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Apple announces the HomePod

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apple’s long-rumored Amazon Echo competitor is real. It’s called the HomePod (yes, I know). “We want to reinvent home music,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said at the company’s WWDC keynote. The Apple Speaker is focused on music first, [...]

Plot twist: the MacBook Air is still alive

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The MacBook Air just won’t die. While Apple introduced a thinner, lighter MacBook Pro last year, people still want a new MacBook Air. The MacBook Pro is roughly as heavy as the 13-inch MacBook Air, but it’s still [...]

The iPad mini isn’t receiving any update

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The writing is on the wall. The iPad mini 4 is probably going to be the last iPad mini ever. Apple just announced iPad updates during its WWDC keynote. Both the 9.7-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models are [...]

Apple’s idea of an apocalypse is a world without apps

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

To kick off WWDC this year, Apple gave us a glimpse of what the world would be like without apps. In an opening video for the conference, a new employee at Apple haphazardly unplugs the App Store servers [...]

Apple has a new wireless Magic Keyboard with a full numeric keypad

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apple packed a lot of announcements into its WWDC keynote today, even with the long running time, so it’s understandable that the new Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad didn’t get any stage time. Understandable, but unforgivable, because this [...]

Birth control app Nurx now delivers to the ‘contraceptive deserts’ of Texas

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

About half the counties in Texas don’t have the number of public clinics required to meet the contraceptive needs of the population. So Nurx, an at-home birth control delivery app, decided to give women in the state the [...]

Apple HomePod speaker favors sound over Siri

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apparently Apple knows Siri kinda sucks, because it was the last thing mentioned in the unveiling of the new HomePod speaker. That’s why it’s dumpily named as a successor to the iPod, not Apple’s old-but-unwise voice assistant. Read [...]

Leaked NSA report names Russia in pre-election hacks, contradicting Putin’s claims of innocence

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Attribution is not an easy thing to do in the case of cyberattacks, especially if the actors have been careful. But the NSA seemed confident enough regarding certain pre-election hacks that it has directly named Russian intelligence as [...]

Everything Apple announced at its WWDC keynote

June 6th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

WWDC is usually a key event for Apple. This is the company’s developer conference. While Apple has mostly focused on software news in recent years, this one was a bit different. We got a bit of everything — [...]