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Apple Original Films and A24 have unveiled the trailer for the new drama starring and produced by Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence, “Causeway.”  An intimate portrait of a soldier struggling to adjust to her life after returning home to New Orleans,...

Since I can’t cover everything, I like to offer a daily round-up of must-read articles from some other great websites.  ° From the Apple Newsroom: Apple has spotlighted seven Hispanic and Latin app creators breaking barriers with technology. ° From AppleInsider:...

A French court has “substantially lowered” a fine against Apple for alleged anti-competitive behavior to 372 million euros (about US$366.31 million) from 1.1 billion euros previously, reports Reuters. In March 2020, the Autorité de la Concurrence fined Apple 1.1...

Meraki Go has launched its WiFi 6 Indoor and Outdoor Access Points. Designed for any small to midsize business, the new indoor (GR12) and outdoor (GR62) Access Points are purportedly up to 3 times faster than previous models and provide 2 times the capacity as...

Apple has provided developers with the fourth developer beta of watchOS 9.1. Registered developers can download the beta via Apple’s developer portal. Or it can be downloaded over-the-air once the proper configuration profile has been installed from the Developer...

Apple has updated the iOS 16 version of its Shazam app. It adds a new feature designed to allow songs identified using Siri to be added to both the Shazam App library and the Music Recognition History view in the Control Center.  Shazam is a music recognition app...

Apple has released Safari Technology Preview 155. The upgrade includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Inspector, CSS, Rendering, JavaScript, Media, Scroll to Text Fragment, Web API, Loading, and WebDriver. Safari Technology Preview offers a sneak peek...

Apple TV+ has revealed the trailer for the third season of the Emmy Award-winning kids and family series, “Ghostwriter,” a reimagining of the hit early nineties series from Sesame Workshop.  Premiering globally Friday, October 21, the all-new season of the...

Since I can’t cover everything, I like to offer a daily round-up of must-read articles from some other great websites.  ° From AppleInsider: An Apple Watch overheated on a customer’s wrist before blowing up and prompting an ER visit. ° From Macworld: Apple...

Apple has released the eighth public beta of macOS Ventura 13. Public betas are available on Apple’s Beta Software Program website.  Just remember that beta software is unfinished software, so proceed with care. Apple does public betas in order to increase the...

Apple has provided developers with the tenth developer beta of macOS Ventura, the fourth betas of iOS 16.1 and tvOS 16.1, and the fifth beta of iPadOS 16.1. Registered developers can download the betas via Apple’s developer portal. Or it can be downloaded over-the-air...

Apple TV+ has debuted the trailers for the second seasons of “Acapulco” and “The Problem With Jon Stewart.” The bilingual comedy “Acapulco” stars an international cast led by SAG Award winner Eugenio Derbez. It returns for its 10-episode second season Friday, October...

Since I can’t cover everything, I like to offer a daily round-up of must-read articles from some other great websites.  ° From MacRumors: Apple today released updated firmware for the MagSafe Charger that is designed to work with the iPhone 12 and later and...

Apple has named Galludet University in Washington D.C as a Distinguished School, reports technical.ly.  Apple Distinguished Schools are, in Apple’s words, “centers of leadership and educational excellence that demonstrate Apple’s vision for learning with...

Twelve South has announced the US$79.99 SuitCase, a minimalist hard shell case for the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros. The water-resistant, rigid hardshell case features a retractable leather handle and quilted exterior. The Suitcase sports a dual weather-resistant...

According to a post on Apple’s Newsroom site, several weeks ago, California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) welcomed more than 300 elementary and middle school students from across Los Angeles to its Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE) lab for a...

Apple suppliers added manufacturing operations close to the Cupertino, California-based tech company in fiscal 2021, a sign of how the pandemic and geopolitics are beginning to reshape supply chains, according to The Wall Street Journal. Of Apple’s more than 180...

As noted by CNBC, Apple’s App Store revenue declined about 5% in September, according to Morgan Stanley, the steepest drop since the bank started modeling the data in 2015. The App Store saw declines in markets including the U.S., Canada and Japan, Morgan Stanley...

Today at the Regency Bruin Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, Apple TV+ celebrated the upcoming premiere of highly anticipated drama “Shantaram,” ahead of the series debut on October 14. “Shantaram” will make its global debut with the first three episodes of its...

Exports of India-made iPhones topped US$1 billion in five months (since April), as India seeking to challenge neighbor China as manufacturing hub, reports Bloomberg. At the current rate, outbound shipments of India-made iPhones, mainly to Europe and the Middle East,...

The European Parliament has voted in favor of enforcing USB-C as a common charging port across a range of consumer electronic devices, including the iPhone, by the end of 2024. Starting spring 2026, this will also apply to laptops. Here’s details from a press release...

Kandji, which launched in 2019 as next-generation device management software for Apple device fleets, has announced its new Device Harmony platform, which, in the company’s terms, “tears down the wall between enterprise IT and InfoSec teams, so they can truly work...

Bare Bones Software has announced the release and immediate availability of BBEdit 14.6, a feature update to the latest major version of its professional strength text and code editor. It introduces quick Dock access to its Notes feature and additional controls for...

Anders Holm has signed on for a major recurring role in Apple TV+s upcoming live-action Godzilla and the Titans series based on Legendary’s Monsterverse franchise, from Legendary Television, according to Deadline. However, the specifics of...

Since I can’t cover everything, I like to offer a daily round-up of must-read articles from some other great websites.° From  AppleInsider: The iPhone 14 Pro models are still seeing high demand versus the iPhone 13 Pro, while the iPhone 14’s demand is apparently...

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has announced the Speech Accessibility Project, a new research initiative to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with a range of diverse speech patterns and disabilities.  The project launches with...

An Italian administrative court has canceled a fine imposed by the country’s antitrust authority on Apple and Amazon for alleged collusion, reports Reuters. In November 2021, the tech giants were fined a total of more than 200 million euros (about US$225 million) by...

Twenty-one years on from the invention of iTunes and the debut of the original iPod, Apple says the music service has gone from 1,000 songs in your pocket to 100,000x that on Apple Music.  Back in the 1960s, only 5,000 new albums were released each year. Today,...

Apple Original Films’ “Emancipation,” directed and executive produced by Antoine Fuqua (“Training Day,” “The Equalizer”) and starring and produced by Will Smith (“King Richard,” “The Pursuit of Happyness,” “Ali”), will premiere in theaters on December 2, 2022, and...

Apple TV+ held its first showing Saturday of “Emancipation,” the Antoine Fuqua-directed thriller that stars Will Smith an enslaved man who, after recovering from a whipping that nearly killed him, braved the swamps of Louisiana armed with only his wits, to escape...