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Apple Music’s terrible year in review is giving me serious Spotify Wrapped FOMO

The Verge

Instead, I pay Apple $10 per month for Apple Music, Spotify’s biggest competitor. And so while virtually everyone I know on Twitter and Instagram is spending the entirety of today putting their personal taste in music on blast, I get. All of it is designed to be shared and shown off on other social media platforms.

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Apple WWDC 2021: the 15 biggest announcements

The Verge

Apple just wrapped up its WWDC 2021 keynote, and it was jam-packed with news and announcements, including our first looks at iOS 15, the new macOS Monterey, big improvements to FaceTime, and more. Our live blog has moment-by-moment commentary on what Apple announced from Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn. Image: Apple.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care?

The Verge

Maybe you’ve read that the metaverse is going to replace the internet. It’s partly a dream for the future of the internet and partly a neat way to encapsulate some current trends in online infrastructure, including the growth of real-time 3D worlds. The protagonist is a master hacker who gets in katana fights at a virtual nightclub.

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Apple Health Might Soon Track Your VR Workouts

Gizmodo

While Facebook and Apple haven’t been on the best terms as of late, the social media giant is reportedly considering letting Oculus users sync up their workout data to Apple Health, according to Bloomberg. Read more.

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What wearing Apple’s Vision Pro headset does to our brains

Vox

The Apple Vision Pro goes on sale February 2, but it will take some time before people figure out what to do with it. Philip Pacheco/Bloomberg via Getty Images Apple’s mixed reality headset heralds a new era of “spatial computing.” It’s not clear what Apple thinks you should do with its mixed reality headset right now.

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Local police should not be your go-to source for iPhone safety news

Vox

Warnings about NameDrop, a feature on Apple ’s iOS 17 that allows users to share contact information, have spread like an annoying chain letter across police department Facebook pages over the past few days. These warnings were misleading, but social media posts about online threats to kids don’t have to be true to get views.

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Meta is facing the test of its lifetime

Vox

In a memo to Meta’s staff also posted on social media, one of Meta’s top executives, CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, reflected on Monday about the difficult moment the company is in. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks the metaverse will be the next iteration of the internet, a technological shift akin to the mobile phone.