This week we talk about what we expect to see next week and the similarities between kids and meteors.…

In an absolutely horrible development for users and historical tech, Microsoft will let perfectly functioning old software suddenly break due to an expiring certificate. Tim Hardwick at MacRumors reports:

Microsoft has actually renewed the suite’s certificate, but the fix can only be delivered through a software update.

Have you ever really looked at your Photos, man? There’s much depth there—just keep looking. I’m not stoned; I’m just thinking about Apple’s two ways of demonstrating depth in Photos to simulate adding a sense of layers or dimensionality to images you took with one or more cameras on your iPhone.…

Longtime tech writer and columnist and Friend of the Site Andy Ihnatko, who I have known since I started in this business (he was a columnist at MacUser!),…

Emily Lin Zhang makes a real statement in the title of her new 30-minute documentary, “The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum“—that it’s unsolved! I’d argue strongly that her dogged research has largely filled in the missing pieces of the story of where the run of seemingly Latin text used by designers to act as placeholder (or “Greeked”) text in mock-ups since the late 1960s came from.…

It’s time for our 11th annual competition regarding what will happen at Apple’s WWDC keynote! What will be announced? For the third straight year, what will Apple’s AI story be?…

This week, Rogue Amoeba is sponsoring Six Colors. Our strange name has been synonymous with audio software on the Mac for over two decades, even if Jason couldn’t come up with the response AMOEBA when he was on Jeopardy.…

Today I’m incredibly excited to announce that Myke Hurley and I are launching a Kickstarter for a new podcast, Designed in California.

Myke and I have been discussing Apple in depth every week for more than a decade on the Upgrade podcast.…

9to5Mac reports on an X post from a “reliable source” that provides some new images of the four colors rumored to be available on the iPhone 18 Pro:

A new set of iPhone 18 Pro dummy units is giving us our best look yet at the all-new colors Apple has planned for this year.

“Star City,” Apple TV’s “For All Mankind” spin-off, has just premiered. I’ve seen the first five episodes and really like it. It’s accessible even if you haven’t seen “For All Mankind” or if you’ve stopped watching that show.…

Every year at WWDC, Apple kicks off a new cycle of operating system updates that will change the faces of the devices we use every day for the next year.…

Whether we’ve bought anything from social media ads, if we’d use a dumb phone, our thoughts on screenless fitness trackers like Whoop and Fitbit Air, and tech hardware that feels purpose-built for us.…

It’s our 600th episode and we are very on top of it, we assure you! This episode is two — TWO (2) — episodes running the length of three!…