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According to strings accidentally left in a macOS Tahoe update, Apple's Home Hub will offer user profiles, with identity verification provided by ambient sensing and built-in cameras. Apple's Home Hub will seemingly support user accounts. With the macOS 26.7 release candidate build, Apple inadvertently revealed details about several of its upcoming products , including a camera-equipped model of …

Tim Cook has been CEO for 15 years and is about to step down on September 1, so Apple threw a little party in his honor on August 23 with 200 people in attendance. Apple CEO Tim Cook gets one last little celebration before stepping down September 1 Apple likes to throw a party on occasion, and the latest is a kind of going away/anniversary present for outgoing CEO Tim Cook. He's not really going …

Apple says while Sign in with Apple addresses will still move to a new domain, Hide My Email will stay on iCloud.com after community pushback. Hide My Email will be sticking with the original iCloud domain Changing email domains can create chaos for website and email client administrators. After concerns were raised over Hide My Email changing to private.icloud.com, Apple has shifted course. Acco…

Photographs showing the inside of an Apple Silicon AI server have surfaced online, giving a glimpse of how Apple designed its Private Cloud Compute hardware. Inside an Apple server - Image Credit: @hsuchingpo/X Apple's efforts to catch up in the field of AI have already led to the creation of Private Cloud Compute , namely Apple's own brand of secure AI cloud computing. While it has started to sh…

Apple is wasting little time following the recent record-breaking "Ted Lasso" season premiere, with production on a fifth season to begin in early 2027. Image credit: Apple TV "Ted Lasso" recently had its fourth season premiere, which drew nearly 300 million U.S. viewing minutes across its first two days. It has officially become the biggest launch for Apple TV to date. Now, it seems like Apple's…

As the eventual release of the 27-generation gets ever nearer, Apple has introduced its seventh developer betas for iOS 27 , iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27. An earlier iOS 27 beta screen The Apple Developer Beta program has reached the seventh round for the upcoming iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 releases, expected this Sep…

On this week's episode of the Smart Home Insider podcast, we round up the latest rumors surrounding Apple's smart home display, as well as cover the news. Smart Home Insider Podcast Leading off the news portion of the episode were a pair of stories on Sonos. We saw a new product hit the FCC, as well as a new feature launch. Codenamed "Gambit," the new Sonos soundbar appears to be a successor to t…

A report from a questionable leaker out of China makes the logical claim that the Trump Administration wants to use Apple's request to buy CXMT memory as a bargaining chip with the Chinese President in September. We're not sure there's anything real behind the rumor. CMXT is rapidly becoming a major player in memory - image credit: CXMT Apple, like other tech companies around the world, has a mem…

Apple's expected Virtual Shopping Assistant has begun to appear for some iPhone users, offering to answer questions about products or check on orders, although it won't do much about the rising prices. How the new Virtual Shopping Assistant looks in the Apple Store app - image credit: ShrimpApplePro. Apple has begun to get a reputation for leaking information in code references , but in July 2026…

The iPhone 20 will be a glass-heavy device reminiscent of the iPhone Air but with a more rounded appearance, a Weibo leaker has reiterated. The iPhone Air is thin, but expect more glass for the iPhone 20. While we are all waiting for the iPhone 18 to come out of Apple in the very near future, the rumor mill is still infatuated about devices that are still far from launch. With the 20th-anniversar…

Amazon has slashed 19% off the 4-pack of second-generation AirTags, bringing the price down to a record-low $79.99. Grab the lowest price ever on 4 second-gen AirTags today. If you're planning on traveling for the Labor Day weekend or want the added peace of mind of Precision Finding during everyday activities, Amazon's AirTag deals are worth checking out. Pick up the single AirTag for $24 or the…

In future releases of macOS, Mac users will no longer be able to format or eject disk images using the very long-standing Terminal command, hdiutil . It won't affect many users directly, but it could well break disk repair utility apps. The new deprecation notice in Terminal for the command hdiutil. You may never have even heard of it, but since the earliest days of Mac OS X, the Terminal has inc…

On August 24, 2011, just six weeks before his death, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs announced his resignation as CEO. On the eve of his own leaving, Tim Cook now seems to have been his obvious successor, but back then, he was an unexpected and even controversial choice. Steve Jobs' resignation followed a previous leave of absence from the company starting in January 2011, during which Cook had served…

In this week's Sunday Reboot, the AirPods Pro with cameras are probably the best alternative to smart glasses that Apple could've come up with. AirPods Pro with cameras that feed Siri AI are on the way. Sunday Reboot is a weekly column covering some of the lighter stories within the Apple reality distortion field from the past seven days. All to get the next week underway with a good first step. …

An updated iMac is very close to becoming a reality, as a report claims an M6 version will ship before the end of 2026, but don't expect a major refresh. The current 24-inch iMac The M6 generation of devices is on the way, for an expectedly short product lifecycle before a move to the M7 generation. As for what Mac hardware will use the M6 chip, one of them could well be the iMac. According to Ma…