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MacRumors reports today on a new blog post from Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, entitled “Scuttlebutt Regarding Apple’s Cross-Platform UI Project.” In the blog post, Gruber refers to Mark Gurman’s exclusive report for Bloomberg last December about Apple’s secret cross-platform project where...

AppleInsider reports today that mass production of the forthcoming MacBook Air has been delayed until the second half of 2018, having been originally expected to begin in the second quarter of this year. According to the original report in DigiTimes, Apple has just informed its supply chain...

iMore reports that Apple has decided to discontinue its Wi-Fi router range, including AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule. “We’re discontinuing the Apple AirPort base station products,” Apple told iMore. “They will be available through Apple.com, Apple’s retail stores and...

According to a new survey from Apple IT management company Jamf, when given the opportunity by their company to chose their own equipment, 75% of those polled chose an iPhone or iPad over Android and other devices. 72% of those polled chose Mac and 28% chose PC. Overall, 52% of enterprise...

MacRumors reports that Snapchat has today unveiled its new water-resistant line of Spectacles, which it claims are smaller, and therefore more comfortable to wear, than its original Spectacles range. Clearly Snapchat is hoping that the new glasses will be a smash hit for summer thanks to their...

MacRumors writes that Apple has today announced on its App Store support page for developers that iOS 11 is now installed on 76% of devices. This represents an increase of 11% from January 2018, when iOS 11 was installed on 65% of devices, and up 24% from November last year, when it was...

MacRumors reports that Lexus has today announced the first of its vehicles to have Apple CarPlay compatibility. According to today’s announcement, from September 2018, the 2019 Lexus ES will be available at dealerships in the US, boasting an eight-inch touchscreen display that you can connect to...

9to5 Mac reports today that according to a new report from Digitimes, one of Apple’s main partners, TSMC, is set to experience record profits this year, thanks in large part to its manufacturing of Apple’s forthcoming A12 system-on-a-chip for the 2018 iPhone line-up. Apple’s iPhone X and iPhone...

MacRumors reports that Apple has already begun its annual preparations for Earth Day, which takes place on Sunday this year. Apple usually likes to do something special for the day, and this year is no exception, with logos on some of its retail stores around the world already getting green...

MacRumors reports today on an interview that Apple CEO Tim Cook gave to The Sydney Morning Herald recently in which he talked about why Apple will never merge iPad and Mac for a unified software and hardware platform. “We don’t believe in sort of watering down one for the other,” Cook told The...

According to a new report on Bloomberg today, Apple is about to launch a new premium news subscription service, having acquired magazine app Texture last month. Bloomberg’s source says that Apple has plans to integrate Texture technology, along with some of its employees, into the Apple News...

AppleInsider reports that Apple has launched a new program that offers free, out-of-warranty repairs for Apple Watch Series 2 battery issues. The news came via a note that was sent to Apple stores and Authorised Repair Providers via Apple’s internal GSX portal. The document refers to the fact...

Apple has issued a memo to its employees in which it warns them about leaking confidential information to the media, writes Bloomberg, via AppleInsider. The leaked memo also says that Apple is still trying to find all the people who are leaking within its organisation. The memo, which was...

According to a new report from Bloomberg Technology today, Apple’s HomePod has not sold anything like as well as Apple would have hoped. HomePod arrived in stores in January 2018, but by late March, Bloomberg’s sources say, Apple had already lowered sales forecasts and cut its orders with...

TechCrunch reports that in the light of its recent article about Instagram’s lack of anything similar to Facebook’s Download Your Information tool, an Instagram spokesperson has told TechCrunch that “We are building a new data portability tool. You’ll soon be able to download a copy of what...

AppleInsider reports that Apple has snapped up a new television series based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ novels. Currently in production at Skydance Television, the show is being executive produced by showrunners David Goyer and Josh Friedman, who have such credits as The Dark Knight, Ghost...

MacRumors reports that a new survey from investment company Piper Jaffray has found that Apple’s iPhone is more popular than ever, with 82% of the teens surveyed owning an iPhone, an increase of 4% from 78% of those polled in fall 2017. Also, 84% of those teens polled said that they expect their...

According to a new report from MacRumors today, Apple has announced that all of its worldwide facilities, such as retail stores, offices, and data centres, are now entirely powered by100% clean energy. The remarkable achievement includes establishing facilities in 43 different countries...

According to a new report from TechCrunch, via MacRumors, Apple is working on a redesigned, modular Mac Pro for professional users that should be ready to launch by 2019. TechCrunch’s Matthew Panzarino met up with the Apple pro product team during a visit to the Cupertino campus, where he was...

Mobile games studio Jam City and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced today that forthcoming iOS game, Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, will arrive in the App Store on April 25. Jam City and Warner Bros. also revealed today that many of the characters from the Harry Potter films that...

Intel has today launched its brand new Coffee Lake laptop processors, bringing its Core i9 range to laptops for the first time in a thermal profile that the current 15-inch MacBook Pro can use. AppleInsider writes that the newly announced six-core i9-8950HK has a base clock speed of 2.9...

AppleInsider reports today that Epic Games has finally made the massively popular Fortnite Battle Royale available to all iOS users (Android users must wait a few more weeks) rather than only those who have been invited to play. During March, only those players who had signed up to the game’s...

Apple took us off guard on Thursday by releasing iOS 11.3, the latest major update to iOS 11. Among the many new features included in the update are the long-awaited “Battery Health” feature that arose after the whole performance-throttling furore of the past few months, and which will notify...

MacRumors reports that Mazda has announced at the New York International Auto Show that it is finally bringing Apple CarPlay to one of its vehicles. The first Mazda vehicle to have CarPlay support is the new 2018 Mazda6, and it is set to get the feature this summer. All 2018 Mazda6 models with...

9to5 Mac reports today that Apple Music customers have noticed that a new “Music Videos” section has started appearing in their Music app. Music video updates in the Music app were previously announced as one of the new features to be included in iOS 11.3, but this has not appeared in any of the...

MacRumors reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook has today told Recode’s Kara Swisher that “I wouldn’t be in this situation” when he was asked what he would do if he were Mark Zuckerberg at the moment. During the interview, which took place at the Lane Tech College Prep High School where Apple held...

Following its education event in Chicago yesterday, during which it launched a new iPad, Apple has today announced a collaboration with Chicago Public Schools and Northwestern University to provide free professional education to teachers in Chicago, for the purpose of enabling the teachers to...

Just as expected, Apple has today announced an update of its popular 9.7-inch iPad, with the addition of support for Apple Pencil and improved performance, all for a lower starting price of $329. Apple made the announcement at its Field Trip educational event in Chicago today, where it revealed...

BGR writes today that the original TV content that Apple has been working on developing over the past couple of years will not launch until March 2019. The original report in The New York Times says that Apple’s approach to its original programming is to keep “its bright, optimistic brand...

According to a new report on MacRumors today, a newly discovered vulnerability in iOS 11 was reported by Infosec over the weekend. The security flaw is said to affect the QR code scanner that is a new software feature introduced in iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad. The vulnerability that has just...

AppleInsider reports that according to a new note to investors from KGI Securities' Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is set to announce a new 9.7-inch iPad at its educationally themed “Field Trip” event that is due to be held in Chicago, Illinois, tomorrow. And Kuo says that thanks to the new iPad’s...

According to a report on Reuters today, most Android phones will not have 3D-sensing features on a par with Apple’s Face ID tech until 2019. The news comes via three major parts producers, Viavi Solutions, Finisar Corp and Ams AG. This means that Samsung and other Android Apple rivals continue...

According to new figures from Sensor Tower, via 9to5 Mac, Epic Games’ battle royale smash hit console and PC game Fortnite, which was released on iOS last week, has made more than $1.5 million in in-app purchases to date. Sensor Tower says that according to its own intelligence data, $1 million...

GameSpot reports that the ridiculously popular desktop and console battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (or PUBG, for short), has finally arrived in App Stores around the world. This follows on from the release of two mobile versions of the game in China in February by Tencent Games...

According to an exclusive report on Bloomberg Technology today, Apple has begun designing and producing its own device displays at a secret manufacturing plant near its California headquarters. Bloomberg’s source said that Apple initially intends to make a small test batch of displays...

Paladin Studios’ My Tamagotchi Forever has arrived in the App Store today, 20 years after the original hand-held game became a massive worldwide craze for a brief moment in time. Developed by Bandai Namco and Paladin Studios, gameplay is very similar to the original, whereby all you have to do...

The head of Security at Android, David Kleidermacher, has proclaimed in his introduction to the 2017 Year in Review of Android Security that Google’s Android platform is now just as secure as iOS, and possibly even more secure. 9to5 Mac writes that Kleidermacher stated to CNET that “Android...

MacRumors writes that Apple has today announced the dates for its 29th annual Worldwide Developers Conference, which starts on Monday, June 4, and ends on Friday, June 8. The conference will take place at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. Registration for those developers...

According to a new report from Digitimes, via AppleInsider, Apple’s long-awaited new wireless charging mat, AirPower, is due to launch sometime this month. First announced by Apple back in September 2017, the AirPower mat should be available to purchase before the end of March. It’s also...

9to5 Mac reports today that according to MBLM’s annual Brand Intimacy survey, which polled 6,000 people from the US, Mexico, and United Arab Emirates, Apple is still the number 1 brand that they feel they have an emotional bond with. Apple also came out on top in last year’s Brand Intimacy...