Apple’s mixed-reality headset is selling well, but it’s embroiled in a new mystery that’s proving tough to crack. As first reported by AppleInsider, some customers have discovered a mysterious crack appearing vertically down the center of the front-facing screen on their Vision Pro headsets. The reports have come from only …
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There’s a passage in Elif Batuman’s “Summer in Samarkand Part II,” published in N+1 in 2010, that I’ve never forgotten. Batuman noted that the language of Old Uzbek had 100 different words for crying. Old Uzbek had words for “wanting to cry and not being able to; for being caused …
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Apple is launching its first post-quantum protections, one of the biggest deployments of the future-resistant encryption technology to date. Billions of medical records, financial transactions, and messages we send to each other are protected by encryption. It’s fundamental to keeping modern life and the global economy running relatively smoothly. However, …
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In the two weeks it has spent on the faces of eager buyers, the Apple Vision Pro has been subjected to its share of criticism. As reported by The Verge and elsewhere, some customers are making a show of returning their Vision Pro headsets before Apple’s standard 14-day return window …
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Watching pirated movies on your iPhone just got a little harder. After climbing the charts of Apple’s App Store, the trendy Kimi app, with its collection of bootlegged movies, has just disappeared. Pretending to be a spot-the-difference vision-testing game, the widely downloaded app ranked above Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime …
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A battle for control is taking place inside iPhones across Europe. While Apple introduced new rules that ostensibly loosen its control over the App Store, local developers are seething at the new system, which they say entrenches the power Apple already wields over their businesses. They’re now breaking into a …
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If you've downloaded iOS 17.2, you're probably wondering why there's a new app on your home screen. It's the Journal app, and it's exactly what it sounds like: a place to reflect and record your thoughts and memories. Before you rush to delete it, I recommend giving it a chance. …
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Even on Zoom, Martin Scorsese knows how to frame the shot. Ostensibly he’s dialed in to talk about his new Super Bowl ad for Squarespace, but as he’s settling in, he adjusts the iPad he’s calling from to make sure his face is framed perfectly by the bookshelves behind him. …
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The Information reports that Apple is working on its first foldable phone. It isn’t expected to be released anytime soon, if at all. There are no firm details about what format the device would take, except that Apple had first considered making a foldable iPad instead. Even with all that …
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Google got to where it is mostly by offering free services stuffed with ads, but it has increasingly experimented with a different business model: selling subscriptions for extra perks. Its first subscription offering, debuted in 2006, provided additional photo storage for users who didn’t want to have to hit the …
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