Apple CEO Tim Cook is thrilled with the performance of the new Mac line, but it’s not good news for anyone looking to get a Mac mini.Apple had a great quarter when it came to Mac. And not just with returning Apple fans, but with new Mac users as well.On Thursday, ahead of the April quarterly earnings call, Cook said CNBC:“We couldn’t be happier with the enthusiasm we’ve seen for the most advanced Mac line in our history…we’ve seen tremendous enthusiasm for the MacBook Neo, which opens up the Mac experience to a whole new range of customers.”The MacBook Neo,…
Author: Ella Richardson
Apple’s fall iPhone lineup this year is rumored to revolve around the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra. Here are the three biggest feature differences (not including price) that may influence your upgrade decision. Form factor: traditional or foldable This difference is the most obvious, but it deserves to be highlighted because it is also the most significant. The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max will offer the same basic form factor that the iPhone has had for years. They are rumored to have the exact same screen size and overall design as their predecessors. If you want a traditional…
Cellular Intelligence, an AI startup backed by Mark Zuckerberg, said Monday it had reached a “defining moment.” The Boston-based startup announced it has acquired global rights to STEM-PD, an experimental cell therapy program for Parkinson’s disease from Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical maker best known for its blockbuster diabetes and weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. The deal gives Cellular Intelligence control of a clinical-stage therapy designed to restore dopamine-producing nerve cells that are lost in Parkinson’s disease. The treatment uses stem cells from donors that are transformed into early-stage brain cells destined to become dopamine-producing neurons. It is currently…
The near-universal 10% tariffs enacted by Trump have been declared illegal, pending appeal, so Apple could benefit from even deeper cost reductions throughout its supply chain and additional refunds.The so-called “Liberation Day,” April 2, 2025, hit Apple’s supply chain like a ton of bricks. A year later, these “reciprocal” tariffs were declared illegal and new global tariffs were immediately put in place.President Trump attempted to use a novel provision to enact 10% tariffs without Congressional approval, but it backfired. On Thursday, the International Trade Court ruled that these new global tariffs were also illegal.Section 122 of the Trade Act of…
Propeller One-Way Night Coach is the next film on Apple TV, premiering later this month from first-time director John Travolta. Here is the new trailer. Propeller One-Way Night Coach is based on John Travolta’s 1997 book. Apple TV’s next original movie is coming out in a few weeks and its first trailer has just been released. Propeller One-Way Night Coach premieres Friday May 29 on Apple TV following an appearance at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. The film is written, directed, narrated and produced by John Travolta based on his book of the same name. Travolta also makes an appearance…
By joining all the May 4 Star Wars deals we’re offering today (check out our deals hub), your Lunch break 9to5Toys is ready to go with the most affordable new MacBook Air M5 dropping to a low of $949 ($150 off) alongside other models up to $219 off. Apple’s cheapest new M4 iPad Air has now hit a new low on Amazon, while the 256GB, 13-inch M3 model drops to its best clearance price at $300 off. We’ve got Apple’s new AirPods Max 2 at a new all-time low on Amazon, the AirPods Pro 3 deal going on for Mother’s…
Rockstar Games As we don’t wait so patiently for the next one GTA6 trailer (or, if you’re a real pessimist, hold off on confirmation), PlayStation Plus subscribers can at least get by with another Rockstar epic returning to the service. As GTA 52018 Red Dead Redemption 2 has bounced between PS Plus and Game Pass over the years, but as we head into summer, it’s PlayStation players who will be able to hang out with Arthur Morgan at no extra cost. Of course it will be the PS4 version of…
Updated May 8: Anthbot M9 is currently 20% off at Amazon for the next few days, offering a significant $180 off the regular price. I haven’t mowed my lawn in over a month, but it’s maintained like a golf course. That’s because I went from a push mower to a robot mower that I manage from my iPhone. It’s the Anthbot M9, and it’s by far my favorite new tech that I’ve tried this year. The Anthbot M9 robot lawn mower is actually easy to install and use When the Anthbot M9 robot lawn mower arrived for testing, I postponed…
Not only is hardware memory in short supply these days, but contextual memory—that is, conversational data exchanged with AI models—can also be a problem. Cloudflare’s answer to this particular problem is Agent Memory, a managed service for siphoning AI conversations when space is scarce and then reinjecting the data on demand. “This gives AI agents persistent memory, allowing them to remember what matters, forget what doesn’t, and become smarter over time,” Tyson Trautmann, senior director of engineering, and Rob Sutter, engineering manager, said in a blog post. AI models can accept a limited amount of input, called context. Measured in…
Apple today filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court, seeking a stay on the calculation of App Store fees while it waits to hear whether the Supreme Court will rule on the latest developments in its legal battle with Epic Games. Apple claims that without a suspension, it would suffer irreparable harm. Apple says it will have to challenge the fundamental tenets of its business model with “the highly prejudicial risk of having acted (wrongly) in defiance of the original court order” in full view of the world, and the case would require it to disclose confidential business information,…