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Multi-Emmy and Academy Award nominee Amy Adams (“Nightbitch,” “American Hustle”) will star in and executive produce the Apple TV+ series Cape Fear, from Nick Antosca, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, reports Deadline. In November 2024 Apple announced that Apple...

Emmy winner Matthew Rhys has signed on to play the lead and executive produce “Widow’s Bay,” Apple TV+‘s 10-episode series from creator Katie Dippold, with Hiro Murai set to direct the pilot, reports Deadline.  “Widow’s Bay” is about a mysteriously cursed New...

San Francisco’s WaterField Designs has introduced the US$379 Shinjuku Laptop Brief in three sizes featuring X-Pac Canvas or traditional waxed canvas and full-grain leather for a casual to professional appeal.  It’s available for pre-order now,...

Deluxe, a Payments and Data company, now enables its U.S. customers to accept in-person contactless payments with Tap to Pay on iPhone.  Tap to Pay on iPhone allows merchants to accept all forms of contactless payments, including contactless credit and debit...

Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from other websites. ° From the Financial Times (a subscription is required to read the article): Trump wants to tax imported semiconductors and dismantle an incentive scheme under which Washington...

Apple, as noted by Stephen Hackett of 512 Pixels, has published a support document, on how to migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another Apple Account. You can do this if an Apple Account is only used for making purchases, those purchases can be migrated to a...

Apple says Piano Tiles 2+ and Crazy Eights: Card Games+ for the iPhone and iPad will be coming to Apple Arcade on March 6. Here’s how the games are described:  Piano Tiles 2+: The original and all-time classic piano game is getting fine-tuned with exciting new...

Future Apple Watches may automatically detect your wrist size. Apple has been granted a patent for “touchless wrist measurement.” About the patent filing The patent filing generally relates to electronic devices that perform touchless wrist measurement and, in...

Beats, a wholly owned Apple subsidiary, has announced Powerbeats Pro 2, which the company says is “built for ultimate athletic performance with powerful, immersive sound and Heart Rate Monitoring for workouts.” Boasting a redesigned earhook and significant upgrades to...

Apple is renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico in its Maps app, according to Bloomberg. President Donald Trump signed a controversial (to say the least) proclamation renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on February 9. Now when searching in...

Apple has completed its acquisition of Pixelmator, which was announced last year.  The acquired image editing apps have been updated — not with bug fixes or new features, but a splash screen announcing, “We are excited to announce that Pixelmator Pro is now part...

Apple is partnering with Alibaba to developer AI features for iPhone users in China, according to The Information (a subscription is required to read the article). Alibaba is one of the world’s largest retailers and e-commerce companies. In 2020, it was also rated as...

Some Apple Watch Series 10 users are experiencing issues with speaker volume, according to MacRumors. The article says there are a growing number of complaints about a potential Apple Watch Series 10 speaker issue across the Apple Support Community and Reddit....

SellCell, a site that sells used phones, has introduced a tool that offers consumers a real-time, predictive look at how their smartphones will depreciate over time.  The Smartphone Depreciation Calculator allows you to see exactly how much your phone...

Some people who had previously disabled Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.3 and iOS 18.3 saw it re-enabled after updating to macOS 15.3.1 and iOS 18.3.1, reports 9to5Mac. While it’s clearly a bug, it’s not clear at this point what causes the unintended behavior, nor how...

Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from other websites. ° From MacRumors: Just minutes after Super Bowl LIX ended on Sunday, Apple shared a short video promoting its MLS Season Pass subscription service. ° From The MacObserver: iPhone...

Apple has released macOS Sequoia 15.3.1, iOS 18.3.1, iPadOS 18.3.1, watchOS 11.3.1, and visionOS 2.3. macOS Sequoia 15.3.1 contains what Apple says is “important” security fixes. You can download and install it via the Software Update section of the System Settings...

Laura Mercier has launched its luxury beauty shopping app for Apple Vision Pro, created in partnership with immersive shopping platform and visionOS developer Obsess.  Obsess was recently acquired by Infinite Reality (iR), a company powering the next generation...

Apple TV+ picked up just one award in the 2025 Critics Choice Awards: Michael Urie of “Shrinking” won Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.  The actor plays Brian, the best friend to Jason Segel’s character Jimmy Laird who is a grieving therapist who begins...

Apple TV+ picked up just one award in the 2025 Critics Choice Awards: Michael Urie of “Shrinking” won Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.  The actor plays Brian, the best friend to Jason Segel’s character Jimmy Laird who is a grieving therapist who begins...

Emmy winner Holland Taylor is set as a series regular opposite Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in their untitled brothers comedy series for Apple TV+, reports Deadline. Here’s how the series is described: The 10-episode half-hour comedy reunites Harrelson and...

Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from other websites. ° From AppleInsider: Chart-topping AI iPhone app DeepSeek has been found to be sending data to Chinese-owned services, as well as collecting extensive user data that is held...

Here are the top Apple-related articles at Apple World Today for the week of February 3-7. ° Apple has announced that it is making Swift Build open source. Swift is Apple’s programming language.  ° Apple’s iPhone 15 was the best-selling smartphone globally...

Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services has recommended that Apple investors vote against a proposal to consider eliminating the tech giant’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, reports Reuters. Apple’s disclosures offer shareholders...

Apple has three shows in the top 10 streaming television shows, according to the Reelgood streaming services guide. “Severance” is number two on the list, “Silo” is number six, and “Prime Target” is number eight. When it comes to the top overall streaming titles...

In 2024, Apple sued Andrew Aude, a former software engineer, for leaking leaked secrets about various initiatives, including Apple’s Journal app and the Vision Pro device, through his company-issued iPhone.  This information was reportedly shared with journalists...

“Love You to Death” (“A muerte”), a Spanish-language romantic comedy hailing from Atresmedia TV and Goya Award-nominated Dani de la Orden (“Casa en Flames”), is now streaming on Apple TV+. It starts Goya Award winner Verónica Echegui (“The Patients of Dr. García”) and...

The British government has ordered that Apple give it blanket access to all encrypted user content uploaded to the cloud, reports The Washington Post (a subscription is required to read the article). The secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups...

Mac users running macOS Mojave 10.14 and earlier are reporting widespread issues accessing the Mac App Store, with many unable to sign in or download previously purchased apps, reports MacRumors. Based on reports compiled by Michael Tsai, the problems appear to have...

Apple finished 20th in the JUST 100 list as part of its 2024 Rankings of America’s Most JUST Companies, an annual ranking of large public companies on issues of key importance to the American public. While Apple, Microsoft and Alphabet continue to make the list, their...