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Wes Davis

Wes Davis

Former Weekend Editor

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    You can buy the new 15-inch MacBook Air today.

    Last week, Apple gave fans of its famous thin-and-light laptop line the option they’d been missing with its new 15-incher, and now it’s available to buy.

    Monica’s review called it exactly what was asked for:

    This device doesn’t manufacture a need; it found a need, and it’s filling it. We don’t need to be convinced that we want the Air 15. We’ve been waiting for it.

    The new Mac Studio and Mac Pro models are also officially available to buy.

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    Wes Davis
    Google Photos on the web is getting new photo filters for Google One members.

    It’s pretty straightforward: these are easy filters (Portrait Light, Portrait Blur, Dynamic, Color Pop, HDR, and Sky) for zhuzhing up your photos.

    Google said in February it was coming to iOS and non-Pixel Android Google One members, and now it’s on the web, although it wasn’t live for me yet when I tested it.

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    Wes Davis
    NordVPN is looking into making a VPN app for Apple TV.

    But the VPN provider needs more details before it commits:

    “We are concerned that there may be some limitations for consumer VPN products and the update will only benefit B2B VPN solutions,” NordVPN PR Manager Egidijus Jurgelionis wrote in an email to The Verge, “If not, our users will be able to use NordVPN on their Apple TVs sometime in the nearest future.”

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    Wes Davis
    Dear Esther studio The Chinese Room announced Still Wakes the Deep — a new first-person horror game set on an oil rig.

    Set in 1975, Still Wakes the Deep puts you in the shoes of a rig worker trying to survive some unknowable horror.

    The trailer shows things like sneaking, a creepy door, and some nice can physics. It’s coming to the Xbox Series X / S (with a day one launch on Game Pass), PS5, and PC in early 2024.

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    Wes Davis
    When will Apple make a better (or at least cheaper) Vision Pro?

    In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman is again highlighting Apple Vision Pro successors. That includes a 2nd-gen Vision Pro with a faster processor, as well as a cheaper one that could arrive by late 2025, with a two-product split mirroring Apple’s phones, laptops, and tablets.

    Gurman offered a theory on why Tim Cook never donned the headset WWDC — Apple execs don’t want to be turned into memes by unflattering pictures.

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    Wes Davis
    Banjo Ben Clark explains how harmonics work on a guitar.

    Clark’s video on YouTube has a nice, simple overview of the phenomenon and shows how to take advantage of them on a guitar. His explanation starts at the minute mark.

    Basically, when you play harmonics on a guitar, you’re isolating overtones — resonant frequencies higher than what’s called the fundamental frequency of a string.

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    Wes Davis
    Rise of the Beasts edged out Spider-Man in its opening weekend.

    Transformers: Rise of the Beasts took first place at the box office this weekend with a $60.5 million opening across 3,678 theaters, according to Variety. Following it was Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, at $55.4 million from 4,332 theaters.

    But Variety pointing out the Transformers movie series is 16 years old was something I... wasn’t prepared to think about.