9 Best Password Managers (2024): Features, Pricing, and Tips

9 Best Password Managers (2024): Features, Pricing, and Tips

I still find BitWarden to be a more economical choice for most people, but there are some very nice features in 1Password that you won’t find elsewhere. If you frequently travel across national borders, you’ll appreciate my favorite 1Password feature: Travel Mode. This mode lets you delete any sensitive data from your devices before you … Read more

Apple ‘Let Loose’ event announced for May 7. What’s on agenda?

Apple ‘Let Loose’ event announced for May 7. What’s on agenda?

We’ve got an iPad event coming in hot! Image: Cult of Mac This week on Cult of Mac’s podcast: The surprise Apple event on May 7 looks like an iPad and Apple Pencil extravaganza. What’s on Cupertino’s agenda? We discuss all the latest iPad rumors. Also on The CultCast: Apple might finally fix one of … Read more

New net neutrality rules should end mobile video throttling

New net neutrality rules should end mobile video throttling

Your wireless carrier won’t be able to throttle streaming video for much longer. Image: Fox/Cult of Mac There’s a good chance watching video on your iPhone is about to get better. Net neutrality rules passed by the FCC this week reportedly forbid U.S. wireless carriers from lowering the quality of streaming video to throttle the … Read more

Today in Apple history: Psystar clone Macs go rogue

Today in Apple history: Psystar clone Macs go rogue

April 27, 2008: Psystar’s first Mac clones ship to customers. The new Open Computer means that, for the first time since the mid-1990s, there’s no need to assemble a “hackintosh” to run OS X on a non-Apple computer. Unlike previous clone Macs, however, these low-priced computers don’t come with Cupertino’s blessing. Naturally, a fight ensues. … Read more

Ceretone Core One OTC Hearing Aids Review: Tiny and Barely Useful

Ceretone Core One OTC Hearing Aids Review: Tiny and Barely Useful

Indiegogo-backed Ceretone is yet another hearing aid company aimed at people looking for a low-cost, low-complexity way to give their hearing a boost. At $349 for a pair—or $229 for a single ear’s aid—the tiny hearing aids are designed to have only a modest impact on hearing. Fortunately, they also make an equally modest impact … Read more

Top Stories: Apple Announces ‘Let Loose’ Event With New iPads and More Expected

Top Stories: Apple Announces ‘Let Loose’ Event With New iPads and More Expected

New iPads are coming, and Apple is holding a virtual event to introduce them! While it appears likely to be a relatively short video event, we should be seeing new iPad Pro and iPad Air models, some new accessories, and perhaps some additional surprises. Other Apple news and rumors this week included word that Apple … Read more

Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Shades Get a Fresh Blast of AI

Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Shades Get a Fresh Blast of AI

Meta’s newest smart glasses, developed in partnership with Ray-Ban, have been newly fleshed out with more AI features. This week, Meta started rolling out an over-the-air update to its second generation of smart sunglasses that gives the wearables some new capabilities. The biggest update is the Meta AI with Vision feature, which incorporates Meta’s ChatGPT-enabled … Read more

Apple ID Accounts Logging Out Users and Requiring Password Reset

Apple ID Accounts Logging Out Users and Requiring Password Reset

There are widespread reports of Apple users being locked out of their Apple ID overnight for no apparent reason, requiring a password reset before they can log in again. Users say the sudden inexplicable Apple ID sign-out is occurring across multiple devices. When they attempt to sign in again they are locked out of their … Read more

Gmail app on Android can soon summarize your emails using Gemini

Gmail app on Android can soon summarize your emails using Gemini

Last updated: April 27th, 2024 at 08:55 UTC+02:00 Google will soon replace Google Assistant with Gemini. Since Gemini is powered by Google’s advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and large language model (LLM), it can do much more than Google Assistant. For example, it can soon summarize long emails to improve productivity. Gmail will soon get Gemini … Read more