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The Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter requires a host that supports DisplayPort over USB-C.

Over at Ars Technica, Eric Berger has an article outlining the space agency’s internal plans for future moon missions:

The Artemis I mission should launch later this year, testing NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and boosting the Orion spacecraft into lunar orbit. The second mission, Artemis II, will more or less be a repeat, only with four humans on board Orion. Then comes the big test, Artemis III, which will send two humans to the Moon and back during the middle of this decade.

Beyond these missions, however, NASA has been vague about the timing of future Artemis missions to the Moon, even as some members of Congress have pressed for more details. Now, we may know why. Ars Technica has obtained internal planning documents from the space agency showing an Artemis mission schedule and manifest for now through fiscal year 2034.

If you have followed along for a while now, the theme of delays and cost overruns won’t be new, but seeing this schedule certainly highlights some of the issues with this program.

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Andrew Cunningham, writing at Ars Technica:

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has died many deaths over the years, but today is the one that counts. The final version of the browser, Internet Explorer 11, will no longer receive support or security updates starting today, and it will gradually be removed from Windows 10 PCs via a Windows Update at some point in the future. It was never installed on Windows 11 PCs at all.

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That’s the end of the line for Internet Explorer, a browser that annihilated all competitors in the late-’90s browser wars only to be decisively wiped out in the early-2010s browser wars. For those who weren’t there, we’ve put together a brief history of the life and times of Internet Explorer. IE’s heyday is a distant memory, but the entire story is worth knowing. Google Chrome is on top of the world today, but that didn’t happen overnight, and the browser wars have been nothing if not cyclical.

We did something a little different this week on Mac Power Users:

David and Stephen hosted a live webinar, talking about the current crop of Apple’s betas and answering listener questions.

My thanks to Red Sweater Software for sponsoring the site this week. Daniel’s app MarsEdit is the best way to blog using a Mac.

If you’re annoyed by the increasing complexity of WordPress’s browser-based editor, download MarsEdit and give it a try. It’s the “Cadillac” of classic editors. You’ll see why many of the best bloggers in the Apple ecosystem rely on MarsEdit’s native, reliable, intuitive Mac interface.

The old new 13-inch MacBook Pro is now for sale on Apple’s website. Currently in the US, the stock $1299 and $1499 models arrive next week, on June 24. Just about any customization pushes an order to July or even August.

I love my 20th Anniversary Mac, but wow is it weird. My buddy Quinn got his hands on one and made a great video about the machine:

This week on Connected:

Federico and Stephen explore the new Books UI and some MacBook rumors, before celebrating the return of Clarus the Dogcow. Then, a discussion of Stage Manager’s system requirements and a possible way forward for non-M1 iPads and how Apple could approach future WWDC keynotes.

I think Ticci and I came up with an interesting way for Apple to possibly compromise when it comes to Stage Manager and non-M1 iPads.

José Adorno at 9to5Mac:

By the beginning of the year, DSSC said Apple was planning a 15-inch MacBook Air. Then, last week, Bloomberg reported that the company was indeed planning to launch this MacBook, alongside a 12-inch model for 2023. Now, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo also has a few tidbits about Apple’s upcoming MacBooks.

According to Kuo, the new 15-inch MacBook would go to mass production in mid-1H23, with a launch date around 2Q23 or later. The interesting part about this computer is that it may offer two CPU options: the M2 chip (with 35W adapter) and M2 Pro (with 67W adapter).

While the Apple silicon MacBook Air is known for its fanless design, it would be very different if Apple adds a “Pro” chip to a fanless notebook.

The MacBook Studio name is just right there.

Clarus the Dogcow is my favorite bit of Apple lore. It’s really cool to see that our friend is back in the new version of macOS.

Shadowfacts has more:

Did you know that with macOS Ventura, Clarus the Dogcow has at long last returned home? Recently, while doing something else, I accidentally hit Cmd+Shift+P which opened the Page Setup dialog. I was greeted, surprisingly, with a new high-resolution version of the classic Clarus icon that I’d never seen before. I looked at it briefly, and then closed the dialog and went back to whatever I was doing before. I had assumed that because I’d been in a 3rd-party app at the time, that the Clarus icon was just some easter egg the developer had left. But a little while later, I got to thinking. What were the chances that someone went to the trouble of customizing the Page Setup dialog, of all things, just for an easter egg? Zero, it turns out. That dialog shows Clarus on the page preview in every app.

I have mixed feelings about Clarus’ new design,¹ but just look at this glorious screenshot:

Update: iOS 16 seems to fix the “cowdog” bug. What a set of releases!

Apple Support:

Installing Apple Remote Desktop 2 on a non-startup volume does not remove the Apple Remote Desktop 1.2.2 Agent. The result is that Software Update still offers version 1.2.4 for that computer after it’s been upgraded to version 2.

Fixes include:

• Install Apple Remote Desktop 2 on the startup volume where Apple Remote Desktop 1.2.2 is currently installed, or
• Remove the Apple Remote Desktop 1.2.2 Agent by executing this Terminal command: sudo rm -r /System/Library/CoreServices/ARD Agent.app/