Mark Gurman, Bloomberg: Apple Inc., facing a resurgence in Covid-19 cases and a fast-spreading new variant, is delaying its corporate return-to-office deadline from Feb. 1 to a “date yet to be determined.” Employees were informed of the mov…
Lees meerAmazon: Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Polly's Text-to-Speech (TTS) service uses advanced deep learning…
Lees meerApple: Today, Apple TV+ announced “El Deafo,” a charming and poignant three-part animated series for kids and families. Based on the No. 1 New York Times best-seller and Newbery Honor-winning graphic memoir, all episodes of “El Deafo” will premi…
Lees meerCaviar: While most of its smartphones feature gold, jewels, or over-the-top designs, the luxury brand’s latest takes on the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max feature a far more understated design and a really cool tribute to the late Apple fou…
Lees meerIn a million years I would not have figured this one out. Watch the video below, see if you agree. This is some pretty low discoverability. That said, props to the Apple Support team for making this video. Very well explained.
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo maintains a page that lets you view all the various Apple TV screen savers, with the ability to switch to your screen saver of choice and pause and scrub through as you like. The Apple TV periodically fetches new videos from an App…
Lees meerAlexa.com (via MJTsai's blog): We will be retiring Alexa.com on May 1, 2022 Twenty-five years ago, we founded Alexa Internet. After two decades of helping you find, reach, and convert your digital audience, we’ve made the difficult decision…
Lees meerReddit user Heyyoudvd: I’m not sure if anyone is interested in this, but I recently got a call from Tim Cook’s office, which I thought was pretty cool. This is a pretty good read, very interesting to see things that catch Tim and team's attent…
Lees meerOnce you're done reading all about App Privacy Report and adding a Legacy Contact, follow the headline link and allow Juli Clover, MacRumors, to walk you through all the rest of the goodies that came with iOS 15.2. There really is just a ton of new…
Lees meerNo one likes to think about death. Of course. But do spend a few minutes thinking about adding a legacy contact to your Apple ID. Or helping your again relatives add legacy contacts to their Apple ID. It's important. Follow the headline link for al…
Lees meerKirk McElhearn, Intego blog: A new feature in iOS and iPadOS 15.2 is the App Privacy Report. Your iPhone or iPad can record and display activity carried out by apps, such as which apps access your location, contacts, or photos, which apps access…
Lees meerUnite 4 for macOS allows you to turn any website into an app on your Mac. Using a lightweight, WebKit powered browser as a backend, you can easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site. Unite 4 includes dozens of new features, including …
Lees meerIf you are at all interested in the state of self driving cars, this is worth watching. First off, Tesla's Full Self Driving mode is amazing to watch. A bit nerve-wracking if you are a passenger, but amazing nonetheless. Scroll through the chapter …
Lees meerAnkur Thakur, iDownloadBlog, walks through all the different ways you can use Shazam on your iPhone and, more importantly, shows you how to find your multiple Shazam histories. Yes, multiple histories. On iPhone, launch the iTunes Store app, the t…
Lees meerClick the headline link to see the current stock price. Look at the data table for the term market cap. As I type this, Apple's stock price is $180.54 and their market cap is $2.94T. It'd take about a 2% rise in the share price for Apple to hit $3…
Lees meerHartley Charlton, MacRumors: While multiple reports indicate that Apple is working on a direct successor to 2020's MacBook Air, a recent rumor from the leaker known as "Dylandkt" claimed that this new model may not be branded as the "MacBook …
Lees meerThis week, Dave and I talk about using facial recognition as a boarding pass when flying and the consequences of storing that type of data. We also talk about digital IDs and how that may work. This week, Amazon Web Services went down for almost a d…
Lees meerMore from the excellent WILL IT WORK? YouTube channel. Maybe my favorite video in the entire series.
Lees meerJonathan Bell, with photos by Jonathan Schmidt, for Wallpaper: Led by Evans Hankey and Alan Dye, the Apple Design Team holds enormous sway over our evolving relationship with technology. Opening the doors to their studio at Apple Park in Cuperti…
Lees meerElaine Glusac, New York Times: If it’s been a year or more since you traveled, particularly internationally, you may notice something different at airports in the United States: More steps — from checking a bag to clearing customs — are being au…
Lees meerLuz Lazo, Washington Post: The D.C. Council on Tuesday approved a measure to give D.C. residents access to digital versions of their driver’s license or identification card on their phone. The legislation, which passed unanimously, gives th…
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