• Expanded FIFA Club World Cup likely heading to Apple

    The rights to FIFA’s expanded Club World Cup tournament are reportedly heading to Apple on a global deal. Per the New York Times, the tournament, which will be held in the United States in the summer of 2025, is only bringing in “as little as a quarter of the $4 billion FIFA had first estimated,”

  • Apple vastly expands Figma support with new set of design templates

    Apple today has added nine new design templates to its collection of Figma resources, significantly increasing the number of resources available for Figma users. Previously the available resources focused solely on key operating systems like iOS and iPadOS, visionOS, and macOS. Now, nine new cross-platform feature templates are available. more

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    Apple reportedly renews talks with OpenAI about powering new iPhone features

    After talking with both OpenAI and Google about their AI models, it appears that Apple might be close to choosing an AI tech partner for the iPhone.According to a Bloomberg report, Apple has "renewed" talks with OpenAI to use the startup's tech to power new AI features coming to future iPhones. Apple and OpenAI held discussions earlier this year, but those ended and Apple started talking to Google.Now, Apple might be settling down. Talks are apparently pretty far along, Bloomberg says, citing...

  • Apple renews talks with OpenAI for iPhone generative AI features: report

    Apple Inc has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using the startup's generative AI technology to power some new features being introduced in the iPhone later this year, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The companies have begun discussing terms of a potential agreement and how OpenAI features would be integrated into Apple's next iPhone operating system, iOS 18, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. Apple and OpenAI did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for...

  • Apple renews talks to integrate OpenAI’s technology into the next iPhone operating system

    The two companies have begun discussing terms of a possible agreement and how the OpenAI features would be integrated into Apple’s iOS 18, the next iPhone operating system.

  • Season 2 of Apple's Hit Drama Series SEVERANCE Wraps Production Two Years After it Was Renewed — GeekTyrant

    Season 2 of Apple’s hit drama series Severance has finally wrapped production two years after it was given the green light. The first season of the show premiered on...

  • Gentle Monster Is Also a Marketing Monster

    In a world where sunglasses are often all (sometimes literally) the same, Gentle Monster has broken through the ho-hum of it all thanks to sheering marketing p

  • Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation

    There appears to be an increasingly widespread Apple ID outage of some sort impacting users tonight. A number of people on social media say that they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on Friday evening and forced to reset their password before logging back in more

  • Apple Releases New Firmware for USB-C Apple Pencil

    Apple today released a firmware update for the USB-C Apple Pencil that came out last year. The new firmware has a version number of 10M6060, up from 10M5164. On device, the updated firmware version number will be 37377.37377.16.0. There is no word on what features, fixes, or updates might be included in the new firmware, and Apple does not offer release notes for ‌Apple Pencil‌ software releases. The USB-C ‌Apple Pencil‌ is nearly identical in design to the ‌Apple Pencil‌ 2, but it is...

  • ‘Games are more important to Apple than ever’: what’s next for Apple Arcade?

    The head of the company’s gaming subscription service explains its priorities as it anticipates the Vision Pro revolution, and tries to bring originality to a market still dominated by free to play mobile titlesWhen Apple launched its games subscription service, Arcade, in September 2019, it drew a huge amount of attention – as with everything the company does. Offering 100 premium (ie, not ad-infested) mobile games for a monthly subscription fee of £4.99/$4.99 (now £6.99), and the promise of...

  • Today in Apple history: Apple teams with Volkswagen for iBeetle car

    On April 22, 2013, the iBeetle arrived. A collaboration between Cupertino and Volkswagen produced a car "stylistically linked" to Apple (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)

  • Apple enhances USB-C Apple Pencil with new firmware update

    Apple has released a firmware update for the USB-C Apple Pencil launched in 2023. It enhances the functionality and overall performance of the accessory. Apple enhances USB-C Apple Pencil with new firmware update The update, which transitions from version 10M5164 to 10M6060, is available via a connection of the Apple Pencil to an iPad using a USB-C cable. On the device, the new firmware version number is displayed as 37377.37377.16.0. Apple doesn't generally provide release notes for...