The macOS 15.2 update that was released earlier today came with a handful of new features, plus something unexpected: an apparently accidental reference to the upcoming M4 MacBook Airs. MacRumors reports that the “Mac16,12” and “Mac16,13” model identifiers reference 13- and 15-inch models of the M4 Air and that both are coming in 2025. That […]
December 11, 2024 | Apple, apple m4, MacBook Air, Tech | No comments
Advertising has become a focal point of TV software. We’re seeing companies that sell TV sets be increasingly interested in leveraging TV operating systems (OSes) for ads and tracking. This has led to bold new strategies, like an adtech firm launching a TV OS and ads on TV screensavers. With new short films set to […]
December 11, 2024 | ads, AI, Culture, films, generative ai, movies, streaming, tcl, Tech, TVs | No comments
Apple has announced that it will be releasing the iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 updates to the public later this afternoon, following weeks of beta testing for developers and users. As with iOS 18.1, the headlining features are new additions to Apple Intelligence, mainly the image-generation capabilities: Image Playground for general images, […]
December 11, 2024 | Apple, ios 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, Tech | No comments
“I think it’s kind of surprising that a lot of these things don’t happen sooner, to be perfectly honest,” Coles says, noting that many of these cameras, earpieces, and transmitters have existed for a decade or more. “You could do it with a very cheap investment,” Piallat says. “You won’t need a lot of money.” […]
December 11, 2024 | cameras, poker, syndication, Tech | No comments
Startup Embodied is closing down, and its product, an $800 robot for kids ages 5 to 10, will soon be bricked. Embodied blamed its closure on a failed “critical funding round.” On its website, it explained: We had secured a lead investor who was prepared to close the round. However, at the last minute, they […]
December 10, 2024 | robots, Smart Home, Tech | No comments
Who would put an outlet there? When traveling, you sometimes find yourself in a, let’s say, creatively laid-out room. A heavy, tall bookcase may block the outlet closest to the bed or maybe the room’s only outlet is frustratingly out of reach for anyone but Gumby. In such situations, it’s handy to have a cable that’s […]
December 10, 2024 | anker, Apple, iphone, Keyboards, Keychron, Logitech, mechanical keyboards, Reviews, smartphones, Tech | No comments
One of the selling points of the Raspberry Pi 5 (released in October 2023) is that it was fast enough and had enough memory to be a credible general-purpose desktop PC, if not an especially fast one. For Pi-as-desktop enthusiasts, the company has a couple of new pre-holiday announcements. The biggest is the Raspberry Pi 500, […]
December 9, 2024 | Raspberry Pi, raspberry pi 5, raspberry pi 500, raspberry pi monitor, Tech | No comments
The longest-lived Studio desktop was the Surface Studio 2, which was released in 2018 and wasn’t replaced until a revised Surface Studio 2+ was announced in late 2022. It used an even higher-quality display panel, but it still used previous-generation internal components. This might not have been so egregious if Microsoft had updated it more […]
December 6, 2024 | microsoft, Microsoft Surface, Surface, surface studio, Tech | No comments
Over the last few years, Apple has steadily been building password manager-style features into macOS and iOS, including automatic password generation, password breach detection, and more. Starting with this year’s updates—iOS 18 and macOS 15 Sequoia—Apple broke all that functionality out into its own Passwords app, making it all even more visible as a competitor […]
Windows 11 has other system requirements, though they weren’t the focus of this TPM-centric blog post. Windows 11 systems must have Secure Boot enabled, and they have to use a supported processor—an 8th-gen Intel Core CPU, an AMD Ryzen 2000 CPU, or a Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 CPU or newer. In fact, these CPU requirements exclude […]
December 4, 2024 | Tech, windows 10, windows 11, windows 11 24h2 | No comments