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SuperApp, Inc., formerly Instabase, Inc., has launched its AI collaboration SuperApp and the company’s transition from Instabase to SuperApp.  It combines the communication of Slack, the intelligence of the world’s leading AI models and the collaborative creation...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is urging Apple to find other solutions to AI-driven chip supply crunch other than using Chinese memory, reports The Wall Street Times.  After a tour of the new Apple Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston, he said, “The Trump...

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Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from some other neat sites: ° From MacRumors: Apple CEO Tim Cook once said that what Steve Jobs stood for, in a word, was “innovation.” In a CBS News interview conducted yesterday, Cook – in his...

Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from some other neat sites: ° From MacRumors: Apple CEO Tim Cook once said that what Steve Jobs stood for, in a word, was “innovation.” In a CBS News interview conducted yesterday, Cook – in his...

Here are the top Apple-related articles at Apple World Today for the week of August 10-15. ° Apple is rumored to already be working on the third generation “iPhone Fold.” ° Future Apple Watches could see some considerable design changes. ° Apple will...

Since Apple doesn’t make enough money, we can look forward to apps in its Maps app. According to MediaPost, businesses in the United States and Canada can now begin purchasing media in “Ads on Maps.Since the privacy approach is for all Apple Ads, and the company has...

Apple has sent out a new batch of notifications to customers that may have been targeted with spyware capable of hacking into their devices.  Such notifications alert customers that their iPhones, iPads, or Macs might have been compromised with spyware typically...

Apple has trained its own large language model for the China market, rather than relying on a third-party model to power its Apple Intelligence features in the country, reports Reuters. The LLM has been developed with the help of Alibaba, the article adds. The...

Here are some of the latest software announcements. ° Surfshark has introduced a feature to combat increasingly sophisticated SMS-based scams. Scam text protection is designed to safeguard iOS and Android users from smishing by detecting fraudulent messages...

Here are some of the latest hardware and accessory announcements: ° ESR has announced the ESR Atelier Case, its first vegan leather case for the iPhone. Made with silicone-based vegan leather pioneered in luxury car interiors, the new case is designed for “people...

Amy Sedaris, the comedic multi-hyphenate behind truTV’s Emmy-nominated “At Home with Amy Sedaris,” is set to star alongside Ben Stiller and Benicio Del Toro in “Protective Custody,” the upcoming Apple TV comedy, reports Deadline. No word yet on her role....

Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from some other neat sites: ° From 9to5Mac: Jeff Johnson, developer of the popular StopTheMadness Safari extension, has said that “obvious” App Store ratings fraud is going undetected by Apple despite...

On August 11, I wrote that I wanted the Retrocade app on the Mac. Imagine my embarrassment to find that it IS via Apple Arcade.  Retrocade includes several classic arcade games: Asteroids, Bubble Bobble, Breakout, Centipede, Frogger, Galaga, Pac-Man, Space...

The Season 4 premiere of “Ted Lasso” drew 296.6 million viewing minutes in the U.S. across its August 4 and 5 launch window, per Nielsen data provided by Apple, reports Deadline. On August 5 alone, the season debut was the most-streamed program in the U.S. with more...

As part of its never-ending battle with Epic Games, Apple has submitted to US District Court for the Northern District of California its proposed fee structure for purchases made outside of the App Store system, notes 9to5Mac: 15% for standard apps, which are subject...

Apple has opened its new Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) in Houston. The center offers free training and educational sessions for small- and medium-sized businesses, giving them direct experience with state-of-the-art equipment, interactive labs, and tools they...

You may be able to control a future HomePod  by just looking at it as evidenced by a newly granted Apple patent for “Device Control Using Gaze Information.” About the patent In the patent Apple notes that users frequently provide inputs, such as keypresses and...

Global wearable band shipments fell 2% year over year in the second quarter (Q2) of 2026, but the decline masks a growing divide in consumer demand according to the latest estimates from Omdia. But it’s good news for Apple. Smartwatch shipments grew 6% on the strength...

China’s smartphone sales declined 8.6% year-over-year (YoY) in the first 30 weeks of 2026, with the decline returning to double digits after the 618 shopping festival amid seasonal weakness and continued memory cost inflation, according to Counterpoint Research’s...

As noted by AppleInsider, Apple has added a series of famous films to its library for subscribers to watch at no extra charge. No work on whether the selection is only available for a limited time. It also isn’t promoting it outside of Apple TV itself, but subscribers...

Jamf Threat Labs has released its analysis of a new, multi-stage macOS infostealer, dubbed “AmnesiaStealer.” The campaign lures in victims through a counterfeit GitHub page that displays a “Download for macOS” heading. Once downloaded, a silent, self-deleting...

The Apple store in the Oracle Shopping Centre in Reading, UK, is being moved to a new location with a completely new design in December, reports 9to5Mac. Before this, Apple Festival Place store in Basingstoke will be closing in November, leaving the company with 38...

Apple TV has debuted the trailer for the fifth season of the animated kids and family series “Stillwater.”  The Peabody and Daytime Emmy Award-winning series returns with five episodes on Friday, August 21. Based on the bestselling Scholastic “Zen” book series by...

The second season of the Spanish language drama, “Women in Blue” (“Las Azules”), is now streaming on Apple TV. Created by International Emmy Award-winning showrunner and director Fernando Rovzar (“Monarca”) and Pablo Aramendi (“Tijuana”), “Women in Blue” (“Las...

Incogni, a personal data removal service and data privacy company, has released a new report, “Stressed-out, exposed, and beleaguered by slop: How attitudes towards the internet are changing in 2026.”  It closely follows the company’s recent study, “The Great...

Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from some other neat sites: ° From MacRumors: Apple supplier Pegatron today indirectly confirmed that the standard iPhone 18 model will not be released until next year — which has been widely predicted...

This is a “What was Apple Thinking?” moment: one of the company’s billboards in Italy shows a toddler holding an iPhone with a slogan “Everything is ok, it’s iPhone.” The Guarantor The Authority for Childhood and Adolescents, a children’s rights watchdog, is referring...

Apple is in talks with publishers for deals that would allow Siri AI to access current news and information, reports The Wall Street Journal (a subscription is required to read the article). The content deals could provide the tech company’s voice assistant with...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has granted Apple a one-day stay in its legal fight with Epic Games, notes Bloomberg (a subscription is required to read the article). The article says the short stay is meant to give the high court more time to consider Apple’s...