Apple’s new Upgrade program lets you lease an iPhone, Mac, Watch, and iPad
Apple has officially launched Apple Upgrade, a leasing program that lets customers pay monthly for an iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple Watch instead of buying the device outright. The program went live today on Apple’s website in partnership with Klarna, replacing the iPhone Upgrade Program that Apple has offered since 2015. What you can lease […]
Apple shuts down iPhone Upgrade Program, here’s what’s next
Apple today officially launched its new Apple Upgrade leasing program, covering iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. As part of this launch, Apple has also discontinued the iPhone Upgrade Program. Here’s what that means for current users. The iPhone Upgrade Program is no more In today’s press release, Apple said that existing customers will have […]
Touchscreen decision may push MacBook Ultra price even higher
The upcoming MacBook Ultra was never going to be cheap, with an all-new sleeker design, OLED, and touchscreen – even before the price increases driven by higher memory costs. A new report now suggests the manufacturing cost could be pushed yet higher Apple typically likes to have multiple suppliers for components in order to maximize […]
From apprehension to AI agency: the leadership shift no one can outsource
As AI adoption accelerates, some workers will naturally feel apprehensive. Harvard Business Review found trust in employer-provided generative AI fell by 31% between May and July 2025, despite rising top-down pressure to leverage the technology and boost productivity. This shows a clear gap between leaders’ priorities, and those of their teams. AI tools have the […]
OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Health Wants You to Connect Your Medical Records
OpenAI has made ChatGPT Health, its wellness-focused AI tool, available to all US users on free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. OpenAI pitches ChatGPT Health as helping users understand their lab results, enhance their sleep or physical activity, prepare questions to ask their doctors, and more. To do so, though, users are encouraged to connect […]
Microsoft wants AI to catch hackers before they even attack
With AI now capable of writing exploits and running attacks at machine speed, the security tools built for a slower, human-paced world are starting to show their age. Microsoft thinks it has the answer, and it’s calling it Project Perception. So what exactly is Project Perception? At its core, Project Perception is an AI agentic […]
T-Mobile ‘actively working’ to fix ongoing outage, iPhone SOS mode
Update #2, 4:15 p.m. PT: In a statement to 9to5Mac, a T-Mobile spokesperson said: “Our teams are actively working the reports of technical challenges impacting some customers. Any service impacts are in the process of being resolved and are our highest priority. We know how critical it is to stay connected, and every available resource […]
LM Studio Bionic adds support for Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model
LM Studio’s agentic workflow platform now lets users run tasks with Kimi K3, Moonshot AI’s 2.8-trillion-parameter model with a 1-million-context window. Here are the details. Kimi K3 now available on LM Studio Bionic A few days ago, LM Studio announced Bionic, a new app aimed at users looking to leverage open models for agentic tasks. […]
4 Drawbacks Of Buying A Google Pixel Phone
Karlis Dambrans/Shutterstock Google has been in the business of making smartphones ever since the early days of Android. However, Google’s early phones, the Nexus lineup, were actually manufactured by other companies like HTC, Samsung, LG, and Huawei, resulting in different hardware designs and feature sets every time. […]
Prep for Siri AI on Apple Vision Pro with visionOS 26.6
The end-of-cycle updates are often devoid of anything user-facing, but that doesn’t mean you should delay updating to visionOS 26.6. Security patches and preparation for Siri AI are worth the update. Not every operating system update is going to have some flashy headlining feature. As we await the OS 27 releases in the fall, the […]