Staff lottery reveals Apple’s first-half September event plans
Apple is opening a lottery for U.S. retail employees to staff its next major product event, bringing store workers into preparations for the company’s biggest launch of the year. An internal memo viewed by Bloomberg invited U.S. retail employees to enter a lottery to help staff the in-person event. Selected workers will greet and check […]
The Pixel Watch 5 just leaked in full before Google’s August 12 event
Google’s Pixel Watch 5 may be an even smaller hardware upgrade than previous reports suggested. Marketing material and a technical document obtained by MyMobiles (in collaboration with @OnLeaks) reportedly show the same Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 processor, 3,000-nit display, charging speeds, and battery-life estimates as the Pixel Watch 4. The main hardware change appears to […]
Apple Card unlocks Booking.com Genius Level 2 perks
Apple Card users have a new way to get more value out of Booking.com without spending months climbing its loyalty ranks, though the perks are notably limited. Apple is offering cardholders immediate access to Booking.com’s Genius Level 2 after one qualifying stay or rental car booking. The offer is available through eligible reservations made with […]
Der8auer Built a CPU Cooler Chimney to Prove Vertical Cooling Makes Sense
The old advice that building your PC like a chimney, with hot air rising and fans helping it along the way, does make sense and does have a real effect on cooling. Just not as much as most DIY enthusiasts think. To prove it, famed overclocker Roman “Der8auer” Hartung built a meter-tall CPU cooling tower, […]
Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use
Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba’s famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI market: autonomous software engineering and long-horizon enterprise work. If the company’s published benchmarks hold up under […]
Apple hits a record $10B in annual retail revenue in India
Apple has set new annual sales in India, with its second main iPhone manufacturing base generating a record $10 billion in sales despite currency and tax challenges. India serves as Apple’s second base of iPhone production alongside China, as part of the wider supply chain. While Apple has been building up its production capacity in […]
Apple moves for preliminary injunction in OpenAI trade secrets lawsuit
Apple has filed a request for a preliminary injunction in its ongoing trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI. Without a preliminary injunction, Apple says it will be “irreparably harmed” by the theft of its trade secrets. In the filing, Apple explains that it sent OpenAI a letter after filing the initial lawsuit last month, saying it […]
OpenAI publishes an open letter trying to refute Apple’s accusations
In an attempt to refute Apple’s intellectual property theft claims, Open AI doesn’t address the theft, and instead leans on a racism claim, and a misdirected email to try to get the court of public opinion on its side. Apple is suing OpenAI and alleging that the ChatGPT company poached its staff with the express […]
Apple @ Work Podcast: The state of digital signage on Apple TV in 2026
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Apple plans to open iPhone clipboard access to Windows PCs
Apple has outlined plans to let users copy and paste content between an iPhone and a Windows PC, following an interoperability request from Microsoft in the European Union. Here are the details. Feature could be limited to the EU As spotted by MacRumors, a new entry on Apple’s Interoperability Requests in the EU page shows […]