Check off your New Year’s resolution list with $100 off the Apple Watch Series 11
A new year has just begun, and with it comes a long list of resolutions. At the top of most of them is to get healthier and more fit, and the best way to get…
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This iOS 26 toggle just fixed a problem that’s plagued my iPhone for years
The updates since iOS 26 arrived have brought a lot of fresh tweaks and features to our iPhones, including the ability to tone down Liquid Glass, a new way to ensure you don’t accidentally switch…
Apple software has been bad for years, but now there’s finally hope for the future
For a few years now, something has felt off with Apple’s software design. There’s been too much emphasis on showy effects and eye-catching animations, and not enough on creating intuitive experiences that actually work for…
34 years ago, Apple created a multimedia file format for the Mac, and it’s still all around us
The late 1980s and early to mid-1990s were Apple’s weirdest and wildest era. Wedged between the triumph of the original Macintosh and the return of Steve Jobs were a sort of Wilderness Years where the…
How the classic anime ‘Ghost in the Shell’ predicted the future of cybersecurity 30 years ago
The year is 2030. An “infamous mystery hacker” known as the Puppet Master is wreaking havoc on the internet, breaking into the so-called cyber-brains of several humans as well as “every terminal on the network.”…
The great NPU failure: Two years later, local AI is still all about GPUs
For the last few years, the term “AI PC” has basically meant little more than “a lightweight portable laptop with a neural processing unit (NPU).” Today, two years after the glitzy launch of NPUs with…
Don’t expect the Apple Watch to change much for the next two years
Like the iPhone, the Apple Watch is stuck in a (very successful) rut. With the notable exception of the Apple Watch Ultra, a niche variant for people who love massive watches, the watch we have…
Macworld Podcast: Apple silicon and five years of Mac greatness
Apple has reduced its reliance on third-party chips. How does that affect the devices it makes? That’s on this week’s episode of the Macworld Podcast. This is episode 959 with Michael Simon, Jason Cross, and Roman Loyola. Watch episode…
Five years later, the M5 chip just made Apple silicon exciting again
There’s no doubt that in the five years since the M1 chip, Apple silicon has changed the MacBook in radical ways. We’ve seen a massive performance uptick compared to the prior Intel chips, phenomenal battery…
Radeon 6000 GPUs were brand new 3 years ago. AMD’s already dropping support
Update 3:313 PM PT: AMD’s Adrenalin Edition 25.10.2 release notes have been apparently rewritten to note that they are compatible with the RX9000, RX7000, RX6000, and RX5000 series of graphics cards, and do not make…