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It’s hard to believe that the Apple Watch has been a product now for over five years. It still seems like yesterday that I drove home from the Apple Store with the fancy new gadget in my bag, excited to see what it could do. That was June 2015. Over the past five years the […]

Prediction: Apple’s ARM based Macs will not only have touch screens, but will employ a FaceID sensor capable of recognising a hand reaching for the screen. As you go to touch the screen, the operating system will enlarge certain UI elements to make them easier to touch.

For the past few years I have decided to play it safe and wait for a couple of months for new iOS releases to settle in before updating. This year however, I decided to live on the wild side and upgraded on release day. Well, I paid the price for installing what is essentially beta […]

If you own an Apple Watch, I highly recommend turning off the “Notifications Indicator” – the red dot at the top of the screen that indicates something is waiting for your attention. For me, it was an itch I just had to scratch. With it turned off, I am less likely to be distracted when […]

When you do the maths, it turns out a man in his 30s has a higher chance of developing a long-term illness than someone in their 60s does of dying. Now the math: When you multiply the hospitalization rate for 30-something men (about 1.2 percent) by the chronic-illness rate of hospitalized patients (almost 90 percent), […]

Back at the end of February I decided I needed to get a pair of over the ear headphones for the office. (Little did I know I’d have only about another 3 weeks left in the office until my recent return at the end of August.) I originally had my sights (sounds?) set on the […]

In a strange move for a Conservative government, it was announced recently that workers will actively be encouraged to return to the office in order to help businesses such as coffee shops, who rely on the custom of office workers. I use the word ‘strange’ because asking the population to behave in a certain way […]

Owen Williams writes on OneZero: Apple’s Latest Power Move Steals Web Traffic From Publishers A change discovered in iOS 14 and macOS 11 betas this week suggests that Apple is hoping to quietly hijack and redirect users into its paid Apple News+ service From various comments I’ve heard of Apple News+, one of the most […]

Another day, another news story about Apple’s App Store policies. This time, it is Microsoft complaining about the fact Apple’s rules mean Xbox Game Pass cannot be made be available on the iPhone or iPad. While I can see the argument that Xbox Game Pass is simply Netflix for games, as I see it, the […]

The Register on Cambridge University’s decision to shut down their legendary email server and replace it with Microsoft Office 365: This is Cambridge University, though, in Silicon Fen, where there has been a department of computer science since 1937 (when it was called the Mathematical Laboratory), home of computing pioneer Alan Turing, home of one […]