A couple of weeks ago, a massive global IT outage occurred when Windows computers running the CrowdStrike security software crashed. CrowdStrike is popular in enterprise installations, meaning businesses worldwide–including airlines such as Delta Air Lines–were shut down. Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a CNBC interview that the CrowdStrike crash caused Delta to cancel about…
Twitter may have rebranded as X a year ago, but you wouldn’t know it if you were using a Mac. While the iOS and Android store switched over from Twitter to X very quickly, over on the Mac, the Twitter app was still available for download and mostly worked–some features, including search, were wonky. It…
On Thursday, Apple reported an impressive 5 percent year-over-year growth with a quarterly revenue of $85.8 billion. The surprise performer this quarter was the iPad, which recorded its strongest non-holiday quarter since 2020 with more than $7 billion in sales. The other standout was Apple’s Services division, which continues to grow every quarter. Services posted…
Claimed dummy models of the iPhone 16 Pro A new leak claims to show dummy iPhone 16 Pro models in all their colors, which will now include a matte black option. A previous report claimed that Apple's iPhone 16 Pro — and the iPhone 16 Pro Max — will come in Space Black, White, Gray,…
What’s the point of hiding media in the Photos app if other people with access to your device can see it? That seemed to be the point of Apple’s upgrade to Photos in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS 13 Ventura. By default, any items you chose to hide in your library and your Recently…
Google is updating both Google Maps (pictured) and Waze for iOS Google has announced updates for both its Google Maps and Waze apps on iOS, including recommending car parks, and alerting users to different types of speed cameras. More than ten years after it acquired mapping firm Waze, Google is still updating both it and…
Twitter icon, pre-X Formerly a must-have social app, Twitter for Mac is no longer visible in the Mac App Store, but you could still use the X iPad app on Apple Silicon. The Elon Musk era's changing of Twitter to X has seemingly claimed another victim. This time, it's the Twitter app made for macOS.…
Update 08/02: Patrick Moorhead has published a further tweet, clarifying that "Pat [Gelsinger] didn’t tell me l that there were yield issues. This was *my* interpretation." The text of the article has been updated accordingly to reflect this tweet, as well as Intel statements about accelerating their Ireland Fab 34 ramp-up. Alongside Intel’s weak Q2…
Capping off an extensive (and expensive) week for Intel, the company has also announced that they are taking additional steps to address the ongoing chip stability issues with desktop Raptor Lake chips – the 13th and 14th Generation desktop Core processors. In order to keep owners whole, Intel will be extending the warranty on retail…