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Apple executives defend location of the power button on the 2024 Mac mini

There are times when Apple’s product design makes perfect sense, is lauded by all, and a great new product rolls out the gates ready to go. And there are times wherein the company makes such a weird decision that its entire customer base wonders what they were thinking. Apple’s decision to place the 2024 Mac […]

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Initial plastic molds of first-gen iPod prototypes shown

This in inarguably cool. Author, investor, and all-around tinkerer Tony Fadell has posted an extremely cool tweet showing the prototypes for the first iPods, which were printed around May or June of 2001. The units were 3D-printed and offered an idea as to what the engineers could expect to work with and what the users […]

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YouTube DIYer posts video, detailed guide as to how to make the M1 Mac mini 78 percent smaller

Apple’s smallest desktop Mac just got 78 percent smaller thanks to the efforts of a YouTube DIY guru. The M1 Mac mini, which debuted in November 2020, has retained the same unibody design that Apple has used since 2010. Subsequent teardowns revealed that the ‌M1‌ ‌Mac mini‌ contains a very large amount of empty space […]

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Microsoft issues warning over “PrintNightmare” security exploit, advises users update their Windows 7, Windows 10 operating systems immediately

If you haven’t run updates on your Windows partitions recently, now would be a good time to do so. As of Wednesday, Microsoft urged all Windows users to immediately install an update after security researchers found a serious vulnerability in the operating system. The security flaw, known as “PrintNightmare,” affects the Windows Print Spooler service. […]

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3D-printed iPhone mockup shows potential 2021 model iPhone with no camera notch

It’s a mockup, but it’s interesting. A 3D-printed mockup of an upcoming iPhone model apparently shows a unit without the “notch” at the top of the screen as well as a USB-C port. It’s thought that this could be for a 2021 iPhone model, or the “iPhone 13.” The mockup hails from Alibaba, the Chinese […]