Like me, Rolling Stone TV critic Alan Sepinwall is celebrating the return of a must-watch miniseries—HBO’s “From the Earth to the Moon”—which has been released in a new HD version to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing: …
Lees meerThis week, on the irreverent tech show that’s been away for a little too long, we discuss some new sneak peeks at Apple’s upcoming TV shows, why we’re not eager to let Elon Musk put anything into our brain, ridiculous reports of iPhone loyalty decre…
Lees meerIt may only be July, but it’s never too early to start speculating about Apple’s next big announcements. We’re likely another seven or eight weeks out from the company’s annual September event, and while little is known about what Apple might have u…
Lees meerThe podcast industry has been flooded with big money over the last few years, as businesses and investors seek to get in on a rapidly growing media business that’s got a lot of room for audience and revenue growth. (Spotify alone is spending $500 mi…
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute show that’s got a whole lot of heart, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Florence Ion and Jeff Carlson to discuss the best photo-sharing site for group events, how we use the multiple lenses on our smartphones, Ap…
Lees meerFaceApp is a piece of software that lets you transform photos of people to show them as older or younger; it’s making the rounds once again, as are privacy and data security concerns related to it. TechCrunch’s Matthew Panzarino, once again, has a r…
Lees meer50 years ago, humans first set foot on the moon. The work of the crew of Apollo 11 has inspired people for five decades, and their legacy continues to shine on today. In this episode, Stephen and Jason discuss three aspects of the mission that aren’…
Lees meerA lot of money is pouring into podcasting, most notably from Spotify, which is buying podcast companies and funding the creation of original, Spotify-only audio programming. But the industry’s biggest player, Apple, has refrained from making any mov…
Lees meerWe answer a lot of your #askupgrade questions, then break down how Apple’s changing its laptop line and retail stores. Also, Warner Media makes a big bet on the HBO brand name, and Apple News+ is unsurprisingly not succeeding. Then we start the show…
Lees meerThat blue bubble. Apple works to tie its customers to its ecosystem in many different ways, but there’s no better symbol of the power of platform lock-in than the blue-bubble users of Apple’s Messages app see when they’re talking to a fellow member …
Lees meerWhen Steve Jobs came back to Apple, one of his early moves was to vastly simplify what had become a bloated line-up of Mac hardware. Jobs famously showed off a two-by-two product grid: pro and consumer, desktop and portable. Filling the grid were fo…
Lees meerBecause he dared to post it on July 4 (and while I was on an airplane returning from vacation, no less), I missed that John Siracusa blogged about Jony Ive’s departure: While the iPhone is obviously the most important product in Ive’s portfolio,…
Lees meerThis week, on the 30-minute show that has absolutely no time to spare, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Jason Howell and Heidi Helen Pilypas to discuss FaceTime Attention Correction and the future of AR, how we imagined future tech as kids…
Lees meerSo a security reacher noticed that business videoconferencing app Zoom was doing a bunch of bad stuff that left Mac users potentially vulnerable to privacy and security breaches. My guess is that Zoom’s original sin comes out of its corporate c…
Lees meerSixteen months ago I wrote a eulogy, of a sort for the MacBook Air. My all-time favorite Apple laptop was a living fossil, a non-Retina USB-A laptop in a sea of shiny new Apple tech. Apple had done a minor processor update to keep it on life support…
Lees meerTime for a game of laptop musical chairs. Apple made some adjustments to its portable line-up this morning, with a cheaper price point for the MacBook Air and improvements to the entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro. But the 12-inch MacBook? It’s gon…
Lees meerBy now you’ve probably seen mention of this security hole, but it’s worth checking out the blog post from Jonathan Leitschuh, the researcher who uncovered it. It’s a fairly technical piece, but here’s the crux: The local client Zoom web server …
Lees meerGuest Marco Arment joins Jason and Myke to discuss the possibility of new Apple laptop keyboards at last, his Overcast priorities over the next year, and the future of podcasting. There are also some mild opinions about Jony Ive, the streaming-video…
Lees meerApple’s Texas Hold’em game is so old it was originally developed for the iPod. While it eventually made the jump to iOS, it eventually folded in 2011. But now it’s back! With updated gameplay, graphics, and “new characters.” 1 You can even play agai…
Lees meerThe more things change, the more they stay the same. Here we are, once again debating whether or not the departure of a single prominent Apple employee signals doom for the company. This time it’s designer extraordinaire Jony Ive who’s leaving the …
Lees meerThis week the Summer of Fun goes old school, as two of Jason’s colleagues from back in the 1990s compare Apple’s many transitions over the years to the ones Apple and its developers and users face today. Also, we wonder what happens to the movies an…
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