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Following its education event in Chicago yesterday, during which it launched a new iPad, Apple has today announced a collaboration with Chicago Public Schools and Northwestern University to provide free professional education to teachers in Chicago, for the purpose of enabling the teachers to...

According to a new note to investors from KGI Securities’ Ming-Chi Kuo, via 9to5 Mac, Apple is set to release a redesigned Apple Watch Series 4 this fall. Kuo says that the new model, which will launch in the third quarter of 2018, will have a 15% larger display, as well as improved health...

BGR writes today that the original TV content that Apple has been working on developing over the past couple of years will not launch until March 2019. The original report in The New York Times says that Apple’s approach to its original programming is to keep “its bright, optimistic brand...

MacRumors reports today that according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Amit Daryanani, this year’s version of the iPhone X is set to have a $100 price cut, retailing for a starting price of $899, with the new 6.5-inch iPhone X costing from $999. The reason for the price cut, says Daryanani, is...

According to a new report from CNBC today, Bank of America Merrill Lynch is saying that Apple is working with its Asian partners to develop a foldable iPhone. Wamsi has apparently met with several Apple suppliers in Asia. There have been rumours for several years about Apple developing a...

The Verge reports that Finnish developer Next Games, which is currently working on the forthcoming Walking Dead mobile game, The Walking Dead: Our World, has been using the iPhone X’s TrueDepth camera to record facial movements and then use them to animate the facial features of the characters...

Apple has this week announced a Spring collection of Apple Watch bands with some bright new colours and designs, including striped Woven Nylon bands, new Nike bands that colour-match with the latest Nike running shoes, and a new edge paint colour for the Apple Watch Hermès bands. All the bands...

According to a new report from DigiTimes, via MacRumors, Apple is set to start trial production of this year’s rumoured three new iPhones in the second quarter of 2018 in a bid to avoid the supply bottlenecks that caused low yield rates for 3D sensor module production for the iPhone X last year...

Apple has today told MacRumors that it is working on a fix to stop Siri being able to read out loud hidden lock screen notifications. “We are aware of the issue and it will be addressed in an upcoming software update,” said Apple. It’s not yet known if this will be in the forthcoming iOS 11.3...

According to a new report from Digitimes research analyst Luke Lin, via MacRumors, this year’s version of the iPhone X will cost Apple approximately 10% less to manufacture than its predecessor. Lin says that he has heard from sources in Apple’s upstream supply chain that the new phone’s MBOM...

AppleInsider reports today that according to the ongoing DeepHeart study from the University of California, San Francisco, and digital health startup Cardiogram, the Apple Watch heart sensor is able to achieve 97% accuracy when it comes to detecting abnormal heart rhythms. The study uses the...

According to a report on Reuters today, most Android phones will not have 3D-sensing features on a par with Apple’s Face ID tech until 2019. The news comes via three major parts producers, Viavi Solutions, Finisar Corp and Ams AG. This means that Samsung and other Android Apple rivals continue...

According to new figures from Sensor Tower, via 9to5 Mac, Epic Games’ battle royale smash hit console and PC game Fortnite, which was released on iOS last week, has made more than $1.5 million in in-app purchases to date. Sensor Tower says that according to its own intelligence data, $1 million...

GameSpot reports that the ridiculously popular desktop and console battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (or PUBG, for short), has finally arrived in App Stores around the world. This follows on from the release of two mobile versions of the game in China in February by Tencent Games...

According to well-sourced Apple leaker Benjamin Geskin, via MacRumors, Apple is still planning to release a Blush Gold iPhone. In fact, Geskin actually tweeted out a picture of a Blush Gold iPhone X and a SIM card tray in the same colour, stating that it is already “in production,” with the...

According to an exclusive report on Bloomberg Technology today, Apple has begun designing and producing its own device displays at a secret manufacturing plant near its California headquarters. Bloomberg’s source said that Apple initially intends to make a small test batch of displays...

Yesterday we posted a story from MacRumors about a video that had appeared on Japanese Apple blog Macotakara that claimed to show the forthcoming iPhone SE 2. MacRumors was pretty sceptical about the authenticity of the video, and most of the other reports about the same story on other news...

Paladin Studios’ My Tamagotchi Forever has arrived in the App Store today, 20 years after the original hand-held game became a massive worldwide craze for a brief moment in time. Developed by Bandai Namco and Paladin Studios, gameplay is very similar to the original, whereby all you have to do...

MacRumors reports today on a new video that was posted on Japanese website Macotakara that purports to show an iPhone SE 2. MacRumors is pretty sceptical about the video, believing it most likely to be an Android clone fake, especially as the video emanated from China, where such fakes abound...

The head of Security at Android, David Kleidermacher, has proclaimed in his introduction to the 2017 Year in Review of Android Security that Google’s Android platform is now just as secure as iOS, and possibly even more secure. 9to5 Mac writes that Kleidermacher stated to CNET that “Android...