It’s a sign of both Microsoft and Apple growing up to the point that they’re sharing development tools for each other’s platforms. Microsoft has announced that it will be launching Visual Studio, its primary coding interface, for macOS. This has been a long time coming, but it’ll allow developers to easily write for platform-independent cloud […]
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It looks like Apple will need some new blood in its Mac product line to stop its decline in sales. According to a new report from IDC, third-quarter PC shipments declined by 3.9 percent compared to the same quarter last year, but Mac shipments dropped by 13 percent. PC shipments totaled 68 million units. Still, […]
Facebook chat moved into the financial sphere today. The company’s messenger bots can now accept payments natively without sending users to an external website, Facebookâs head of Messenger David Marcus announced today onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016. The web site uses stored credit card into to instantly make purchases that are part of the […]
WhatsApp has arrived for OS X. The popular messaging app now has a desktop Mac version of the client, the launch coming a few months after the Facebook-owned service launched a web interface and a month after it rolled out end-to-end encryption for all communication. Much like the web client, the WhatsApp Mac application relies […]
As useful as Adobe’s Flash Player tends to be, this is sort of a mess. Less than a month after a critical Flash vulnerability allowed an attacker to take control of a Mac, Adobe has issued an emergency update for yet another critical flaw, bringing the current version to 21.0.0.213. The latest one is already […]