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Apple is preparing some smart home updates, with a new HomePod mini expected soon. Here's what to expect from Apple's small wireless speaker. HomePod mini 2 shouldn't change much from the first-gen's external appearance. Apple's HomePod mini is a key part of the smart home. While it is obviously a great and compact speaker and a way to communicate with Siri without using your iPhone , it's also a…

A new study covering wearing an Apple Vision Pro during certain surgeries has concluded that it is superior to existing medical equipment, and is very much worth the relatively small cost. The Apple Vision Pro has proven to be a useful tool for cataract surgery. Apple Vision Pro has been used for surgery since it first came out, and surgeons have already said that it is so light it saves them pai…

Even though Apple now supports RCS to let Android users join in iMessage conversations, the risky Sunbird app is back to persuade them to route everything through its servers anyway. Don't do it to yourself. That would be Android phones it's talking about. You're on an iPhone, you're fine. Image credit: Sunbird Previously on Sunbird... it was an Android app that let users partake in Apple iMessag…

Apple's powerhouse 16-inch MacBook Pro with an M5 Max chip and 40-core GPU is $500 off today, the largest discount currently available across the 16-inch lineup. Save $500 on Apple's loaded 16-inch MacBook Pro at Amazon - Image credit: Apple Amazon is slashing $500 off Apple's premium 16-inch MacBook Pro with a top-of-the-line M5 Max chip. Equipped with an 18-core CPU and 40-core GPU, the high-en…

Boat owners are getting a new entertainment option as they bob on the water, as Crest Marine and Balise bring CarPlay to pontoons. Savvy Navvy on CarPlay, on a boat's infotainment system - Image Credit: Savvy Navvy Apple CarPlay is intended as a way to interact with your iPhone safely through a vehicle's infotainment system. While that vehicle has been cars, vans, and trucks so far, it's about to…

Apple's Newton handheld computer was both the company's biggest failure and its greatest peek into the future. Now, 33 years after launch, AppleInsider reminisces about what Newton was, what it meant, and where it went wrong. Apple's original Newton - image credit: Apple Back in 1993, Apple's press officers did the rounds of every technology magazine there was. When they reached one in London, th…

Shockwaves from the global RAM and SSD crisis continue to echo through home electronics pricing, and RAM manufacturers are reaping massive profits. A fix is coming, but it is a long time away and may not make any difference at all to consumers. This is what it feels like buying RAM these days. It's been a long time since RAM pricing at retail has been something that we've needed to keep an eye on…

As it generally goes with social media advice, viral posts telling iPhone owners to refrigerate overheated devices should be ignored as that will cause more damage than the heat itself. Here's why, and what you should do instead. Don't put your iPhone in the refrigerator or freezer. It's been a hot summer. Record-smashing high temperatures have been responsible for thousands of hospitalizations a…

TikTok boasted about adding measures to protect teenagers from harmful content, but deliberately kept them from 15 million Americans until one killed himself, and then lied about being responsible. TikTok intentionally disabled new safety features for a control group of around 15 million Americans. Even before the US questioned the security of Chinese social media platform TikTok, the service's p…

Apple's memory supply woes are going to continue, as suppliers have already sold their entire production capacity of memory at high prices for all of 2027. Expect iPhone upgrades to cost more this year, and next. A Samsung LPDDR5X memory chip - Image Credit: Samsung The tech industry's ongoing nightmare of memory pricing is expected to be a long-term problem. It seems that it will still be an iss…

Ahead of producing the iPhone 18 Pro and the folding iPhone , Apple's main manufacturer Foxconn has announced the greatest monthly earnings in its 52-year history, and says it's all down to AI demand. A Foxconn factory - image credit: Foxconn In late July 2026 , Foxconn began its annual recruitment drive to get enough workers to produce the forthcoming iPhone 18 Pro . But according to Reuters , t…

Since its founding, Sam Altman's OpenAI has been at the center of multiple controversies, with Apple's intellectual property theft suit being just the latest chapter. Here's the story so far about what's been alleged over the last decade. Sam Altman of OpenAI The artificial intelligence development wave has greatly affected the tech industry. As usual, this also includes accusations, threats, and…

Sometimes you have no other choice but to share a large document from your Mac to a PC over a network. Here's how to get file sharing working between macOS Tahoe and Windows. File sharing between macOS Tahoe and Windows is not as complicated as you think. Apple's ecosystem is a great system for managing your digital life. It's almost effortless to synchronize and transfer files between your iPhon…

If you've been dying to run macOS on iPad hardware natively, a jailbreak solution has emerged for M1 and M2 iPads running iPadOS 16, though it is extremely experimental. Get macOS on an iPad via jailbreak There has been an endless debate surrounding the iPad since Apple debuted the first iPad Pro . It runs iPadOS , a branch of iOS , which is much more locked down compared to macOS. Users that wan…

Apple requires all browsers to use WebKit on iPhone, so a report suggests every browser is affected by three separate leaks that can hand off information around a proxy or iCloud Private Relay . WebKit browsers can leak data past proxies and iCloud Private Relay When users install proxy browsers or Tor, they expect absolute privacy while navigating the web. However, one developer has discovered t…