Peter Cohen

Apple open sources portions of HomeKit

Apple and others announced plans to create a new connectivity standard for smart home devices, which they're calling Connected Home over IP. Now Apple is putting its money where its mouth is by open sourcing portions of its HomeKit Accessory Development Kit (ADK).

The Apple Card 6% Daily Cash back made me do it

Apple Card

The Apple Card provides you with some terrific tools to help you manage your debt, such as an interest calculator that lets you figure out the payments you can afford. But the temporary doubling of cash back rewards is a good reminder that the goal here is still to get you to spend.

Opera GX Mac browser aims at gamers

Opera GX

When you're playing an intense game on your Mac, the last thing you want is your web browser getting in the way by hogging up network resources, memory or CPU load. That's why Opera developed Opera GX for gamers. That browser is now available for the Mac in an early access version.