Once upon a time, Apple had a black color option for its laptops. Now, though, it feels like we've had space gray, silver, and gold forever.
Apple may be working on a matte black finish for MacBooks
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Watch Microsoft’s holiday ad featuring adorable pups dreaming about being in video games
Apple's holiday-themed commercials are usually quite nice, or even awesome, but Microsoft has had some memorable holiday commercials over the years as well. This time around, however, the Windows maker has one-upped its old friends from Cupertino with an excellent, well-executed holiday ad featuring adorable dogs that dream about being in video games.
This $0.05 hack makes Apple’s MagSafe charger incredibly better
One of the surprise announcements at the iPhone 12 event was the return of MagSafe, albeit under a different form and purpose. Now available as an entirely new line of products, MagSafe accessories take advantage of embedded magnets to make connecting your device to a case, charger, stand, etc, a breeze.
The first MagSafe accessory to be available was the MagSafe charger, a $39 charging solution consisting of a cable and a charging puck, similar in essence to the Apple Watch charger.
Satechi unveils MagSafe-like Wireless Magnetic Charger for the iPhone 12 and Magnetic Sticker
Accessory maker Satechi today unveiled two new products: a MagSafe-like wireless magnetic charger for the iPhone 12 models and the Magnetic Sticker, which enables support for the new Qi charger on the iPhone 11 models and iPhone 12 cases that are not MagSafe compatible.
Groundbreaking docuseries “Earth at Night in Color” about nocturnal animals hits Apple TV+
“Earth at Night in Color,” a new documentary series about animals and what they do at night, is now available on the Apple TV+ video service.
Apple TV+ shares a trailer highlighting the biggest Apple Originals
Apple today shared a cool new trailer through its YouTube channel highlighting some of the biggest Apple Originals that are available on the Apple TV+ video service.
AMD is apparently working on two Apple M1 competitor chips
While Intel and the rest of the industry have been in a state of shock since Apple unveiled its M1 laptop chip last month, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is not standing still. According to a leaker, the Santa Clara, California-headquartered semiconductor company has two Apple M1 competitor chips in prototype stages that are apparently “almost ready”.
Ezviz’s video doorbell delivers 1080p HD video, night vision & 170-degree vertical field of view
Smart home security specialists EZVIZ have unveiled a new video doorbell accessory with night vision that delivers full 1080p HD video with a 170-degree vertical field of view.
Apple is working on a fix for the iPhone 12 intermitent wireless charging issue
If your iPhone 12 is one day charging on your Qi-compatible wireless charger normally as it should only to stop charging the next day, then you're definitely not alone. This is a known software bug in iOS and Apple has now confirmed that it's working on a fix.
“Zombie Rollerz: Pinball Heroes” is now available on Apple Arcade
Pinball, zombies and tower defense meet in “Zombie Rollerz: Pinball Heroes”, a new game for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV that's now available on Apple Arcade.
You can now text your requests to Alexa for iOS
As first spotted by The Ambient, users of Amazon's Alexa app for the iPhone and iPad can now send their requests to the assistant via text messages instead of only using their voice.
Twitter kills off Reddit-style threaded conversations following user backlash
Twitter has rolled back threaded replies because they made conversations harder to read. The vast majority of people who were included in a recent test of this feature considered threaded replies too difficult to use, prompting the company to pull the feature.