What to expect from Apple’s May 7 “Let loose” event
Enlarge / The promotional image for Apple's May 7 event.Apple On May 7, Apple will…
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Apple deal could have been “suicide” for Google, company lawyer says
Enlarge / John Schmidtlein, partner at Williams & Connolly LLP and lead litigator for Alphabet…
Apple’s Q2 2024 earnings reveal a drop in iPhone, iPad sales
Enlarge / The Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. Apple's earnings report for the second…
iOS 17.5 makes it less of a hassle to send your iPhone into Apple for repairs
Apple If you've ever sent an iPhone in for repair, you might be familiar with…
The BASIC programming language turns 60
Enlarge / Part of the cover illustration from "The Applesoft Tutorial" BASIC manual that shipped…
The iPhone’s next AAA game, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, gets a release date
Enlarge / Assassin's Creed Mirage returned to the earlier games' focus on stealth assassinations in…
Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says
Andrew Cunningham Starting in March with the release of iOS 17.4, iPhones in the European…
Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use
Getty Images In the world of AI, what might be called "small language models" have…
Apple’s next product event happens on May 7, and it’s probably iPads
Apple Apple is going to announce some new things on Tuesday, May 7, at 10…
iPadOS 18 could ship with built-in Calculator app, after 14 Calculator-less years
Apple/Andrew Cunningham Last year, Apple introduced the ability to set multiple timers at once in…
Why a GameCube/Wii emulator may not be possible on the iOS App Store
Enlarge / Don't expect to see this on the iOS App Store any time soon.…
Apple reportedly plans M4 Mac mini for late 2024 or early 2025, skipping the M3
Enlarge / The M2 Pro Mac mini.Andrew Cunningham Bloomberg's Mark Gurman thinks that Apple's M4…
This app tries to do what Apple couldn’t: Multiple Mac monitors on Vision Pro
Enlarge / Here it is: two virtual Mac displays in Vision Pro.Samuel Axon Apple's Vision…
Delta takes flight: Apple-approved Nintendo emulator is a great iOS option
Enlarge / That is in no way what the Z button looks like or where…
Big Tech can’t hoard brainwave data for ad targeting, Colorado law says
On Wednesday, Colorado expanded the scope of its privacy law initially designed to protect biometric…
Apple will allow reuse of iPhone parts for repairs, with a notable catch
Getty Images Apple has always had a strong preference that only its own parts be…
Report: People are bailing on Safari after DMA makes changing defaults easier
Smaller web browsers are gaining traction in the European Union after the Digital Markets Act…
WordPress.com owner acquires Beeper, giving it two chat apps to rule them all
Enlarge / Beeper's new apps are now available, without waitlist, across nearly all mobile and…
AI hardware company from Jony Ive, Sam Altman seeks $1 billion in funding
Jony Ive, the former Apple designer. Former Apple design lead Jony Ive and current OpenAI…
TSMC will build third Arizona fab after winning $6.6B in CHIPS funding
Enlarge / The TSMC facility in Phoenix, Arizona. The US Department of Commerce has proposed…
Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store—but with big caveats
Enlarge / The classic Sega Genesis game Sonic the Hedgehog running on an iPhone—in this…
Apple wouldn’t let Jon Stewart interview FTC Chair Lina Khan, TV host claims
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart's interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan. The conversation about…
Report: Redesigned M3 iPad Pros, large-screened iPad Air now expected in May
Enlarge / The M2 iPad Pro. The updated version will come with refined designs and…
Apple’s first new 3D Vision Pro video since launch is only a few minutes long
All the available Immersive Video launch content fit on a small strip in the TV…
“MFA Fatigue” attack targets iPhone owners with endless password reset prompts
Enlarge / They look like normal notifications, but opening an iPhone with one or more…
Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
Enlarge / Oregon's repair bill prohibits companies from implementing software locks that prohibit aftermarket or…
Explaining why your keyboard feels so darn good—or way too mushy
Aurich Lawson Your keyboard is the thread that connects you to your computer. The way…
WWDC 2024 starts on June 10 with announcements about iOS 18 and beyond
Enlarge / The logo for WWDC24.Apple Apple has announced dates for this year's Worldwide Developers…
Apple, Google, and Meta are failing DMA compliance, EU suspects
Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton talks to media about non-compliance investigations…
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
Aurich Lawson | Apple A newly discovered vulnerability baked into Apple’s M-series of chips allows…
US sues Apple, alleging it illegally monopolized the smartphone market
Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook leaving the US Capitol building on Thursday, September 14,…
Entirely accurate 3D-printed Mac Plus built in these 29 painstaking steps
Kevin Noki Have you ever worked on a hobby project where modifying and compiling the…
Apple may hire Google to power new iPhone AI features using Gemini—report
Benj Edwards On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is in talks to license Google's Gemini…
USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update
A couple of weeks ago, Apple released macOS Sonoma 14.4 with the usual list of…
Walmart resurrects the M1 MacBook Air as an entry-level $699 laptop
Enlarge / The M1 MacBook Air returns as a Walmart budget laptop.Walmart Apple no longer…
Apple’s AirPods Pro could be getting a “hearing aid mode” later this year
Enlarge / Apple AirPods on display at the company's Fifth Avenue store in New York…
New iPads may be coming soon, but they won’t change the awkward spot the iPad is in
Enlarge / Apple's $329 9th-gen iPad is over 2 years old and the last model…
M3 MacBook Air refresh boosts storage speeds for 256GB models
Enlarge / The 13- and 15-inch M3 MacBook Air.Andrew Cunningham When Apple upgraded its Macs…
Apple and Tesla feel the pain as China opts for homegrown products
Enlarge / Domestically made smartphones were much in evidence at the National People’s Congress in…
On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images For months, some of the biggest tech companies have been…
Apple backtracks, reinstates Epic Games’ iOS developer account in Europe
Enlarge / Artist's conception of Epic Games celebrating their impending return to iOS in Europe.Epic…
Apple’s treatment of Epic Games draws the eye of EU regulators
Enlarge / Artist's conception of Apple attempting to dodge the concerns of EU regulators.Epic Games…
visionOS 1.1 tries to make Personas less unsettling, plus other Apple OS updates
Enlarge / A blurry, ghostly Persona in visionOS 1.0. They should at least look less…
Review: Apple’s efficient M3 MacBook Airs are just about as good as laptops get
Enlarge / Apple's M3 MacBook Airs put a new chip in 2022's design.Andrew Cunningham Right…
DMA be damned, Apple cuts off path to Epic Games Store, Fortnite on EU iPhones
Enlarge / A Fortnite loading screen displayed on an iPhone in 2018, when Apple and…
Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines
Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according to data from research…
Apple refreshes 13- and 15-inch MacBook Airs with faster M3 chip
Enlarge / Apple is refreshing the MacBook Air with M3 chips but leaving everything else…
Spotify wins as EU orders Apple to pay $2B and change App Store rules
The European Commission (EC) has sided with Spotify, fining Apple nearly $2 billion for abusive…
I worked exclusively in Vision Pro for a week—here’s how it went
A close-up look at the Vision Pro from the front. Samuel Axon There are two…
Apple changes course, will keep iPhone EU web apps how they are in iOS 17.4
Enlarge / EU legislation has pushed a number of changes previously thought unthinkable in Apple…
Apple orders 10 episodes of a Neuromancer TV series
Enlarge / A cover image for Neuromancer included in Apple's press release.Apple It's been a…
After a decade of stops and starts, Apple kills its electric car project
Enlarge / Apple's global headquarters in Cupertino, California. After 10 years of development, multiple changes…
Unsealed court doc shows why Apple rejected Microsoft’s offer to buy Bing
After failing for almost a decade to convince Apple to ditch Google and set Bing…
Apple Vision Pro’s components cost $1,542—but that’s not the full story
Enlarge / The Vision Pro has two micro-OLED displays.Apple Research firm Omdia has published the…
Big Tech is extremely unimpressed by Apple’s EU App Store changes
Apple Apple is coming under fire from rivals Meta and Microsoft who say its plans…
Why walking around in public with Vision Pro makes no sense
A close-up look at the Vision Pro from the front. Samuel Axon The Apple Vision…
Apple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled off
Getty Images Apple's iMessage service is not a "gatekeeper" prone to unfair business practices and…
Judge rules against users suing Google and Apple over “annoying” search results
While the world awaits closing arguments later this year in the US government's antitrust case…
Don’t wear Apple Vision Pro while piloting a self-driving Tesla, officials warn
The recent launch of the Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset has inspired a number of…
Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else
Samuel Axon Apple is purportedly working on a foldable iPhone internally, according to "a person…
Can a $3,500 headset replace your TV? We tried Vision Pro to find out
The Apple Vision Pro with AirPods Pro, Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, and an Xbox Series…
A password manager LastPass calls “fraudulent” booted from App Store
Getty Images As Apple has stepped up its promotion of its App Store as a…
Apple overhauls its entire Windows app suite, including iCloud and Apple Music
The new iCloud for Windows app, which does a surprisingly good job of looking like…
MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis
Enlarge / A stack of broken Chromebook laptops at Cell Mechanic Inc. electronics repair shop…
What I learned from the Apple Store’s 30-minute Vision Pro demo
Enlarge / These mounted displays near the entrance let visitors touch, but not use, a…
Apple declares last MacBook Pro with an optical drive obsolete
Enlarge / The 13-inch MacBook Pro from 2012. Sometimes, it's worth taking a moment to…
Apple warns proposed UK law will affect software updates around the world
Apple is "deeply concerned" that proposed changes to a United Kingdom law could give the…
Apple announces sweeping EU App Store policy changes—including sideloading
Enlarge / The iPhone 15 lineup. To comply with European Union regulations, Apple has introduced…
Wild Apples: The 12 weirdest and rarest Macs ever made
Benj Edwards / Jonathan Zufi / Apple Forty years ago today, Apple released the first…
Apple aims to run AI models directly on iPhones, other devices
FT montage/AFP/Getty Images Apple is quietly increasing its capabilities in artificial intelligence, making a series…
Everything we learned today about Vision Pro configurations, specs, and accessories
Enlarge / Apple's Vision Pro headset.Samuel Axon Apple's Vision Pro went up for preorder this…
Apple Watch no longer sold with blood oxygen monitoring after patent battle loss
Enlarge / The Apple Watch Ultra 2.Apple Starting today, if you buy an Apple Watch…
Supreme Court denies Epic v. Apple petitions, opening up iOS payment options
Enlarge / Artist's conception of iOS developers after today's Supreme Court ruling, surveying a new…
Apple lets devs use alternate in-app payment options, still takes commissions
Getty Images | NurPhoto A chapter in the ongoing Epic v. Apple court case closed…
What to expect from the Apple Vision Pro in February
Enlarge / Apple Vision Pro.Apple After years of delays, preorders for the Apple Vision Pro…
Apple Watch redesigned without blood oxygen monitoring to avoid import ban
Enlarge / The Apple Watch Series 9.Apple Apple has developed a backup plan for if…
Apple AirDrop leaks user data like a sieve. Chinese authorities say they’re scooping it up.
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Chinese authorities recently said they're using an advanced encryption attack…
Apple Vision Pro will launch Feb. 2, preorders start Jan. 19
Enlarge / The Dual Loop Band as seen on a model head.Apple Apple's highly anticipated…
iPhone survives 16,000-foot fall after door plug blows off Alaska Air flight 1282
Enlarge / The iPhone that fell from Alaska Airlines flight 1282, discovered by Seanathan Bates…
Google’s 36% search revenue share with Apple is 3x what Android OEMs get
Enlarge / Let's see, you landed on my "Google Ads" space, and with three houses...…
Apple’s China ties under Congressional scrutiny after Jon Stewart cancellation
Lawmakers apparently balked after learning that Apple canceled the critically acclaimed weekly streaming talk show,…
Big brands keep dropping X over antisemitism; $75M loss, report estimates
The latest advertiser fallout on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, could end up…
4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever
Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored…
Appeals court pauses ban on patent-infringing Apple Watch imports
Enlarge / The Apple Watch Series 9 released in September 2023. Apple Just before Christmas,…
Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs are breaking up over money-losing Apple Card
Apple Apple has repeatedly trumpeted the success of its financial services, a product lineup that…
MacBook Air gets solid-state active cooling in intriguing demo
Enlarge / The active cooling chips are labeled and located in the upper-left corner near…
New chip-packaging facility could save TSMC’s Arizona fab from “paperweight” status
Enlarge / Apple wants to build more of its A- and M-series chips in the…
Google researchers report critical 0-days in Chrome and all Apple OSes
Researchers in Google's Threat Analysis Group have been as busy as ever with discoveries that…
Beeper Mini for Android sends and receives iMessages, no Mac server required
Enlarge / A Pixel 3, messaging a savvy iPhone owner, one with the kinds of…
Apple wants iPhone 16 batteries to come from India, not China
Enlarge / The iPhone 15 is manufactured both in China and India.Apple Apple wants batteries…
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data
Governments have been secretly tracking the app activity of an unknown number of people using…
Laptops’ 2023 quantum leap: 5 computers we’ll still be talking about in 2024
You'll never uncover The Next Great Thing if you don't deviate from the norm. When…
Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud
Enlarge / The iPhone 15 Pro.Apple Apple’s latest research about running large language models on…
Apple exec departure leads to major iPhone, Apple Watch reshuffle
Enlarge / The iPhone 15 Pro.Samuel Axon According to a report in Bloomberg, Tang Tan,…
First wave of AAA iPhone games sees a big new release—and a notable delay
The trailer for Resident Evil 4 on iOS Apple's AAA gaming ambitions for the iPhone…
Apple releases iOS 17.2 and macOS 14.2, delays two features to 2024
Enlarge / The iPhone 15 Pro Max.Samuel Axon Today, Apple pushed out the public releases…
Google’s Android app store monopoly violates antitrust law, jury finds
Enlarge / Artist's conception of Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney jumping for joy at news…
Apple Watches being pulled from stores this week due to potential import ban
Enlarge / The Apple Watch Series 9 released in September 2023. Apple Apple will pause…
You can now access Apple’s official diagnostics tool online for DIY repairs
Enlarge / The iPhone 15 is part of Apple's self-repair program now.Samuel Axon Apple today…