Macworld Everyone wants to talk about AI. Most of them don’t know what it is (artificial intelligence), but they still want to talk about it. Who’s got it and who doesn’t. What industries it’s ripe to disrupt. And the one company that’s not in the middle of that conversation is Apple. Viral images generated by Stable Diffusion, and pathological chatbots from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google are the story of the day. Apple, meanwhile, has nothing. Or perhaps, considering the current state of Siri, less than nothing. Apple’s nowhere when it comes to AI. That’s the narrative. The thing is, it’s not true. At least, not yet. Presenting the Neural Engine It’s hard to imagine that you could portray Apple as…

Macworld As far as operating systems go, nothing is more popular than MS Windows. And the latest version — Microsoft Windows 11 Pro — is the best one yet. Time to upgrade your OS? Then take advantage of this offer to save $160 off the purchase of a Windows 11 Pro lifetime license. Microsoft Windows 11 Pro offers beefier security and performance features that make it ideal for business and enterprise applications. It has enhanced encryption to keep your data safe from hackers, and virtualization technology that lets you run multiple OSs using just one system, and administrators appreciate having the ability to manage group policies from one station. Plus you can install the operating system on up to three…

The rear camera lenses on the lower-end iPhone 16 model will be arranged in a vertical layout, according to information shared today by Twitter account @URedditor. The design change would presumably extend to the iPhone 16 Plus as well. Vertically-arranged rear camera lenses on iPhone 12 Apple switched to diagonally-arranged rear camera lenses with the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini, and the design carried over to the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus. The diagonal layout is expected to continue with the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus later this year, but the devices will apparently be the final models to use the design. If this rumor proves to be accurate, the iPhone 16 would be returning to a…

Following yesterday's news that an apparent Apple shell company is seeking to trademark the term "xrProOS" ahead of a headset unveiling at WWDC two weeks from today, additional trademark activity seemingly linked to Apple has surfaced around a couple of other terms. Apple headset concept mockup by designer Marcus Kane The first is "realityproOS," which was filed yesterday in New Zealand and noticed by patent attorney Narly Kalupahana. The filing was made by the same Immersive Health Solutions LLC company that filed to protect terms like "Reality One" and "Reality Pro" last year. Those terms have been rumored to be potential names of Apple's upcoming headset devices. The new "realityproOS" filing cites a May 1 filing in Jamaica for establishing…

Macworld After about a month and a half of testing, Apple has released iOS 16.5 and iPadOS 16.5, which should be the last iOS 16 update before the first iOS 17 beta arrives at WWDC in June. Like iOS 16.4, it’s a small update with few new features as Apple is focused on delivering new features in iOS 17 this fall. However, there are several security patches for flaws that could let hackers steal your personal data. iOS 16.5: New features Here are the most important new features in iOS 16.5: Apple News Sports tab: When you launch the Apple News app in iOS 16.5, you’ll see a new Sports tab at the bottom of the screen. It replaces the…

U.S. state Montana on Wednesday banned the CCP-controlled TikTok app, with the state’s lawmakers saying they aimed to protect residents from alleged intelligence gathering by the Chinese Communist Party. TikTok is already banned on government-issued devices in some 30 U.S. states and for employees of America’s federal agencies. Reuters: While blocking apps by geography is not unheard of, the Montana law is notable for doing so at the state level, upending a single-market approach Apple and Alphabet’s Google have long been able to use for their U.S. app stores. Tech companies are now well-practiced in blocking apps at the country level, mostly to comply with U.S. sanctions or for business purposes, like Apple’s blocking of messaging and privacy apps in…