If you know deli lingo, you know that half-sour pickles are crunchy, bright-green pickles, not the duller green of more familiar long-soured pickles. Half sours have a distinct snap and much gentler ...

Tired of the complicated process of building shortcuts? A major update now allows you to describe the shortcut you want in plain English, and Apple Intelligence assembles all the necessary steps for ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. Apple will soon allow you to use Apple ...

Federico Viticci at MacStories is out today with yet another wild tool that integrates with Apple’s Shortcuts app. Shortcuts Playground from Federico is a plugin for Claude Code and Codex that can ...

Bare Bones’ legendary text and code editor, BBEdit, was updated for macOS today with a massive list of new features, including text search inside images, expanded Shortcuts automation, streaming AI ...

iOS 27 will include a custom wallpaper generator and an option to automatically create shortcuts using AI, reports Bloomberg. When choosing a new wallpaper, users will have the option to generate ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Life without Python’s ‘dead batteries ’ Python’s a “batteries included” language, but some of those batteries have been dead for a while. Python 3.13 ripped ‘em out and sent ’em sailing. But what to ...

Jason Chun is a CNET writer covering a range of topics in tech, home, wellness, finance and streaming services. He is passionate about language and technology, and has been an avid writer/reader of ...

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...

As someone who's built her career on a love of cooking, even I have days when it's very hard to muster up the energy to prepare dinner for a family of five. Sometimes, before I even think about dinner ...