Image: Raycast Raycast, the full-featured launcher for Mac, has announced an $8 per month Pro subscription (billed annually) that adds new AI and syncing features, along with the option for unlimited clipboard history, as reported by MacStories. The Pro subscription expands on Raycast’s existing launcher functionalities, which are quite extensive. It replaces the app’s existing search bar with “Quick AI,” allowing you to ask it to come up with blog post titles, solve programming problems, and more. You can copy and paste the answer into whatever you’re working on or bring your conversation into Raycast’s new AI Chat feature. This AI-powered chatbot lives in a resizable window that you can toggle with an assignable hotkey. There are also new AI…

Macworld ‘Tis the season for developer conferences–Apple’s WWDC (the one we care about the most) is in June, Microsoft has theirs later this month, and Google’s I/O conference kicked off this week. Developer conference keynotes are fun because you get to see what the companies are working on and what new products and features are in the future. And sometimes we get a bunch of cool new stuff that non-developers care about too. That was the case with the Google I/O keynote, which was held Wednesday and brought numerous new products and features—several of which we hope Apple paid close attention to. Here are five Google I/O announcements that we wish had come from Apple instead. Magic Editor in Google…

At its annual I/O conference on Wednesday, Google unveiled several new items including the Pixel 7a that has some of the same features of the Pixel 7 while introducing new capabilities.Pixel 7aMeant to be the budget version of the Pixel 7 that Google released in 2022, the Pixel 7a has some reduced capabilities that make it a more affordable, yet still capable phone. The Pixel 7a features the Tensor G2 chip featuring two 2.85 GHz Cortex-X1 cores, two 2.35 GHz Cortex-A78 cores, four 4x1.80 GHz Cortex-A55 cores, and 8GB of RAM. Read more...

At its annual I/O conference on Wednesday, Google unveiled several new items including the Pixel 7a that has some of the same features of the Pixel 7 while introducing new capabilities.Pixel 7aMeant to be the budget version of the Pixel 7 that Google released in 2022, the Pixel 7a has some reduced capabilities that make it a more affordable, yet still capable phone. The Pixel 7a features the Tensor G2 chip featuring two 2.85 GHz Cortex-X1 cores, two 2.35 GHz Cortex-A78 cores, four 4x1.80 GHz Cortex-A55 cores, and 8GB of RAM. Read more...

At its annual I/O conference on Wednesday, Google unveiled several new items including the Pixel 7a that has some of the same features of the Pixel 7 while introducing new capabilities.Pixel 7aMeant to be the budget version of the Pixel 7 that Google released in 2022, the Pixel 7a has some reduced capabilities that make it a more affordable, yet still capable phone. The Pixel 7a features the Tensor G2 chip featuring two 2.85 GHz Cortex-X1 cores, two 2.35 GHz Cortex-A78 cores, four 4x1.80 GHz Cortex-A55 cores, and 8GB of RAM. Read more...

Macworld At long last, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro have arrived for the iPad Pro (and a few other models with M1 and A12 chips, but they’re clearly meant to be Pro apps). The timing is curious–less than a month before WWDC and some eight years after the iPad went Pro–but it’s a welcome announcement that finally puts the iPad Pro on par with the Mac when it comes to professional audio/video work. But they won’t come cheap. For the first time, Apple is introducing a subscription model for Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro, which will run $4.99 a month or $49 a year apiece after a one-month free trial. You can’t buy it outright even if you…