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Global Accessibility Awareness Day is next Thursday (May 19) and Apple, like many other companies, is announcing supportive updates in honor of the occasion. The company is bringing new features to iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, and the most intriguing is the system-wide Live Captions. Like Google’s implementation on Android, Apple’s Live Captions will … Read more

Apple Both members of our favorite mobile duopoly, Google and Apple, recently announced plans to remove outdated apps from their respective app stores. Last month, both companies decided that any app that hadn’t been updated in two years would be removed. In early April, Google announced a two-year shutdown plan that would kick off in … Read more

The 14-inch laptop has become increasingly popular in recent years, offering a larger display than 13-inch machines in a much smaller body than 15-inch and larger laptops. And two of the best are the Razer Blade 14 and the Apple MacBook Pro 14. The Blade 14 topped our list of the best gaming laptops, offering … Read more

Tableau aims to make it easier for business users to tell stories using their data with a suite of new capabilities coming to Tableau Cloud, the new name for its software-as-a-service (SaaS) analytics platform. The new features include simplified self-service tools such as Data Stories, smart suggestions through Einstein Discovery, and collaboration tools to work … Read more

Apex Legends Mobile is now available for download for Android users. Respawn’s slick and hugely influential free-to-play battle royale game has landed on mobile, as announced last week. It looks like iPhone and iPad users will have to wait a little longer, but the game is now available for download on the Google Play Store. … Read more

Michael Bellusci / CoinDesk† Coinbase will allow a “small number” of users to access Ethereum-based decentralized apps directly from the app— The move will allow Coinbase users to buy NFTs, trade on decentralized exchanges, and borrow and lend on various DeFi platforms.

I have been a Chromebook believer for over ten years. A week ago, I was reminded of one of the fundamental reasons I use them: if a Chromebook breaks down, you can buy a new one and get back to work in minutes. I was in Myrtle Beach, SC, on a semi-vacation—that is, I only … Read more

What do I smell? Is that a steaming pot of hypocrisy someone left on the back burner? Why, so it is! The Verge tells us what’s cooking at Google. “After criticizing Apple over headphone jacks, Google is quietly dumping it from Pixel 6A” tay† Well this is just shocking. If you can’t trust advertising, what … Read more

Friends, excellent news: Recent reports suggest that starting next year, Apple will ditch the Lightning port and embrace USB-C on its gadgets. There is a problem. If this news is excellent (which I’m sure it is), then why do I feel so sad? Before we try to unpack that crap, let’s soak up a little … Read more

Human-centered AI • By Ben Shneiderman • Oxford University Press • 400 pages • ISBN: 978-0-19284529-0 • £20 / $25 About 20 years ago, I sat next to Professor Ben Shneiderman of the University of Maryland at a conference dinner. We spent time discussing twin software paradigms: in one, what we now call “smart” software … Read more