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Enlarge / Soon enough, iPhone owners will be able to use “CREDIT CARD” to pay for delicious clams and prawns…

Enlarge / The start of any journey in MS-DOS. Samuel Axon After a 14-year journey of various states of availability…

Enlarge / Apple’s M2 Pro Mac mini. Andrew Cunningham Apple hasn’t updated its Mac mini desktop lineup since the beginning…

Enlarge / Apple’s external DVD-burning SuperDrive may be fading away. Apple Apple has always been eager to dump technologies when…

Aurich Lawson After US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google has a monopoly in two markets—general search services and…

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. Lionel Hahn/Getty Images Apple reported its earnings results for the third quarter of the…

Enlarge / iOS 17.6 installing on an iPhone 13 Pro. Samuel Axon Apple has some minor updates for all its…

Enlarge / Apple Intelligence was unveiled at WWDC 2024. Apple As was just rumored, the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and…

Enlarge / The iPhone 15 lineup. Samuel Axon After years of rumors and speculation, Apple is moving ahead to produce…

Enlarge / Google, like most of us, has a hard time letting go of cookies. Most of us just haven’t…

After years of controversies over plans to scan iCloud to find more child sexual abuse materials (CSAM), Apple abandoned those…

Enlarge / Apple seeks to continue to augment its library of original films like Argylle with films from other studios.…

Boundless premieres tonight, taking Vision Pro users on a hot air balloon ride in Turkey. Submerged will be Apple’s first…

Enlarge / YouTuber Marques Brownlee discusses iOS 18 in a new video. This specific video wasn’t part of the large…

Apple The beta-testing cycle for Apple’s latest operating system updates is in full swing—earlier this week, the third developer betas…

In two weeks, iPhone users in the European Union will be able to use any mobile wallet they like to…

Enlarge / Vampire Survivors on the iPhone. It doesn’t look like much, but it sure is addictive. Samuel Axon Apple…

Benj Edwards / OpenAI / Microsoft Microsoft has withdrawn from its non-voting observer role on OpenAI’s board, while Apple has…

Enlarge / A screenshot of tvOS 17. Recent betas have included evidence that Apple is working on a touchscreen-enabled version…

Enlarge / Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. It’s been a whirlwind journey of stops and starts, but AppleInsider…

Enlarge / Apple’s Vision Pro scored 0 points in US PIRG’s self-repairability analysis. Kyle Orland In December, New York became…

Enlarge / A Vision Pro on display at an Apple Store in Tokyo. Apple Apple’s Vision Pro headset went on…

Enlarge / Apple has a lot to say about the third-party battery market in “Longevity, by Design,” specifically about how…

Enlarge / Don’t get your hopes up—this iOS version of Doom was ported from open source code, not run via…

Enlarge / The app lets you invoke ChatGPT from anywhere in the system with a keyboard shortcut, Spotlight-style. Samuel Axon…

Enlarge / The 2024 iPad Pro. Samuel Axon Apple has added the ability to format external drives in iOS 18…

Enlarge / Features like Image Playground won’t arrive in Europe at the same time as other regions. Apple Three major…

Enlarge / A Mac virtual monitor in visionOS 2. Samuel Axon CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple kicked off the keynote for its annual…

Apple The biggest feature in iOS 18, the one that affects the most people, was a single item in a…

Enlarge / Apple bragged about the thinness of the M4 iPad Pro; it’s apparently a template for the company’s designs…

Aurich Lawson As the Intel Mac era has wound down over the last couple of years, we’ve been painstakingly tracking…

Apple has abruptly discontinued its “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) service, Apple Pay Later, which turned Apple into a money…

Samuel Axon A report by tech news site The Information suggests that Apple is shifting its augmented reality priorities. The…

Enlarge / Using macOS S15 Sequoia to stream an iPhone’s screen to a Mac while the iPhone stays locked. Apple…

The Calculator app is finally coming to iPad. Samuel Axon You’ll be able to write out expressions with the Apple…

Enlarge / The classic Mac OS wallpaper in macOS 15 Sequoia mimics the monochrome user interfaces used in System 1…

Apple has spent years “intentionally, knowingly, and deliberately paying women less than men for substantially similar work,” a proposed class…

OpenAI / Apple / Benj Edwards On Monday, Apple announced it would be integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI assistant into upcoming…

Enlarge / Apple Senior VP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi announces “Private Cloud Compute” at WWDC 2024. Apple With most…

Enlarge / He isn’t using an iPhone, but some people talk to Siri like this. On Monday, Apple premiered “Apple…

Enlarge / Macs running a preview build of macOS 15 Sequoia. Apple We’ve written before about Apple’s handy virtualization framework…

Elon Musk is so opposed to Apple’s plan to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT with device operating systems that he’s seemingly spreading…

While Musk has spent much of today loudly criticizing the Apple/OpenAI deal, he also sought to drop his lawsuit against…

Apple On Monday, Apple debuted “Apple Intelligence,” a new suite of free AI-powered features for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS…

Apple Apple’s new iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 updates are mostly good news for users of older Apple devices—with the…

Apple Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on Monday, and per usual, the company is expected to detail most of…

Apple Apple has taken a rare step and publicly committed to a software support timeline for one of its products,…

Enlarge / The logo for WWDC24. Apple Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC, kicks off in Cupertino, California, next week. As…

Enlarge / Panty liners, hygienic tampons, and sanitary pads. People in the US are starting their menstrual cycles earlier and…

Enlarge / OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Apple and OpenAI have successfully made a deal to include OpenAI’s generative AI technology…

Enlarge / iPadOS 17.5.1 ready to install on an iPad Pro. Samuel Axon On May 20, Apple released iOS 17.5.1…

iFixit’s M4 iPad Pro teardown. Right on schedule for past releases, iFixit has done a teardown of Apple’s new, redesigned…

Enlarge / iPadOS 17.5.1 ready to install on an iPad Pro. Samuel Axon Apple has released its first bug fix…

Enlarge / The RetroArch app installed in tvOS. Andrew Cunningham Apple’s initial pitch for the tvOS and the Apple TV…

The new 13-inch iPad Air with the Apple M2 processor inside. Andrew Cunningham In portrait mode. The 13-inch model is…

Enlarge / The 2024, M4-equipped 13-inch iPad Pro. Samuel Axon The new iPad Pro is a technical marvel, with one…

A study analyzing Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX suggests that return to office (RTO) mandates can lead to a higher rate…

Apple Apple has released the latest updates for virtually all of its actively supported devices today. Most include a couple…

Enlarge / One of many human-created objects destroyed in Apple’s “Crush!” ad for the iPad Pro. Apple Earlier this week,…

Enlarge / M2-based iPad Airs come out next week. Apple Apple today announced the first 13-inch iPad Air. The company…

Enlarge / Many different Apple stickers from many different products and eras. Andrew Cunningham As a noted sticker enthusiast, I’m…

Enlarge / A screenshot of the Apple iPad ad. Apple via YouTube An advert by Apple for its new iPad…

Enlarge / The new M4 iPad Pro. Apple When Apple announced the Apple M4 chip during its iPad Pro event…

Apple Apple’s newest iPad Pro puts an M4 chip inside a thinner frame and is available in new 11-inch and…

Enlarge / Apple’s latest iPad Air, now in two sizes. The Magic Keyboard accessory is the same one that you…

Apple lowered the price of its 10th Generation iPad from $399 to $349, it announced at its Let Loose event…

Enlarge / The promotional image for Apple’s May 7 event. Apple On May 7, Apple will host a product announcement…

Enlarge / The Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. Apple’s earnings report for the second quarter of the company’s 2024…

Apple If you’ve ever sent an iPhone in for repair, you might be familiar with the dance Apple asks you…

Enlarge / Part of the cover illustration from “The Applesoft Tutorial” BASIC manual that shipped with the Apple II computer…

Enlarge / Assassin’s Creed Mirage returned to the earlier games’ focus on stealth assassinations in a historical urban environment. Ubisoft…

Andrew Cunningham Starting in March with the release of iOS 17.4, iPhones in the European Union have been subject to…

Getty Images In the world of AI, what might be called “small language models” have been growing in popularity recently…

Apple Apple is going to announce some new things on Tuesday, May 7, at 10 am Eastern, according to an…

Apple/Andrew Cunningham Last year, Apple introduced the ability to set multiple timers at once in the Clock app on its…

Enlarge / Don’t expect to see this on the iOS App Store any time soon. Last week’s release of the…

Enlarge / The M2 Pro Mac mini. Andrew Cunningham Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman thinks that Apple’s M4 chips for Macs are…

Enlarge / Here it is: two virtual Mac displays in Vision Pro. Samuel Axon Apple’s Vision Pro headset holds the…

Enlarge / That is in no way what the Z button looks like or where it goes… Apple’s decision earlier…

Getty Images Apple has always had a strong preference that only its own parts be used in repairs, but only…

Smaller web browsers are gaining traction in the European Union after the Digital Markets Act (DMA) started requiring designated gatekeepers…

Enlarge / Beeper’s new apps are now available, without waitlist, across nearly all mobile and desktop platforms. Beeper, the multinetwork…

Jony Ive, the former Apple designer. Former Apple design lead Jony Ive and current OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are seeking…

Enlarge / The classic Sega Genesis game Sonic the Hedgehog running on an iPhone—in this case, as a standalone app.…

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart’s interview with FTC Chair Lina Khan. The conversation about Apple begins around 16:30 in…

Enlarge / The M2 iPad Pro. The updated version will come with refined designs and new accessories. Apple If you’ve…

Aurich Lawson Your keyboard is the thread that connects you to your computer. The way a keyboard feels—from the sensations…

All the available Immersive Video launch content fit on a small strip in the TV app. Samuel Axon Initial videos…

Enlarge / They look like normal notifications, but opening an iPhone with one or more of these stacked up, you…

Enlarge / Oregon’s repair bill prohibits companies from implementing software locks that prohibit aftermarket or used parts from being installed…

Enlarge / The logo for WWDC24. Apple Apple has announced dates for this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). WWDC24 will…

Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton talks to media about non-compliance investigations against Google, Apple, and Meta…

Aurich Lawson | Apple A newly discovered vulnerability baked into Apple’s M-series of chips allows attackers to extract secret keys…

Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook leaving the US Capitol building on Thursday, September 14, 2023, in Washington, DC. Getty…

Kevin Noki Have you ever worked on a hobby project where modifying and compiling the source code for a Linux-based…

Benj Edwards On Monday, Bloomberg reported that Apple is in talks to license Google’s Gemini model to power AI features…

A couple of weeks ago, Apple released macOS Sonoma 14.4 with the usual list of bug fixes, security patches, and…

Enlarge / The M1 MacBook Air returns as a Walmart budget laptop. Walmart Apple no longer sells the M1 MacBook…

Enlarge / Apple AirPods on display at the company’s Fifth Avenue store in New York in Feb. 2024. Bing Guan/Bloomberg…

Enlarge / Apple’s $329 9th-gen iPad is over 2 years old and the last model to use Lightning or the…

Enlarge / The 13- and 15-inch M3 MacBook Air. Andrew Cunningham When Apple upgraded its Macs with the M2 chip,…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images For months, some of the biggest tech companies have been wrapped up in discussions with…

Enlarge / Apple’s M3 MacBook Airs put a new chip in 2022’s design. Andrew Cunningham Right off the bat, the…

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Epic Games celebrating their impending return to iOS in Europe. Epic Games Epic vs. Apple/Google…

Enlarge / A blurry, ghostly Persona in visionOS 1.0. They should at least look less bad in visionOS 1.1. Samuel…

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Apple attempting to dodge the concerns of EU regulators. Epic Games European Union regulators are…

Enlarge / A Fortnite loading screen displayed on an iPhone in 2018, when Apple and Epic weren’t at each other’s…

A close-up look at the Vision Pro from the front. Samuel Axon There are two displays inside the Vision Pro,…

Linux reached 4.03 percent of global market share in February, according to data from research firm Statcounter. That takes Linux…

Enlarge / Apple is refreshing the MacBook Air with M3 chips but leaving everything else about the 2022 redesign intact.…

The European Commission (EC) has sided with Spotify, fining Apple nearly $2 billion for abusive App Store restrictions on developers…

Enlarge / EU legislation has pushed a number of changes previously thought unthinkable in Apple products, including USB-C ports in…

Enlarge / A cover image for Neuromancer included in Apple’s press release. Apple It’s been a long time coming: A…

Enlarge / Apple’s global headquarters in Cupertino, California. After 10 years of development, multiple changes in direction and leadership, and…

Enlarge / The Vision Pro has two micro-OLED displays. Apple Research firm Omdia has published the first publicly available educated…

After failing for almost a decade to convince Apple to ditch Google and set Bing as Safari’s default search engine,…

Apple Apple is coming under fire from rivals Meta and Microsoft who say its plans to open up its mobile…

A close-up look at the Vision Pro from the front. Samuel Axon The Apple Vision Pro with AirPods Pro, Magic…

Getty Images Apple’s iMessage service is not a “gatekeeper” prone to unfair business practices and will thus not be required…

While the world awaits closing arguments later this year in the US government’s antitrust case over Google’s search dominance, a…

The recent launch of the Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset has inspired a number of social media stunts, including a…

Samuel Axon Apple is purportedly working on a foldable iPhone internally, according to “a person with direct knowledge of the…

The Apple Vision Pro with AirPods Pro, Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, and an Xbox Series X|S controller. Samuel Axon You…

The new iCloud for Windows app, which does a surprisingly good job of looking like a native Windows 11 app.…

Getty Images As Apple has stepped up its promotion of its App Store as a safer and more trustworthy source…

Enlarge / These mounted displays near the entrance let visitors touch, but not use, a Vision Pro. Kyle Orland For…

Enlarge / A stack of broken Chromebook laptops at Cell Mechanic Inc. electronics repair shop in Westbury, New York, U.S.,…

Enlarge / The 13-inch MacBook Pro from 2012. Sometimes, it’s worth taking a moment to note the end of an…

Enlarge / The iPhone 15 lineup. To comply with European Union regulations, Apple has introduced sweeping changes that make iOS…

FT montage/AFP/Getty Images Apple is quietly increasing its capabilities in artificial intelligence, making a series of acquisitions, staff hires, and…

Benj Edwards / Jonathan Zufi / Apple Forty years ago today, Apple released the first Macintosh. Since that fateful day…

Enlarge / Apple’s Vision Pro headset. Samuel Axon Apple’s Vision Pro went up for preorder this morning at 8 am…

Enlarge / The Apple Watch Ultra 2. Apple Starting today, if you buy an Apple Watch Series 9 or Watch…

Enlarge / Apple Vision Pro. Apple After years of delays, preorders for the Apple Vision Pro are just a few…

Getty Images | NurPhoto A chapter in the ongoing Epic v. Apple court case closed yesterday when the US Supreme…

Enlarge / The Apple Watch Series 9. Apple Apple has developed a backup plan for if the Apple Watch Series…

Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Chinese authorities recently said they’re using an advanced encryption attack to de-anonymize users of AirDrop…

Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of…

Enlarge / The Apple Watch Series 9 released in September 2023. Apple Just before Christmas, Apple pulled two of its…

Enlarge / The Dual Loop Band as seen on a model head. Apple Apple’s highly anticipated mixed-reality Vision Pro headset…

Enlarge / The iPhone that fell from Alaska Airlines flight 1282, discovered by Seanathan Bates under a bush on the…

You’ll never uncover The Next Great Thing if you don’t deviate from the norm. When looking back at 2023’s laptops,…

Google’s default search deal with Apple is worth so much to the search giant that Google pays 36 percent of…

Enlarge / The iPhone 15 Pro. Apple Apple’s latest research about running large language models on smartphones offers the clearest…

On Tuesday, Google ended two and a half weeks of defending its search business against the Department of Justice’s monopoly…

The trailer for Resident Evil 4 on iOS Apple’s AAA gaming ambitions for the iPhone 15 Pro saw both a…

Enlarge / Let’s see, you landed on my “Google Ads” space, and with three houses… that will be $1,400. Ron…

Lawmakers apparently balked after learning that Apple canceled the critically acclaimed weekly streaming talk show, The Problem with Jon Stewart,…

The latest advertiser fallout on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, could end up costing Elon Musk’s company much…

Enlarge / The Apple Watch Series 9 released in September 2023. Apple Apple will pause sales of the Apple Watch…

Apple Apple has repeatedly trumpeted the success of its financial services, a product lineup that now encompasses the Apple Card…

Enlarge / The active cooling chips are labeled and located in the upper-left corner near a custom heatsink in the…

Enlarge / Apple wants to build more of its A- and M-series chips in the United States. Apple Late last…

Researchers in Google’s Threat Analysis Group have been as busy as ever with discoveries that have led to the disclosure…

Enlarge / A Pixel 3, messaging a savvy iPhone owner, one with the kinds of concerns Beeper hopes to resolve…

Enlarge / The iPhone 15 is manufactured both in China and India. Apple Apple wants batteries for its latest generation…

Governments have been secretly tracking the app activity of an unknown number of people using Apple and Google smartphones, US…

Enlarge / The iPhone 15 Pro. Samuel Axon According to a report in Bloomberg, Tang Tan, vice president of Product…

Enlarge / The iPhone 15 is part of Apple’s self-repair program now. Samuel Axon Apple today expanded the Self Service…

Enlarge / The iPhone 15 Pro Max. Samuel Axon Today, Apple pushed out the public releases of iOS 17.2, iPadOS…

Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney jumping for joy at news of the verdict. Epic Games…