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“Widow’s Bay,” a “genre-bending series,” debuts today on Apple TV. It stars Emmy Award winner Matthew Rhys, who also serves as executive producer. It hails from creator Katie Dippold and Emmy Award-winning director and executive producer Hiro Murai.  The new...

Formula 1 returns to the U.S. this weekend for the FORMULA 1 CRYPTO.COM MIAMI GRAND PRIX 2026 — streaming exclusively on Apple TV, with every session live and on demand. The 2026 season is resuming, and the battle for the podium reaches a pivotal weekend in Miami....

Apple has lost a court battle to delay App Store changes while it asks the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on its never-ending legal brouhaha with Epic Games. On April 29 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision that had let the tech giant keep...

Memory could account for up to 45% of an iPhone’s component costs by 2027, up from about 10% today, according to the Financial Times (a subscription is required to read the article). The Omdia research group has raised its semiconductor revenue forecast for 2026 to...

Apple has been granted another patent for “systems and methods for integrating third party services with a digital assistant. That assistance being, of course, Siri. About the patent In the patent, Apple notes that a digital assistant system’s ability to fulfill a...

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Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from other websites. ° From 9to5Mac: The OpenAI smartphone will fail, but it’ll be good for iPhone users. ° From Wired: The firm Security Industry Specialists paid over $1.2 million in 2024 for...

Apple TV productions have collected four Gotham Television Awards nominations by the Gotham Film & Media Institute. “Pluribus” is nominated for Breakthrough Drama Series. Elle Fanning of “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” is nominated for Outstanding Lead Performance in...

Apple TV has revealed the premiere date for the fourth season of“Ted Lasso,” starring and executive produced by Emmy Award winner Jason Sudeikis. “ Ted Lasso” season four will make its global debut on Wednesday, August 5, with one episode, followed by new episodes...

The Latin American refurbished smartphone market is projected to outpace global growth in the segment in 2026, driven by a gradual transition toward organized sales channels and market consolidation, according to new data from Counterpoint Research. Apple leads the...

The 20th anniversary iPhone, due next year,  will use a new type of curved screen technology, according to the Chinese leaker known as “Ice Universe.” From his/her X post: Apple may define its next generation display as “Liquid Glass Display.” It is not a...

Apple’s former AI chief John Giannandrea is joining a science AI startup, CuspAI, to help build out its U.S. operations, according to an Upstarts report. The former boss for efforts including Apple Intelligence, robotics and Siri plans to work part-time with CuspAI,...

On Sunday, at the Cannes International Series Festival (CANNESERIES), Apple TV celebrated the global premiere of “Star City” with creators and executive producers Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, and stars Rhys Ifans, Anna Maxwell Martin and Agnes O’Casey.  The new...

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Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from other websites. ° From Macworld: Apple needs a perfectionist again. John Ternus looks like one. ° From The MacObserver: Apple Wallet Digital ID now supports age verification for Apple services,...

Apple has announced a new way that people can pay for developers’ auto-renewable subscriptions on the App Store: monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment.  Apple says this new payment option allows you to offer subscribers more affordable options....

Apple and Google have “crushed” a California bill that would force them to stop favoring their own apps in their app stores, reports Bloomberg (a subscription is required to read the article). Senator Scott Wiener (D-CA) introduced SB 1074, known as the Blocking...

Market research firm Sigmaintell projects Apple will ship about 28 million MacBooks in 2026, up from roughly 23 million units in 2025.  That would push the company past Dell into third place by unit volume, behind Lenovo and HP, with estimated unit volumes of 43...

According to a new press release, SightMD, an ophthalmology practice in the greater New England area, announced a historic milestone in surgical innovation.  Dr. Eric Rosenberg, DO, MSE, has become the first surgeon in the world to successfully perform cataract...

Apple has released the fourth developer betas of macOS 26.5,  iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, watchOS 26.5, and visionOS 26.5. Registered developers can download the betas via Apple’s developer portal. Or they can be downloaded over-the-air once the proper...

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) IAM Union representing Apple employees in Towson, Maryland is filing an Unfair Labor Practice charge [PDF] against Apple with the National Labor Relations Board.  The union is accusing Apple of...

Apple TV productions won two BAFTA Television Craft Awards. “Vietnam: The War That Changed America” won the Director: Fiction trophy. “Slow Horses” won the “Writer: Drama” award.  The British Academy Television Craft Awards is an accolade presented by the British...

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted iyO Inc. a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, Sam Altman, Sir Jony Ive, and io Products.  The ruling, where the Court found that iyO was likely to succeed on the merits of its trademark...

Masimo’s long-time lawsuit over Apple Watch patent infringement has encountered another setback, as a U.S. District Court filing reveals the complaint against the USITC will be dismissed with prejudice, reports AppleInsider. On March 19, an Administrative Law Judge at...

JumpCloud Inc. has announced the launch of Agentic IAM. This is a new extension to its identity and device management solution.  Agentic IAM is designed to replicate similar patterns of human workforce identity and access management (IAM). As AI agents evolve...

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Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from other websites. ° From Macworld: Tim Cook’s legacy: 9 small bets that paid off and 2 big swings that didn’t. We all know the hits. But there are plenty of other ways Apple’s outgoing CEO left...

Here are the top Apple-related articles at Apple World Today for the week of April 19-24. ° A court has stopped the U.S. government from forcing Apple to take down ICE reporting apps from the App Store, due to it being a violation of the First Amendment....

Global smartphone system-on-a-chip (SoC) shipments declined 8% year-over-year (YoY) in quarter one (Q1) of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research’s latest Global Smartphone SoC Shipments Preliminary View report. However, it’s good news for Apple.  The ongoing...

A group of 66 companies and industry organizations, which includes Apple, has issued a joint statement opposing proposed changes to how companies account for clean energy use, reports 9to5Mac. The opposed changes are part of a revision process led by the Greenhouse...