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Fluro provides a delightful recap of everything you’d need to know in a day, all in a neat Mac interface with a special LED scroller. It delivers the weather, your calendar events, reminders, the news, and more – all with a pinch of nostalgia.
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For the past couple years, I’ve noticed a weird bug on Apple’s Messages app – specifically to do with images. I’ve been hoping that Apple would get around to fixing it for the longest time, but they haven’t thus far.
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According to the latest edition of the Power On newsletter, Apple is facing multiple major hiccups in its AI rollout. While that isn’t a surprise, it does mean that many of its roadmapped features are being delayed, and technical challenges are resulting in certain features, including the ‘more conversational’ Siri update – shipping later.
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According to iPad Air and models. The MacBook Air announcement is ‘imminent’, while the iPad models are slightly later.
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Happy M4 MacBook Air week for those who celebrate! In his first edition of Power On since officially becoming Bloomberg’s managing editor of consumer tech, Mark Gurman reports that there are no delays in the way of Apple unveiling the 2025 model MacBook Air this week.
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The UK’s privacy watchdog has announced a “major investigation” into the child protection measures of three popular apps: TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that it has previously succeeded in bringing about child protection changes on X, Sendit, BeReal, Daily Motion, and Viber …
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One of the odder aspects of Apple’s history is that the company has gone in 14 years from one of the leaders in intelligent assistants to one of the biggest laggards.
We’ve gone from the futuristic-feeling Siri way back in 2011 to a painfully inadequate-feeling Apple Intelligence in 2025 ….
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Xiaomi has mostly made a living from copying everything coming out of Cupertino, but it’s lately done a couple of things I wouldn’t mind seeing Apple copy.
First there was the design of its 15 Ultra smartphone, and now it’s shown-off an interesting-looking concept that I think could make the basis of an excellent Apple Camera Lens module for iPhone …
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Last week, I covered Ubiquiti’s new cloud gateways, and the company is back this week with another release. This time, it’s releasing one of the lowest-cost Wi-Fi 7 access points on the market, the U7 Lite, which is available for $99. It’s also releasing a new in-wall Wi-Fi 7 access point for $149. Wi-Fi 7 expands upon some of the great features of Wi-Fi 6E and is supported on the iPhone 16 lineup (except the newly released iPhone 16e).
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The colorful arches surrounding what was once the Apple Park Stage have been dismantled, as seen on Google Maps satellite images.
The move comes as a surprise given that they’ve been a fixture in Apple keynote videos, but it’s being suggested that they are being rebuilt, this time as a permanent structure …
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