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10 essential Mac trackpad gestures you need to know

Take steps toward being more efficient with your trackpad.

Forget the Touch Bar-Apple wants a MacBook with Touch Keys

Someday, Apple's MacBooks may have a keyboard made of tiny programmable displays.

ROCKET: BLAST YOUR WAY THROUGH THE DIFFICULTY OF INSERTING EMOJI ON A MAC

If you like emoji, it's easy to find and insert them in apps like Discord, Messages, and Slack and on many websites, particularly social media ones like Facebook and Twitter, which commissioned emoji drawings unique to their products. But outside of apps and sites that embrace emoji, macOS offers a convoluted process to access them otherwise.

MacBook butterfly keyboard settlement: File your claim by March 6

Apple is paying out $33 million to MacBook users over its faulty keyboards. Here's everything you need to know.

HOW I GOT MY IPHONE NOTIFICATIONS UNDER CONTROL AND RESTORED MY SANITY

OUR PHONES BEG FOR OUR ATTENTION ALL DAY LONG, CONTINUOUSLY. BREAK FREE FROM THE CYCLE AND TAKE BACK YOUR LIFE!

Why I'm thankful for Universal Control on my Mac and iPad

Universal Control is great and has opened up new ways to use the iPad and Mac.

How to use two eSIMs in an iPhone to balance data usage

Apple offers a switch that can help when you're roaming with multiple networks that have different coverage and data limits.

PELICAN PROTECTOR STICKER MOUNT CASE FOR AIRTAG

Some AirTag cases are made for hiding; some are made to submerge for half an hour, meters below the surface; some to make the AirTag unremovable.

How to color-code events in Apple Calendar

For historic reasons, calendar events can't be coded by category or any other element that would allow unique color display.

After a year in limbo, Apple quietly kills its controversial CSAM photo-scanning feature

Apple had plans to scan your iCloud photos for child sexual abuse material, but after several delays, the program is canceled.

Apple is reportedly working on 'multiple' standalone Mac displays for 2023

Apple seems set to update its Pro Display XDR and Studio Display in 2023.

How to decide which macOS automatic updates to allow

Apple provides an array of choices about how your Mac can install new versions of its components and the system without your intervention.

2022 is over-so where is Apple Music Classical?

More than a year after Apple purchased Primephonic and promised a 'dedicated' classical music experience, there's a lot of silence.

Biden's WSJ op-ed targets big tech, and Apple should be both nervous and pleased

While the president didn't mention any tech company by name, his call to action clearly applies to the world's largest company.

Why is the Mac Pro?

Apple's high-priced tower is supposed to be the ultimate Mac. If it's not, why does it exist?

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Game over? FTC sues to block Microsoft's $69 billion Activision Blizzard takeover

Proposed 69 billion acquisition would harm consumers, FTC says.

Don't get scammed: Why you can't trust Elon Musk's Twitter right now

Parody and fake accounts have always existed on Twitter, but this kind of mayhem takes all that to a different level.

Google Chrome is a memory hog, but it's going on a diet

Chrome’s upcoming memory and energy savings will be on by default.

How to add check boxes to Microsoft Word documents

Are you making a list and checking it twice?

The Steam Deck’s button mapper is the best feature you're not using

How to make pretty much any PC title work with a game controller.

Perfect Backup: Perfect? No, but darn close

This free file and folder backup program is far more versatile than the integrated Windows File History, even backing up to popular online services.

Chrome now supports passkeys, the password killer

Chrome will support passkeys on Windows, Android, and iOS.

Your laptop's battery life may be dropping faster than you think

One test showed a laptop's battery life dropping by as much as two and a half hours in about a year’s time.

THE BEST HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE OF 2022

THE BEST OF THE BEST, AS CHOSEN BY THE PCWORLD EDITORS.

Windows 11's borked gaming performance is mostly fixed, Microsoft says

If you’re suddenly seeing that big update hit your desktop, that’s why!

If your kids love Roblox, check their browser for this malware

The popular SearchBlox Chrome extension appears to be harvesting user data for potential digital theft.

ChatGPT is the dazzling, scary future of Al chatbots

This feels like what Google, Siri, and Alexa hope to be one day.

5 must-know GeForce RTX 4080 details: Overpriced by $500

The RTX 4080’s performance went up over the RTX 3080, but its price went up waaaaaaaaaay more.

HOW MASTODON AND FEDERATED SERVICES PUT SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE PEOPLE'S HANDS

TWITTER'S TROUBLES SPARK A NEW OLDSCHOOL REVOLUTION.