Apple is poised to become a $5 trillion company based on its market capitalization, which is the total value of all of the company’s outstanding shares. Apple stock closed at $336.91 today, up about 22.5% since the end of June. The company’s market capitalization now stands at approximately $4.94 trillion, although this figure is not precise due to the company repurchasing shares over time. Apple is once again the most valuable public company in the world, having overtaken Nvidia. Popular storiesiPhone 18 Pro launching in two months with these 12 new featuresIt’s now the end of July, which means the…
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These are likely Apple’s last incremental updates before the next-gen OS 27 launches. nitpick/Shutterstock Apple has released new updates for all of its platform operating systems. iOS 26.6, macOS 26.6, iPadOS 26.6, tvOS 26.6, watchOS 26.6, and visionOS 26.6 are all now available to the public. While there are no notable new features to announce in this batch, as there were in versions 26.5 and 26.4, wave 26.6 includes security fixes across the board. This means, as usual, it’s worth getting the latest version on your devices as soon as possible. OS 26.6 will most likely…
Have you tried turning it off and on again? It’s an all-too-familiar scene: you’re exploring a new area, you pull out your phone, and you see the dreaded SOS symbol in the upper right corner. This feels like a death knell in our phone-addicted landscape. But that doesn’t mean your phone is completely useless. If you see the SOS or SOS only symbol, you may be able to contact emergency services via other available cellular networks. For iPhone 14s and later models, users can also make emergency calls and send text messages via Apple’s satellite network. SOS capabilities are an…
Starting today, the popular Pocket Casts podcast platform is available on all Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD models. The application was already available on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. “Your podcasts, your Up Next, your place in every episode, right on the screen in front of you,” Pocket Casts said in a blog post. “Start something on your phone at the bus stop. Finish it on the couch that night, right where you left it. Nothing to find. Nothing to sync by hand.” Popular storiesiPhone 18 Pro launching in two months with these 12 new featuresIt’s now the…
You might be missing some features. aileenchik/Shutterstock The Apple Watch is often the first choice for iPhone owners because it pairs very well with the smartphone and the entire Apple ecosystem. The last of the more affordable SE range is the Apple Watch SE 3, launching in September 2025 alongside the Apple Watch Series 11 and Ultra 3. You may be wondering if it’s worth upgrading to this model, which costs $150 less than the Series 11, or even upgrading to an older Apple Watch. There’s a reason the SE line, and more recently the SE…
Longtime Android nerds who remember the versions that dessert-based codenames represented know that the mobile operating system of 2008 isn’t the same one we see today, gracing our phones, tablets, smartwatches, and all sorts of other screens in our lives. Crude technical aspects aside, it’s just a visually different beast: Since its launch, Google has undertaken four major overhauls of the platform. At the time of writing, the latest is the third iteration of Material Design launching with Android 12 in 2021. Material Design, however, is not the only camp on the ground: Samsung’s…
Apple is facing a new lawsuit from three customers who allegedly lost a total of $1.8 million after falling victim to a fake Bitcoin wallet app in the App Store, according to a complaint filed Friday in federal court in California. The complaint alleges that Apple violated the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act and other laws by failing to adequately review and monitor apps distributed through the App Store, despite marketing it as “a safe and trusted place to discover and download apps.” Because of these assurances in Apple’s marketing, the complaint said the plaintiffs believed a Sparrow Wallet app…
Framesira/Shutterstock Motorola has been a big part of the Android landscape since the beginning, thanks to its Verizon-locked Droid, released in 2009, just a year after the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1. Motorola enjoyed some success, to the point that Android phones were mostly called Droids during these early years, achieving mainstream appeal thanks to the company’s successful flashy marketing around the term “Droid”, to which even Samsung and HTC contributed. It could be argued that Motorola contributed significantly to Android’s initial appeal. So it’s no surprise that Google…
Apple will update its Series 12 and Ultra 4 watches with better specs, but no design overhaul. Upcoming Apple Watch updates won’t be much different from existing models, but they’ll offer a lot more processing power, according to the latest Bloomberg report. In the To light up In the newsletter, Mark Gurman reported that Apple is in “advanced testing” for the refreshed Wi-Fi and cellular-only Apple Watch Series 12, as well as the Ultra 4. Gurman added that the Apple Watch SE is not expected to be refreshed this year, given that the Apple Watch SE 3 was just released…
We also now know when it will be released: January 22, 2027. Apple The Apple TV series based on William Gibson’s genre-defining 1984 cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer, will arrive on the streaming platform on January 22 next year. Apple announced the news at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend alongside the first official teaser. Neuromancer stars Callum Turner, Briana Middleton, Mark Strong, Joseph Lee, Peter Sarsgaard and Clémence Poésy. “‘Neuromancer’ follows a damaged, high-profile super-hacker named Case (Turner) who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high-stakes crime with his partner Molly (Middleton), a razor-thin assassin,…