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Pips and Pixels(Image credit: Future)Pips and Pixels is a new column by James Bentley, iMore's resident gaming expert, covering all things gaming in the Apple ecosystem. Looking at news, accessories, and titles you might have missed out on, Apple is becoming more serious about gaming than ever before. With an eye on the wider games industry, James will guide you through what could be next for Apple gamers. This week’s gaming news has been mostly focused on the very public fight between Apple and Epic. The two tech titans…

An audio bug in macOS hasn’t been fixed in 21 years, despite Apple being aware of it, and users posting their frustrations with the bug throughout the years.According to developer Fabian on X, this bug causes the audio balance on a Mac to shift to the left or right channel of a speaker. There are two temporary fixes — install Balance Lock from the App Store, or manually shift the balance to the center by going to System Settings > Sound > Output > Audio Balance.It was originally thought that this was a recent…

It’s been over half a year since Barbie opened in theaters, and there’s still a lot of talk surrounding what CinemaBlend ranked as one of the best movies of 2023. Among the many things this movie has going for it is its all-star cast, which included looping in Michael Cera as Allan, although his manager nearly cost him the role. But ahead of the public finding out how Barbie will do among the other 96th Academy Award nominees, Cera has revealed that Ben Affleck was supposed to cameo in the movie, and I’m genuinely…

“I got a boring apartment, and all of the drugs / I’m fucking dangerous,” Declan McKenna sings on his third album, and you can well believe him – few recent major-label albums have sounded this authentically psychedelic.The artwork for Declan McKenna’s What Happened to the Beach? Photograph: APThe 25-year-old Brit broke through in 2015 with debut single Brazil – which had a second flush of TikTok’d fame in 2022 – and he scaled up to maximalist glam on second album Zeroes, which, for all McKenna’s natural melodic gifts,…

Using LangChain, programmers have been able to combine ultrasound imaging for things such as breast cancer diagnosis with a ChatGPT-style natural language prompt. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologyThe generative AI movement of OpenAI's ChatGPT and its derivatives is perhaps best known for bad rap lyrics and automated programming assistance. But a new open-source framework riding on top of large language models is bringing a more practical focus to GenAI.LangChain, just over a year old, is what you…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDawn French has opened up about a “genuinely terrifying” experience with a real-life hippo on the set of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.The Vicar of Dibley star had a small role in the wizarding film franchise, playing the Fat Lady in the third film opposite Daniel Radcliffe.But during an appearance on the Off Menu podcast, French admitted that the filming process had nearly…

A Virgin Atlantic passenger jet flying from London to New York powered by 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) took off Tuesday morning, as the aviation world seeks to showcase the potential of low-carbon options to secure its future.As the world decarbonizes, airlines are banking on fuel made from waste to reduce their emissions by up to 70 per cent, enabling them to keep operating before electric- and hydrogen-powered air travel becomes a reality in the decades to come.The flight, involving a Virgin Boeing 787…

If there is an event more synonymous with the folly of man than the Star Wars Holiday Special then no one has yet discovered it. The two-hour, 1978 TV show, which sent Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker, Harrison Ford’s Han Solo and Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia to Kashyyyk (the home planet of the Wookiees) for something called “Life Day” is notoriously one of the most execrable pieces of entertainment ever committed to film. It has never been re-broadcast, and George Lucas once said he would have personally destroyed each and…

Will 2024 be the year that Lana Del Rey finally wins a Grammy? Hours after the Recording Academy announced the nominees for next year’s Grammy Awards show, the singer shared her excitement for the news of her nominations, thanks to her album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? “I woke up so very excited about these Grammy nominations, five,” she said amid laughs. “And we’re singing on I think two of the other albums that are nominated to with Jon and Taylor.” (She refers to Swift’s Midnights and…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJulian Sands was a charismatic actor who was “genuinely fearless”, a close friend and colleague has said.Mike Figgis, who directed the late British actor in eight films and was close with his family, said Sands had been “very secure in himself” and he had found his boldness “endearing”.Sands’ death was confirmed on Tuesday, after human remains found in the Mount Baldy area of the San…