Some snippets of code in the latest macOS beta suggest Apple will soon add the Mac to its Find My network.

Fitted with an Ultra Wideband chip, future MacBooks would be traceable when they slip down between the couch cushions. Honestly, it's been a long time coming.

In other news:

• Some hapless Keystone Cops got nabbed after making nearly every mistake possible trying to rip off an Apple Store.

• If you're having trouble with the Wallet app on Apple Watch, it might be due to Apple's latest OS updates.

• A cool concept imagines the latest Mac tech in the oldest Mac body.

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

macOS 12.3 suggests Apple’s Ultra Wideband technology is coming to Mac — www.cultofmac.com

Apple’s new macOS 12.3 beta, which rolled out to registered developers last week, suggests Ultra Wideband technology, aka UWB, is coming to Mac. UWB, currently in iPhone models with the Apple U1 chip, allows precise location reporting to make missing devices much easier to find.

Aussie cops bust teen for allegedly stealing $42,000 in Apple computers — www.cultofmac.com

A couple of scofflaws broke into an Australian Apple Store and made off with thousands of dollars in computers. But the hapless burglars — allegedly including a 16-year-old boy — were soon tracked down by police.

Apple’s latest updates break Wallet on Apple Watch, Bluetooth on Mac — www.cultofmac.com

Apple rolled out a new crop of software updates last week, and you probably (sadly) won’t be surprised to learn that they bring yet more bugs. In addition to experiencing Wallet sync problems between iOS 15.3 and watchOS 8.4, early updaters also report Bluetooth issues in macOS 12.2 that cause battery drain on some MacBooks.

Get 70% off Speidel leather and silicone Apple Watch bands — www.cultofmac.com

Speidel makes all sorts of watch bands and straps — including a wide range of bands for Apple Watch. And right now you can get two great ones for 70% off regular prices in the Cult of Mac Store.

Concept Mac takes you way, way, way back — www.cultofmac.com

Suppose Apple made a Mac that harks back to the computer's early days. A concept designer floated the idea of a Mac with the latest tech, including an M2 processor, but in a casing that mimics the original Macintosh from 1984.

Mini-LED iMac Pro launch might slip to summer — www.cultofmac.com

Earlier rumors indicated it would launch this spring, but now it looks more likely to show up sometime during the summer.

Apple pushes new activity challenge and resources for Heart Month — www.cultofmac.com

The new resources will support users’ efforts to stay healthy. Also toward that end, the company hopes you’ll learn a thing or two from preliminary trends shown in the Apple Heart and Movement Study.

Before and after: Out with (some of) the old, in with (the best of) the new [Setups] — www.cultofmac.com

When you spend a third or more of your waking hours all but chained to a computer setup, you might as well make it a pleasant place to spend time. That’s what most of Cult of Mac's Setups coverage is all about, really — glorifying both the high-tech performance and the stylish comfort that ease your enslavement to whatever it is you do with tech.

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"All the work that I have done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm 50.... This is a field where one does not write a principia which holds up for 200 years. This is not a field where one paints a painting that will be looked at for centuries or builds a church that will be admired and looked at in astonishment for centuries. No, this is a field where one does one's work and in 10 years it's obsolete and really will not be usable in 10 or 20 years.

"It's sort of like sediment of rocks.... You're building up a mountain and you get to contribute your little layer of sedimentary rock to make the mountain that much higher, but no one on the surface, unless they have X-ray vision, will see your sediment. They'll stand on it." – Steve Jobs on his legacy