July 2025

Macworld If you’re wondering if MacBooks are on sale for Prime Day, you’ll be glad to learn that yes, you can find savings on MacBooks at Amazon. Huge savings, in fact! Sales on MacBooks are normal for most of the year, but the best deals tend to happen during Amazon’s big sales events. With Amazon’s […]

Macworld Refusing to allow continued failures in the AI arena to dampen its enthusiasm for the topic, Apple appears to be working on an AI-powered chatbot for customer support. Aaron Perris, a contributor for MacRumors, spotted code indicating work on a “Support Assistant” for the Apple Support app. The assistant isn’t live yet, but MacRumors

X owner Elon Musk recently implemented changes to the platform’s AI chatbot Grok, explicitly telling it not to trust mainstream media and to be less politically correct. Obviously there was no way anyone could possibly predict how that would turn out, so it’s a complete shock that Musk has been forced to silence it …

Apple might be the next company to add a ChatGPT-style chatbot to its Support app, likely as a way to automatically handle cases covered in its documentation and hand off only the trickier ones to a human. All things considered, this is a good move. more…

The HBO streaming video app became HBO Max when the company added Warner Bros movies and Turner TV shows. In the worst rebrand since Twitter became X, the company later dropped the unique and valuable HBO part of the name and kept the generic and worthless Max part. Two years later, the company is fixing

HomeKit compatibility used to attract a noticeable price premium when buying smart home products, but the Matter standard is changing that – and Ikea is now going all-in on this. The company says that it has more than 20 new affordable Matter-compatible smart home devices in the works, with likely plans to expand into completely

Apple is in active talks to acquire the rights to broadcast the sport of Formula 1 on its own streaming service platform, through the Apple TV app, according to a new report from the Financial Times. The league’s current deal with ESPN expires at the end of this year. If a deal materializes, Apple would

Narwal is the global leader in smart home vacuums, and its well-considered range means there’s a perfect model for every home. Amazon Prime Day isn’t just offering discounts on the complete line-up, but the lowest prices ever seen on the company’s robot cleaners and smart cordless vacuum. more…

I’ve tested a few BenQ products lately. My favorite has been their and a more affordable price. The most fun? A new category for me: projectors. The GP520 4K HDR model BenQ loaned me to test alleviated my concerns about the practicality of a projector instead of a TV. more…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just granted Apple U.S. Patent No. 12,353,649, suggesting the company is thinking well beyond the iPad when it comes to the future of the Apple Pencil. Here are the details. more…