Founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple is best known for making some of the world’s most ubiquitous consumer devices, software, and services: the iPhone, iPad, iMac and MacBook computers, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iOS, iCloud, iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and many more. Led by CEO Tim Cook since 2011, Apple is one of the largest technology companies in the world alongside Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
iOS 18 introduces more customization and the first rollout of Apple Intelligence.
After taking a break from the promotion last year, T-Mobile is once again giving away free MLS Season Pass access to “qualified T-Mobile and Metro by T-Mobile customers,” Apple has announced.
You can redeem it “for a limited time” using the T-Mobile Life app starting on February 18th.
The new version of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp -- free of in-app purchases -- debuted last December at $9.99 for a limited time.
For those who have been dragging their feet on buying the new Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete for either iOS or Android, that limited time offer runs out before the end of this week. At 1AM ET on January 31st, the game will increase in price to $19.99.
Silo’s second season may be over, but if you’re not ready to engage with the outside world again, this vibey tour through the show’s sets might be right up your alley.
According to Bloomberg and user reports, T-Mobile’s list of eligible devices for beta testing Starlink direct-to-cell connections now includes iPhones. While only a few Samsung Galaxy devices were supported at first, now iPhone owners with the most recent update can reportedly connect, as well as some people with Android 15 devices.
That gives those owners an alternative to Apple’s Globalstar-connected service while off the grid that works without pointing their phone at the sky first.
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Mythic Quest’s fourth season still dunks on the games industry, but it’s way more invested in everyone’s emotional growth.
0Before Google hired away Character.ai’s leadership, both Google and Apple issued warnings to the startup that prompted it to introduce stronger content filters and increase its age rating to 17+ on the App Store, according to a report from The Information.
Character.ai employees also reportedly raised concerns internally about the app’s impact on teen mental health, something it’s currently facing two lawsuits over.
Cat toy apps like “Meow Cat Game” aren’t new, but my orange fuzzball Trevor is. If you need a way to distract your energetic kitty for a while then they might just buy you enough time to get some work done.
You can log into multiple WhatsApp accounts on one iOS device in a recent iOS beta version, writes WABetaInfo.
In the case of Android phones, which have had the feature since 2023, you need a multi-SIM card phone and a second phone number to register another account.
And 76 percent of iPhone introduced in the last four years are on it, too, according to Apple’s iOS adoption stats that were spotted by 9to5Mac. The figures, from Apple, are “As measured by devices that transacted on the App Store on January 21, 2025.”
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Atari’s Space Race debuted in 1973 with a limited number of arcade machines featuring a futuristic fiberglass cabinet design.
They’re now hard to come by, so the Retro Collective recreated one from scratch using a crude 3D iPhone scan of an original unit that was refined, 3D-printed, and assembled like a giant retro gaming puzzle with some added electronics.
The impressively small Mac Mini doesn’t include a slot for cable locks, so Kensington’s solution to prevent it from getting stolen from schools, offices, and other shared spaces is a new $69.95 secure steel cage.
The Kensington Security Mount for Mac Mini also doubles as a mounting solution, allowing the desktop to be installed out of sight for added security.
In an interview with The Verge, Vividh Siddha, director of engineering at Apple and president of Thread Group, shared another use case for the Thread radio in newer iPhones.
As well as allowing setup of a Thread device when you don’t have a Thread border router, the Thread radio in the iPhone lets you control devices when the power is out:
But the other important factor is the ability to use your accessories, and some important ones, like your front door lock when there’s a power outage. If you have no infrastructure — your Wi-Fi router is down, your Thread border router is down — and you still want the ability to get into your house or do other things that might be smart home related. Those are some use cases that it’s explicitly designed for, but it’s not limited to that.
And that includes the new title sequence, which is a surreal way to start each episode. You can watch it below. And for more on the new season, be sure to check out our interviews on Severance’s bizarre computers and its inspired approach to cliffhangers.
Siri still sucks, despite Apple blowharding about its AI advances and ChatGPT integration. Just read this damning and hilarious report over at One Foot Tsunami for the latest evidence:
With the absolute most charitable interpretation, Siri correctly provided the winner of just 20 of the 58 Super Bowls that have been played.
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The CSA, Thread Group, and Wi-Fi Alliance say they’re working to fix the biggest problems with the smart home standard. In this exclusive interview, I ask them how and when.
Dbrand said in November 2023 it would freely replace purchases of the Ghost Case, a clear smartphone case it claims will never yellow, but which was overly scratch-prone when released.
After manufacturing delays, Dbrand emailed The Verge to say it’s finally sent replacements to customers, who seem to be pleased with the results so far.
Apple is rolling out the release candidate beta build of iOS 18.3, meaning a wider release for everyone is likely days away. Among other tweaks, this update aims to make it more obvious when Apple Intelligence is summarizing your notifications — and that those summaries can contain errors.
Maybe it’s the lack of Apple Intelligence in China, or maybe it’s the Mate 70 series’ performance.
Either way, MacRumors points out these Counterpoint Research stats showing iPhone sales in China put it in third place in Q4, behind both Huawei and Oppo (which includes OnePlus), and fourth place for the full year, despite its second-place finish globally.
That seems to be what Evan Blass is suggesting in an image leak about new Apple products posted to his private X account.
The leak also includes a post that appears to show parts of URLs about the upcoming products. The products include an “iPhone SE (4th Gen),” a new 11th-generation base iPad, and 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Airs with M3 chips.
