A developer has noted that Apple’s Photos app shares your iPhone photos with Apple by default, for an iOS 18 feature known as Enhanced Visual Search.
This is an expansion of the older Visual Look Up feature, which can recognize objects within your photos, but a privacy note in the Settings app implies that it sends more data to Apple …
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A full half of the jobs created by the first TSMC Arizona chip plant have been filled by workers from Taiwan, despite the company receiving up to $11.6B worth of grants intended in large part to generate US jobs.
The original headline news of Apple chips being made in the US by American workers has seemed less and less impressive over time …
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After several days of teasers, Apple TV+ today confirmed that the streaming service will be free for all this weekend. Between January 4 and January 5, customers can stream all Apple Originals with no subscription required.
This free weekend promotion will help garner awareness for the service as we embark on the new year, with major launches like Severance season two starting later this month.
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A recent software update resulted in a significant number of bricked Meta Quest headsets, with Meta initially shrugging and saying that for out-of-warranty Quest 2/3/3S models it wouldn’t be fixing the problem …
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CNET’s headline reference to “a rare look inside Apple’s secret iPhone 16 camera labs” is somewhat hyperbolic, since there’s nothing secret about them: we’ve seen one of them a couple of times before.
But the piece does, all the same, provide an interesting look at some of the testing processes used during the development of a new iPhone …
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2025 is set to be a big year for Apple hardware launches, and that will even be true for a variety of rarely-updated products. Here are six new products coming that will have waited about three years (or more) between hardware updates.
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Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died on Sunday at 100. Apple has now updated its homepage to pay tribute to President Carter, the longest-living president in American history.
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Amazon has brought back some of its most notable Black Friday deals on Apple gear for one last run in 2024. This includes the $70 price drops across the Apple Watch Series 10 lineup, including both 42mm and 46mm models in various colorways, as well as the straight up $200 price drops on Apple’s most affordable 13-inch M4 iPad Pro models – although we do have deals on the 11-inchers as well. Those join up to 29% off the next-gen 25W Apple MagSafe Charger, loads of accessories, MagSafe chargers, and much more to ready you for the new year.
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Apple recently updated its trio of Mac accessories—, Magic Trackpad, and —to USB-C versions. Now, a new rumor points to the planned timing for Apple’s big Magic Mouse 3 redesign.
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