Apple acquires startup DarwinAI as AI efforts ramp up
With 2024 set to be the year Apple breaks onto the AI scene in a big way, every move it makes is going to get attention. So naturally, the news that Apple has scooped up…
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Apple will allow iPhone app downloads on the web in the EU–but there’s a catch
With Apple’s famous walled garden continuing to crumble, the company has made yet another concession to app developers. But it turns out that not everyone will benefit. For more than 15 years, Apple insisted that…
9 ways Apple can improve Vision Pro right now
Apple Vision Pro is clearly a first-gen product. Expensive, flawed, limited, and impressive. Much of what it needs to really become a mass-market device will need new hardware that is lighter, more affordable, and more…
The clock is ticking on ad-free Apple TV+, so enjoy it while you can
After the landgrab comes the cashgrab. Having pushed for quick growth by luring in users with low prices, lax password enforcement, bingeable series dropped in one go, and a lack of adverts, the streaming services…
There may be hope for Apple Watches sold with disabled blood-oxygen sensors
Following the news in December that the two most recent models of Apple Watch were banned from sale in the U.S. over a patent dispute, Apple moved quickly to get around the ban by removing…
An open Apple isn’t good for anyone
If Apple had its way, it would never open the App Store to competition, never offer web downloads of apps, never allow app developers to link to outside websites, and probably never reduce its cut…
The M3 MacBooks are already old news as Apple gets to work on the M4 lineup
Much attention has been directed over the past few months at Apple’s latest range of Macs with M3 processors. MacBook Pro models with the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max appeared in fall 2023 alongside…
Apple Vision Pro: How to recalibrate eye tracking and readjust IPD
Eye tracking is a critical part of the Apple Vision Pro experience. The operating system needs to know what you’re looking at at all times—it’s a critical part of the user interface, but it’s also…
Apple, Google team up to make Speedometer 3.0 benchmark faster and fairer
A collaboration of developers announced on Monday that Speedometer 3.0, a new version of the online tool used to gauge the speed of web browsers. Developed by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, Speedometer 3.0 claims to be…
Apple to finally fix 13-year-old error in the iPad’s design, report claims
There’s an important and long-desired change coming to Apple’s iPad range, and it’s been more than a decade in the making. The second-gen iPad, which came out in 2011, was the first model with cameras.…