Monthly Archives: October 2022

Apple Seeds macOS 13 Ventura Release Candidate to Developers

Apple today seeded the release candidate version of macOS 13 Ventura, the next-generation version of the Mac operating system, to developers ahead of the public release scheduled for Monday, October 24. The release candidate version comes one week after Apple provided the eleventh beta to developers. Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple…

Google Assistant offers information and hope for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

It has been nearly 15 years since that otherwise ordinary Thursday afternoon when my mom came home with a diagnosis that would change our lives, irrevocably and forever: Stage II breast cancer. Despite the visceral and all-consuming fear that accompanies a cancer diagnosis, the oncologists reassured us hers was treatable, that she’d be there to…

At Bill Gates’s climate conference, “amazing” progress and “depressing” trends

Bill Gates, John Kerry, and US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm all struck positive notes at an energy summit in Seattle this week hosted by Gates’s climate-focused venture fund, Breakthrough Energy. With caveats. Government policy is accelerating clean energy projects. The cost of renewables continues to fall. Huge sums of private and public capital are pouring…

Bluesky built a decentralized protocol for Twitter — and is working on an app that uses it

The AT Protocol logo aims for a foundational image of the internet. | Image: AT Protocol Bluesky, the project started within Twitter to create a decentralized social network, announced it’s getting closer to actually shipping an app. “Closer” is the operative word here, though. Bluesky only announced that it is building an app, that it’ll…