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Tim Cook announces price increases coming soon(ish)
Juli Clover: Tim Cook Says Apple Price Increases Are 'Unavoidable' Due to Memory Costs
Apple is raising its prices to offset the high cost of memory and storage, CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal. Apple is no longer able to absorb the increased prices and will need to pass some of
Reviews
Keychron Thunderbolt 5 Dock: a good dock at a good price that is probably overkill for most people
Today, famed keyboard maker Keychron has released their first Thunderbolt dock, the Keychron Thunderbolt 5 Dock (14-in-1).
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Politics
A hateful "gift to Americans"
Last night had a UFC fight on the White House lawn, which is…a thing…
"But Matt, why can't you liberals just enjoy this? Trump has said it's a "gift to Americans" to celebrate the nation's 250th birthday. Why can't you love America?"
Apple
The MacBook Neo is a great second computer
Before I go further let me just be clear. If the MacBook Neo is the Mac you can afford then it's a nice computer. You can build apps, edit video, and do effectively whatever you want on it. It's a Mac and that makes it immensely powerful no matter what processor
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Xbox embraces exclusives again (and why Nintendo may have played the long game brilliantly)
Joe Skrebels: XBOX Games Showcase 2026 Recap: The Return of Exclusives, World Premieres, and Anniversary Hardware
As part of our focus on the return of XBOX, we also announced that Gears of War: E-Day and Clockwork Revolution will be XBOX console exclusives. These are not timed exclusives. Games already announced for multiplatform releases will
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US government forces Anthropic to kill Fable and Mythos (for now)
Anthropic: Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
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Google's new icons are good, actually
Devin Coldewey: Google's new logos are bad
Google really whiffed with the new logos for its “reimagination” of
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+ Underwater
If I'm being honest, I have been completely underwater for the past few weeks. Work is always busy, but recently it has ramped up to an entirely new level. Without getting too into the details, the gist of it is that I have been working on a new project for the past few
Apple
OS 27's best small update
One of the big problems with the glass redesign in OS 26 was that it was really optimized to look
Apple
Apple's OS blender
As someone who has been covering this ecosystem for nearly twenty years, the biggest shift this year, and my single biggest takeaway from the keynote, was a fundamental change in how Apple presented their software updates.
For many years, WWDC keynotes followed a highly predictable format. After a brief introduction, Apple would put up title
Touch Macs are already here
Apple's WWDC kicked off yesterday, and there is one update in particular that struck me, the Sidecar feature now lets you directly manipulate macOS with your finger. As you can see from the video, it's literally macOS's standard UI that's completely usable with a finger. Scroll views
The first "Quick" app wasn't Quick Reviews
I'd actually forgotten about this, but the first thing I ever made that was in my "Quick" collection wasn't actually Quick Reviews, it was QuickPin! As I wrote in 2016, QuickPin was a Chrome extension that let you save links to Pinboard with a single click.
Honestly, I still
Gamers make me embarrassed to be a gamer
A new God of War game was announced recently, God of War: Laufey, which doesn't star series lead
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Loupe
Loupe is a simple new app for iOS that shows how many things native apps can see about you and your device, lots of which is available without requesting elevated permissions. It's a fun app, but what I love about it is how it shows the range of things that native apps have
Best-o-Masto comes to the web
I love Best-o-Masto, my iPhone app for browsing the most popular posts in your feed, but I'
Welcome to the new Quick Tier List!
For the last few months, I've been running Quick Tier List, which is a very simple but I
The best CleanShot keyboard shortcuts that will change your life or whatever
I wish there was a counter running that told me how many screenshots and screen recordings I've taken over the years, but I'm into the tens of thousands easily. As a passionate Mac screenshotter, here are my keyboard shortcuts for the Mac that I think you should copy to have a
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The tech behind NBA broadcasts
As someone who did most of the jobs Marques talked about here for college basketball (and football and vollyball) years ago, this video really resonated with me. I've been out of the game for about 12 years at this point, but in a way it's heartening to see that a lot
