+ Tim Cook's "refrigerator-toaster combo" quote is irrelevant today, stop using it 🔗
In fact, making the Mac a refrigerator-toaster combo would reduce the number of things it's able to do. [...]
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Daft Punk & Stevie Wonder & Pharrell & Nile Rogers get lucky 🔗
I don't have anything to say other than you're welcome for finding the best 5 minutes of YouTube you'll see today. [...]
Anthropic does the bare minimum, but these days that's impressive 🔗
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War The Department of War has stated they will only [...]
Blender for the iPad is on hold (it was also keyboard+mouse first, not touch first) 🔗
In a GitHub comment back in January, Blender's Dalai Felinto gave this update on the Blender for iPad project: FYI I just updated the task description [...]
Soon, everything will be an iPad 🔗
Over the weekend, my Apple will kill iPadOS article caused some feelings, to say the least. The post title was meant to catch eyes, and it did, but I [...]
Block is making more profit than ever, so they're firing 40% of their employees 🔗
Jack Dorsey on Twitter: we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. ou [...]
Drive to Survive is coming to Apple TV tonight 🔗
Chance Miller: New ‘F1: Drive to Survive’ season is coming to Apple TV Ahead of the first F1 Grand Prix next week, Apple has announced a new partnersh [...]
The whole draw of the Mac is that it can do whatever you want it to do 🔗
Wesley Hilliard has a new post out which is a bit of a retort to my opinion on touch Macs and iPads: Apple could enter its toaster-fridge era with tou [...]
In blind test, gamers think DLSS looks better than native rendering 🔗
Hassam Nasir: Nearly half of PC gamers prefer DLSS 4.5 over AMD's FSR and even native rendering (emphasis mine) German outlet ComputerBase has conduct [...]
Seeing growth on YouTube 🔗
I love Rory Alexander's YouYube channel. He streams Gran Turismo for a living and posts a video or two per week that I always enjoy. On my YouTube hom [...]
Shocker: Apple will update macOS UI to make touch a good experience 😉 🔗
Juli Clover reporting on Mark Gurman’s latest report: Touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro Coming in 2026 With Dynamic Island and Redesigned macOS Controls Ap [...]
A Better Computer, the Podcast 🔗
Today I'm doing something a bit spontaneous, I'm launching a podcast! It's called A Better Computer (shocker), and it's "available anywhere you get yo [...]
Quick Notes now records in the background 🔗
Quick Notes has a new update out now with a few nice improvements. Background recording Have you ever had your screen turn off during a longer record [...]
Why many of us have no patience for liquid glass 🔗
Jason Snell: Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through [...]
Financially secure Sony shuts down a great game studio they acquired, seemingly just to ruin 🔗
Brendon Bigley: Bluepoint Games Shuttered by PlayStation for Some Unfathomable Reason Are we sincerely supposed to believe that in a world where the e [...]