Next year’s iPhone 17 Air will get a lot of attention for its ultra-thin form factor . But there’s another strong contender for what could ultimately become the device’s best feature: the 17 Air’s unique display.
For years now, iPhone buyers have had a couple main screen size choices when buying a flagship model.
That changed slightly with
As , Apple’s senior director of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Benoit Dupin, made a surprise appearance at Amazon’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas today.
Dupin used the opportunity to explain that Apple uses custom artificial intelligence chips from Amazon Web Services for many of its cloud services. Apple is also evaluating using Amazon’s newest AI chip to pre-train its Apple Intelligence models.
While speaking at the event, Dubin touted that Apple has used AWS chips, like the Graviton and Inferntia,
Simply Piano has long been a hit app in my household. My daughter never really showed interest in learning to play our keyboard until she came across Simply Piano on her iPad. I think it’s the first annual subscription I ever bought for her based on how much she was getting from it.
Now Simply Piano has brought the experience from the iPhone and iPad to augmented reality on Apple Vision Pro. The best part? You can play using Simply Piano with a virtual piano in your real environment without a for the
Large language model AI has been a leap forward for me in how I use technology. So naturally, ChatGPT is something that my 7 and 11 year old kids are already familiar with, but there isn’t an AI that they interact with regularly. Enter , a fun and affordable AI bot that’s designed to create a safe and engaging environment for kids. The AI component is LLM powered so the bot is naturally conversational, and Miko has a host of content partners including Disney, Nickelodeon, and iHeartRadio
Apple has released visionOS 2.2 beta 4 for developers. The new software version brings us closer to the expected RC and wide launch soon. Here’s what to expect from the latest beta.
Today’s new beta brings the latest version of a big update for Vision Pro users.
The highlight of visionOS 2.2 is a variety of upgrades to Mac Virtual Display . These include:
We’re expecting a public launch
The Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals have all but completely disappeared, but there are still a couple notable hangover offers joining some fresh price drops we spotted this morning. is starting at the all-time low with $80 in savings across the lineup while remain at the best price we have tracked on Amazon. We also spotted the the original price, some deals on , Anker’s latest , and even some handy you can use to score on deal on your holiday trips and food deliveries. Everything else awaits
The Touch Bar was a controversial Apple creation, to say the least. But the now-discontinued MacBook Pro feature is being revised, in a way, through a for a more versatile standalone product: the Flexbar.
Flexbar was inspired by Apple’s work with the Touch Bar, as its creators outline:
The discontinuation of the original Touch Bar didn’t mean the concept was flawed—it simply wasn’t taken far enough…the potential for a customizable, adaptive interface that could streamline workflows was immense.
Apple TV+ has a new show in the works for future release—it’s called Lucky, and it has some big names behind it including Anya Taylor-Joy.
Lucky will be a limited TV series based on a New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, which was a Reese’s Book Club pick.
It will star Anya Taylor-Joy, who hasn’t been in a starring TV role since her breakthrough turn in The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix back in 2020
Apple Podcasts has its Show of the Year for 2024, and it’s a limited-run series called that tells a fascinating story. Here are the full details.
Hysterical is a seven-part limited series from Wondery with an intriguing premise:
Hysterical investigates a mysterious illness that spreads among a group of high school girls in upstate New York.
The show debuted earlier this year in July as the #1 show in Apple Podcasts. It ended the year as the #9 top show of the year
Apple is known for playing hardball when it comes to negotiations, but it seems the Indonesian government is capable of giving as good as it gets.
The country banned the sale of the iPhone 16 , saying the Cupertino company hadn’t invested enough in the local economy. Apple responded by offering to increase its manufacturing spend from $10M to $100M, but Indonesia now says it expects a billion dollars – and it wants the investment agreed within a week …
Apple initially invested in Indonesia by