Enlarge (credit: Apple) Anecdotal reports from over the weekend indicate that the macOS Monterey update may be bricking some Macs during installation, leaving the machines unresponsive. MacRumors has rounded up a representative swath of complaints from the Apple Support Communities forums and Twitter, mostly describing the same symptoms: unresponsive Apple computers that can’t be revived […]
Enlarge The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro are out, and that means it’s teardown time. PBK Reviews has videos on the Pixel 6 Pro and Pixel 6 for us to pick apart. Crack open either phone and you’ll find a ton of heat dissipation. The back of the screen is covered in copper, so it’s […]
Enlarge (credit: Apple company ) The apple company has discontinued the 21. 5-inch iMac. The Intel-powered Mac’s demise means that the only remaining iMacs are now the colorful, M1-equipped 24-inchers and the 27-inch version, which is still on Intel. As reported by MacRumors on Saturday, Apple confirmed that it has discontinued the 21. 5-inch iMac. This […]
Enlarge / Your home office can always use some sprucing up, especially when it’s your main place of work. (credit: Corey Gaskin) Recently, I’ve gotten really into ergonomics. Since the pandemic—and after a spate of injuries from poor posture, bad habits, and the general lack of body awareness—the importance of a comfortable workspace has become […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft regained its crown as the most valuable publicly listed company in the world on Friday from Apple, whose shares slumped following a weak quarterly earnings update from the maker of iPhones and Mac computers. Microsoft’s 2.2 percent gain on Friday lifted its market valuation to $2.49 trillion. Apple slid 1.9 […]
Enlarge / The 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro stacked on top of the 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple has long offered an application called Time Machine that lets you revert the software on your computer to the state it was in before something went seriously wrong. In many ways, the new MacBook Pro […]
Enlarge / The worm says, “I’ve got root! ” (credit: Andreus / Getty Images) The Ms 365 Defender Research Team released a blog post yesterday describing a newly found macOS vulnerability that can abuse entitlement inheritance in macOS’s System Integrity Protection (SIP) to allow execution of arbitrary code with root-level privilege. The vulnerability is listed […]
Enlarge (credit: Meta ) Facebook just won’t stay idle. After announcing on Thursday that Facebook’s parent company will be changing its name to Meta , it seems the tech giant may be planning another big move that it hasn’t even mentioned yet. An image spotted on one of its apps suggests that will the company […]
Enlarge / The new Microsoft Store running on Windows 10. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) If you don’t want to (or can’t) run Windows 11 on your PC, the good news is that Microsoft will be providing at least a few app updates to Home windows 10 to keep it feeling useful. One of those app updates […]
Enlarge Google’s MVNO cell phone service, Google Fi, is getting a surprise new feature: encrypted phone calls . Encrypted voice chats via messaging apps have been available for a while, but this is the first time we’ve seen a company hijack the regular phone system for end-to-end encrypted calls. Open the cell phone app, dial […]