Items tagged with Apple
Apple Intelligence hasn't quite lived up to the hype. The piecemeal rollout has been les than stellar, and to make matters worse, it often delivers inaccurate information to users and has been called out by news organizations for doing so. Thankfully, Apple gives users a lot of control over what AI features are...
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The rollout of Apple Intelligence has been a rough, with features being released piecemeal through a series of updates to iOS 18, iPad OS 18 and macOS 15. Despite these operating systems having launched several months ago, there are still missing features that the company sold customers on. Unfortunately for Apple...
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As we embark on a brand new year, hopefully the holiday season that just passed was kind to you all. We also hope that Santa brought you whatever gift(s) you were hoping for on Christmas morning. However, if one those gifts was a smartwatch and he didn't come through, you can take the matter into your own hands and...
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The Apple Vision Pro seems to have almost faded into the mist, with little mention of the device after the initial hype wore off. As an owner of the device, I can say it just does not inspire me to use it very often. Its hefty price tag and lack of notable new content are two major problems. Still, the device is...
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Once upon a time, cutting the cord could equate to major savings compared to traditional cable and satellite TV packages. That is no longer necessarily the case these days thanks to a combination of market saturation and persistent price increases. However, you can still save money by being strategic and subscribing...
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Apple is constantly searching for what could be its next big thing after striking gold with the iPhone. This has resulted in several cancelled projects, like its autonomous EV plans, and ambitious product releases like the Vision Pro. There's been a lot of chatter about what other products and services Apple is...
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Apple is abandoning a hardware subscription service that it had been working on, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The idea was spawned as the company was looking for ways to tempt customers into owning more of its flagship iPhone models. However, the company encountered numerous stumbling blocks, one of which was...
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Coming out of left field is a leaked render of what the Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max (and perhaps by extension, the entire iPhone 17 lineup) could look like. Assuming this design—with its horizontal camera bar, part glass, part aluminum back cover—ultimately holds true, the phone could mark a major shift for Apple, an...
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The rollout of Apple Intelligence has been less than stellar, with many of the features Apple promised not becoming available until well after the release of iOS 18. Now that some of these features are finally trickling out to users, the performance of Apple Intelligence is under fire. With the summary notification...
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For various reasons, Apple is known to take its time in adopting new features, technologies, and form factors. Remember how long it took for Apple to release a larger iPhone? And we're still waiting for Macs to have touchscreen displays. It's no surprise, then, that Apple hasn't released a device with a foldable...
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Apple has long been working on its own modems that will potentially enable it to move away from those made by Qualcomm. However, it seems as if this isn’t the only manufacturer the company is looking to part ways with. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple has been at work designing in-house WiFi and Bluetooth...
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Apple users who venture outside the company’s ecosystem suffer from a less than stellar experience. Microsoft has worked over the years to make things a little easier for Windows PC users with iPhones. It provides the Phone Link app on PCs alongside the Link to Windows app for iPhone, which allows the devices to at...
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Apple’s ability to design privacy conscious and secure technologies is being threatened as the company faces a $1.2B class action lawsuit. The plaintiff's lawyers claim that Apple isn’t doing enough to prevent the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on its platform. The lawsuit points to the company...
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The two biggest criticisms surrounding Apple's Vision Pro headset are the cost of entry—at $3,499 for the base model and an optional $499 fee for an AppleCare+ plan, it's anything but cheap—and lack of interesting apps purpose built for the device, especially when it comes to gaming. Well, the current iteration of the...
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Apple has long been angling to ditch Qualcomm and use modems designed in-house, and it seems as if the upcoming iPhone SE 4 will be the beginning of the transition process. The company believes the new modem will allow it to manufacture thinner iPhones, potentially as soon as next year. It also means Apple will...
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Half a dozen former Apple employees find themselves in hot water over an alleged scheme involving Apple's Matching Gifts Program, in which the Cupertino company matches employee contributions of money or volunteer time to eligible charities. According to the Santa Clara Country District Attorney's Office, the six...
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Apple, like many other big tech companies, goes to great lengths to protect your personal data from internet ne'er-do-wells. However, even the most powerful security features are useless in the face of determined human ignorance. There's a new Apple ID phishing scam going around, and if you think you're too smart to...
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We've been hearing for years that Apple could release its own brand television, but it has not happened yet and may never happen. That doesn't mean Apple is giving up on the living room, though. The company's Apple TV+ service (which recently joined forces with Amazon Prime) proves otherwise, and going along with...
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Life goes by exceedingly fast and believe it or not, it's already been more than six months since Apple refreshed its iPad Pro lineup with its custom M4 silicon. The M4 represents the latest generation of Apple's custom chips, culminating in the M4 Max that debuted alongside revamped MacBook Pro laptops in October...
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Apple’s AI efforts are currently being propped up by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, but the company is making strides on a more capable version of Siri according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Internally, the project is currently being called “LLM Siri,” and it’s intended to compete with ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini Live.
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Apple confirmed it has issued an emergency patch for two actively-exploited zero-day threats on macOS, iPadOS, iOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser. The Cupertino-based company remarked the emergency patch addresses CVE-2024-44308 and CVE-2024-44309 with improved checks and improved state management...
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Thieves appear to be getting more sophisticated as they look to steal items that have been left unattended on porches, as online shopping picks up for the holiday season. These porch pirates seem to be acquiring tracking information that allows them to time the theft for shortly after an item is delivered.
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