Month:August 2024

Apple will host its annual National Parks Apple Watch activity challenge on Saturday, August 25. The event is designed to celebrate national parks across the United States. Apple Watch owners can earn an Apple Watch activity award by doing a workout that lasts for 20 minutes or more on August 25, 2024. As with all …
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Google today announced the launch of several new smartphones in its Pixel lineup, including the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, the Pixel 9, the Pixel 9 Pro, and the Pixel 9 Pro XL, all of which have new Gemini-powered AI capabilities. There’s also a new Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Buds Pro 2 earbuds. Google is …
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Apple today released the fourth beta of watchOS 11 to public beta testers, allowing non-developers to give the new features a try ahead of when the software launches this fall. The fourth beta comes two weeks after the third beta. ‌watchOS 11‌ can be downloaded after signing up on Apple’s beta software website and upgrading …
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India’s Competition Commission has recalled two investigative reports accusing Apple of antitrust violations after the company raised concerns about the disclosure of confidential commercial information (via Reuters). The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has withdrawn two key reports that alleged Apple breached local competition laws. The recall, which is highly unusual, comes after the company …
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Today we’re tracking a big selection of discounts on Anker’s and Jackery’s best portable power stations on Amazon, with as much as $1,750 in savings on these devices. These accessories are high-capacity portable batteries that can provide backup power to a wide variety of devices, from laptops to RVs. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner …
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Apple Music with spatial audio is now available in Rivian electric vehicles as part of the company’s Connect+ subscription. Rivian’s latest software update brings a unique, built-in ‌Apple Music‌ app to the company’s electric vehicles, such as the R1T truck and R1S SUV. The ‌Apple Music‌ app allows users to access a library of over …
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Next year’s iPhone SE 4 will almost certainly come with 8GB of RAM, up from 4GB in the 2022 model, due to the hardware requirements of Apple Intelligence. Currently in Apple’s smartphone lineup, only the iPhone 15 Pro models support Apple Intelligence, Apple’s suite of AI features coming in iOS 18.1, because the features require …
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With the release of iOS 18.1 beta 2, Apple has apparently opened up access to Apple Intelligence for English speakers located in the European Union, something that was not possible in previous versions. One of the reasons Apple initially limited region access to Apple Intelligence was that it only supported US English, but in the …
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