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Former Apple design chief Jony Ive always described his long-term vision for the iPhone design as “a single slab of glass.” Apple is believed to have retained that goal long after Ive left the company, with Liquid Glass representing the company’s software prep ahead of the new hardware.
As Bloomberg reports, Apple has increased its monthly and annual AppleCare+ rates for new Mac and iPad customers. Here are the details.
According to Bloomberg, OpenAI’s anticipated entry into the hardware market is slated to begin with a portable, screenless smart speaker. Here are the details.
Anthropic is providing free access to premium Claude AI features to K-12 teachers in the United States. The effort is part of a new Claude for Teachers initiative.
Alongside the ongoing $50 price drop on AirPods Pro 3 and the up to $130 off Apple Watch Series 11, today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by Amazon re-stocking select M5 MacBook Air models at $150 off and the Amazon Renewed Premium iPhone 17 Pro models at $220 off today (plus more up to $449 off).
The new Siri and other Apple Intelligence features are currently only supported in the iOS 27 beta in English in a small number of countries, but Apple has promised that they will “quickly expand” to additional countries and languages.
Unicode’s emoji tsar Jennifer Daniel has given us a sneak peek at nine emoji set for release next year – though not all of them are entirely new.
Since iOS 5 in 2011, the iPhone and iPad have included Notification Center, a central place to find alerts from various apps in chronological order.
Nearly three months after Brazilian officials first questioned Apple over betting apps accessible to minors, the company has now been given five business days to provide additional details about its App Store safeguards. Here are the details.
The Information reports that Apple has been in talks with bankers and semiconductor startups as it explores acquisitions to strengthen its AI server capabilities. Here are the details.
Navigation app Waze is rolling out an update to its iPhone and Android app to introduce three new AI-powered features.
OpenAI has issued a new statement in reaction to Apple’s lawsuit accusing the company of trade secret theft. Here are the details.
Spotify will now let subscribers use natural language to ask questions about their listening history, make playback requests, and more. Here are the details.
Jony Ive and Sam Altman made a big promise when they teased the launch of a completely new concept in AI hardware more than a year ago.
Reuters reports that Apple has defeated a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing it of failing to stop child sexual abuse material from being stored and shared through iCloud. Here are the details.