April 2025

Longtime Apple design head Jony Ive has largely avoided creating new tech devices since starting his own firm, LoveFrom. But early details on Ive’s new “personalized AI device” have revealed the designer could be treading familiar territory in his partnership with OpenAI’s Sam Altman. more…

Last month, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had been accidentally included in a government group chat where confidential war plans were shared. US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was the one who added Goldberg, but he blamed the number getting “sucked in” by his phone. Now, a new report at The Guardian

The UK won’t be able to keep its fight with Apple over end-to-end encryption secret after all. As reported by the BBC, tribunal judges on Monday rejected the government’s request to keep details of the battle private, saying: “It would have been a truly extraordinary step to conduct a hearing entirely in secret without any

Macworld After six generations in a row with very little change in the design of its Pro iPhone models (and three in a row with essentially zero change other than buttons), Apple is expected to finally shake things up this fall with the launch of the iPhone 17 handsets. But the bad news, according to

There has been a lot of speculation about how high Apple might raise iPhone prices in response to Trump’s tariffs. A new report from The Wall Street Journal, however, offers the most realistic look yet at what it currently costs Apple to make the iPhone 16 Pro and how that could change thanks to Trump’s

Macworld As whinged last week, I’m not expecting much at WWDC 2025 this June. I’m sick of Apple Intelligence and depressed by the likelihood it will dominate the conversation for a second year in a row. But there’s another potential topic that scares me even more: the rumored iOS 19 redesign. In fact, the degree

Macworld Not everyone needs the full cloud-connected Microsoft 365 experience. Sometimes, you just want the core Office apps that let you open, edit, and share documents without compatibility issues. This Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac license gives you lifetime access to the essentials for just $69.97 (reg. $219.99). Why this is the MSO for Mac

Last week, the Trump administration announced an extreme tariff plan on essentially every other nation in the world. This would make imports far more costly, and as a result, Apple’s stock fell nearly 10% on the news. Given the fact that everything about Apple’s supply chain relies on strategic overseas manufacturing, this is awful news

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is preparing a ‘major shake-up’ for the 20th anniversary of the iPhone next year. One of the changes includes introducing a foldable iPhone for the first time, but the company is reportedly planning a ‘bold new Pro model.’ more…

Macworld USB-C is the latest standard of USB that allows data transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps, can fast-charge devices, and conveniently fits in a port either way up—which means that you can wave bye-bye to the age-old USB guessing game of “Which way does it go in?”. While some of the newer hubs reviewed