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Apple on Monday released a small iOS 16.0.3 update that should be the last before iOS 16.1 arrives later this month. The update includes several iPhone 14 fixes as well as the Mailjack bug. According to the release notes, most of the fixes pertain to A…

The German airline Lufthansa has banned AirTags from its flights, after passengers used the device to track the location of lost luggage. A company representative stated on Twitter that Lufthansa “is banning activated AirTags from luggage as they are c…

With news that the European Parliament has voted in favor of a new rule requiring all new phones and smaller electronics that use a cable to charge to be equipped with a USB-C port, Apple has a few major decisions to make. While the new rule technicall…

Apple has the best TV streaming box. It’s faster and more responsive, it supports Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, it runs all the streaming apps and has full access to purchasing TV and movies from Apple’s store, and of course it works seamlessly with yo…

Meta is warning Facebook users that dozens of “malicious mobile apps” have infiltrated users’ iPhones via the App Store. Security researchers have found hundreds of apps that “were designed to steal Facebook login information and compromise people’s ac…

With iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura threatening to arrive later this month, we’re on the precipice of the arrival of one of the biggest new features added to the iPad and Mac in recent years: Stage Manager. For Mac users, Stage Manager is an optional feat…

Of all of Apple’s major product lines, it seems like none has been the subject of such intense debate and scrutiny over the last decade as the iPad. Can one do “real work” on it? Is it a computer replacement? Will it some day replace the Mac for all ou…

Once again Google has said to users of one of its services: “You screwed up. You trusted us. That’s on you.” “Google Shutting Down Stadia Cloud Gaming Platform” “Gasp!” – Nobody at all. Well, at least it had a good long run that… Google Stadia has only…

If you bought a new iPhone 14 or iPhone 14 Pro, you probably love it. If you’re ordered a Pixel 7 Pro, you’ll love that too. You don’t need to read a bunch of reviews to know that Apple’s current iPhone lineup is its strongest ever or that Google’s new…

Apple insulates us from most of the peculiarities of the cellular world’s text messaging system, SMS (Short Messaging Service), and the multimedia version, MMS. If everyone you text with uses an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch, you see nice blue bubb…