Apple has enabled a new Apple Watch feature to help identify signs of moderate to severe sleep apnoea in Australia. Sleep apnoea is detected through a new Apple Watch metric called Breathing Disturbances. This uses the Apple Watch’s accelerometer to monitor small wrist movements that are associated with interruptions in normal respiratory patterns. Breathing Disturbances…
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Look out Safari and Chrome – OpenAI is starting a new browser war
A new browser will soon be appearing according to report by Reuters. OpenAI will be releasing a browser that will go up against Chrome and Safari. Unsurprisingly, the real goal here is not to simply capture marketshare as a vanity exercise. What OpenAI most likely wants is data. Ever since Google first figured out that…
Rumour and leak round up
When things are quiet on the Apple front, the number of leaks and rumours seems to grow almost daily. The rumour mill is grinding with everything from Apple products that fold or roll-up through to new Macs. Here’s a round up of some of the more believable rumours and leaks going around. Codenames for next…
iOS 26 helps you fight against spam calls and text
Among the many new features Apple is introducing in iOS 26 are tools to help beat back the rising tide of spam calls and text messages. While email filtering has been around for a while and is reasonably effective, Apple is upping the ante with tools to help filter junk messages and calls. The ability…
Apple’s AI problems are resulting in a major strategic shift
When Apple has wanted to chart its own course in a new direction, it has either acquired or hired the intellectual property or people it has needed. But the breakneck speed of the AI revolution has forced Apple to reconsider. If the rumours are correct, Apple is in talks with Anthropic PBC and OpenAI to…
MacWhisper gets a Parakeet-powered speed boost
As you might have noticed from my recent review of MacWhisper, I was very impressed by its performance. Since that review, I’ve used it to transcribe a long YouTube video as well as many other video and audio files I’ve generated. Now, MacWhisper is getting a speed boost by using a newly released transcription model…
Apple and the great Finder icon switcheroo
When Apple released the first beta of macOS 26 Tahoe, observant Mac owners noticed that Apple broke with tradition and switched the shading in the icon for Finder. There was some confected outrage that Apple would dare to make such a massive change. Apple has listened to the angry hordes and in macOS 26 Tahoe…
Apple needs to solve two AI problems – an acquisition only fixes one
Ever since Mark Gurman reported that internal discussions have been held at Apple about purchasing AI startup Perplexity, there’s been speculation that this deal will happen. But we are a long way from this deal coming to fruition. But even if this deal happens, it’s only part of the solution to Apple’s problems. Apple clearly…
macOS 26 Tahoe continues to break with the past
macOS 26 Tahoe has deprecated support for FireWire. While FireWire accessories haven’t been on the alert for many years, there are still some people using older drives and other peripherals. A poster on X has found that FireWire support, through adaptors that connect to the USB=C ports on modern Macs, no longer works. It’s important…
macOS 26 Tahoe is the last release of macOS to support Intel
As part of the macOS 26 Tahoe announcements made during WWDC 2025, Apple slipped in that the upcoming release of macOS will be the last one to support Macs running Intel processors. As part of the company’s Platforms State of the Union presentation, the company said: We completed the transition to Apple silicon across our…