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iOS 7 is here. It’s beautiful. You can cehck out all the details in our main post, but here is some video to see how it looks in action. You really want to see this. https://gizmodo.com/apple-ios-7-everything-you-need-to-know-512269828 There are some crazy details, like the way screens slide in and out of the frame, and how control…
The new iOS 7 is here. Jony Ive’s first iOS—minimalist, elegant, devoid of the infantile artifice that infected its recent incarnations. It’s pretty impressive. And here’s everything you need to know about it. Here’s a video that summarizes it: Flat design, grid, 3D layers and gestures The iOS interface has been completely revamped. That means…
Well this makes sense. Apple is trying to make iCloud more useful—a noble pursuit—and is is integrating the service into iWork. The new software suite, iWork for iCloud, works a lot like the old software suite except that everything you do in Pages, Numbers and Keynote happens in a web browser and gets saved in…
Today during the WWDC keynote, we got our first look at what Apple is thinking in terms of the future of Mac Pros. Everyone who said the Mac Pro is dead can just shut up. Here comes a new freaking generation of high-performance computing from Apple, and we couldn’t be more excited. The new Mac…
We’ve finally got those last, important details. The Xbox One will be available this coming November for $500. There’s no word on any options, so it sounds like it’s $500, take it or leave it. Maybe we’ll get something subsidized later on, but for now, it’s one-price-and-load-out-fits-all.
Today’s golden children may be iOS 7 and all things software, but that doesn’t mean the actual machines running that software are being tossed to the wayside. Confirming recent rumors and stock shortages, we are officially seeing Apple’s super skinny MacBook Air get a much deserved refresh. https://gizmodo.com/our-wwdc-2013-meta-liveblog-kicks-off-monday-6-10-at-12-511781107 Perhaps most exciting, all MacBook Airs will…
Apple Maps is getting a pretty little desktop client in the new OSX Mavericks. The desktop client includes the same (steadily improving) offering of 3D-flyover views, and provides you with information cards as you skirt around different locations. And once you find your destination on the desktop, you can shunt it right over to your…
A centralized Notification Center was a great addition to OS X. The problem? Based on their original design, they caused more problems than they solve. In OS X Mavericks, Apple’s fixing the notifications so that you can deal with the notification right from a dialog rather than needing to fire up a whole application to…
While all the hullabaloo at WWDC is focused on what iOS and OSX look like, we should be more concerned with whether or not they actually work. The late Steve Jobs did say over a decade ago that Apple focuses on not just the aesthetics of its products but also how they actually work: “It’s…
Apple updates Safari every year, but now with the help of Intel’s Haswell processor, they might actually have made something that people will actually want to use. Running at about a third the energy usage of Firefox, way less memory, and 1.44 times faster than Chrome, this might just do it. Definitely the most notable…
Apple’s OS X 10.9 Mavericks looks nice and shiny and new, in all the ways that new operating systems usually do. But it’s got one big fix for what had been the single stupidest thing in all of OS X for the past two years. That’s multiple displays. https://gizmodo.com/apple-os-x-mavericks-everything-you-need-to-know-512268500 Until now, Apple’s OS X full…
OS X Mavericks has bunches of improvements under the hood that Apple says will improve your MacBook’s CPU performance by up to 72 percent. More power and better battery life, designed for users on that go. How does the new OS improve CPU performance so much? First up, it’s a technology called Time Coalescing, which…
While iOS 7 was expected to be the star of Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) this year, it wasn’t the only operating system getting a significant update. Supposedly codenamed “Cabernet” at headquarters, OS X Mavericks was unveiled on Monday with little fanfare. The specific improvements, however, are designed to improve performance across Apple platforms. So…
While Microsoft certainly has its grand aspiration sfor the future of the Xbox One, it’s not leaving the trusty old 360 in the dust. There’s no word on whether or not there’s anything new besides the look, but the old box just got a new hardware refresh at E3 and it’s available today.
We know what the Xbox One looks like. We know how powerful the new Kinect is. We know how the new controller feels. We know what the guts are. Hell, we even know what we’re going to complain about with the Xbox One already. What we don’t know? How the games will look. Or how…
In just a short while, Microsoft is going to take the lid off of its remaining Xbox One secrets. While we’ve already gotten an in-depth look at the hardware, there’s no telling what kind of game and Xbox Live goodies are in store. Fortunately, you can watch it all unfold right here, starting at 12:30…
Herman Miller may be best known today for its high-end, technical desk chairs, like the Aeron and the Embody, but they also make iconic modern furniture designed by legends like Eames and Noguchi—classic stuff, that will look as good in 50 years as it did 50 years ago. All of it is on sale right…
Though the ridiculous media fuss about CitiBike—and its all-powerful bike lobby backers—intensified this weekend, there was also one bright spot: The New York Times unveiled an interactive map that lets users add their own tips and warnings to fellow riders. The map invites cyclists to add ten-word blurbs to a map of the city. They…
Good news AT&T iPhone owners, you’re getting a push-to-talk app, a first for the iPhone in the US! Whether non-corporate customers will be privy to the app is anyone’s guess. The AP has clarified its original story and now says the app will not work unless it’s been properly integrated by both AT&T and its…
The Olympics are known for introducing new and experimental events that reflect the region where they’re being held. So if it ever finds itself in and around Silicon Valley, perhaps this surprisingly fun 100 meter scrolling game—which has you literally scrolling down for some 328 feet while you race the clock—could become an official Olympic…
