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Guilherme Rambo of 9to5 Mac brings news of another possible addition to macOS 10.15—Siri Shortcuts and, more interestingly, the Shortcuts app:…

The Verge’s Chris Welch reported on Thursday about Amazon and Google making up when it comes to connecting video services and hardware platforms:…

As the Nobel Prize laureate once sang, “The times, they are a-changin’.”…

Dieter Bohn of the Verge reports that the screen on his Samsung Galaxy Fold review unit broke after a day:…

Guilherme Rambo keeps rolling out the scoops this week:…

While support for playing Apple Music songs via Alexa rolled out to Amazon Echoes last year, third party devices like the Sonos One were left out in the cold. Yes, you could play songs from Apple Music on those devices, but you couldn’t do so using…

The $130 Kindle Paperwhite (left) and $90 Kindle.In the last few months Amazon has released two new Kindles, the $130 Kindle Paperwhite and the $90 base-model Kindle. Both of them are notable improvements on their previous versions, making it harder for me to…

Who knew that a report that Apple was replacing iTunes with new apps brought to the Mac from iOS would open a Pandora’s Box of Mac angst?…

This week, on the irreverent tech show where nobody is innocent for long, we discuss Disney’s new streaming service—aimed directly at John and Dan—and what it means for Apple TV+, plus iOS 13’s rumored improvements, Lex’s too-automated household, and…

Apple just released a PR statement indicating the end of hostilities with Qualcomm:…

I recently updated my Mac mini server to macOS Mojave after a long and troublesome ordeal. 1 While the update has been mostly positive, one of the features I was sad to lose was the ability to configure my own VPN server. As you may recall, the VPN server was…

Wired’s Peter Rubin has an exclusive chat with Mark Cerny, lead system architect on Sony’s next-generation console, in which they talk about the technology key to that platform, including solid-state storage:…

Disney finally unveils its streaming service at a price that makes us wonder just what game Apple thinks it’s playing; we get a sneak peek at some possible new iPad features for iOS 13; and Jason and Myke ponder the major changes due for the Mac this fall…

Well, iTunes, it was a good run. According to reports from knowledgeable developers, this fall marks the end of the viable life of an 18-year-old app that started as an MP3 jukebox and ended up as an all-purpose media player, e-commerce engine, and…

For a company that maintains multiple major operating systems, has its own productivity suite, and even developed one of the most popular web browsers in use, there was a time that the piece of software most identified with Apple was also perhaps the one most…

Netflix ties its own hands, new Kindles arrive, Amazon gets criticized for cozying up to oil companies while touting its own green-energy efforts, web accessibility is trickier than you’d think, and… is that a black hole?

Bloomberg’s Matt Day, Giles Turner, and Natalia Drozdiak on the humans who audit recordings from Amazon’s Alexa in order to improve speech recognition:…

The 2019 iMacs are a contradiction. They are brand-new computers that somehow feel like the last members of a dying order. They are shells designed in 2012 that somehow contain 8th- and 9th-generation Intel processors. They represent Apple’s broad-appeal…

It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 15 years since Apple first announced Spotlight as a banner feature of Mac OS X Tiger. In fact, Spotlight has been around so long that I suspect that most Mac users take it for granted, not entirely understanding…

This week, on the 30-minute show that is a flat circle, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Shelly Brisbin and Jeff Carlson to discuss whether our downloading of new apps has slowed, what we’d like to see changed if iTunes is broken up, smart health…

That’s a black hole. Source: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.…

This week, on the irreverent tech show that asks the hard questions about government security, we discuss Apple’s 5G pickle, Netflix’s most recent decisions on technology and pricing, the hopefully inevitable disruption of iTunes, and how Great Britain…

John Siracusa joins Jason to discuss how 2019 is potentially an enormous year for the Mac in both hardware and software. Also, we make time to swap TiVo stories and generate John’s Hierarchy of Mac Pro Needs.

I enjoyed this in-depth review of HoudahSpot 5 by John Voorhees over at MacStories. While the Finder has more search features than you might think, HoudahSpot harnesses the power of Spotlight while providing flexibility and functionality that isn’t as…

Goodbye, AirPower! We hardly knew ye.…

Back in 2014, Bare Bones Software’s Rich Siegel announced he was pulling his app, BBEdit, out of the Mac App Store. It was a bad sign for the viability of the store, and Bare Bones wasn’t the only major Mac developer to realize it didn’t make sense to…

Apple’s News+ pitch failed with key newspapers—but Facebook might value news curation now? Future iPhones come into focus, but Apple’s 5G timeline is called into question. Dell’s new XPS laptop is a winner. And the “hearables” category (by which we…

MacRumors reports that Apple has cut the price of the HomePod in the online store from $349 to $299.…

This week, on the 30-minute tech show where time is always on our side, Dan and Mikah are joined by special guests Aleen Simms and Rene Ritchie to discuss mundane tasks we think voice assistants could improve, living the multi-pad lifestyle, tech movie tropes…

High-end iMac or iMac Pro? Ever since the iMac Pro was released in 2017, that’s been a key question for pro-level Mac users who aren’t sure if taking the perilous leap from the summit of the iMac product line across to the $4,999 (and up) iMac Pro was…