There’s currently very little reason to buy a Mac Pro over a Mac Studio configured with the M2 Ultra chip. That’s because Apple reportedly canceled plans for an M2 Extreme chip for the top-of-the-line Mac .

A new report suggests that history may be about to repeat itself, and that a planned Extreme chip for a future Mac Pro model may also now be in doubt. In the worst case, that could be no true new Mac Pro for years to come …

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Like other first-party apps that lack Dynamic Color theming, Google Maps currently uses a blue accent for buttons and other UI elements, but that looks to be changing to teal.

Update 12/12 : This teal accent color is now appearing on iOS ( ), with the “Google Maps has a new look” prompt explaining how it’s the “Same great app, now with fresher colors.” The fact that Google needed to have an introductory message for this change is interesting.

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OpenAI has acknowledged that its popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, is currently experiencing an outage, making the platform inaccessible to users all over the world. This issue has also impacted the integration with Siri following the public release of iOS 18.2 on Wednesday .

, the company has identified the cause of the outage and is actively working on a fix. While they aim to restore ChatGPT’s functionality as soon as possible, no specific timeline for resolution has been provided. Many users are encountering random error messages when attempting

As we recently reported, Apple released a second RC build of iOS 18.2 to developers and beta testers before releasing the update to everyone earlier today. Although the RC build is often the same as the one that becomes available to the public, this time beta users have another update to install on their devices.

That’s because Apple has released a new build of iOS 18.2 to the public, and this build is different from the iOS 18.2 RC 2 that was released to

Apple on Wednesday released iOS 18.2 to the public, and the update brings many more Apple Intelligence features to iPhone and iPad, including Image Playground, Genmoji and ChatGPT integrated into Siri. Genmoji is undoubtedly one of the most fun features of the update, and Apple is already promoting it in a new iPhone 16 ad.

Called “ ,” the ad shows multiple Genmojis to demonstrate the possibilities of the feature. For those unfamiliar, Genmoji (for Generated Emojis) is the name given to the feature that

Microsoft this week released an update to the Teams app for that adds an important new feature. With the new version, Microsoft Teams users on iPadOS can now connect and use external webcams rather than the iPad’s built-in camera.

The new feature was made possible thanks to an API introduced last year with iPadOS 17 , which enables support for external webcams and microphones connected via the USB-C port. At the same time, developers can add support for these accessories to their apps. Now Microsoft is making

iOS 18.2 is now available to everyone , and the update is headlined by major new Apple Intelligence features.

While those Apple Intelligence features are garnering most of the attention, there are other notable features now available on your iPhone.

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iOS 18.2 is available to all iPhones capable of running iOS 18. Apple Intelligence features, of course, are still limited to iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and all iPhone 16 models.

• iPhone XR
• iPhone XS and