For the first time in well over a decade, I wasn't able to watch the Apple iPhone announcement live, and I just finished watching it now. I haven't been online all day, so I have no idea what other people have said, which is a great | Continue reading
Today, I'm happy to announce the next era of the Comfort Zone podcast: Cozy Zone.Cozy Zone is a weekly bonus episode for Comfort Zone where Niléane, Chris, and I invite people to join us in the Cozy Zone where we're cover extra topics, | Continue reading
Back in 2021, Google released the Pixel 6 with a unique camera bar.Google Pixel 6Then 3 years later they adjusted it to being a bar with rounded ends in the Pixel 9.Google Pixel 9Then Apple was rumored to have a new design where they adopt a | Continue reading
And I mean that in a good way. She recreated Tom Cruise's stunt from Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, and it's pretty remarkable. If you liked this, I'd highly recommend her other videos where she learns to drive in F1 and when she replicated one | Continue reading
Via a Bandcamp email to customers today: Significant changes are coming to global tariffs (import taxes imposed by a government) that may impact how packages enter the United States. In practice, this means fees may be applied to some types of merchandise on US-bound shipments, a … | Continue reading
Tyler Stalman's video is a good overview of the new Hasselblad is quite good, and is about as close as I'll ever get to owning this $7,000 camera. Obviously there are several things about it that made me jealous, but the one that really got | Continue reading
Ricky Mondello, who works on passkeys at Apple, on Mastodon: What causes bad passkey experiencesBy listening to lots and lots of feedback, I’ve learned that if someone’s main experience with passkeys is with a password manager that doesn’t natively integrate into the OS | Continue reading
This video isn’t about AI taking jobs, but it may as well be. I’m sure many of us have seen the movie Moneyball, which was a story about how analytics wildly disrupted the world of baseball scouts. The expectation was that now that computers do scouting | Continue reading
RwanLink is an animator who has been making Zelda fan videos for 12 years on YouTube, and their latest is an astounding achievement. It's very high quality work (all done in Unreal Engine 5), and it's also way longer than I expected. These fan films are | Continue reading
Tech, Apple, and the vast grey area that is AI | Continue reading
I love this video so much. Little did they, or any of the dozen people in the audience, know that 4 years later this was going to be one of the most iconic songs of their generation. | Continue reading
Tech, Apple, and the vast grey area that is AI | Continue reading
Apple Newsroom: An Update on Blood Oxygen for Apple Watch in the U.S. There will be no impact to Apple Watch units previously purchased that include the original Blood Oxygen feature, nor to Apple Watch units purchased outside of the U.S. This weird saga continues, and it' | Continue reading
Joan Westenberg: I Deleted My Second Brain The “second brain” metaphor is both ambitious and (to a degree) biologically absurd. Human memory is not an archive. It is associative, embodied, contextual, emotional. We do not think in folders. We do not retrieve meaning through backl … | Continue reading
MacKenzie Sigalos: OpenAI: ChatGPT Set to Hit 700 Million Weekly Active Users This Week OpenAI is set to hit 700 million weekly active users for ChatGPT this week, up from 500 million in March, marking a more than fourfold year-over-year surge in growth A couple observation here: … | Continue reading
Annie from annie's blog: People Can Change Calcification occurs when you don’t pay attention. The tissues harden in place. Things get dry and brittle. Another word for calcification is death. Change is life. Be open, and don’t be afraid to ask others to be | Continue reading
Jess Weatherbed writing for The Verge: These Smart Glasses Use AI to Help Low-Vision Users Envision says the camera-equipped Ally Solos Glasses can read and translate text, describe surroundings, search the web, and recognize people, objects, and signs, feeding information to the … | Continue reading
Simon Willison: Coding agents require skilled operators Without the skilled individual, the “agent” is useless. It may as well not exist. This is such a great observation. There’s a negative connotation to “vibe coding” out there today and while I think how I developed | Continue reading
Let’s see what all the hype is about. | Continue reading
Craig Grannell writing for Wired: Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good For years, Apple treated the idea of windows on the iPad as sacrilege. But with iPadOS 26 installed, today’s iPads are doing macOS cosplay, becoming touchscreen Macs in all but name. An … | Continue reading
Ethan Ding: Tokens Are Getting More Expensive every ai company knows usage-based pricing would save them. they also know it would kill them. while you're being responsible with $0.01/1k tokens, your vc-funded competitor offers unlimited for $20/month. i keep seeing founders point … | Continue reading
Tech, Apple, and the vast grey area that is AI | Continue reading
Tech, Apple, and the vast grey area that is AI | Continue reading
They went hard on this one. | Continue reading
As luck would have it, I watched two videos today about how exceptionally widely listened to people got scientific facts very wrong. Here's Hank Green explaining a lot of good info about how vaccines work and how RFK's recent statements about a "universal vaccine" | Continue reading
Theo is an interesting guy who's found himself as a bit of an AI YouTuber over the last year (used to talk about JavaScript stuff), and he was invited by OpenAI to test GPT-5 ahead of its announcement last week. Long story short: He loved it Many people | Continue reading
This study published yesterday by The Lancet is getting linked to all over the place with one takeaway: AI makes you dumb because as The Verge's headline says, "Some doctors got worse at detecting cancer after relying on AI". The response is clear, right? Using ChatGPT | Continue reading
Joe Rossignol on MacRumors: Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Apple Over App Store Rankings "Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal … | Continue reading
I was listening to this week’s Upgrade and the topic of Tim Cook’s gifting of a trophy to Donald Trump came up. The short version is that both Myke and Jason believe that Cook didn’t personally enjoy this, they both think he “debased& | Continue reading
Tech, Apple, and the vast grey area that is AI | Continue reading
Just over one year after IGN acquired Digital Foundry, the team has gone indie for the first time since their debut in 2007. I'm so happy for the team as I really appreciate what they do for the industry that I love so much. Check out their YouTube | Continue reading
Hello! I've been running More Birchtree for a year and a half now, it's been pretty successful, and it's gotten me to write more and hit publish on some pieces that I probably wouldn't have otherwise. I'm genuinely so thankful | Continue reading
Yesterday I wrote about how macOS and iPadOS apps are really merging into one unified experience. That was a quick post, but I wanted to hit on this again with some specific examples. The message was basically that while Apple hasn't technically "merged" the operating system, | Continue reading
I've been thinking quite a bit recently about how the current state of the United States compares to other times in our history, and I came across this quote from a politician in the lead up to the Civil War discussing the virtues of black people and how | Continue reading
Steve Troughton-Smith on Mastodon: "Are you merging iOS and macOS?" "…No! Of course not" Yet seven years later it is incredibly clear that there is a point of convergence coming in the very near future where iPadOS and macOS look effectively identical and run basically | Continue reading
Apple's gaming ambitions have apparently brought them to the place where they've sent review hardware to the lads at Digital Foundry, including a maxed out Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra. Watch the whole video to get all the juicy details, but the gist is that | Continue reading
Lee Peterson writing I miss the time when technology was fun: I really miss the days when I enjoyed catching up with the technology news. When we got excited for leaks of new hardware or the hundreds of apps pouring onto the store in the early days of the | Continue reading
OpenAI: Introducing GPT-Oss The gpt-oss-120b model achieves near-parity with OpenAI o4-mini on core reasoning benchmarks, while running efficiently on a single 80 GB GPU. The gpt-oss-20b model delivers similar results to OpenAI o3‑mini on common benchmarks and can run on edge dev … | Continue reading
Brendon Bigley: Wavelengths 2.0: A Podcast and a Patreon Wavelengths is video game news for the people who want to break away from the grifters and the freaks who follow them and haven’t touched grass in way too long. Brendon is a fellow MacStories contributor, and for | Continue reading
Vidit Bhargava: Beyond Sparkles and Chat AI is not a feature, it's one of the many technologies that empower people to fulfill their wants and needs. It doesn't always have to be the center-stage, it doesn't always have to be in your face. The | Continue reading
This post contains zero story spoilers, but does discuss gameplay elements from all of Death Stranding and the first third of Death Stranding 2. 2019’s Death Stranding is one Of my favorite video games of the last decade. It wasn’t for everyone, but it really landed | Continue reading
Ollama's New App: Ollama’s new app is now available for macOS and Windows. This is awesome! Ollama is the go-to source for getting and using open source, local LLMs. Previously, there was a terminal interface for chatting with these models and apps like ChatWise could tap | Continue reading
Nick Heer: The Tim Cook Era Is Fully Cemented On 16 September 1997, Steve Jobs became interim CEO of Apple. 5,090 days later, he handed the reins to Tim Cook, weeks before he died. 5,090 days after 24 August 2011 is today. The Cook era is now as | Continue reading
I was over here minding my own business, asking people how many of their home screen apps were available on other platforms, and I noted that Castro was something I would miss on Android. Then out of nowhere, the Castro folks replied with the above screenshot saying, "won' | Continue reading
I very rarely talk about payments on this blog, but every once in a while I get to talk about something I think might be interesting: network tokens! Who has my card number? Many years ago, merchants selling products online and in person were handling your card details directly. … | Continue reading
I'm happy to announce Quick Reviews 2.0 is out now for the iPhone and iPad. Here's the highlights: The UI for the review history, editing, and styling have all been rewritten from scratch You can now customize the alt text that copies to your clipboard | Continue reading
If you're online at all, you've probably at least heard of the American Eagle controversy around Sydney Sweeney's ad campaign in which she talks about her "good jeans". It's an intentionally provocative campaign, but I don't know if | Continue reading
Listen, I know there's a loud group of people who think the Avatar movies are dumb spectacles, but I think they're genuinely great films that tell touching, human stories that just hit different than most other films you'll see. I can't wait | Continue reading