iOS 18.4 Includes a Small But Useful Change for CarPlay The first beta of iOS 18.4 is now available, and it includes a small but useful change for CarPlay. As we noted in our list of iOS 18.4 features, CarPlay now shows a third row of icons, up from two rows previously. However, this change is only visible in vehicles with a larger center display. For example, a MacRumors Forums member noticed the c…

Elon Musk claims federal employees have 48 hours to explain recent work or resign Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that federal workers would soon get an email “requesting to understand what they got done last week.” According to the New York Times, the email from the Office of Personnel Management went to agencies across the federal government that afternoon, including the FBI, State Department, and others, with a deadline for

The Space Force shares a photo of Earth taken by the X-37B space plane On Friday, the Space Force published a picture taken last year from a camera mounted on the secretive X-37B space plane while high above the Earth. Space.com notes that the “one other glimpse” of the plane in space was while it was “deploying from Falcon Heavy’s upper stage” during its December 2023 launch. The Space

Grok blocked results saying Musk and Trump “spread misinformation” Grok, Elon Musk’s ChatGPT competitor, temporarily refused to respond with “sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation,” according to xAI’s head of engineering, Igor Babuschkin. After Grok users noticed that the chatbot had been given instructions to not respond with those results, Babuschkin blamed an unnamed, ex-OpenAI em…

3rd Party/affiliate offers on your site Hi all, I have a conumer electronics site I’ve recently acquired that sells headphones, earbuds, speakers, etc. I’ve mapped out plans for marketing, products, pricing, etc. and looking at other avenues to increase revenue. Has anyone any experience of working with any affiliate/3rd party complimentary services. E.g. I’m looking at providing an a…

Apple’s M4 MacBook Air bump may be just around the corner Apple is readying its MacBook Air line for an update to M4 chips in March, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. With the slim laptops’ spec bump, the MacBook line’s M4 transition will be complete. Gurman didn’t provide timing beyond that the laptops are coming next month, but as usual before

Hades II just keeps getting better Hades II just received its second major update as part of its early access development, which was a great  excuse for me to jump back in. Since its initial release, I’ve logged more than 30 hours and actually held myself back from playing much more – I don’t want to get tired of the game

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Subscription Store Owners – How do you prevent failed payments from expired or invalid cards? Many subscriptions fail because cards expire or become invalid before renewal. Shopify Payments doesn’t support $0 pre-authorization, and a $1 pre-auth hurts conversion rates. How are you handling this? Any workarounds that work well for you? Looking for advice! submitted by /u/Protonu3102

Look What I found! Huge Hidden Treasure of the Canton Fair Listings I was initially unfamiliar with the fair conditions .But I had often heard guys like my father’s age talk about the Canton Fair—a goldmine of top-notch suppliers where the best products could be sourced. It wasn’t until recently, while doing research, that I stumbled upon a treasure map in the form of a policy document about the Canton Fair’s Sh…

How much time does fraud take out of your working day? Is it something that makes you question being in ecom to begin with or more something that crops up every so often but not enough to be an obstacle? submitted by /u/wayanonforthis

successful marketing channel what is your most successful marketing channel with the highest ROI? appreciate any tips or tricks how to build this growth channel fit submitted by /u/libriarian-fighter

The hardest part in ecommerce for me is the easiest part for others and vice versa I find finding markets, sourcing products, and marketing them the easiest. I just find building my store to be the hardest thing to do. I just get so indecisivie about design choices for the website. how to structure the site, how to shoot the products and display them, how to write about my own products etc. I just get into so much analysis par…

Amazon Takes $200 Off M2 MacBook Air, Get it for Just $799 Amazon and Best Buy are discounting Apple’s 13-inch M2 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM and 256GB SSD storage down to $799.00 in every color. This is a $200 discount on the M2 MacBook Air, and the sale does not require any coupon code in order to see the final deal price. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon and Best Buy. When you cli…

Our favorite apps for listening to music Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 72, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you like gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)  This week, I’ve been reading about Hasan Piker and calculator apps and car thieves and

How to capitalize NSFW X profile with 200k followers 5m+ monthly impressions? I do NSFW content that generates ~15k per month. I have thousands of active subs and millions of monthly impressions. I know this won’t last forever. I want to be smart about it – how can I capitalize on this? I have a partnership with an online sex store that nets me ~1-2k per month (I get a 35% referral, I feel like it’s low since I give them …

Reddit is experiencing outages again Following some apparent outages yesterday, Reddit is dealing with more issues Friday evening. When logged in on my desktop browser, Reddit won’t load at all — I just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the site loads, though it seems to load slower than usual. I was also able to load the site

The iOS 18.4 beta brings Matter robot vacuum support Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 18.4 yesterday, which users have since discovered contains support for robot vacuums in the Apple Home app through Matter. As spotted by 9to5Mac, Smart Home Centre confirmed the functionality using a Switchbot S10, which offers its own beta support for Matter. (Switchbot first added Matter robot vac…

Meta Ads Platform Revenue Figures Completely Disconnected From Other Reporting Sources We’re an entirely ecommerce business. We run ads on Meta, Google Search, Bing Search, Youtube, etc. Spend is substantial(six figures+ annually on each) so sample size is large. We have 3 sources for reporting, each synced up with our ecommerce checkout. Platform reporting (i.e. revenue #’s within Meta, Google Ads, etc.) Google Analytics 3rd par…

How I Made €10,000 in a Few Months Flipping Luxury Items – And It’s Easier Than You Think A few months ago, I started flipping luxury items online, and it turned out to be way more profitable than I expected. My friend in London has access to high-end products at a discount, and I resell them at full market price. The demand is huge, and I don’t even hold inventory for long. Here’s what makes this work so well: – Luxury buyers don’t …