Apple has reportedly commissioned one of its Vietnamese suppliers, Sunny Optical, to provide a new MacBook compact camera module (CCM) from next year. This is likely to be first used in an M5 MacBook Pro in late 2025.
It’s a somewhat surprising move, given that Apple had to cancel iPhone lens orders from the same company due to production problems …
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Apple has announced the launch of a new Bay Area Housing Innovation Fund, intended to help the creation of more affordable homes in and around San Francisco.
It’s the latest phase of the company’s multi-year initiative to help tackle the California housing crisis, which has seen many locals priced out of the areas in which they grew up …
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TikTok has lost its fight to be excluded from a European antitrust law, and says that it will comply. However, it still faces a potential ban in the EU for breaching child protection legislation, and a separate ruling on its future in the US has yet to be made …
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Apple isn’t the only company preferring a privacy-respecting on-device approach to artificial intelligence: Tinder AI processing will use the same approach to pick your most attractive photos for use in the dating app …
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iOS 18 is a huge release for iPhone users. It brings major updates to system apps like Photos, Messages, Notes, and more.
The release also introduces two brand new apps from Apple: Image Playground for creating AI images (not yet available in the iOS 18 beta), and the new Passwords app that makes password management on Apple devices easier than ever.
Here’s a look at everything the new Passwords app can do.
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Ming-Chi Kuo reports that Apple has once again delayed its plans to use new resin-coated copper (RCC) components in the iPhone. This change, which would save internal space for the iPhone, was originally rumored to occur with the iPhone 16, then delayed to the iPhone 17, and now delayed again.
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I remember being intrigued the first time I saw the Beeline Velo, with its unusual approach to navigation. Instead of showing you a moving map, it just displays an arrow pointing either directly to your destination, or to your next waypoint on a route.
At the time, I was using a Garmin on my bicycles, but once I switched to mounting my iPhone on my handlebars, that created the question of which app to choose …
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Ookla has released its H1 2024 US Connectivity Report and T-Mobile has kept its crown for the fastest download and upload speeds, best consistency, earned the highest customer ratings, and more. Here’s how T-Mobile performed compared to Verizon and AT&T in the latest study.
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Live Activities are a really cool, but underused feature of iOS. Google Maps first announced that the app would support Live Activities back in 2023, but it’s still not arrived. However, after some tests went live earlier this year, we’re seeing more users reporting the feature is live.
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have been one of my best Apple buys ever. It’s hard to think of another Apple product that has only gotten better since purchase.
iPhones, iPads, and Macs all get software updates each year, but their performance also tends to struggle a bit over time. New OS versions are designed to work best with the newest hardware. With AirPods Pro 2—a product I initially hesitated to buy—Apple has managed to only make them better and better each year. And that’s happening again with iOS 18.
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