438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
John Geleynse Retires From Apple
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John Geleynse: Being a part of Apple for 25 years has been the privilege and experience of a lifetime. […] We released the platforms and tools that helped bring incredible products to life. We inspired developers to do some of the best work of their careers. We rewrote the original Apple Human Interface Guidelines for […]
No Refund for Undelivered MacBooks
Six0Four (via Hacker News): Ordered 2 Macbooks for $2500 from Apple (Canada). Paid for their same day delivery service which they use Uber for and it says delivered but it wasn’t. Driver stole them or he delivered to the wrong person that stole them. If he actually delivered to the wrong address, I live in […]
Sega Delisting Classic Games From Steam
Kevin Purdy (Hacker News): Sega has put dozens of its Master System, Genesis, Saturn, and other console titles onto modern game stores over the years. But, like that Dreamcast controller stashed in your childhood garage, they’re about to disappear—and getting them back will cost you a nostalgia tax.Those who have purchased any of the more […]
The Ongoing Battle for Vestibular Accessibility
Craig Grannell: I vividly remember getting a wonderful surprise on the sole WWDC I was flown out to, on attending a developer session on accessibility and seeing someone on stage proudly noting that slide transitions in menus had been added to Reduce Motion.[…]But what I find disappointing is that, all these years after that Guardian […]
Why % CPU in Activity Monitor Isn’t What You Think
Howard Oakley: When macOS loads two of those E cores with low QoS threads, it sets them to run at a low frequency to make the most of their energy efficiency. When it loads two E cores with threads that were intended to be run on P cores, as they have a high QoS, it […]
iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves
Juli Clover: Law enforcement officials in Detroit, Michigan are warning other police officers about an alleged iPhone change that causes Apple devices stored for forensic examination to spontaneously restart, reports 404 Media.iPhones that are undergoing examination have apparently been rebooting, which makes them harder to unlock with brute force methods, and Michigan police think that […]
Lost iCloud Notes
Benjamin Mayo: Some iPhone users are reporting a scary bug with the Notes app on iPhone. After agreeing to new iCloud terms and conditions as prompted by the system, the Notes app appears to disconnect from iCloud and instead presents users with a screen of zero notes, as if all the user’s notes have been […]
High Power Mode for M4 Pro Macs
Andrew Cunningham: Last year’s M3 Pro chip was a departure from the M1 Pro and M2 Pro. Compared to the M2 Pro, it came with more E-cores but fewer P-cores, as well as fewer GPU cores and less memory bandwidth. As we wrote at the time, this meant that the architectural improvements to M3 mostly […]