What do you do when your basil plant’s leaves are turning yellow? And why does the rosemary look like that? When it comes to herb gardening, who has the thyme to sit down and become an expert? Instead, let Plantum identify what’s wrong with your plants, tell you when to water them, and all the…
The Apple Store in Glendale, Calif. A man went to the Apple Store to pick up a new MacBook Pro that he had purchased, only to find that someone else had impersonated him and grabbed it. The same thing, it turned out, had happened to someone else at a nearby Apple Store. The latest in…
Apple has retained nudity detection in images, but dropped some CSAM protection features in 2022. A victim of childhood sexual abuse is suing Apple over its 2022 dropping of a previously-announced plan to scan images stored in iCloud for child sexual abuse material. Apple originally introduced a plan in late 2021 to protect users from…
Apple Vision Pro features stunning immersive environments and content. The Apple Vision Pro is often referred to as a "flop" in media reports, but by the end of 2024, it will have sold around 500,000 units. For context, that Wall Street estimate matches almost exactly the money Apple made from the iPhone in 2008, its…
Christmas season is here, and there are lots of ways to get into the spirit of the season. One way is to watch a Christmas special on TV, and one of the best is A Charlie Brown Christmas. For decades, it aired on broadcast TV, but that’s no longer the case–it’s now an Apple TV+…
When iOS 18.2 rolls out to all iPhones on Monday, it’s going to bring a ton of great new features. Most of the focus is on the new Apple Intelligence capabilities, and for good reason: AI is Apple’s big marketing hook but the features are rolling out gradually over several months. The iOS 18.2 (and…
VR hand controller support could revitalize the software market for the Apple Vision Pro. A new report says that Apple has approached Sony in an effort to bring handheld game controller support — and presumably more games — to the Apple Vision Pro. The company is also considering an Apple Pencil-like "wand" controller as well.…
Apple users, you know the struggle: You want the best VPN that isn’t, how do we say this nicely,… ugly? And hard to use? We want something that feels like it came on our Macs and iPhones, not like it was designed in the 1800s, and we found Windscribe. The interface is up to our…
TikTok's issues with the US government and courts continue. China-based Bytedance has one last avenue to avoid the sale of its TikTok social media service after losing a court appeal to invalidate a US law that requires the service be sold by January 19, 2025. In its decision, the US Court of Appeals noted that…