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For this week's giveaway, we've once again teamed up with Throwboy to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win one of Throwboy's plushes modeled after classic Apple products and icons. Throwboy makes a whole range of different plush pillow options priced at $30 to $40, with each one designed to…

Screenshot: The Joe Rogan Experience (YouTube)Earlier this week, Elon Musk and Grimes brought a child into the world and, by naming him X Æ A-12, ensured that any time spent on the nation’s playgrounds will be rife with mockery. But, while many puzzled over the singer’s breakdown of the name’s…

I keep finding myself linking to Matt Panzarino here because he just keeps delivering the goods, particularly with iPad coverage. Matt got to interview Apple Software Chief Craig Federighi about the new iPad cursor implementation and wrote it up at Tech Crunch. It was by far my favorite read this…

Apple SVP Craig Federighi Says The iPad’s Cursor Was Based On Apple TV Apple launched iPad mouse and trackpad support with the arrival of iPadOS 13.4 last month, changing the way we use the tablet while still ensuring that it remains a touch-first device. Now Apple SVP Craig Federighi has…

Even though Apple did not invent the mouse pointer, history has cemented its place in dragging it out of obscurity and into mainstream use. Its everyday utility, pioneered at SRI and Xerox Parc and later combined with a bit of iconic* work from Susan Kare at Apple, has made the…

A landmark study, published in the journal Cell Reports, is offering the first direct evidence of a process by which our brains consolidate memories during sleep. The researchers witnessed neuronal firing patterns in humans during sleep that suggest we replay our waking experiences as we rest.Scientists have for decades been…

To control the iPad pointer with the keyboard, you must enable and configure Mouse Keys, a cool assistive feature in iOS and iPadOS 13.4. While moving the pointer with your connected mouse or trackpad trumps using the keyboard, sometimes you need high movement precision, such as when doing some pixel-perfect…

2020-05-03: Had to add a complement step in the ULEB section. Seems I couldn’t actually avoid that crummy-looking notation. Spotted by redditor /u/Y_Less. In the fourth installment of his series on sorting with AVX2, @damageboy has a short aside where he tries to detect partitioning (pivot) patterns where elements less…

Try it out at your own risk Eek! Fool around with function keys in Ubuntu at your own peril folks, ‘cos today I came across a frustrating (if middle funny) bug that can freeze the desktop. We’re talking full-on cryogenic style freezing here: the Ubuntu desktop becomes totally unresponsive save…

With the new iPhone SE a reality, folks who haven’t owned an iPhone in years are sharing their tips for using the handset. We’ve rounded up a few common tips we think new iPhone SE customers will love. Watch our hands-in video walkthrough and learn something new today!Seasoned iPhone users…