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Apple CEO Tim Cook today shared a short promotional video on social media highlighting Apple’s new role as the U.S. home of Formula One. The clip takes place around Apple Park and shows Cook driving a small campus buggy along the ring road before pulling up beside Dutch racing driver Max Verstappen. The scene plays read more

Popular Stories Apple Unveils Seven New Products Apple this week unveiled seven products, including an iPhone 17e, an iPad Air with the M4 chip, updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models, a new Studio Display, a higher-end Studio Display XDR, and an all-new MacBook Neo that starts at just $599. iPhone 17e features the same read more

Tech columnist David Pogue’s new book Apple: The First 50 Years is available in hardcover and digital formats starting today. In time for Apple’s 50th anniversary on April 1, the 608-page book explores the first five decades of the company’s history. Pogue interviewed 150 key people who shaped Apple into what it is today, including read more

Apple today seeded the fourth betas of upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple provided the third betas to developers. Registered developers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and read more

On an earnings call today, an ASUS executive admitted that Apple’s more affordable MacBook Neo is a “shock” to the PC industry (via PCMag). In the U.S., the MacBook Neo starts at just $599, or at an even lower $499 for college students. “Given Apple’s historically very premium pricing, launching such an affordable product is read more

Apple considered but abandoned plans for a flip-style foldable iPhone because it didn’t create compelling new use cases, according to Weibo leaker Instant Digital. Apple reportedly felt that it was an “unnecessary” design because the biggest selling point would have been its smaller size when folded. The split at the middle also caused issues with read more

Apple is set to launch two new low-cost devices tomorrow, the iPhone 17e and the MacBook Neo. Both devices use A-series chips, which have historically been limited to the iPhone and iPad. The ‌MacBook Neo‌ has Apple’s A18 Pro chip inside, which was first used in the iPhone 16 Pro models, while the ‌iPhone 17e‌ read more

It’s Wednesday, March 11 in Australia and New Zealand, which means it’s the official launch day for all of the products Apple introduced last week, including the new low-cost MacBook Neo, the iPhone 17e, the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models, the Studio Display, the ‌Studio Display‌ XDR, the M4 iPad Air, and read more

While the MacBook Neo achieves a breakthrough $599 starting price, that of course comes with some compromises, and one of them is slower SSD speeds. The Verge today showed the MacBook Neo had up to 8× slower sustained SSD read and write speeds in a benchmark test compared to the new MacBook Pro models with read more

Sonos today launched two new speakers, the Sonos Play and the Sonos Era 100 SL. Sonos says that the additions to its lineup “reflect a renewed focus on strengthening the Sonos system” after a disastrous 2024 app redesign damaged customer trust. The Sonos Play is a versatile speaker that can be used from room to read more

Customers planning to get a new MacBook Neo tomorrow will need to install a day one update. Apple today released macOS Tahoe 26.3.2, which is available for the new Mac. According to Apple’s release notes for ‌macOS Tahoe‌ 26.3.2, it includes bug fixes and security updates. Apple will likely require the software to be installed read more

The Apple Studio Display and ‌Studio Display‌ XDR are equipped with A19 and A19 Pro chips, respectively, and each display has 128GB of internal NAND storage. With A-series chips, the Studio Displays run an iOS-based operating system, which is what the internal storage space is used for. The A19 and A19 Pro handle camera processing read more

X-Plane, which is advertised as being the “world’s most advanced flight simulator,” is coming to Apple’s Vision Pro in the next month or so. The upcoming visionOS 26.4 update adds support for NVIDIA’s CloudXR 6.0 platform, and this will enable Vision Pro users to wirelessly stream immersive PC games from NVIDIA RTX-powered servers via Wi-Fi, read more

Apple and Samsung produced nearly the same number of smartphones in 2025, tying for the top position in global smartphone production, according to a new report from TrendForce. Global smartphone production reached approximately 1.254 billion units in 2025, rising 2.5% year over year. The research firm says Apple and Samsung each produced nearly 240 million read more

Apple is planning to launch a MacBook Air with an OLED display, but it won’t come for several years after the MacBook Pro is updated with OLED screen technology. We’re not going to see an OLED ‌MacBook Air‌ until at least 2028, according to Bloomberg. Large, high-quality OLED displays are expensive, and it will take read more

Apple today released iOS 16.7.15, iPadOS 16.7.15, iOS 15.8.7, and iPadOS 15.8.7, updates designed for older iPhones and iPads that are not able to run newer versions of iOS and iPadOS. iPhone and iPad users can install the updates by opening up the Settings app, going to General, and selecting the Software Update option. Those read more

The upcoming foldable iPhone that Apple plans to debut this September will operate like a cross between an iPhone and an iPad, reports Bloomberg. When the device is opened up, the UI will have an iPad-like layout that supports multitasking with two apps side-by-side. No iPhone to date has supported running multiple apps on the read more

Following the release of his new book Apple: The First 50 Years, tech columnist David Pogue is hosting an Apple at 50: Five Decades of Thinking Different event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California tonight. The event will be live streamed on YouTube for free, starting at 7 p.m. Pacific Time. “From read more

Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today said the MacBook Pro will receive a “major upgrade” with an OLED display by early next year. In a blog post, Kuo said the new MacBook Pro will be released between late 2026 and early 2027. With an OLED display, the MacBook Pro would have better image quality read more

Apple today announced three new games coming to Apple Arcade in April, along with several updates to existing titles on the service. The three new games heading to ‌Apple Arcade‌ next month are as follows: DREDGE+: A complete edition of the award-winning fishing adventure where players explore eerie archipelagos, dredge the ocean floor for hidden read more