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Following the breakout success of ‘Your Friends and Neighbors’, which stars Jon Hamm and wrapped its first season last week, Apple has extended its deal with showrunner Jonathan Tropper, Deadline reports. more…
After months of EU regulators breathing down its neck, Apple is finally seeing a happier kind of headline from across the Atlantic. And it comes courtesy of the new iPhone 16e. more…
If you’re Apple, this is the kind of internal document that you knew existed, but still hits hard. Especially in the middle of a global antitrust reckoning and internal… whatever the heck is going on in there. A recently unsealed OpenAI file outlines the company’s ambitions for ChatGPT. In short? They’re coming for Siri with everything they’ve got. more…
WhatsApp is gearing up to launch a long-awaited feature: usernames. With usernames, users will be able to connect with others without sharing their actual phone number. more…
As we get closer to this year’s WWDC keynote, Apple has flipped the switch on its traditional X hashmoji. The custom icon now appears automatically next to any post that includes #WWDC25, and it should look pretty familiar to anyone who’s seen Apple’s promotional art for the event. more…
Sunday night baseball games may soon be available via Apple TV+, as the company is reportedly seeking to land additional MLB streaming rights.Apple is reportedly in talks over MLB streaming rights.Apple has reportedly emerged as the company most likely to acquire Major League Baseball streaming rights previously held by ESPN. The iPhone maker currently offers Friday Night Baseball via Apple TV+, which consists of two baseball games every Friday without interruptions or restrictions, but that could soon change.According to a Sports Business Journal report on Monday, Apple is looking to land streaming rights for MLB content beyond the scope of its current arrangement. Legacy media outlets such as NBC are also said to be in talks with MLB over the same streaming rights, but Apple's offer is said to be noticeably higher. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Fresh deals are plentiful for the start of June, with Apple's M4 MacBook Air dipping to $837, while the Samsung M8 monitor is back on sale for $399.99.Amazon has slashed MacBook Air prices in June.Amazon has issued June discounts on the 13-inch MacBook Air M4, with prices falling to as low as $837.19. Here's a rundown of the sale:Today's MacBook Air sale Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Starting with whether it will be called macOS 26 or macOS 16, there are so many rumors about what the next update to the Mac operating system will bring. Here's what's expected, and most likely to happen.Craig Federighi introducing macOS Sequoia in 2024 — image credit: AppleThe only certainty is that the next major update to macOS will be announced on June 9, 2025, during the WWDC keynote. Beyond that, it is now looking highly likely that this successor to macOS 15 Sequoia will be called macOS 26 — and it's strongly rumored that it will be announced as macOS Tahoe.If Apple does name macOS after a region in California, it will be continuing the now 12-year-long tradition. Previously, the then-called OS X was named after cats for around 11 years. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
The classic first-person-shooter game "Doom" has been ported to an unexpected Apple product, with the three decade old Apple Network Server the latest hardware to be added to the compatibility list.Doom on an Apple Network Server - Image credit: Old VCR/Cameron KaiserThe Apple Network Server is a piece of hardware that, until May 2025, was not able to run ID Software's Doom. Thanks to an enterprising blogger, the game can be played on it.Sold from 1996 until 1997, Apple Network Server was separate from the Macintosh lineup, as machines designed instead to run IBM's AIX operating system, not Apple's operating systems. Sold for over $10,000 at the time, they were the last non-Macintosh desktop computers that Apple made. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
While the higher-profile DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Google continues, the company has reached a provisional settlement over similar accusations from its shareholders.The shareholders' case concerned Google's search business as well as othersThe Department of Justice continues to want Google to be broken up, and that case may be ruled on by August. But separately, shareholders led by two pension funds, took Google to court over antitrust violations, and according to Reuters, that case may now have been settled.Google and the shareholders have reported agreed a settlement that will see the company commit half a billion dollars into overhauling its compliance structure. That investment is said to be spent over the next 10 years, though the settlement mandates that such compliance changes must stay in place for at least 4 years. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Even for someone with a cushy tech job, the prospect of going against their company is daunting. That bothered Shell so much that in 2022, she launched Valla, which seeks to make legal support more accessible to workers.
Console's mission is to help IT teams reduce mundane, repetitive tasks, thereby freeing up time for help desk professionals to work on more strategic and sophisticated projects.
Creatify's AdMax platform uses AI to quickly generate dozens of video advertisements, which are geared toward social media marketing
Microsoft Bing announced Monday that it is introducing the Bing Video Creator to its app, which uses OpenAI's Sora model to let users generate videos from text prompts.
Cloud data platform Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, a Postgres database partner, late this afternoon.