Captain Christopher Pike, who commanded the USS Enterpri…
Lees meeriPhone 18 W fast charging will require USB-C chargers that meet authentication standards. That’ll make them harder to find, but safer for your iPhone.
Lees meerA HomePod OS 12 private beta reportedly has the ability to handle phone calls when linked to your iPhone, can invoke Find My iPhone with a Siri voice command, and also includes multiple timer support.
Lees meerLaurene Powell Jobs invested some of her immense fortune in The Atlantic magazine in 2017. If you’ve been wandering what she’s been up to since, Politico (via Philip Elmer-DeWitt) reported a major expansion of The Atlantic’s political coverage, incl…
Lees meerIK Multimedia shipped UNO Synth, a monophonic synth with triggers, pads, presets, and analog sound. Designed by Italian boutique synthesizer maker Soundmachines and IK’s synth guru Erik Norlander, this baby comes with “100 presets and an easy-to-pla…
Lees meerMost diagrams in magazines and web pages that show both the Sun and Earth, say, eclipse diagrams are mere schematics. The true scale is wrong in relative size and distance so both can fit in a convenient graphic. And so we fail to appreciate the siz…
Lees meerThere was an disruptive event this week in the Apple community that made screaming teenage girls at a concert look calm and sensible by comparison.
Lees meerThe companies want to build an open-source data portability platform to make it easy for users to migrate between platforms.
Lees meerStar Wars: The Clone Wars was an amazing series and showed just how great Star Wars story telling is done. There was still more to tell, so Disney announced at San Diego Comic Con that it’s coming back with 12 more episodes to truly wrap up the seri…
Lees meerA European rover called ExoMars will travel to the red planet in 2020. Astronaut Tim Peake wants everyone to enter a name on a website designed for the purpose. Be warned though: There will be no Spacey McSpaceFace. Also, you have to be a European c…
Lees meerI saw this while scrolling through my news this morning and I had to comment. A new kids chair designed by Kingston School of Art Masahiko Ito is meant to improve concentration and posture. But it’s a saddle-shaped chair that legitimately looks like…
Lees meerDan Moren writes that it’s about time that Apple let us set default apps on iOS. From the very beginning, the default apps have been Apple’s own. Although you can install third-party apps, you can’t set them as the default. This means that if you wa…
Lees meerHere’s an interesting device called the LizaCam USB Wall Plug. It’s a wall charger—and looks like one with a USB port—but it also has a hidden camera and a motion sensor. It will alert you when it detects motion and record HD video to an SD card—not…
Lees meerKara Swisher of Recode recently interviewed two researchers from Northeastern University about phone spying.
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Lees meerAndrew Orr and Bryan Chaffin join Jeff Gamet to look at a knock-off iPhone from China, plus they discuss app pricing and the issues users have with subscription models.
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