Say what you like about Apple, it knows how to put on an event. WWDC 2023 was a two-hour marathon of huge reveals with enough guest presenters to fill a small town. And at the end of it, all was a classic ‘One more thing’ from Tim Cook, as he unveiled the Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset. …We’ve listed all of the big stories for you below so that you can catch up on everything from a fairly momentous Apple event. Read More
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There was once a time when “My Photo Stream” was the only way to get your photos from one device to another other automatically, and it was magical. But it’s going away soon — and it can’t happen soon enough. Apple launched My Photo Stream way back in 2011, long before it launched iCloud Photos in its various flavors. But as we work our way to the middle of 2023 it’s a feature that hasn’t really been needed in a long time and, even worse, had the potential for people to lose their precious photos. Read More
Bing has been turbocharged with an injection of OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology, transforming Microsoft’s search engine into something capable of carrying on a conversation. The news was announced at a Microsoft ChatGPT event in February 2023 where company execs confirmed that OpenAI’s next-level chatbot tech would be integrated into both Bing and Microsoft’s web browser Edge. Read More
Apple is making a big play with passkeys, the first real alternative to the humble password. But it hasn’t even gotten its password situation right yet. Apple’s been syncing people’s saved usernames and passwords for a long time as part of the iCloud Keychain feature. There are plenty of third-party password managers of course, but iCloud Keychain is free and built into every iPhone, iPad, and Mac. But there’s still one glaring problem — the app. Read More
