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Located in South Wales, United Kingdom, Malcolm Owen has been writing professionally about technology since 2012. Formerly of Electronista and MacNN, Malcolm joined AppleInsider in January 2017 and has been at the keys daily ever since.
Highlights of his writing career so far include appearing as a gaming expert for a BBC radio piece, taking part in numerous podcasts, and attending Mobile World Congress and other product launches.
While the focus of his time is spent in Apple’s ecosystem, he is also keenly familiar with others, including Windows PCs and the Raspberry Pi.
He spends his downtime pursuing photography, which he edits on the Mac mini. He also has an interest in magic tricks, and is slowly learning how to play the guitar.
If you have an extensive movie collection, you may want to share it with other devices on your home network. Here's how you can use Plex to create your own mini Netflix.
Apple supplier Foxconn is falling behind in its decarbonization efforts, a Greenpeace report asserts, with the supply chain partner producing the highest level of emissions of final assembly companies.
Apple CEO Tim Cook talked to Google CEO Sundar Pichai about the tech giants working together in 2018, Google's ongoing antitrust trial revealed, with notes revealing a willingness on both sides to make the deal work.
An early leak for the iPhone 16 Pro shows what may be an early version of its battery, updated notably from the iPhone 15 Pro.
Fans of "The Witcher" series can now natively play two of the games on new Macs, with the addition of Apple Silicon support.
Marking 25 years after the PC game's release, Valve Software is making "Half-Life" free to get for a limited time, though you may need to use older hardware to actually play it on macOS.
Apple may continue its trend of designing more of its components in-house by coming up with its own camera sensors, it is rumored, giving it more control over how the iPhone takes and processes photographs.
The Apple Vision Pro is still being worked on by Apple, but while initial plans were for a January launch, it seems more likely that the headset will ship in March instead.
Tim Cook had to defend Apple's privacy policies during a meeting with Jill Biden and political spouses, after an accusation that Apple Watch users are being actively "watched."
A profile covering Apple's Paris-based efforts to break its own security shows the lengths the iPhone maker will go to prevent tools like Pegasus from accessing vulnerable users' data.
Nothing and Sunbird pulled the shockingly insecure iMessage bridge, but only after it was discovered that not only did Sunbird log and retain messages, vCards, and more, but that retained user data could also be downloaded by others.
Apple has released an update for the Apple Pencil with USB-C, the first firmware update for the company's most recent stylus release.
The third release candidates for macOS Monterey 12.7.2 and macOS Ventura 13.6.3 are now available to test by developers, as updates for the legacy operating systems prepare to ship.
Apple has provided developers with the sixth beta build of visionOS to try out, as the release of the Apple Vision Pro slowly approaches.
Apple has moved on to the third round of developer betas, with new builds of iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2 now available for testing.
Apple has brought out the third developer beta of tvOS 17.2, which can be installed to the Apple TVs of test participants.
Apple's thirdmacOS Sonoma 14.2 developer beta build has been distributed to developers as testing continues.
The third developer beta of watchOS 10.2 is now available to download as Apple's test schedule rolls on.
Repair outfit iFixit and the Public Interest Research Group have asked the FTC to introduce new Right to Repair rules that could make it easier for device owners to fix broken hardware themselves.
The display in iPhone 18 models could be more power-efficient, with Samsung planning to add blue phosphorescent material to increase light production.
While most iPhone orders happen normally, there's a small chance that you could end up with a fake iPhone. Here's what you can do to check if your iPhone has been swapped with a fake before reaching your hands.
An Oklahoma man has credited the Apple Watch with his change in lifestyle, transforming him from a heart attack survivor to a marathon runner in three years.
Apple has rolled out support for Tap to Pay on iPhone in France, allowing merchants in the country to take contactless payments via their smartphone.
The Apple Watch helped an artist in Atlanta discover an irregular heart rhythm, leading to a hospital visit and surgery that saved his life.
Apple's search deal with Google is very lucrative to the company, a court witness claims, with the iPhone maker said to receive about 36% of the revenue generated from Safari search result advertising.
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