Best Buy Details Black Friday Plans With Early Deals Available on Halloween

With Halloween just around the corner, Best Buy this week is detailing its sale plans for the holiday, as well as the rest of the year. This includes a special event on Friday, October 31, and the usual month-long discounts leading up to Black Friday on Friday, November 28. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner …
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Apple Hits Back at EU Law in Court

Apple today opened its broadest legal attack yet on the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), telling the EU’s second-highest court that the new competition regime unlawfully compels changes to the iPhone, the App Store, and iMessage (via Bloomberg). Apple’s arguments were delivered by before the General Court in Luxembourg. The company claims that the …
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Samsung to Unveil Apple Vision Pro Competitor Tomorrow

Samsung is holding a Galaxy Event tomorrow, where the company will unveil its long-awaited “Project Moohan” mixed reality headset that will compete with the Apple Vision Pro. Samsung says that it is “ushering in a new era” with its upcoming “AI-native devices.” Samsung already showed off the Project Moohan AR/VR headset back in January, and …
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OpenAI Strengthens Sora Protections Following Celebrity Deepfake Concerns

Sora, OpenAI’s AI video app, will no longer allow users to create videos featuring celebrity likenesses or voices. OpenAI, SAG-AFTRA, actor Bryan Cranston, United Talent Agency, Creative Artists Agency, and Association of Talent Agents today shared a joint statement about “productive collaboration” to ensure voice and likeness protections in content generated with Sora 2 and …
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Here’s How the iOS 26.1 Transparency Toggle Changes Liquid Glass

With the fourth beta of iOS 26.1, Apple added a toggle that makes Liquid Glass more opaque and reduces transparency. We tested the beta to see where the toggle works and what it looks like. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. If you have the latest iOS 26.1 beta, you can go …
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Apple Seeds Fourth Public Betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 and macOS Tahoe 26.1

Apple today provided public beta testers with the fourth releases of upcoming iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, tvOS 26.1 and watchOS 26.1 updates for testing purposes. Apple seeded the betas to developers earlier today. After signing up for beta testing on Apple’s beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the …
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Kohler Launches $600 iPhone-Connected Toilet Camera That Monitors Your Health Through Waste Analysis

Kohler is expanding its line of bathroom products with Dekoda, an iPhone-connected device that’s designed to be attached to a toilet rim (via The Verge). The device’s included “sensors” point into the toilet bowl, allowing it to analyze what goes on in the bathroom. According to Kohler, Dekoda is a health tracker that can monitor …
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iOS 26.1 Beta 4 Adds Toggle to Turn Off Lock Screen Camera Swipe

The fourth beta of iOS 26.1 includes an option to turn off the Lock Screen swipe that activates the camera, a feature that iPhone users have been wanting for years. In the Camera section of the Settings app, there’s a Lock Screen Swipe to Open Camera setting, and turning it off disables the feature where …
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