Apple Upgrades The MacBook Pro, Releases M2 Pro & M2 Max

Several unofficial Twitter clients are no longer functioning as usual: The social network has turned off the programming interface. It is now clear that this is not an unintentional occurrence. However, Twitter continues to refrain from commenting.

The Metaverse has yet to step into its own stride or capture much of the market’s attention. Facebook’s recent inability to recognize this has led to the service’s widespread ridicule, which has apparently failed to stand out to the EU. After organizing a virtual party on the platform with barely any visitors – and investing a considerable sum in the process, maybe it’s become a little bit clearer to Brussels that money doesn’t buy happiness – or even party attendees.

A customer of a New York Apple Store purchased 300 iPhones and after leaving the business, he was robbed violently. The suspects were after the buyer and were able to secure the iPhones totalling US$95,000 in value.

Apple's legal department has yet again shown itself to be rather busy – just recently, it enforced the deletion of a YouTube channel archiving countless old Apple videos. Hundreds of historic clips fell victim to the action.

Similarly to many other large companies with presence online, Apple possesses its own IPv4 address space. For a few hours at the end of last month, however, the Californian company found itself no longer master of its own platform as a Russian provider rerouted traffic from Apple's servers to its own.

For over 10 years now, Amazon has offered end users a cloud service for online data storage – however, the company just announced that Amazon Drive is soon to become history. There are not currently any plans for an immediate successor.

Safari began as a small project for the Mac at a time when Apple possessed only a modest share of the market. Meanwhile, the formerly humble web browser has become a product with more than 1 billion active users.

Apple has revived the "Apple Store Online" after 6 years. The "Store" page has returned to Apple's main site, with an overview of all the company's current products and offers – just as it used to be.

According to current reports, Apple has recently become Google Cloud's biggest customer – where Apple hosts a good portion of its cloud data. In the course of the last year, the percentage of Apple data on Google Cloud servers has seen a 50% increase. At the moment, there is no other company that relies so heavily on Google Cloud.

LinkedIn has suffered yet again another massive data breach, less than three months after the last. This time, almost 700 million accounts are affected and the account data is currently being traded in hacker circles. Almost every user is affected.

With iCloud Private Relay, Apple presented a new data protection feature during WWDC. In principle, it is a VPN service like those offered by many companies. However, Apple has added additional security layers and thus clearly goes beyond conventional services.

Spotify has kicked into full-force, having released an almost 2 hour-long video detailing new features for listeners and artists alike, and Spotify HiFi is certainly one of the highlights. Similar to some of its competitors, the service provider will adopt lossless playback in the near future.

Market analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Apple isn't planning any major improvements to hardware of the iPhones camera systems and this isn't expected to change until 2022 or 2023.

One of the great veterans of the software world is celebrating it’s 30th birthday today! On February 3rd, 1990, Photoshop 1.0 was released for Mac—and not only for Mac. Here, we take a quick look at how Photoshop came to be. We’ve also included a Video which shows current graphic designers trying out version 1.0 again.