Adam Engst looks at Watch Duty, a nonprofit-developed app that combines wildfire mapping with real-time alerts from ...

In light of Apple Intelligence’s notification missteps, Adam Engst examines the value of summarization, overcoming an initial skepticism to argue that summaries are intrinsic to human expression but ...

On a recent visit to San Francisco, Adam Engst was thoroughly impressed with a ride in a Waymo robotaxi. How many years will ...

This week’s Do You Use It? poll asks how you could recover your data and get back to work in the event of a disaster ranging from a corrupted file to a house fire.

Brings Genmoji and Shortcuts improvements and fixes. ($74.99 new, free update, 32.4 MB, macOS 14+) ...

The latest installment in the story of how bootable Mac backups will eventually disappear started with a blog post by Shirt Pocket Software’s Dave Nanian. In it, he explained why SuperDuper could no ...

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On the Shirt Pocket Watch blog, SuperDuper honcho Dave Nanian writes: macOS 15.2 was released a few days ago, with a surprise. A terrible, awful surprise. Apple broke the replicator. Towards the end ...

Apple has released macOS 15.2 Sequoia, iOS 18.2, and iPadOS 18.2 with new and improved Apple Intelligence features, plus watchOS 11.2, visionOS 2.2, tvOS 18.2, and HomePod Software 18.2 with other ...

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At Rogue Ameoeba’s blog Under the Microscope, Paul Kafasis writes: During this time, Apple placed an emphasis on improving the security of MacOS, continually locking the operating system down further ...