By news@appleinsider.com (Wesley Hilliard) Replace Apple’s Spotlight search with ChatGPT for Mac, which can take screenshots, analyze files, and review text with a simple keyboard shortcut.ChatGPT for Mac now availableApple may not be releasing Apple Intelligence or ChatGPT integration with macOS Sequoia until later in 2024, but users can bring AI to their Mac today. The new ChatGPT app for Mac is now available for all users beyond just Plus subscribers.Users can set up the CMD + Space keyboard shortcut to summon ChatGPT, which means replacing Spotlight. The app works with macOS Sonoma or later on Macs with M-series processors. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Marko Zivkovic) On Tuesday, Apple released new firmware updates for nearly all of its AirPods models and certain Beats devices.Apple has issued a firmware update for multiple AirPods modelsAirPods Max, AirPods 2, AirPods 3, and the original AirPods Max have all received a firmware update with the build number 6A326. The original AirPods have received firmware version 6.8.8, while Apple issued firmware update 6.8.8 for AirPods Pro 2.Certain Beats devices have also received an update. The latest available firmware version for both the Beats Fit Pro and Powerbeats Pro has the build number 6F8. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) An auction loaded with clothing worn by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs features a famous suit he wore to promote the Mac — and it alone is expected to bring in $30,000.Image credit: Julien’s AuctionsYou, too, can own a piece of Apple advertising history — if you’re willing to fight for it on the auction block. Steve Jobs’ iconic blue pin-striped suit, worn in a January 1984 marketing photograph, is currently up for bid.Jobs famously wore the suit in an ad promoting the debut of the Macintosh. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Christine McKee) Month-end iMac deals are in effect today on current and closeout models, with prices plunging to as low as $949.Save on current & closeout iMacs.From deals on the latest M3 iMac 24-inch to blowout savings on M1 models — and even the Intel 27-inch iMac 5K — there are dozens of highly aggressive month-end markdowns in effect, with price points as low as $949 per our Mac Price Guide. Continue Reading on AppleInsider
By news@appleinsider.com (David Schloss) Apple isn’t content with the existing distributed computing technologies, and is working on a way to network your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and maybe even the Apple Vision Pro together to combine processing jobs dynamically according to device power, to get a big calculation done faster.Apple’s patent shows multiple devices sharing the computing workload.In a newly published patent, Apple has detailed what it wants to see in the future as it pertains to using all of your devices for computations, simultaneously, an seamlessly. If the research pans out as published, this would radically improve performance for some tasks, and automatically take into consideration the varying power from each device.For example, an idle iPad could make a photo edit or 3D render faster. Or, a Mac could improve the experience on an Apple Vision Pro by sharing the processing of tasks. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) Foxconn has been accused of excluding married women from jobs at its main iPhone assembly plant in India, citing their family responsibilities as the reason.Mumbai, IndiaDespite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to increase women in the workforce, many Indian women still face barriers when seeking employment. A widely held belief that married women are unreliable has prevented this effort from taking off.A new report from Reuters has discovered that Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn has been telling its recruiting officers to turn away married women before they even set foot on the property. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Taiwan press venues are circulating rumors of a new Apple datacenter coming that don’t appear to be based on anything, making claims of a $14 billion benefit to the country’s economy questionable, at best.Inside Apple’s store in Taipei, TaiwanApple does build data centers — or tries to — and recently it has been reported to be working on AI processors for such data centers. So rumors amongst the technology industry in Taiwan that Apple is to build a data center in the country are theoretically possible.It can’t be absolutely counted out, but the report in Money.UDM literally says it is based on optimism. That optimism within the country’s technology sector is based on how Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Amazon AWS have at least made similar plans. Rumor Score: 🙄 Unlikely Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Malcolm Owen) In an utterly unsurprising announcement on Tuesday, the Beats Pill is back 12 years after the original release in an upgraded revival that is a warning shot to the rest of the Bluetooth speaker industry.Beats Pill review: Back and better than everIn the portable speaker market, the Beats Pill is one of the most iconic. Over a decade old, the speaker became a must-have item, and even received an improvement in the form of the Beats Pill .However, after its 2015 launch, Apple discontinued the Pill+ in January 2022. It left the Apple subsidiary in a position where it only sold headphones and earphones, with speakers dropped from the catalog. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) Apple is researching how to make an iPhone accessory that can be used to perform spectroscopy in the field, and inexpensively.Detail from the patent showing a possible sample testing systemThink of how “Star Trek” tricorders also came in a medical version. Or just think how quickly episodes of “Quincy, M.E.” could have ended if Jack Klugman had been carrying an iPhone with an add-on sample analyzer.That’s the idea at the heart of Apple’s newly-granted patent, “Systems and accessories for optical analysis of samples on portable electronic devices.” It’s about having a small accessory that biological samples can be placed on for testing, in part, by the iPhone. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
By news@appleinsider.com (Marko Zivkovic) Apple recently announced an all-new email categorization feature for iOS 18, but a newly-discovered prototype of the UI dates back to around five years ago, before the release of iOS 13.Apple’s email categorization feature was originally created with iOS 13 in mindAt the company’s annual WWDC on June 10, Apple showcased a significant update to its in-house mail application. By analyzing the text contents of emails through machine learning, the new-and-improved Mail app will be able to organize emails into several pre-defined categories: Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
