How to turn on Siri on macOS without sending your Contacts to Apple
To use Siri on macOS, there's a requirement to send Apple your contacts. Here's how to avoid handing that data over to Apple.
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Chip Loder
Jabees Peace Speaker review: an inexpensive way to listen to audio while you sleep
March 9 kicked off sleep awareness week, and Jabees has an interesting tool for soothing you to sleep — an under-pillow speaker.
Amber Neely
OpenAI wants the US government to legalize theft to reach the AI promised land
OpenAI may have already crawled the internet for all the world's data to train ChatGPT, but it seems that isn't enough as it wants protection from copyright holders to allow it to continue stealing everything that both is and isn't nailed down.
Wesley Hilliard
Your existing AirPods could gain a new live translation feature in iOS 19
Apple's iconic AirPods are rumored to receive an entirely new feature that translates in-person conversations from one language to another.
Marko Zivkovic
ViewSonic's new 5K monitor rivals Apple's Studio Display for half the price
ViewSonic's new 27-inch high-resolution monitor offers pro-level color accuracy for creatives without the premium Apple Studio Display price.
Andrew Orr
US lawmakers denounce UK's secretive attack against Apple encryption
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers are coming to Apple's defense over the UK government's attempts to get backdoor access to users' iCloud data, demanding that the UK remove the cloak of secrecy surrounding the order.
Malcolm Owen
Underwhelming performance of Apple Intelligence will hit iPhone sales, Kuo claims
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo called the performance of Apple Intelligence "underwhelming," adding that it won't entice people to replace their older iPhones.
Highway toll text scams are on the rise, and Apple can't completely stop them
Highway text scams are a big problem that's continuing to grow with the use of at least 60,000 domain names. There's little Apple can do about it, but you can protect yourself. Here's what's going on.
Apple's C1 modem is a quiet game-changer that's mostly flying under the radar
With the launch of iPhone 16e, we also saw the launch of something far more important — Apple's custom C1 modem. Here's what means and why you should care about it.
Andrew O'Hara
William Gallagher
Christine McKee
Oliver Haslam
Mike Wuerthele
