Two Ways to Make Umeboshi, the Pickled Plum You’ll Want to Add to Everything There are two reasons to make umeboshi, the sour pickled plums that mellow out the longer you keep them. There’s the plums themselves, but you’ll also be rewarded with umeshu, a salty, plum-flavored violet liquor that you get as a byproduct of the process. I value them equally, and I’m going to explain two ways to… Read more…

Everything New in iOS 17 Beta 3 Apple today provided the third beta of the upcoming iOS 17 software release to developers for testing purposes, and as with all betas, there are small refinements and tweaks to various features and interface elements in the update. This guide highlights everything new in the third beta of ‌iOS 17‌. Deleted Photos In the Recently Deleted album,…

The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained Malte Mueller/Getty ImagesGenerative AI is here. Let’s hope we’re ready. The world’s first generative AI-powered search engine is here, and it’s in love with you. Or it thinks you’re kind of like Hitler. Or it’s gaslighting you into thinking it’s still 2022, a more innocent time when generative AI seemed more like a cool party trick than a power…