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As part of its already-announced US manufacturing effort, Apple is committing $500 million to a rare earth recycling firm, to develop new materials that it will use in future devices including the iPhone. It’s already been reported that the iPhone 16 could benefit from redesigned magnets for MagSafe, and also that Apple has looked at … Read more

CyberPunk 2077: Ultimate Edition will be playable on the Mac starting July 17. On July 17, the futuristic, neon-lit world of Cyberpunk 2077 will finally make its way to the Mac, bringing Apple gamers an exciting but long-overdue experience. The Mac release of CyberPunk 2077 comes more than four years after the PC version of … Read more

Incogni can protect you from bad actors. Image source: Incogni The internet is a necessary tool, but it’s a double-edged sword that takes more than it gives and can leave your data exposed to bad actors. Here’s how to eliminate threats with data removal. If you’ve ever created an account online and provided details like … Read more

Apple’s latest research shows that using a combination of Apple Watch sensors and all Apple Health data, results in a remarkably accurate pregnancy detector. From its most recent academic paper from its Heart and Movement Study, Apple researchers have been testing how combinations of factors can be used to determine health, and most effectively, pregnancy. … Read more

Apple will not let go of an idea where a single key on the MacBook Pro keyboard could be taken out, used as a precision mouse, and then popped back in again. “Deployable Key Mouse,” is a newly-granted patent, yet Apple must be really serious about this idea because it was previously granted a near-identical … Read more

The stock macOS wallpaper menus are pretty good. You can do better. There is a spectacular tool to customize your desktop on Windows called Wallpaper Engine. It doesn’t run on Mac, but there are three excellent alternatives that we’ve tried and like. Mac, like Windows, offers users quite a few options when it comes to … Read more

The U.S. government is asking a federal court to enforce an IRS summons to Apple for user data, that will be used in a Swiss tax investigation. The defendant isn’t pleased. Federal prosecutors want a California judge to reject a petition aiming to block the Internal Revenue Service from demanding Apple turn over account records … Read more

If Apple research pans out, the display of a future Apple Watch, iPhone, or any other product with a screen, may be able to contain a camera and camera flash which are externally visible only when needed. The sole thing that stops the Apple Watch a wrist-worn video communicator popularized by a great deal of … Read more

The Games app is a new addition coming to iOS 26 in the fall. Here’s what it does, how it works, and who it’s for. There are a bunch of new features with iOS 26, but one that had us particularly interested was the new Games app. You’ll find it automatically installed after updating to … Read more

A new Apple-backed study, in collaboration with Aalto University in Finland, introduces ILuvUI: a vision-language model trained to understand mobile app interfaces from screenshots and from natural language conversations. Here’s what that means, and how they did it. ILuvUI: an AI that outperformed the model it was based on In the paper, ILuvUI: Instruction-tuned LangUage-Vision … Read more