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nxTrain 1.7 is now available in the App Store (UK only).

It’s only a day to go until WWDC 2026, and in a way it’s kind of strange when you stop to think about it.

Today I am announcing a new app for iPhone and Apple Watch users called nxTrain.

In the late 90s, the term “RAD” was everywhere in software development.

The Apple Watch has been out for over a decade now, and yet its health and fitness insights have only improved marginally.

Robert Booth UK technology editor at the Guardian: Anthropic, whose advanced chatbots are used by millions of people, discovered its Claude Opus 4 tool was averse to carrying out harmful tasks for its human masters, such as providing sexual content involv…

Tom Warren writing for The Verge: Microsoft originally encouraged its employees to work from home amid the coronavirus outbreak in 2020.

No joke: the UK Government’s Environment Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has suggested deleting old emails to reduce water consumption.

Over the past few months, I’ve noticed a number of Amazon sellers using blatantly fake product shots.

The public betas for Apple’s various operating systems are now out now, which will gradually make their way to many of the the 2.35 billion active iPhones, iPads, Macs and other Apple devices reports as active, starting in the Autumn.

Ellen Jennings-Trace writing for Tech Radar: New estimates regarding the recently-exploited Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities now evaluate that as many as 400 organizations may have been targeted.

Adverts for Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are now a regular feature on many podcasts.

Microsoft, in its ongoing quest to make Windows 11 feel increasingly clumsy and tone-deaf, has now decided to add a new “AI Tools” menu to Windows Explorer.

Jo Kristian Bergum on Twitter: This surge was partly driven by a widespread misconception that embedding-based similarity search was the only viable method for retrieving context for LLMs.

Image source: BBC News Graham Fraser reporting for BBC News about Apple’s new notification summarisation feature: A major journalism body has urged Apple to scrap its new generative AI feature after it created a misleading headline about a high-profile ki…

Having become a semi-regular commuter to London, I’ve found that the various well-known apps for checking train times are all terrible.

John Gruber writes A swing-and-a-miss from MKBHD.

Benj Edwards for Ars Technica: On Monday, software developer Michael Sayman launched a new AI-populated social network app called SocialAI that feels like it’s bringing that conspiracy theory to life, allowing users to interact solely with AI chatbots ins…

I was recently trying to compile a .NET project as a self-contained binary for linux-arm to run on my Raspberry Pi.

Image credit: Apple (https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2023/06/introducing-apple-vision-pro/) Three and a half months after the release of Apple Vision Pro, and I am finding it difficult to get on board with Apple’s vision for the future of computing.

Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica has written a nearly 3,000 word article explaining how to remove advertisements and other annoyances from Windows 11 and Microsoft Edge.

When Apple introduced Focus Modes and Focus Filters, I hoped it might finally mean the ability to cleanly separate work and personal life within iOS.

Apple have recently introduced a new featured called “Optimized Charge Limit” which aims to lengthen the lifespan of the battery embedded within an Apple Watch: From Apple’s support pages: With watchOS 10, this feature is available on Apple Watch SE, Apple

Wordpress have enabled support for ActivtyPub.

In a disappointing move, Microsoft have discontinued Visual Studio for the Mac.

Another year and another update to the venerable operating system that runs on millions of watches is here.

There is so much hyperbole about Large Language Models (LLMs) in the media right now that I’m finding it can be overwhelming, and I am someone who works in the field of AI!

Apple Music has a poor reputation these days.

It’s a common refrain in tech circles when discussing Twitter to talk about “The Algorithm”.

My M1 Mac mini has been sleeping dreadfully recently.

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From Business Insider: The vast majority of Worldwide Digital’s losses were tied to Amazon’s Alexa and other devices, a person familiar with the division told Insider.

£91 a year for a watch?

Every year we marvel at the latest product releases from tech companies, with Apple often leading the way.

After 21 years, the original macOS System Preferences is being retired.

Recently announced iOS 16 will feature a new look Lock Screen.

A keyboard!

I have been an avid podcast listener since it first emerged in the mid-2000s, in the past few years everyone who is anyone it seems now has a podcast.

Apple blogger John Gruber isn’t happy about recently agreed EU legislation.

Riccardo Mori writing in an essay Raw power alone is not enough Without innovation in software, all we’re doing with these new powerful machines is essentially the same we were doing 20 years ago on PowerPC G4 and G5 computers, but faster and more conveni…

Sami Fathi writing for MacRumours: Yesterday, it was revealed that Meta, more commonly known as Facebook, plans to take a steep 47.5% commission for digital asset purchases made inside the so-called “metaverse.”

What do BBC News, Instagram, Twitter, Slack, Pokémon GO, eBay and Uber have in common?

My original iPod (left), alongside the iPod 5.5 and the Apple Watch, in many ways its successor.

Both Microsoft Teams and Apple’s iMessage offer the ability to ‘react’ or ‘tap back’ on a message - for those who don’t know, this allows you to mark a message with a quick emoji response instead of sending a full message back.

The new version of Safari for iPad is a classic case of ‘developer centric design’.

Like every other Apple-focused technology enthusiast with spare time on their hands, I’ve been trying out Glass, a new app for sharing photos.

I’ve noticed that Google’s search results are full of a lot more spam recently.

Apple News can be a nice way to catch up on the day’s events, however it can also be a source of clickbait headlines and celebrity gossip that I couldn’t care less about.

Rumours are abundant, and so it must be true that in the coming months Apple will release updated versions its high-end computers.

Lots and lots of goodies in Apple’s 2021 keynote.