Apple’s ‘Scary Fast’ event video was shot on iPhone

October 31, 2023

In tech, ‘dogfooding’ means using your own stuff in the way you intend for your users to, which is helpful to make sure your stuff lives up to your marketing claims. Apple dogfoods in a number of ways, but one particularly visible way it’s doing that is with the event video from today’s ‘Scary Fast’ […]

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Apple brought back the best Mac colorway with the new M3 MacBook Pro

October 31, 2023

Apple has a new range of updated MacBook Pro notebooks, and while they get a pretty nice internal upgrade courtesy mostly of the new M3 processor lineup, the big news for aesthetes is on the outside – in addition to the existing silver and space gray colors, there’s a new space black that is just […]

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Apple’s M3 iMac is up for preorder, starting at $1,299

October 31, 2023

Folks banking on the arrival of the iMac Pro will have to wait a bit longer. If you’ve been looking to upgrade your 24-inch all-in-one, on the other hand, Apple’s got some good news. The company just unveiled a refresh to the 24-inch iMac that skips the M2 altogether, in favor of the M3 chip […]

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Apple’s M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max 3-nanometer chips arrive with a big graphics boost

October 31, 2023

We felt fairly confident that we would see at least one piece of next-gen Apple silicon as part of tonight’s Scary Fast event. But how’s this for an early Halloween surprise: We just got three new M3 chip models. It’s a sizable shakeup of the company’s standard release schedule. The news follows months of rumors […]

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Apple’s 14- and 16-inch M3 MacBook Pros arrive in ‘Space Black’ color, starting at $1,599

October 31, 2023

Apple just announced a (nearly) complete overhaul of its first-party silicon line, in the form of the M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max. While the new 24-inch iMac is arriving with the M3, the MacBook Pro line is easily the biggest benefactor of today’s Scary Fast event. The high-end laptop is arriving in 14- and […]

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Apple’s Journal app has arrived – here’s what’s good and bad

October 30, 2023

Having used Journal for a few days now, I feel confident saying that Day One is not staring down an existential threat — at least not yet. Keep in mind we’re talking about Apple has a well-known history of Sherlocking new apps with feature updates (it was, after all, the company that gave rise to […]

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Existential risk? Regulatory capture? AI for one and all? A look at what’s going on with AI in the UK

October 30, 2023

The promise and pitfall of artificial intelligence is a hot topic these days. Some say AI will save us: it’s already on the case to fix pernicious health problems, patch up digital divides in education, and do other good works. Others fret about the threats it poses in warfare, security, misinformation and more. It has […]

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Max Q: ABL Space nears next launch

October 30, 2023

In this issue: ABL Space nears next launch, news from SpaceX and more.

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Why did Twitter (X)’s valuation tank 56% in one year?

October 30, 2023

The company formerly known as Twitter, X is valuing itself at $19 billion, per internal documents obtained by Fortune. When Elon Musk bought the company one year ago this week, he paid about $44 billion for the microblogging platform, or $54.20 per share. This internal valuation marks about a 56% decrease in X’s value over […]

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