Apple Store retail location robberies, where thieves grab display devices from the tables and run, have become a cost of doing business for the company. A recently published patent describes how Apple could fight back. First, Apple uses special software images which render them useless the moment they leave the store location: A source tells […]
Apple on Tuesday released its macOS Catalina 10.15.5 update. The update, a 2.98 gigabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: Battery Health Management: Battery health management to help maximize battery lifespan for Mac notebooks Energy Saver preference pane now displays battery condition and recommends if the battery needs to be serviced Option to disable […]
The cool cats at iFixit have completed and posted their full teardown of the long-awaited 5K iMac Pro and discovered the following nifty features and components: – The iMac Pro features a massive dual fan cooler to help keep the CPU and GPU cool. The computer is also notably quiet, even when performing intensive operations […]
Apple may have removed restrictions on the NVMe driver in the High Sierra beta, a move that might suggest that future Macs won’t be limited in which mass-storage flash drives may be used, possibly including both the “modular” Mac Pro and the iMac Pro. The improved driver was first noted by the cool cats over […]
It’s generally been accepted that Apple’s computers are much more secure than their Windows PC counterparts. This isn’t entirely true, as a part of researchers have found that several known vulnerabilities affecting the firmware of all the top PC makers can also hit the firmware of Macs. The researchers have designed a proof-of-concept worm for […]