Withings, which makes products for tracking your health, announced recently that as of October 13, new customers must buy a $100-a-year Withings+ subscription to enable syncing their health data to Apple Health and other third-party apps, a feature that was previously free. “Matteo A” writes in the Withings support forums:

LOS ANGELES — There’s always been the misconception that it was the late, legendary Bob Uecker who uttered what were, before Thursday night, the six sweetest words ever said about the Milwaukee Brewer...

In the previously linked Washington Post article revealing the list of donors and the vast sums they gave to Trump’s vanity ballroom, is this paragraph: Absent from the list is Trump himself, who has said that he is helping to pay for the project. “It’s being paid for

Jonathan O’Connell, Sarah Blaskey, and Aaron Schaffer, writing for The Washington Post (gift link but email-gated; Apple News+): A list obtained by The Washington Post reveals all the major donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project, including previously undisclosed contributors who have benefited from regulatory decisions,

Apple’s new HomeView in Rose Pink, Silver, and Space Grey is currently $290 on Amazon; Starlight remains $300. AppleCare for HomeView is also $10 less than from Apple: $49 for two years of coverage versus $25 a year. No word on delivery dates from Amazon, though. My local San

Apple Newsroom, Tuesday: Apple today announced Apple Home Collection, a new lineup of smart home accessories — including indoor and outdoor cameras, thermostats, temperature sensors, and a video doorbell and door lock — designed in collaboration with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric. These new accessories are simple to set up starting with

I rarely link to Marques Brownlee’s videos because 21.4 million subscribers, but his general HomeView skepticism closely mirrors my own, though he lands firmly in the “skip” camp and I’m more yolo about it. I know a few people who would like nothing more than an adorable

Apple Newsroom: Apple today introduced Apple HomeView, designed to be central to the home and personal to everyone in it. With a stunning 7-inch Liquid Retina display, HomeView brings entertainment, connection, and smart home management together in one place, from playing music and making FaceTime calls to home monitoring and

Elevation Lab, writing on their company blog: We launched an AirTag silencing tool recently. We have always made products we want for ourselves, and this was no different - we wanted it for AirTags on our bikes. (Some of us here have bikes more valuable than our cars.) Unfortunately, “products

When people talk about throwing the cocktail party of their dreams, this is what I imagine they mean. On a summer evening in 1972, a pivotal generation of Harlem Renaissance artists and intellectuals gathered at Duke Ellington’s townhouse. For over three hours, this extraordinary group - many of whom

Sheets.works publishes wonderful interactive visual essays (“Data Drops”) every week, and I always forget to visit (and link to) them. This week, my socials and feeds were awash with links to one of its recent essays, The people holding up the internet: We downloaded the full history of 23

Sareen Habeshian, BBC: The public will be able to watch the execution of a former US Army major by firing squad, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said. A Defence Department official told the BBC the execution of Nidal Hasan, who fatally shot 13 unarmed US soldiers at the Fort

Donald Trump, spouting off on “Truth” Social on Thursday (archived on Trump’s Truth to avoid searing your eyeballs): The White House considers anyone that uses the term, ‘Artificial Intelligence,’ as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, ‘Super Intelligence,’ THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP That’

Greg “Joz” Joswiak announces the event on X/Twitter with a video of a hand-embroidered invitation. Hello Apple on Instagram has an extended version. It’s quite lovely. (Apple has really leaned into the handcrafted aesthetic recently, starting, I feel, after the backlash to its “Crush” ad. See, for example,

In my post about Margaret Hamilton, I wrote: Hamilton insisted on calling the still-nascent field “software engineering” to describe the exacting development process she and her team were pioneering to ensure the safety of those astronauts. That’s accurate as far as it goes, but woefully incomplete. Hamilton offered a

Janine Liberty, MIT News: Margaret Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died on Sep. 30. She was 90. A computing pioneer who authored over 130 publications, Hamilton helped to establish software engineering

Apple’s AirPods Pro 3, which Apple sells for $249, is available at Amazon for $179. (That’s an affiliate link.) That’s a pretty good deal, but if you have Costco and DoorDash memberships, you can do better. Costco is selling AirPods Pro 3 for $199, and includes two

My friend and former colleague Alex Cox, reflecting on his decision to send his son to public schools, in another follow-up to Nikole Hannah-Jones’ school segregation essay: I grew up in a small town where the private schools were all religious and highly segregated. The public schools were integrated and

My friend Josh responded to Nikole Hannah-Jones’ school segregation essay by pointing me to this case study of a plan to reduce such segregation in District 15 in Brooklyn, NY. The plan, created and facilitated by WXY Studio, was the result of a collaboration among New York City’s Department

About a year ago I started posting links on LinkedIn and Facebook every time I published something to JAG’s Workshop. Much to my self-promotion-averse chagrin, it actually helped more readers find my writing. It turns out marketing works better than not marketing. I continued posting links daily to both

Michael Simon, Macworld: New Balance hasn’t changed the look of the 992 since that time, and it’s still offered in the same “Grey with white” colorway. If you head over there to buy one, you’ll see a photo at the end of the gallery of a person

Today marks fifteen years since Steve Jobs died. Apple’s Remembering Steve tribute from 2011 remains online and is as touching today as it was then. It’s also the first anniversary since Steve’s passing where Apple has a new CEO. John Ternus and Executive Chairman Tim Cook each

If you’re a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a completionist, or enjoy absurdity—or all three—I’m guessing you will too.

I found Donald Trump’s interview in Time to be both utterly maddening and deeply disturbing. Trump is seemingly incapable of completing a thought. He self-interrupts, backtracks, repeats himself, and goes off on digressions. Kudos to Time for allowing that to come through in the transcript. (And for fact-checking his

Apple, in a post to Developer News yesterday, announced it “will introduce additional controls” to Full Disk Access: We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sidesteps