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The most recent articles from a list of feeds I subscribe to.

2025 Six Colors Apple Report Card

Jason Snell (complete commentary): It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea here is to get a broad sense of sentiment—the “vibe in […]

Danaher to Buy Masimo

Sabrina Valle and Gnaneshwar Rajan: Danaher, a $150 billion U.S. company that makes tools used in developing and testing medicines, on Tuesday agreed to buy Masimo for $9.9 billion, expanding in patient-monitoring devices in a surprise move outside its main focus. CNBC: Masimo’s non-invasive pulse oximeters will complement Danaher’s invasive Radiometer blood analyzer devices. […] […]

YouTube for visionOS

Samuel Axon (MacRumors): When Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset launched in February 2024, users were frustrated at the lack of a proper YouTube app—a significant disappointment given the device’s focus on video content consumption, and YouTube’s strong library of immersive VR and 360 videos. That complaint continued through the release of the second-generation Vision […]

YouTube Blocks Background Playback

Jon Martindale (Hacker News): Typically, YouTube will stop playing on your phone or tablet if you turn off the screen; if you want to listen to an hour-long playlist or podcast on your next walk with your device locked in your pocket, you need to pay $13.99 per month. Dwayne Cubbins (Hacker News, Slashdot): While […]

Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups

Trader Joe’s:

Like their milk chocolate brethren on our shelves, our Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups are made with real peanut butter that’s made with slowly roasted and ground Virginia peanuts. The luscious, smooth, rich, dark chocolate enveloping that peanut butter is crafted from high quality cacao beans. Other purveyors of peanut butter cups fill theirs with all kinds of “extraneous” ingredients. Ours are free of such things. We eschew artificial flavors and preservatives, as well as colors other than those derived from natural sources. We’re quite certain they taste better our way.

Trader Joe’s speaketh the truth and throweth some shade.

Update: In the name of science, I tried both.