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Since I can’t cover everything, I like to offer a daily roundup of must-read articles from other websites:  ° From 9to5Mac: Apple is about to launch new Beats Studio Pro headphones with Transparency Mode and Spatial Audio developed in partnership with Samuel Ross...

The Peabody Awards have announced the winners in the 35 categories honoring the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting, streaming, and interactive media during 2022. Of the 35 total wins, PBS produced the most with six, followed by Apple...

Apple TV+’s biggest hit, “Ted Lasso,” scored a big win at the top of the streaming charts in the latest Wrap Report for the week of April 26-May 2.  This season’s seventh episode beat out several hot new programs, including Amazon Prime Video’s “The Citadel” and...

Smartphone shipments in the US declined 17% year-over-year (YoY) in quarter one (Q1) of 2023, according to Counterpoint Research. However, Apple managed to increase its market share despite a YoY drop in its shipments. The tech giant now has 53% of the US smartphone...

General Motors has named former Apple executive Mike Abbott to lead a division that will bring together three software functions within the company, reports Reuters.  At Apple, Abbott was the top executive in charge of cloud initiatives, including iCloud and...

Foxconn, Apple’s main manufacturing partner, has bought a huge tract of land on the outskirts of Indian tech hub Bengaluru, India, reports AFP.  The 13 million-square-foot acquisition in Devanahalli, near the airport for Bengaluru, was announced in a statement to...

Aura has announced the availability of the company’s proprietary AI-powered Call Assistant as part of a suite of enhancements to protect consumers from phone and text message scams.  Aura’s Call Assistant will answer calls from unknown numbers and filter out...

“Severance” is the latest series to be shut down as a result of the writers strike in Hollywood.The Apple TV+ drama series has had production on its second season paused in New York as a result of strike picketing, reports Deadline.  This is the second Apple TV+...

A US court has ruled that Corellium is not infringing any copyrights with its products in its ongoing legal battle with Apple.  Bloomberg reports that the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has determined that Corellium’s CORSEC simulator is protected...

In an article on its Newsroom page, Apple says that more than 1,900 educators in the U.S. have completed its Apple Learning Coach, a free professional learning program for educators who coach teachers to get the most out of Apple technology.  Additionally, Apple...

According to the latest Canalys data, global tablet shipments fell 18% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2023 to 31.7 million units. And the news for Apple was mixed. Quarter one’s tablet shipments is the lowest number of shipments since the onset of the pandemic...

The Monday, May 8 Los Angeles premiere of documentary “STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie”has been postponed because of the main subject’s refusal to cross a Writer’s Guild picket line, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The film was set to bow at Universal Studios. About the...

Worldwide tablet shipments posted decline of 19.1% year over year in the first quarter of 2023 (1Q23), totaling 30.7 million units, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. ...

Apple TV+’s Ghosted ranks second on this week’s top 10 streaming chart by Reelgood.  Other shows in the top 10 list are: The Diplomat (first place); The Citadel (third place); Scream VI (fourth place); Beef (fifth place): Succession (sixth place); Peter Pan &...

The first season of “Silo” and the second season of “Harriet the Spy” debut today on Apple TV+. About ‘Silo’ Here’s how the series is described: “Silo” is the story of the last ten thousand people on earth, their mile-deep home protecting them from the toxic and...

The global smartphone market declined by 14% year-over-year (YoY) and 7% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) to record 280.2 million unit shipments in quarter one (Q1) of 2023, according to Counterpoint Research. Samsung replaced Apple as the top smartphone player in Q1 2023,...

Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso” set a personal weekly best of 650 million viewing minutes among Nielsen’s Top 10 streaming programs for the week of April 3 to April 9, according to Deadline. The top 10 programs on the list are: “The Night Agent” (Netflix), “Love is Blind”...

Apple TV+ has shared a first look at “Hijack,” a new seven-part thriller starring and executive produced by SAG Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Idris Elba (“Luther”). “Hijack” will make its global debut with the first two episodes on Wednesday, June 28 on Apple...

Apple has announced its Mother’s Day promotions for Apple Pay. And you do know that Mother’s Day 2023 is Sunday, May 14, don’t you? Now, through May 14, Apple wants you to “send mom a gift as unique as she is.” You can get exclusive online offers on flowers,...

Following her Oscar-nominated work in “The Banshees Of Inisherin,”Kerry Condon looks to have found her first big follow-up since her nomination she is set to join Brad Pitt in Apple Studios’ big-budget untitled F1 racing tentpole pic. Damson Idris is also on board...

As noted by AppleInsider, members of Congress have taken note of Apple’s actions at unionizing stores, and have officially addressed the allegations that the company is chronically preventing its retail staff from organizing at multiple locations. On Thursday,...

According to a new report from OnlyAccounts.io, music streaming platforms such as Apple Music have added more than 330 million subscribers in the last five years, with their total number rising to almost 590 million in 2022. The search engine says that the music...

Jon Stewart is the latest star to cancel promotional duties as part of the writers strike, reports Deadline. He’s pulled out of an FYC [For Your Consideration] event for his Apple series, “The Problem with Jon Stewart” next week as the fallout from the strike...

Traditionally the March quarter has seen the Average price of an iPhone sold in the US decline, after early-adopters upgrade to premium models in the first few weeks after launch in the September quarter and the first full quarter of availability in the December...

What are you most excited about when the latest smartphone launches? A better camera? A bigger screen? Well, 42% say it’s the new release of emojis that gets them feeling excited.   That’s according to a new survey done by Preply asking over 1,000 Americans about...

According to 9to5Mac, an UK antitrust case against Apple has once again been thrown out, after an appeal tribunal ruled that the original decision was correct – that the UK’s competition watchdog had missed a legal deadline. The ruling stands despite the fact that two...

Apple has rolled out 5E135 firmware for the AirPods 2, the AirPods 3, the original AirPods Pro, the ‌AirPods Pro‌ 2, and the AirPods Max. Apple doesn’t provide release notes for such upgrades. Firmware updates are delivered periodically while your AirPods are charging...

Since I can’t cover everything, I like to offer a daily roundup of must-read articles from other websites:  ° From Nikkei Asia: South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and LG Display are spending billions of dollars on new production capacity for midsize organic...

Apple and Google have jointly submitted a proposed industry specification to help combat the misuse of Bluetooth location-tracking devices such as AirTags for unwanted tracking.  The first-of-its-kind specification will allow Bluetooth location-tracking devices...

Apple has released the fourth developer betas of macOS Ventura 13.4, iOS 16.5, iPadOS 16.5, and tvOS 16.5, and watchOS 9.5. Registered developers can download the betas via Apple’s developer portal. Or they can be downloaded over-the-air once the proper configuration...