Macworld At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Excellent Apple & Android supportGreat battery lifeUSB-C and 3.5mm audio support Cons No ANCDesign is datedNo on-ear detection Our Verdict It’s been too long since Beats updated its more affordable on-ear Solo headphones, and while there are lots of improvements in this version it feels like a missed
Read MoreCo-author Dr Joanna Turley said she has ‘significant hope’ that C100 can be developed into a ‘highly effective’ booster for cancer immune therapies in the future. Read more: Trinity scientists find vaccine booster to fight cancer tumours
Read MoreMental health, just like physical health, is an everyday consideration and we all need to know the best ways to look after ourselves. Read more: 4 ways you can protect your mental health at work
Read MoreMacworld Apple doesn’t participate in big industry-wide events such as CES or E3. The most valuable company in the world holds its own events, thank you very much. Several times a year, Apple invites the press and industry professionals to Apple Park to hear all about its latest products and services. Apple calls these ‘events,’ and streams
Read MoreApple has announced that it will cancel the planned TV run for their controversial ‘Crush’ ad, after admitting it “missed the mark.” This week, Apple launched its new iPad and simultaneously shared the new advert on Tim Cook’s X account and Apple’s YouTube page. Far from serving to excite people about the AI-enhanced iPad, the
Read MoreMacworld STORI AI is an all-in-one brand automation platform that streamlines your marketing workload. Save time quickly generating content, and save money by doing it all with a 5-year Essential Subscription for only $149.99 (reg. $1,200). Simplify your marketing tasks with a suite of automated branding tools. STORI AI can suggest colors and logos, and even generate mission statements and values. You can even invite other
Read MoreElectronic Arts is internally discussing the best way to get external advertising into its full-price games, looking at how to best “do very thoughtful implementations” So says EA CEO Andrew Wilson who made the statement on Electronic Arts’ latest earning call. “…Advertising has an opportunity to be a meaningful driver of growth for us.” Wilson
Read MoreOpenAI has allegedly been trying to poach Google employees to work on its own search product offering. | Illustration: The Verge OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to announce a search product powered by artificial intelligence on Monday that could threaten Google’s dominance. That target date, provided to Reuters by “two sources familiar with the matter,”
Read MoreMacworld Even the biggest companies have been caught up in social-media backlashes, from Adobe’s “tone-deaf” software smile correction to Google’s “embarrassing and wrong” AI tool. But I didn’t think much of a potential controversy when I watched Apple’s ad for the new iPad Pro at its Let Loose event this week. Boy, was I wrong
Read MoreThe meme coin sector is recovering after a crash in early May, but one top meme coin, Shiba Inu (SHIB), is not performing well over the past few weeks. In fact, SHIB’s price is up only 2% this week, while other prominent meme coins like Pepecoin (PEPE), dogwifhat (WIF), and BOME have produced returns of
Read MoreJack Dorsey has insisted the course of action taken by Elon Musk on X has been necessary in the pursuit of free speech. In a wide-ranging interview with Pirate Wires, the man who co-founded Twitter backed Musk’s decision to abandon high-profile advertisers and make drastic cuts to the staff headcount. Dorsey shares the vision of
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Microsoft has announced plans to launch a mobile games store in July. This will be a web-based store that initially launches with Microsoft’s own games. Microsoft has long stated its intention to build a mobile app store as an alternative to the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Read MoreKevin Roose / New York Times: An account of chatting with 18 AI companions for a month: AI friendship is hollow, but chatbots could enhance human socializing if developed responsibly — Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very
Read MoreInitially launching on the web, the new game store is poised to offer a ‘cross-platform gaming-centric mobile experience’ according to Xbox president Sarah Bond. Read more: Microsoft to launch its own Xbox mobile game store in July
Read MoreThe Big Three cloud providers, AWS, Microsoft, and Google, are going like gangbusters. The most likely reason is two letters: AI. The first quarter of 2024 saw the strongest growth since the third quarter of 2022. Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services topped $76 billion during Q1 2024, up by $13.5 billion (a 21% increase) compared
Read MoreWhen developing database-driven .NET and .NET Core, regardless of the database we intend to deploy in the end, we will often want to work with a database engine that is lightweight and fast, in order to execute tests quickly and speed up development. Here SQLite is an ideal choice. You can use SQLite to gain
Read MoreThe first beta of Python 3.13 has just been released. This article presents a rundown of the most significant new features in Python 3.13 and what they mean for Python developers. Things may change between now and the first production release of 3.13, but the first beta means all the major feature additions and changes
Read MoreAmaka Nwaokocha / Cointelegraph: Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi announces plans to shut down its web platform by May and partners with Coinbase to allow clients to access and withdraw funds — The plan administrator will continue to use Coinbase for upcoming distribution rounds, potentially involving recovered funds from FTX.
Read MoreDana Rao, general counsel and chief trust officer at Adobe, said that the latest move will provide ‘more transparency and authenticity’ on the platform. Read more: TikTok starts automatically labelling AI-generated content
Read MoreThe company issued an email to customers alerting them of the breach but said it believes there is ‘not a significant risk’ due to the type of information involved. Read more: Dell data breach involves customers’ physical addresses
Read MoreMacworld If you’re always focused on Microsoft’s latest news, you might be missing out on a big open secret. Microsoft 365 isn’t the only way to access its top-rated productivity tools. If you don’t need the cloud features or wouldn’t mind forgoing the recurring subscription fees, you should know that you can now get a
Read MoreHere’s a story that may be familiar: [der-b] is a Linux developer who is forced two carry two laptops — one for work with unavoidable work stuff on it, and one for software development. Unfortunately this leads to keyboard confusion between the two when one is connected to an external display. In an attempt to
Read MoreCredit: Apple Apple has apologized for a new iPad Pro video ad it posted online. The ad shows a hydraulic press crushing musical instruments, camera lenses, and more. The company acknowledged that it “missed the mark” with this video. Apple released a controversial video ad for the iPad Pro this week, showing a variety of
Read MoreAlan Talanoa, CTO of Aircall, discusses his role and how AI integration can benefit digital transformation strategies. Read more: ‘The work of IT leaders has always been focused on the future’
Read MoreLast week, NASA announced it is working with a technology development company on a new propulsion system that could transport humans to Mars in only two months — down from the current nine month journey required to reach the Red Planet. Gizmodo reports: NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program recently selected six promising projects for
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