December 2024

Ray-Ban Meta have been the most successful smart glasses to date, offering an appealing mix of features in a form factor which is visually indistinguishable from normal sunglasses. So far, all of the AI functionality, notifications, and messaging features have relied on the glasses reading things to you through integrated speakers, but a new report […]

One of the key elements of Apple’s A-series and M-series chips is the System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design which tightly integrates all the components within a single package. This includes both CPU and GPU. But a new report suggests that the M5 Pro chip may take a different approach of having more separated CPU and GPU in

There have been consistent reports that we can expect a future iPhone to offer a variable aperture lens within a year or two, but there’s been disagreement about whether the new feature will launch in the iPhone 17 or iPhone 18. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo previously said the major camera upgrade was coming to the

A report over the weekend suggested an Apple smart home doorbell with support for Face ID is in development. It follows an earlier report of an Apple smart home camera next year. While it could be argued that both are commodity products, and that Apple’s most important contribution is the HomeKit platform rather than the

Even a brief review of the App Store revealed more than 200 “risky or inappropriate” apps rated as ok for children, according to a new report. They had collectively notched up more than 550 million downloads. Two child safety groups say that more than 25% of the child-rated apps they reviewed gave cause for concern,

Macworld After largely ignoring the smart home for years, Apple is poised to make a grand entrance in 2025. Rumors claim Apple is gearing up to launch a new iPad-like home controller in 2025 as well as smart home-centric updates to the HomePod mini and Apple TV. And now there’s a new rumored product on

Macworld Apple is famously good at making customers excited about its new releases, but that doesn’t mean the company applies its powers of persuasion to all products equally. As I plan to discuss further in this column next week, excellent-value offerings like the 4th-gen AirPods and the new Mac mini sometimes slip by almost unnoticed

Macworld At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Six HDD bays plus four-slot NVMe adapter for high capacity Fast Intel Core 5 1235U CPU Good storage and web performance Runs Docker apps and virtual machines over HTML Cons Sparse documentation Problematic NVMe RAID Thunderbolt connection uses an ethernet bridge Our Verdict We can’t think of a

Macworld Are you looking for a new job this coming year? There’s a high chance your application gets lost with all the other applicants’ resumes, but if you learn and gain fluency in a second (or third!) language, you might just land your dream job. You might not believe us when we say you could learn

According to Mark Gurman from Bloomberg, Apple is working on a new smart home doorbell, to compete with the likes of Ring. It’d offer “advanced facial recognition”, and integrate wirelessly with smart home locks. more…