Tatiana Siegel writing for Variety: Apple’s Blockbuster Gamble On March 10, the tech giant has 13 shots to take home an Oscar via two historical epics, “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Napoleon,” which nabbed 10 and three nominations, respectively. That’s given Apple the second-biggest haul among the
Maxwell Zeff for Gizmodo: Closing Your iPhone Apps Is a Mythical Waste of Time Apple users seem unanimously convinced that closing background apps is a good habit, but it’s more likely a waste of time A few years ago, I would have retweeted, boosted, and linked to this article
Sean Hollister for The Verge: How Nintendo’s Destruction of Yuzu Is Rocking the Emulator World Not only did hackers find an unprecedented vulnerability in the original Switch less than a year after release but also the emulator scene managed to develop software that plays Switch games better than the
Sarah Perez: Apple Has Lost Its Confidence What’s worse is that Apple doesn’t seem to think that IAP can stand up to the competition: app developers’ websites. I don’t agree with everything in this piece but it does make me think about the objectively funny way that
I’ve been using the Apple Vision Pro for a bit over a month at this point, and while I’ve gone deep on a few key use cases of using the product already, I thought it was high time I collect my thoughts on the product in one place.
I really thought life would get back to normal last week, but it actually got worse. Covid is no joke and you should thank your lucky stars if it doesn't cause you much strife.
I love doing top 10 lists, and since movies are my favorite form of storytelling, I wanted to make a list of what I think best represents my 2023 in film. The order can change day by day, but if you had to ask me what I enjoyed this year,
John Voorhees writing about Arc’s latest escapades in MacStories Weekly: Issue 408 It’s that intermediate layer that makes me suspicious of Arc’s motives. The company is starting to feel like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, a browser with an interesting, playful design on the surface and
It’s Oscar weekend, so here are the very serious Birchtree awards for movies I watched in 2023 that didn’t come out in 2023. Biggest Emotional Gut Punch That Makes You Think Deeply About Your Life and Loved Ones Macrel the Shell with Shoes On Biggest “It Really Holds
iA: AI Videos: ******* Psychotic Computer-generated imagery is not bad in its every fiber. There certainly are great ways to use AI in a creative process. The more you control your tool and the process, the more mindful the product, the less it qualifies as “AI”. This article is not about
Benjamin Mueller for the New York Times: After 217 Covid Vaccines, Man Had No Side Effects and Robust Immunity By the time the doctors first saw him, the 62-year-old man had received 215 doses of coronavirus vaccine, they said. Flouting their pleas to stop, he received another two shots in
Amanda Marcotte: Trump Is Degenerating Before Our Eyes — MAGA Voters Don't Notice or Don't Care Around lunchtime on Monday, all three cable news networks cut to Trump awkwardly accepting the Supreme Court nullifying the 14th Amendment on his behalf. After a few semi-coherent, if gross, remarks
Listen, everyone lives different lives so I can’t speak to anyone else’s specific situation, but the biggest hurdle I currently have with using the Vision Pro is that I can’t use it while I’m around my wife. I can hang out with her and use an
It’s been a hell of a few weeks over here at Birchler HQ. It’s easy to forget that good health goes such a long way to making every other part of your life better.
A history lesson for each major computing platform Apple has released since the turn of the millennium: * Apple released the first iPod in November 2001, and they released the second one 10 months later. * They released the first iPhone in June 2007, and the iPhone 3G 12 months later. * They