iPhone Shipments Up 13% Amid Global Smartphone Market Slowdown

Apple achieved impressive 13% year-over-year growth in Q1 2025, shipping 55 million iPhones worldwide and increasing its global market share to 19%, up from 16% a year ago, according to the latest Canalys research. Apple’s performance is in stark contrast to the broader smartphone market, which recorded just 0.2% growth with 296.9 million units shipped […]

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2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of the bot, evolved from the hydraulic Atlas model that’s been performing viral video demos since 2013, made its public debut last spring. But while the company’s dog-like Spot and warehouse robot Stretch […]

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Apple VP Referred for Criminal Contempt After ‘Outright Lies’ in Epic Games Ruling

In a scorching ruling against Apple, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Wednesday accused an Apple finance executive of providing false testimony under oath during the company’s ongoing legal battle with Epic Games. The judge stated that Alex Roman, Apple’s vice president of finance, gave testimony that was “replete with misdirection and outright lies” regarding when […]

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Apple to Comply With New Court Ordered App Store Rules, But Will Appeal

Apple plans to change its U.S. App Store rules in accordance with a ruling from the U.S Northern District of California, Apple said in a statement to MacRumors. The company does plan to appeal the decision, though. “We strongly disagree with the decision. We will comply with the court’s order and we will appeal,” reads […]

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Epic Games Offers Apple ‘Peace Proposal’ to Return Fortnite to the App Store Worldwide

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney today said that Fortnite will return to the U.S. App Store next week, and he offered a “peace proposal” with a pledge to bring Fortnite back to iOS worldwide if Apple follows certain steps. “Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court’s friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we’ll […]

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Epic Games Wins Major Victory as Apple is Ordered to Comply With App Store Anti-Steering Injunction

In a victory for Epic Games, Apple was today found to be in violation of a 2021 injunction that required it to allow developers to direct customers to third-party purchase options on the web using in-app links. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers, who has been handling the Apple vs. ‌Epic Games‌ dispute for the last five years, […]

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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 218 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser. ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ 218 includes fixes and updates for CSS, JavaScript, Lockdown Mode, […]

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RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

A research facility within the US National Institutes of Health that is tasked with studying Ebola and other deadly infectious diseases has been instructed by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stop research activities. According to an email viewed by WIRED, the Integrated Research Facility in Frederick, Maryland, was told […]

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Apple Warns More Users About Mercenary Spyware Attacks

Apple this week sent out notices to people who may have been targeted with government-sponsored spyware attacks, reports TechCrunch. An Italian journalist and a Dutch activist said that they received notifications from Apple via iMessage and email. Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise […]

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Third US Plant Set to Make Apple Chips Breaks Ground

Apple has reaffirmed its commitment to making chips in the United States as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) begins construction on its third fabrication facility in Arizona. The facility in Phoenix represents part of a $100 billion investment TSMC pledged in March to make over four years in the American semiconductor industry. The new plant […]

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Google CEO Suggests iOS 19 Will Feature Built-In Gemini Integration

Google CEO Sundar Pichai today said that he hopes to reach a deal with Apple regarding built-in Gemini integration on iPhones by the middle of this year, according to Bloomberg. The report said that Pichai shared this remark in court today, during the U.S. Department of Justice’s ongoing antitrust trial against Google. Pichai confirmed that […]

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Meta, Spotify, and Match Launch Coalition Against Apple and Google

A new lobbying group formed by Meta, Spotify, and Match Group is challenging Apple and Google’s role in the mobile app ecosystem, arguing the company should bear legal responsibility for verifying users’ ages and accusing them of anti-competitive business practices that disadvantage developers, Bloomberg reports. The “Coalition for a Competitive Mobile Experience” is a coordinated […]

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ChatGPT’s Excessive Flattery Prompts OpenAI to Roll Back Update

OpenAI has reversed a recent update to GPT-4o, the model powering ChatGPT, following widespread complaints about the chatbot’s strange behavior. Deployed late last week, the update made ChatGPT excessively agreeable and unnaturally effusive in its praise, and the responses quickly became the subject of mockery on social media. CEO Sam Altman announced Tuesday that the […]

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Apple Music Gets New Co-Heads in Latest Leadership Shuffle

Apple is making another round of leadership changes across two key divisions ahead of its earnings report on Thursday, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. The company’s Apple Music division will now be co-managed by longtime Apple executive Rachel Newman and former TikTok music veteran Ole Obermann. Both will report to Oliver Schusser, who has taken […]

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Votre montre Wear OS cache déjà les premiers signes de l’IA de Google, la révolution commence

Le remplacement de Google Assistant par Gemini sur les appareils Android est déjà en cours. Les premières traces de ce changement apparaissent désormais sur certaines montres connectées. Une évolution discrète mais révélatrice d’un virage plus large. Depuis plusieurs mois, Google prépare en coulisses une refonte complète de son assistant vocal. La nouvelle intelligence artificielle Gemini […]

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AirPlay Security Flaws Impact Third-Party Devices and Unpatched Apple Products

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Oligo today outlined a series of AirPlay vulnerabilities that impact millions of Apple devices (via Wired) and accessories that connect to Apple devices. While Apple has addressed the flaws in security updates that have come out over the last several months, some third-party devices that support ‌AirPlay‌ remain vulnerable. Dubbed “Airborne,” […]

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Bird Buddy Debuts New ‘Wonder Blocks’ and ‘Petal’ Products for Getting Up Close to Pollinators

Bird Buddy, known for its line of camera-equipped bird feeders and accessories, today launched new nature tech products, Wonder Blocks and Petal. The devices are designed to let users attract and view all manner of insects, from butterflies to bees. Wonder Blocks is a modular system that create an ecosystem for pollinators, and there are […]

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