Apple
Review
Virtual reality
Impressive but is it essential? The reality of Apple’s Vision for the future of work and play
Both an immersive digital media viewer and a device to transport you to other places, the Apple Vision Pro is an impressive debut that most people will likely skip.
- by Tim Biggs
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Virtual reality
How Apple chief Tim Cook wants you to use the new Vision Pro mixed-reality headset
Apple’s first new product in almost eight years is about to launch in Australia, and the tech giant’s boss wants users to try doing normal things, such as browsing the internet or emailing, to find out whether it’s for them.
- by Trevor Long
Opinion
Competition
Apple’s future could be shaped outside the US amid $57b threat in Europe
Apple has just become the first tech giant to be accused of breaching new European competition laws designed to rein in Big Tech.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Analysis
PCs & laptops
Why your next laptop will be the smartest of the lot
In the 1980s, the best laptop let you edit documents on the go. Today they can produce their own documents and images on demand, and process anything they see and hear.
- by Tim Biggs
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World markets
The $5 trillion monster: Nvidia just became the world’s most valuable company
The AI giant jumped over rivals Microsoft and Apple for the top spot after another share price surge.
- by Subrat Patnaik and Carmen Reinicke
It’s Apple v Microsoft as tech titans battle for AI supremacy
Apple Intelligence will go head-to-head with Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs, which are being launched this week.
- by Tim Biggs
Analysis
AI
Facebook, Instagram are using your data – and you can’t opt out
If you’re one of the millions of Australians using Facebook or Instagram, Meta is using your data to train its AI – and unlike people in the European Union, you can’t stop them.
- by David Swan
Analysis
AI
Apple is walking a privacy tightrope with its big AI move
Apple’s OpenAI tie-up will power new features and encourage upgrades to the newest devices, but it does raise some concerns.
- by Tim Biggs
Updated
AI
Apple Intelligence: The AI features coming to your iPhone
The collection of AI tools, which includes text rewriting and summaries, photo editing and an optional integration with ChatGPT, will arrive later this year.
- by Tim Biggs
Apple turns to ChatGPT to unleash Siri’s potential
When a 23-year-old Sam Altman took the stage at Apple’s annual developer conference in 2008, he gushed about the tech giant. Now they are back together, but with a twist.
- by Mark Gurman
Opinion
Sharemarket
Why friends and family are asking me if it’s too late to buy Nvidia stock
The chipmaker is the world’s third-largest company, larger than Tesla and Amazon combined. Should you buy into the hype?
- by William Bennett