Macworld At the WWDC25 keynote, Apple announced a new AirPods feature that would enable the headphones to pause when they sense that their wearer has fallen asleep. But it’s now been discovered that the function is a little more versatile than that suggests. ...   Mac Central

Macworld SentinelLabs has posted a report about a new malware that targets Mac users of blockchain technologies, such as crypto. The threat agents behind the attack are based in North Korea, according to research by Huntabil.IT, as cited by SentinelLabs. The attack involves executable scripts written in AppleScript, C++, and Nim. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Power banks have somehow become part of our pat-down—phone, keys, wallet, and battery. But what do you do when you go camping or hiking? You get a power bank that recharges by sitting in the sun, of course. This solar-charged magnetic power bank is only $24 right now after a 40 percent discount ahead of Amazon Prime Day. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Amazon’s annual Prime Day sale is longer than ever this year, lasting from Tuesday, July 8, to Friday, July 11, which means you’ll have even more time to grab a great deal—especially if you want a new iPad. All of Apple’s tablets, from the iPad Air and Pro to the mini and 11th-gen iPad are already seeing some of their best prices ever. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Summer isn’t just about beaches, pools, and baseball. It’s also time for Prime Day, and Amazon’s big annual sale is even bigger this year, running a whopping four days, from Tuesday, July 8, until midnight on Friday, July 11. ...   Mac Central

Macworld If you’re looking for a new pair of AirPods, Amazon’s twice-yearly Prime Day sales are a great time to look for a discount. Amazon often has AirPods on sale for well below Apple’s MSRP, but when big sales events like this come around, you can often get a pair for an all-time-low price. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Traveling is fun, but planning a trip can be exhausting–especially for tech fans. You need to make sure you have everything you need, including of course the correct chargers and adapters for each of your devices. There’s nothing worse than hunting for an overpriced Apple Watch charger in the hotel gift shop when you just want to sleep off the jet lag. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Summer is nearly here, and that means beaches, baseball, and everyone’s favorite sale, Prime Day! Amazon has announced that its annual Prime Day will be held from July 8-11, and there may be no better time to get your hands on Apple gear. Read on for all the details. ...   Mac Central

Macworld If you watched Apple’s WWDC keynote in June, you probably remember the headline features in watchOS 26, such as the AI-powered Workout Buddy and Liquid Glass redesign. But you might not have realized that there’s actually far more to this software update than these showy new additions. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Charging cords have a way of looking like a spaghetti explosion, no matter how organized you think you are. That’s why the MagStack Duo is a homerun. For a limited time, you can grab this 2-in-1 magnetic charger for just $29.97 (regularly $39.99), allowing you to charge your Apple Watch and any USB-C device simultaneously, without the tangled mess. ...   Mac Central

Macworld It’s hard to believe, but if you’ve been an Apple Music subscriber since its inception, you’ve been streaming for a full decade. Announced as “One more thing” at WWDC 2015, the service launched on June 30, 2015, months before iOS 9 and Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan landed later that fall. ...   Mac Central

Macworld If you want the best tablet you can possibly get, look no further than the M4 iPad Pro. And right now, it’s never been cheaper—with an all-time-low price cut of $200 off, you can get yourself your very own iPad Pro for as low as $1,099. The same discount applies to all other storage capacities as well. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Apple published two job openings on LinkedIn and on its job search portal last week. In them, the Bangalore, India, location is looking for two engineers for its machine learning/artificial intelligence team. The two adverts are somewhat vague, but reveal some insights into Apple’s plans. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Amazon’s annual Prime Day sales event is a fantastic opportunity to find a good deal on the Apple Watch, and this year you’ll get even more time to save. Amazon’s Prime Day sale runs a whopping four days this year, from Tuesday, July 8, to Friday, July 11, and we’re already seeing some great discounts on the Apple Watch even before it officially starts. ...   Mac Central

Macworld iPhone owners beware: a new and surprisingly plausible phishing scam is making the rounds, and could easily catch out the unwary. The message, which has been seen by AppleInsider reporters, claims to be from the delivery company UPS. It says a package is ready to be delivered, and encourages the recipient to click on a link to set this up. ...   Mac Central

Macworld July is always an interesting month for Apple releases. There’s never any new hardware, and many of the services releases kind of slow down over the summer. But it’s also a big month for the beta releases of Apple’s major upcoming operating system updates. Apple announces them at WWDC in June and releases developer-only betas, but the public betas start up in July. ...   Mac Central

Macworld While we’re still waiting for some of the Apple Intelligence Siri features promised next year, a big new report from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg says that Apple is talking with Anthropic and OpenAI about replacing Siri with a version of Claude or ChatGPT. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Um… what the heck is going on with Apple’s advertising? Forget the problem with Apple selling ads, which is also a problem. Apple has a problem making ads. Disclaimer: you can’t talk about Apple ads without discussing the “Get a Mac” ads. Legally, the Macalope means. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Cloud storage subscription fees have gotten out of hand. For some popular platforms, paying monthly doesn’t even guarantee you’ll get enough space for all your files, or that those files will be secure once they’re uploaded. Internxt gives you a simpler, long-term solution. Instead of paying monthly, you pay once and get 20TB of cloud storage that lasts for life. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Whether you’re looking to gift an Apple product or just pick one up for yourself, we’ve scoured the web for the best prices on everything from Macs to MacBooks, iPads to iPhones, Apple Watches to Apple TVs, and more. ...   Mac Central

Macworld When it comes to announcements, Apple takes a feast-or-famine approach. Most of the time the company guards its product roadmap secrets jealously, but when event time arrives it jumps on stage and fire-hoses knowledge into journalists’ faces. Until this month. According to a new report, however, Apple was not wholly forthcoming at WWDC 2025. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Prime Day isn’t until next week, but there’s never been a better time to get your hands on an iPad mini. Ahead of the 4-day Prime Day sale extravaganza, Amazon has dropped the price of the A17 Pro iPad mini down to $399, its best price yet. The smaller form is one of the main benefits of getting the iPad mini because its 8.3-inch screen can fit just about anywhere. ...   Mac Central

Macworld It’s all very well telling people to back up their Mac. But human nature means that searching for backup advice is something that usually happens after the worst has already happened. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Apple’s most affordable new laptop is a $999 MacBook Air. For a lot of people, that’s still too expensive, especially when compared to Chromebooks and budget PCs. But Apple may finally be doing something about that. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple plans to release a brand-new MacBook model that’s designed for the low-cost market. ...   Mac Central

Macworld As a diehard Apple fan and a technology journalist, I try to refresh my gear every year or so to keep up with the latest features. However, while my three-year-old M2 MacBook Air could certainly use an upgrade—and I’ve got my eye on a new MacBook Pro—it’s going to have to last for another year. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Thanks to the excellent quality of smartphone cameras these days, we take so many pictures when we’re on holiday, with friends, or just when we see something that we want to remember. Sadly, the results aren’t always as good as we’d hope, and there’s the problem of how you can easily share the images with your family or friends. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Apple is expected to introduce noticeable changes to the iPhone this fall, especially with the Pro models. For the first time, the camera won’t be confined to a square in the upper-left corner but will now stretch across the entire back of the device with the flash at the far right. ...   Mac Central

Macworld As we keep warning prospective testers, Apple’s software betas are prone to bugs. Until a big software update is pushed live to the general public—and sometimes even beyond that point—it should be regarded as unfinished, flawed, and liable to go wrong in all sorts of unexpected ways. ...   Mac Central

Macworld Imagine the worst. Losing irreplaceable photos because your Mac’s drive failed? Accidentally deleting your dissertation? You might think it will never happen to you, but all it takes is a glass of water falling onto your MacBook and you could lose everything. ...   Mac Central

Macworld I have long complained that, for all its impressive hardware and software technology, the Apple Vision Pro is thus far a failure mostly because Apple doesn’t understand AR. Or Spatial Computing, or whatever it wants to call it. That’s been the case for two years, since the Vision Pro arrived in February 2024 and the first major update in visionOS 2. ...   Mac Central

Steinberg has announced the immediate availability of SpectraLayers 12, the latest version of its spectral audio editing software. This update introduces a host of new tools and enhancements, significantly advancing its unmixing and speech processing capabilities for music, post-production, sound design, and restoration. A major focus of SpectraLayers 12 is on unmixing. ...   KVR Audio

Kuassa has released TiLQ Equalizer, a free dual-shelving spectral balance equalizer plugin designed to help producers and engineers quickly balance tone across the spectrum. With just one Tilt knob, users can brighten or darken their sound while maintaining spectral balance around a central frequency. Key Features: Smooth HPF and LPF for precise tone sculpting. ...   KVR Audio

Tone2 has announced that BiFilter 2.5 is now available as freeware. After nearly 20 years BiFilter has become vintage and even though it's no longer profitable to remain a commercial product, we feel that more people should deserve an opportunity to enjoy this plugin. That's why we decided to release one last update and turn BiFilter2 into freeware. ...   KVR Audio

Orcas Audio has launched with three VST3 effect plugins for Windows. The company is offering its 'Whirlpool' tempo-synced filter modulation effect as a free download to introduce the audio production community to its product line. ...   KVR Audio

The synthesizer world was unsurprisingly abuzz when Moog, under its new parent company inMusic, announced the Messenger. Unveiled at Superbooth '25, this 25-key analog monosynth is the first synth developed entirely under the inMusic brand (The Muse was in production before the merger); the public response was seemingly mixed initially with many citing it was too much of a departure from ...   KVR Audio

Waldorf has introduced the iOS version of its Streichfett string synthesizer, bringing the sound of classic String Synthesizers to a mobile platform. Based on the same dual sound engine as the Streichfett hardware and plug-in version, the app reproduces the tonal characteristics associated with string machines widely used in 1970s and 1980s film music. ...   KVR Audio

Six String Audio has released update 1.4 for Ultimate Rock Guitar and Ultimate Rock Guitar Free featuring improvements and fixes. Update 1.4 Improved: glissandi for chords. Now you can also combine 'Glissandi Up & down 1 & 2' with chords as well. Closes the gap and fixes dropouts. We fixed the fretboard monitor in terms of glissandi with chords as well. ...   KVR Audio

Native Instruments has updated Kontakt to v8.5.0. Overall Changes: Added: Scroll to focused instrument in Default View. Fixed Crash when loading a recently saved new Bank. Fixed Crash on ignoring missing samples when loading an Instrument. Fixed Crash on Drag and Drop of a Multi in Kontakt AU in Digital Performer. ...   KVR Audio

discoDSP has announced the release of multiple updates to their synthesizer lineup, delivering advanced preset search capabilities, massive performance optimizations, and critical stability improvements. OB-Xd 3. ...   KVR Audio

Korg has announced the launch of the B2+ and B2+SP, the latest additions to its line of digital pianos. Designed to deliver the rich, expressive sound and responsive touch of an acoustic piano, the B2+ series combines authentic performance with enhanced modern features, making it ideal for beginners, hobbyists and returning players alike. ...   KVR Audio

Kiive Audio has updated M5133 Mastering EQ to v1.1 giving it a facelift and a feature boost. It's on offer for $79 to celebrate. New in M5133 Mastering EQ v1.1: Full GUI redesign for faster, clearer control. New Kiive Top Menu—access presets, settings, and updates in one spot. I/O relative linking so your stereo bands move together perfectly. ...   KVR Audio

D16 Group has announced the release of Pulsatec, an Analog Passive Equalizer plug-in. Pulsatec - Analog Passive Equalizer Pulsatec is a plugin modeled after classic passive equalizer units. It is designed to deliver the tonal coloration associated with vintage analog gear. ...   KVR Audio

Produce-RnB has announced the release of Soul Keys, a curated instrument designed to inspire producers of Neo-Soul, R&B, Smooth Jazz, and related genres. Soul Keys delivers a set of layered keyboard sounds that aim to fill the sonic spectrum with warmth, depth, and musicality. ...   KVR Audio

Samba Godschynski has updated Werckmeister, the open source MIDI compiler, to version 1.4.5. This new release includes: Chord Change Events. Conduction Fade Values. Minor bug fixes and improvements. Price: Free. YouTube/jJeUW72IcH4 Read More   KVR Audio