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Fantastical is one of the best and most powerful calendar apps on the market. Since it first launched in 2011, it has been both nicer to look at and easier to use than your average calendaring tool. I’ve been a user for years, and every time I switch away, I come back for the design, … Read more

Buzzy calendar apps tend to make a big splash and disappear after a while. Sometimes they get acquired, sometimes the company pivots to something else. That’s not the case with Fantastical, a popular calendar app for macOS, iOS, and other Apple platforms. Originally launched as a Mac app in 2011, the team behind Fantastical has … Read more

Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority While Europe and parts of Asia have experienced a variety of excellent foldable phones, the US had limited options beyond Samsung for years. Fortunately, this is no longer the case, as we now have several compelling alternatives from Google, Motorola, and, more recently, OnePlus. As we note in our OnePlus … Read more

Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the Associated Press: Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than … Read more

Apple today updated its Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad accessories for the Mac with USB-C charging ports, but the accessories have no other external design changes. Yes, that means the Magic Mouse’s charging port is still located on the bottom of the mouse, despite the switch from Lightning to USB-C. The position of … Read more

Nvidia overwhelmingly dominates the list of the best graphics cards, and that largely comes down to its feature set that’s been enabled through DLSS. AMD isn’t sitting idly by, however. The company is researching new ways to leverage neural networks to enable real-time path tracing on AMD graphics cards — something that, up to this … Read more

Apple Shortcuts make it easy to build workflows using visual coding blocks on a Mac, iPhone, and iPad. While the feature still lacks the power of Automator or AppleScript, it’s still pretty useful. Here are some example workflows that you can put to use in macOS, all of which you can edit and duplicate to … Read more

Manu Prakash spoke with IEEE Spectrum shortly after returning to Stanford University from a month aboard a research vessel off the coast of California, where he was testing tools to monitor oceanic carbon sequestration. The associate professor conducts fieldwork around the world to better understand the problems he’s working on, as well as the communities … Read more

Alien: Rogue Incursion is coming on December 19 for the virtual reality headsets, and my preview of the game confirms that it’s going to make me jump out of my headset. That happened to me when I was an alien landed on my face. Survios, a veteran VR studio that made the Creed boxing games … Read more

XH4D/Getty Images Much of the debate over artificial intelligence (AI) in the enterprise, especially the generative type of AI (Gen AI), is focused on statistics, such as the number of projects in development or the projected cost savings of automation, and the benefits are still very much hypothetical.  To cut through some of the stats, and … Read more