Check out the Twist Plus World Charging Station. It can plug into any power outlet in the world, and it has four USB ports for charging multiple devices. It also has a adapter on the bottom you can slide your MacBook’s charging brick onto. It’s $31.99 through our deal.
tvOS 12 Beta 2 Available for Developers
Apple rolled out the second beta for tvOS 12 for the fourth generation Apple TV and Apple TV 4K on Tuesday.
watchOS 5 Developer Beta 2 Adds Walkie-Talkie
watchOS 5 developer beta 2 for Apple Watch is out and it includes the Walkie-Talkie voice chat feature first shown at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in June.
Apple Pay Launches in Norway
Apple Pay is now available in Norway with three banks participating in the contactless payment system.
Kristin Wiig Drops Out of Apple's 'You Think It, I'll Say It' TV Series
Kristin Wiig won’t be starring in Apple’s You Think It, I’ll Say It TV series thanks to a scheduling conflict with her Wonder Woman 1984 shooting schedule.
Apple Seeds macOS Mojave Developer Beta 2
Announced at WWDC for a fall release, Mojave brings iOS apps to the Mac for the first time, introduces Dark Mode, and more.
Apple Seeds iOS 12 Developer Beta 2
Announced during Apple’s annual World Wide Developer Conference for a fall release, iOS 12 DB2 continues the hard work of hammering out how new features will work and knocking out bugs.
Some Very Cool Images from Space
Here’s a nice collection, “The Week’s Coolest Space Images.” From spectacular dunes on Mars to the Guatemala volcano eruption. photos like these help us visualize and tell a story that can’t be appreciated with just words. And they also punctuate the importance of satellites that can observe the surface of planets. Not to mention the science. Check it out.
Mission Impossible-style Heist Scores Burglars $100K In Apple Gear
Let’s say you want to steal US$100,000 worth of Apple products. What do you do? Rappel down from the ceiling in your local Best Buy, of course. That’s exactly what burglars did in Dunwoody, Georgia.
Apple's Advanced Technology Group Changed the World
In another good article by FastCoDesign, Jesus Diaz writes how Apple’s research group developed some of the most highly influential tech of the century. For example, a feature coming in macOS Mojave called Stacks automatically categorizes your files on the desktop. But Stacks isn’t a new technology, and evolved out of concepts that ATG worked on.
The ATG was founded in 1986 by Larry Tesler, a computer scientist who had previously worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center–aka PARC, the birthplace of the graphic user interface–before moving to Apple. The group’s mission was to create breakthrough technologies that didn’t need to be products.
Though they were introduced onstage at WWDC as “Stacks,” they were once known as “Piles.” It extended the desktop metaphor even further by allowing users to organize their files in stacks of papers, images, or videos, leaving folders for more permanent archival purposes–just like real life.
