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The upgrades to Find My in iOS 27 are more than just graphical. Now there's more granular control over location sharing, and you can even pause sharing temporarily. Find My's changes in iOS 27 Like a lot of other apps in iOS 27 , the updates to Find My are not really groundbreaking in nature. But they are still useful. The obvious changes this time are a refinement of the design. The Liquid Glass…

The Asus ROG Kithara brings Hifiman's planar-magnetic drivers and signature design to the Mac gaming world with aplomb that's sometimes undermined by unfortunate complexities. ROG Kithara review: Few headsets are quite so big In a world that's full to the brim with mediocre gaming headsets, this Asus ROG and Hifiman collaboration is certainly different. Hifiman is known for its premium headphones…

Apple just announced the Mac mini with M5 Pro and you'll need one with 64GB of RAM to run the Junie Local model, a free 27B parameter coding agent that compares to Sonnet 4.5 or GPT-5. Junie Local needs a powerful Mac to run, but doesn't cost any tokens JetBrains developed Junie as a coding agent that runs on your Mac and calls out to models the user chose. That always required some configuration…

Apple Maps ads have finally arrived after months of buildup, with the first sponsored listings rolling out on iPhones across the US and Canada. An example of an Apple Maps ad In March, Apple confirmed it would bring ads to Apple Maps. The ads were part of the greater Apple Business rollout. It wasn't known exactly when Apple would begin rolling out the ads, but the company had set a tentative rel…

Apple's top-tier Mac, the Mac Studio , has been given a big AI bump with the M5 Ultra. Here's how it compares against the M3 Ultra model it replaces. The Mac Studio now has M5 Ultra, an upgrade from the M3 Ultra. The new Mac Studio arrived on Tuesday , with the all-new M5 Ultra now the top-of-the-range chip for tough productivity workloads. Apple is positioning it squarely as a desktop for doing …

Despite the New Mac mini and Mac Studio apparently not including an option to add AppleCare where it has historically been during the order process, you just have to click through a few pages to get it done. AppleCare options are available for the new Macs. It's not remotely clear why Apple would choose to hide AppleCare for the new Macs since the option is front and center with other Macs. With …

You have to really need it in order to justify the cost of an M5 Ultra Mac Studio , but there are reasons why you could use up all eight display options, and they may not be obvious. Mac Studio comes with many ports, yet it's still easy to fill them all. Sometimes you wonder if Apple adds something just because it can. So the new M5 Max version of the Mac Studio, for instance, is being promoted a…

Unaffected by RAM prices and supply chain bottlenecks, Apple's much-maligned Polishing Cloth makes a return to the Apple Store with a $10 discount. Don't buy it. The new, $9 Apple Polishing Cloth | Image credit: Apple In 2021, Apple announced the Polishing Cloth, a $19 cloth designed specifically to keep any of its Nano-texture displays smudge-free without any damage. And while the internet found…

Apple has refreshed the Mac mini adding the M6, in an unusually timed update. Here's how the new model specs compare against the M4 version it replaces. M6 Mac mini vs M4 Mac mini In a rare move, Apple has updated the Mac mini just before its main iPhone event, rather than during its usual fall Mac window. The big change is the shift from the M4 generation it has been on for almost two years. Tha…

Apple quietly updated its Magic Keyboard with MacBook-style symbol-only keycaps. The real shock? The price actually stayed the same. Apple's Magic Keyboard Updated store images show glyphs replacing the written labels on the Tab, Caps Lock, Shift, Return, and Delete keys. The symbols match those introduced on the latest MacBook Pro and MacBook Air keyboards in March. The change appears across the…

Apple is taking pre-orders for the new Mac Studio now, but one configuration can't be selected yet. It's certain to push the maximum price well over $20,000, too. If that $18,299 price tag for the Mac Studio seems steep, wait until all of the configuration options are available - image credit: Apple. If you chose to, you could now spend $899 on a base Mac mini and wince at how much more those cos…

Apple kept the new M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini at three external displays, but increased the maximum refresh rate, and gave M5 Pro support for connecting all three through one Thunderbolt port. Mac mini connected to an external monitor The Mac mini models were introduced August 25 and will be available September 22. M6 replaces M4 in the standard model, while M5 Pro succeeds M4 Pro in the higher-perfo…

Alongside a new M6 Mac mini, Apple has launched new versions of the Mac Studio, using the M5 Max and M5 Ultra processors. Mac Studio As consistently expected , Apple has updated the Mac Studio with these two processors. It claims up to 4.3 times faster AI performance, 2 times faster storage, and up to 1.3 times faster CPU speed. "With the powerful M5 Max and the incredible capabilities of M5 Ultr…

In an uncharacteristic August launch, Apple has updated the Mac mini, retaining the same design, but adding the M6 and M5 Pro processors. M4 Mac mini. M5 is identical externally The release comes almost two years after the then-redesigned M4 Mac mini was released. There's nothing different externally, with the major change being the M6 processor. And, it comes after wait times were as long as two…

Parallels Desktop 27 for Mac claims to provide up to 160% faster OpenGL graphics for Windows apps such as Blender 4.3, as well as AI acceleration on M4 Macs and newer. Parallels Desktop 27 runs Windows on the Mac - image credit: Parallels. One year later , Parallels has followed its release of Parallels Desktop 26 with new new Mac and Enterprise versions, plus an online list of compatible Windows…