Former Employee Who Defrauded Apple Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison and $19 Million in Fines

Former Apple employee Dhidrenda Prasad was this week sentenced to three years in prison and was ordered to pay more than $17 million in restitution to Apple. Back in November, Prasad pled guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud and conspiracy to defraud the United States after stealing millions of dollars from Apple. Prasad was part […]

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YouTube Music Gains Audio Podcasts on iOS and Web

Google today announced that YouTube Music on the web and the YouTube Music app for iOS devices now offer podcasts in the United States. Users who watch podcasts through the main YouTube app can now continue listening to them through YouTube Music. Podcasts on YouTube Music are free, with no Premium subscription required. Podcasts are […]

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Amazon Discontinuing ‘Halo’ Health and Fitness Wristband

Amazon is discontinuing its line of “Halo” health and fitness bands, Amazon announced today (via Bloomberg). The first Halo band was introduced in August 2020, and it was positioned as a low-cost competitor to the Apple Watch. The Halo wristband had no watch face, instead offering a sensor wrist worn sensor module with an accelerometer, […]

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Over 1,000 Fake AirPods Pro Seized at Dulles International Airport, Counterfeiters Would Have Made $290,000

United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized more than 1,000 pairs of counterfeit AirPods Pro 2 devices from Washington Dulles International Airport back in March, the CBP announced yesterday. Four shipments bound for Fairfax County, Virginia were inspected on March 15, and investigators found the 1,000 knockoff AirPods and 50 fake Apple Watches. […]

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How to Install Fonts on iPad Using Apple Configurator

Do you need to use different typefaces in your Keynote presentation or Procreate artwork on iPad? Are you unable to find a specific font on your iPad? Let’s figure out here how to install fonts on iPad for free. It’s common to use a variation of fonts when creating creative content for presentation, website publishing, […]

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Astropad Studio Gains Peer-to-Peer Networking for Faster Wireless Connection Between iPad and Mac

Astropad Studio, the app that is designed to turn the iPad into a drawing tablet for a Mac, is today gaining a major new networking feature that will cut down on latency. Peer-to-peer networking will allow an ‌iPad‌ to connect directly to a Mac using a wireless connection, which Astropad says will cut latency in […]

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PSA: Watch Out for Fake ChatGPT Apps and Other Scams in the Mac App Store

There have long been complaints from developers and App Store users about apps that offer limited functionality and charge high prices in an effort to scam people out of their money, and the latest trend is a glut of ChatGPT apps that have invaded the ‌App Store‌. Privacy 1st researcher Alex Kleber over the weekend […]

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Three Unreleased Mac Models Appear in Apple’s Find My Configuration File

Three new Mac model identifiers were recently added to a Find My configuration file on Apple’s backend, as discovered by Nicolás Álvarez (via @aaronp613). The new identifiers are Mac14,8, Mac14,13, and Mac14,14, and they appear in a list alongside Mac14,3 and Mac14,12, the identifiers for the latest M2 and ‌M2‌ Pro Mac mini models. The […]

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Apple Silicon Mac Pro Reportedly Not Coming at WWDC, Mac Studio Refresh Likely Delayed Until M3

The Apple silicon Mac Pro will not be among the new hardware announcements at WWDC 2023, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman believes. Speaking on the latest episode of The MacRumors Show, Gurman explained that while he still expects the new ‌Mac Pro‌ to launch this year, it is unlikely to emerge at WWDC in June. This is […]

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Popular Real-Time AI Voice Changer ‘Voicemod’ Comes to macOS

Voicemod, the popular voice changer and soundboard, has just landed on macOS, allowing Mac users to transform their voices and trigger sound effects in real time. The AI-powered software features a wide range of features, including over 100 voice options, including natural and realistic human options, pitch-shifting, sound enhancement, and a variety of fantasy, funny, […]

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Apple to Soon Let Users Fix Subscription Billing Issues Directly Within Apps

Apple will soon make it possible for users to fix App Store subscription payment issues within apps, rather than having to go into their device’s Settings to make the necessary changes. Currently if a third-party app has an issue with an auto-renewing subscription – if the payment method is no longer valid, for example – […]

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Apple Responds to Report About Thieves Permanently Locking Out iPhone Users

The Wall Street Journal‘s Nicole Nguyen and Joanna Stern today published a report highlighting how thieves can use Apple’s optional recovery key security option to permanently lock out iPhone users from their Apple ID account. As the journalists first revealed in February, there have been increasing instances of thieves spying on an iPhone user’s passcode […]

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Heart Analyzer v10 Brings New Dashboard and Watch App Experience with Enhanced Swift Charts

Heart Analyzer this week reached version 10, bringing some major improvements and changes to the popular heart health app including a new dashboard experience, a refreshed Watch app, enhanced charts, and new tracking complications. The new Dashboard experience has been designed lets users switch days more easily and aims to offer clearer indications as to […]

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Google Plans to Launch $1,700 Foldable Smartphone in June

Google in June plans to join Samsung in the foldable smartphone market with the launch of the Pixel Fold, reports CNBC. The device is expected to be priced around $1,700, which is in line with Samsung’s pricing. The Pixel Fold will be introduced at Google I/O in May, and Google plans to market it as […]

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How to Fix Apple Books Missing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Did you just open the Apple Books app on your iPhone but were unable to locate a favorite book? Without worrying further, try the following troubleshooting ideas to fix Apple Books missing issue and get back your precious books on Apple Books app. The Apple Books rebranding of iBooks made the native eBook reader on […]

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Le terrible ransomware LockBit cible désormais les Mac d’Apple, une première

Le célèbre groupe de ransomware LockBit est apparemment en train de développer un logiciel malveillant capable de crypter des fichiers sur des appareils fonctionnant avec le système d’exploitation macOS d’Apple. Des chercheurs ont analysé le logiciel malveillant afin de déterminer la menace qu’il représente réellement. Crédit : toppercussion / 123RF Des chercheurs en sécurité ont […]

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Deals: Amazon Takes Up to $199 Off Apple’s M2 and M2 Pro Mac Mini, Starting at $499.99

Earlier this month we tracked new all-time low prices on a few models of Apple’s M2 Mac mini, and now Amazon has expanded its discounts to include the Mac mini with the M2 Pro chip. You can get the 512GB M2 Pro Mac mini for $1,099.99, down from $1,299.00. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner […]

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Gurman: Mac Studio Isn’t One-Off Stopgap Product, New Models Planned

Apple plans to release at least two new Mac Studio models in the future, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. This information suggests that the Mac Studio was not a one-off stopgap product amid the wait for the first Mac Pro with Apple silicon. In his newsletter today, focused on new MacBooks and other announcements planned […]

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When Will Apple Launch the iPad Mini 7?

Apple launched the sixth-generation iPad mini in September 2021, bringing the first major redesign to the device in its entire history – but when is the seventh-generation model expected to launch? While Apple updated the ‌iPad mini‌ annually from 2012 to 2016, updates thereafter became more infrequent, with just one minor refresh in March 2019 […]

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Apple Stops Signing iOS 16.4 Following iOS 16.4.1 Release, Downgrading No Longer Possible

Following the launch of iOS 16.4.1 on April 7, Apple has stopped signing iOS 16.4, the previously available version of iOS. With iOS 16.4 no longer being signed, it is not possible to downgrade to that version of iOS after installing the iOS 16.4.1 update. Apple routinely stops signing older versions of iOS after new […]

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