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Oura remains the king of the smart ring business – at least until Apple enters the arena – but two competitors are trying very different approaches in launching their own models. French branch Circular hasn’t made much progress to date, thanks to a plastic construction and an absence of wireless charging, but it has fixed […]

Apple’s AirTag item tracker has been a huge hit since it was first released in April 2021. Look around, and you’ll see the circular accessory attached to keys, backpacks, and suitcases everywhere. This year, Apple will release AirTag 2 – its first-ever hardware upgrade to the product. I think it has the potential to be

Washington State is suing T-Mobile over a 2021 security breach which exposed the personal data of some 79 million people, including 2M Washington residents. Data exposed included social security numbers, phone numbers, physical addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver’s license information. The carrier is accused of failing to follow industry-standard cybersecurity processes, which allowed the

Macworld Even with 14-inch and 16-inch screens, many MacBook users have already upgraded to two larger desktop screens at home or in the office—often using a laptop docking station to benefit from the extra video ports required for such a setup, plus extras such as multiple USB ports and Ethernet. Some hook up three monitors

Apple’s long-term goal for Vision Pro is believed to be an Apple Glasses product, in which an ordinary-looking pair of glasses will be able to display both text and AR content. We’ve seen some competitors take early steps in that direction, and the RayNeo X3 Pro AR glasses look like the closest thing we’ve yet

Around fifty Apple employees have been fired for allegedly defrauding the company via its Matching Grants program, in which the company agrees to match charitable donations made by employees. So far, six of the former Bay Area employees have also been charged with tax fraud relating to fake donations … more…

Depending on the model, an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro officially supports between one and three external displays, but a software workaround lets you boost that number. The new Plugable UD-7400PD dock takes advantage of that fact to provide a very neat way to allow even an M1 MacBook Pro to simultaneously drive up to five

The iPhone 16 is still banned from sale in Indonesia, despite Apple promising to invest a billion dollars in the country’s economy. Apple had initially had offers of first $10M and then $100M rejected by the Indonesian government, before offering a cool billion dollars’ worth of manufacturing – which is exactly what the country demanded

Macworld Apple Intelligence is just about all Apple can talk about. The latest products released in the second half of 2024 are all “Built for Apple Intelligence” and every one of the ads for the new iPhones focuses entirely on it. But even if you got an iPhone 16 in September, you still had to

Macworld The Mac Pro has garnered staunch criticism from the crowd that would usually buy one–in most cases, it’s warranted. The Mac Studio is alarmingly good for much cheaper. I, too, bought into the critique of the Mac Pro being a bad buy. But the Mac Pro does have value–a lot of it. As a