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The Family Emojis Are Now Equally Useless For Everyone

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,

Apple Wisely Drops Car Project

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

Keep Your Face To Yourself Thanks

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

Gone But Not Forgotten

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

Cars Aren’t the Future, Why Doesn’t Apple Know This?

By the time an Apple Car is released, it will look like an outdated version of the future.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.

Stranded by eSIM and iPhone 15

If you care about your phone number, choose your eSIM carrier carefully.

Adaptive Audio for AirPods isn't Amazing (yet)

Too many modes, too much choice.

Name This Pet Is the Best Feature of iOS 17

Anyone with a pet has hundreds of photos of them doing the same thing. Now you can see them all in one place.

Time for a Geolocation overhaul

People are more than a billing address.

If you're not standing in front of your article on a green screen, did you even publish?

The modern publishing dance now has more steps than ever.

Twitter's emoji use suggests it no longer leads internet culture

Is the resurgence of 😂😂😂 on Twitter a leading indicator?

One day you attended a surprise party and didn't know it would be your last

If widespread location sharing is to become the societal default, we're going to need more controls.

I wanna be where the people are

And the people are on Threads.

Don't Forget About eSIMs

If you haven't been travelling for a while, eSIM might be new to you. It's worth another look.