Apple: Apple invites iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max users to capture the little things, in a big way, with a macro photography Shot on iPhone Challenge. The challenge starts today and runs through February 16, 2022. Winners will be announce…
Lees meerRene Ritchie: Lightning has pretty much been stuck at USB2’s half a gigabit per second, since… 2012. And: You can now record the highest quality video of any phone on the planet, you just can’t get it off any faster than the cheapest phone…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Every once in a while even Apple gets it wrong, and a tech company's coherent rationale for the way a product should be designed can translate into end-user irritation, or even a customer's personal hell. Here we take a look back a…
Lees meerBloomberg: Nvidia has told partners that it doesn’t expect the transaction to close, according to one person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. SoftBank, meanwhile, is stepping up preparations for an Arm initial…
Lees meerBBEdit 14 is out and has added a new "Notes" feature, which provides a large variety of ways to create notes that automatically save themselves, and, perhaps more important, automatically title themselves so that you don't end up wondering which of …
Lees meerI'm a big Jon Hamm fan. Great comic timing, self deprecating to a fault. The new Apple TV+ ad (embedded below) had to have been written with him in mind. He hits all the right marks, lets Apple brag about the array of stars they've brought to Apple…
Lees meerTom Simonite, Wired: In August, chipmaker Intel revealed new details about its plan to build a “mega-fab” on US soil, a $100 billion factory where 10,000 workers will make a new generation of powerful processors studded with billions of transist…
Lees meerWilliam Gallagher, AppleInsider: Picture the scene. You're sitting on a park bench, listening to Francisca Valenzuela Essentials on Apple Music over your AirPods Pro, when a man in a dark overcoat sits next to you. He says quietly, "the weather …
Lees meerApple: Kick off the Year of the Tiger with the story of a father, a son and a forgotten village with an out-of-this-world dream. Apple and director Zhang Meng present their latest Chinese New Year film “The Comeback”. Pretty good story, some g…
Lees meerThis week, Dave and I talk about Ridley Scott's reaction when he was asked to direct Apple's famous "1984" TV commercial. We also talk about a new bill in Illinois that would allow developers to skirt Apple's payment system, and we have an update on…
Lees meerJump to 16:57 in (assuming it doesn't start there automatically), where Steve Jobs talks about this new thing called podcasting. He's in rare form here. Very interesting to watch.
Lees meerJuli Clover: As outlined by Arizona news site WGEM, under the Freedom to Describe Directly Act, distribution platforms like the App Store and Google Play would not be able to force Illinois developers to use a "particular in-application payment …
Lees meerApple: Apple TV+ today unveiled the teaser trailer and premiere date for “WeCrashed,” a highly anticipated new limited series from Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello, based on the hit Wondery podcast “WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork” and sta…
Lees meerAmazon: Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbi…
Lees meerSami Fathi, MacRumors: Apple is now requiring that customers in the United States verify that they're active students, teachers, or staff members at an educational institution in order to access education discounts on products. It used to be t…
Lees meerMarina Koren, The Atlantic: Kelly Korreck is still thinking about the time her spacecraft flew into the sun, how one moment, the probe was rushing through a stormy current of fast-moving particles, and the next, it was plunging somewhere quieter…
Lees meerThis looks terrific. First episode drops February 18th. Looks like Severance is already picked up for a second season. Great cast. Reminder set.
Lees meerTutanota (via Hacker News): Max Schrems, the lawyer who successfully sued Facebook for privacy violations against European citizens, has scored another victory, this time against Google: In a landmark court ruling, Austria's data protection auth…
Lees meerHollywood Reporter: Given Scott’s steady productivity and workmanlike approach over a 45-year film career, it’s easy to forget that he is responsible for a remarkable string of culture-defining movies, from genre groundbreakers like Alien and Bl…
Lees meerMark Gurman, Bloomberg: The names of future Apple devices are some of the company’s most closely guarded secrets, but history and some guesswork could indicate what Apple will call its first virtual and augmented reality headset. iPod, iPhone,…
Lees meerWall Street Journal: Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. in an all-cash deal valued at $68.7 billion, using its largest acquisition by far to grab a videogame heavyweight that has been roiled by claims of workplace misconduct.…
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