Apple has just launched two new Macs, the M4 MacBook Air and a new Mac Studio . The Mac Studio comes with two chip options: M4 Max or M3 Ultra. Here’s everything you should know about the new M3 Ultra chip.

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Apple today announced M3 Ultra, the highest-performing chip it has ever created, offering the most powerful CPU and GPU in a Mac, double the Neural Engine cores, and the most unified memory ever in a personal computer. M3 Ultra

Apple has officially announced the M4 MacBook Air. The latest model includes a new sky blue color option and a cheaper starting price

The new sky blue color replaces space gray in the lineup. It joins midnight, starlight, and silver. It touts a new 12MP Center Stage camera and the ability to drive up to two 6K external displays and the built-in display at the same time.

The new starting price comes in at $999 for the 13-inch model (and $

It turns out there’s something in the air today, too. Apple has a new Mac Studio, the second revamp to the desktop powerhouse that it launched in 2022. The new Mac Studio is available in two chip configurations: the M4 Max and the M3 Ultra.

Apple says:

Apple today announced the new Mac Studio, the most powerful Mac ever made, featuring M4 Max and the new M3 Ultra chip. The ultimate pro desktop delivers groundbreaking pro performance, extensive connectivity now

Apple has released a new update to Shazam, the music tagging service that it bought in 2018. The latest version adds songs tagged from outside the app to the Shazam playlist in Apple Music and Spotify.

Here’s what’s new in version 18.9:

We’ve made syncing songs to Apple Music and Spotify better than ever! Shazam will now include songs found via Music Recognition in Control Centre, Siri, and Shortcuts to your “My Shazam Tracks” playlist in Apple Music or

Update: reports that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dismissed its lawsuit against the three lead banks, as the White House downsizes the consumer rights agency.

A high rate of Zelle scams originating from social media contacts has led JPMorgan Chase Bank to block payments made through social media networks and messaging apps. Chase said that Zelle was intended as a method of transferring money to family, friends, and other trusted contacts, and should never be used to make online purchases …

Peer-to-peer payment apps like Zelle, Venmo

Digg – once known as “the homepage of the internet” – is making a come-back, after being bought by its co-founder Kevin Rose in partnership with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

It’s an interesting move given that Reddit was a competitor who pretty much inherited that “homepage of the web” accolade. Also ‘interesting’ is the pair’s belief that most moderation can be done by AI …

For those not old enough to have used it, Digg was essentially a social news

Apple’s Advanced Data Protection (ADP) is a privacy feature very few people have been using. Non-techies had never heard of it , and even some geeks hadn’t enabled it.

So Apple standing up to the UK government’s attack on ADP might not seem a big deal – but I’d argue that it’s way more important than it might seem, for three reasons …

We previously outlined what ADP is , and why it matters, but the executive summary is that it extends

SwitchBot (makers of my ) have launched a new option in the smart blinds space, the .

It is one of the cheaper smart blinds options on the market, and it even has an adjustable bar so it can fit many different window sizes. And if you have the , you can connect these shades directly to the Apple Home app using the Matter integration. Unfortunately, they cannot act as a standalone Matter accessory — the hub is required.

The SwitchBot Roller Shade has an adjustable width, varying from 22.

Tim Cook summarized today’s Apple product news in a succinct post on X that caused a bit of laughter across the internet: ”Introducing the newest iPad Air!”

The humor is in the fact that there really isn’t much to say about the M3 iPad Air. It’s just the newest one! However, there is something fascinating about “the newest iPad Air!” that isn’t obvious but deserves attention.

The most anyone can really say about the M3 iPad Air is that