Author: Woozad

Anyone who has ever used a well-designed ergonomic chair will know the difference it can make to comfort, especially when working long hours. However, tall and tall professionals may struggle to receive the same benefits. This is the problem that LiberNovo Maxis decided to solve — integrating the main innovations of the award-winning LiberNovo Omni, positioned as the world’s first dynamic ergonomic chair, in a design adapted to increasingly tall users. Key features including the Bionic FlexFit Backrest, Dynamic Support System and Motorized Massage Mode have all been retained in the Maxis Series, alongside the premium engineering that helped the…

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Over the years, the iPhone operating system has become complicated. Apple adds new features with each version of iOS, and many of them aren’t always obvious, leading to hidden iPhone features you may not be aware of. The tips below assume you have iOS 26 or later installed. You can turn most app icons into widgets right from the iPhone home screen. Long-press an app icon and select one of the squares at the top to choose the size of the widget. It works with any Apple or third-party app that has a widget option. Long press again and select…

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As has been the case since at least 2021, Apple is offering a discounted iPhone in China as part of the country’s 618 shopping festival. Here are the details. Some models on track to reach lowest prices since launch In recent years, Apple has joined other major consumer electronics brands in participating in one of China’s largest annual shopping events: the 618 shopping festival. It is a major mid-year online retail event that began as a JD.com Anniversary Sale and has since expanded across the country’s largest e-commerce platforms. Last year, Apple offered limited-time trade-in discounts in China during the…

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Eugene Whang, a former Apple hardware designer who spent 22 years at the company before following Jony Ive at LoveFrom, shared new details about the development of AirPods Max in an interview with Highsnobiety. Here are the details. AirPods Max designer discusses his 22-year stint at Apple In the interview (via woozad), Whang discusses the many factors Apple’s design team had to consider when developing the AirPods Max, from the wide range of head and ear shapes to the fact that the team effectively treated the earbuds as three separate products: From Highsnobiety: He and his team worked on it…

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SwitchBot today launched the SwitchBot Lock Vision and Lock Vision Pro, two Matter-enabled smart locks that include facial recognition technology for quick door unlocking. With Matter-over-WiFi, the locks are HomeKit compatible and support NFC, so you can use them with an Apple Home setup. SwitchBot also includes “advanced 3D structured light” facial recognition capable of recognizing approved lock users in less than a second. SwitchBot claims that facial recognition is comparable to 3D facial recognition used by “flagship smartphones” and cannot be spoofed with photos or videos, even when wearing glasses, hats or makeup. It uses more than 20,000 infrared…

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Since the release of Marathon on March 5, a lot has been written and said about Bungie’s latest shooter. Much of the discourse has been negative, predicting the game’s imminent death due to declining player numbers. Meanwhile, Bungie has said very little about its plans for Marathonother than reiterating his commitment to the game in the long term. That changed this week when the studio published a lengthy blog from game director Joe Ziegler. The post details Bungie’s overall strategy for Marathonstarting with an acknowledgment of the areas where the game fails. “The marathon is a real challenge to learn,”…

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After months of very limited testing, WhatsApp is finally offering the first stage of its Liquid Glass redesign to more users. Here are the details. Liquid Glass begins rolling out more widely on WhatsApp Last October, WhatsApp rolled out a small-scale test of the Liquid Glass look applied to the app’s bottom navigation bar and certain elements of its Chats tab interface. Since then, Meta has experimented with its adaptation of the Liquid Glass redesign in other UI elements, such as the voicemail player, chat interface, message reactions, and context menus. Today, the company appears to be rolling out the…

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Games completed quickly The Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2026 schedule is online. This year’s lineup includes a familiar mix of technically impressive speedruns and wacky new things. This summer’s party will take place in Minneapolis from July 5-11. Donations will go to Doctors Without Borders, for whom last year’s event raised more than $2.4 million. (If you’re new to this, imagine the old Jerry Lewis telethons, only with fun, ultra-skilled players instead of Liberace and Neil Sedaka.) The most recent titles in the 2026 calendar include Kirby Air Riders,…

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If you own a Mac and a cat, you’ve probably encountered a situation where your cat is sitting on your computer’s keyboard. Whether it’s because Macs are hot or because they want to distract you from the screen that’s absorbing all your attention, laptops tend to attract cats. A new Mac app called Cats Lock adds cat protection that stops your cat from causing damage to anything you’re working on when it enters your keyboard, and it can even be set to chase the cat away. You can click to activate Cats Lock in the menu bar or use a…

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Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, has been added as a custodian of documents in xAI’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI. Here’s what that means. A little context Last year, Elon Musk accused Apple and OpenAI of working together to prevent competing LLMs from succeeding in the App Store, sparking a lawsuit that now also involves the super app market. In the lawsuit, xAI (now part of SpaceX) claims that Apple’s deal with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into Siri influenced App Store rankings. Apple has repeatedly denied these accusations, particularly disputing xAI’s characterization that the company’s…

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