Jeremy Burge

“Some descriptions may create unexpected results” is the line that appears whenever you create an AI-generated Genmoji on iOS 18.2. It's an understatement and a half. Genmoji is a fun feature – putting emoji-like images inline with text – bundled with an AI slop generator. The former would be

And that's a good thing. For too long, the many yellow family emojis have been 'close enough' as a stand-in for white families, but useless for darker skinned families wanting to represent themselves. A change to the family emoji set has been a long time coming,

Cupertino is known for being car-brained. Executives at Apple love their cars. So it took guts to cancel this project. I couldn't let this pass without a link. Apple has dropped its car project, and re-allocated all 2,000 people from the team. This is a smart and

It shouldn't be so time consuming to protect everyone else's privacy. Video filters and effects on Snapchat and TikTok can turn us into superheroes, give us makeup and a more chiseled jaw, or rearrange our facial features. All in real time. @bigdirtyfry You know I am

Death shouldn't mean deletion. When someone dies, we need a better way to memorialise them on our devices. As an iOS and macOS user, I use the built in Contacts app for keeping track of people in my life. This means they appear in the Maps app when

By the time an Apple Car is released, it will look like an outdated version of the future. It's not too late to change course.