Amazon Debuts Alexa+ Generative AI Amazon today announced the launch of Alexa+, a new version of Alexa that includes large language models, agentic capabilities, services, and devices at scale to redefine “the way we interact with digital assistants.” Alexa+ is smarter, more personalized, and more proactive about making suggestions to users, according to Amazon. The experience i…

Trump Responds to Apple Keeping Diversity Policies In an all-caps post on Truth Social today, U.S. President Donald Trump said Apple should fully end its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. “APPLE SHOULD GET RID OF DEI RULES, NOT JUST MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO THEM,” he wrote. Trump’s post comes one day after Apple held its annual shareholders meeting, during which a majority of shareho…

Apple Says iOS 18.4 Will Be Released in April With These New Features In a recent press release, Apple confirmed that iOS 18.4 will be released in April. From the Apple News+ Food announcement: Coming with iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 in April, Apple News+ subscribers will have access to Apple News+ Food, a new section that will feature tens of thousands of recipes — as well as stories about restaurants, healthy eati…

Apple Begins Selling Refurbished M4 iMacs Apple this week added iMac models with the M4 chip to its certified refurbished store in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and select other countries, for the first time since the computer was introduced in October 2024. As usual for refurbished Macs, the refurbished iMac configurations are all discounted by approximately 15% comp…

Quick macOS Tip: Create and Use Text Clippings for Productivity In macOS, a Text Clipping is a selection of text that you’ve dragged from an application to another location on your Mac, where it becomes a unique kind of standalone file. The relatively little-known feature has been around since at least Mac OS 9, and it offers a convenient way to save out pieces of text from pretty much anywhere for later u…

Adobe Releases Photoshop App for iPhone Adobe today announced the launch of a new Photoshop app for the iPhone, which is designed to allow creators to edit and make content while on the go. The app includes core Photoshop tools that have been tweaked for mobile devices. The ‌iPhone‌ app supports layering, masking, and blending for creating unique designs, with AI tools also built in….

Apple’s Face ID Doorbell Rumored to Feature MagSafe A few months ago, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Apple was in the early stages of developing a smart home doorbell and lock system with Face ID. He said the doorbell would wirelessly connect to a compatible deadbolt lock. In a vague teaser post on X today, a leaker known as Kosutami shared an alleged new feature that Apple is planning fo…

6 Features Coming to the Apple Watch Ultra 3 The Apple Watch Ultra 3 is expected to launch later this year, arriving two years after the previous model with a series of improvements. While no noticeable design changes are expected for the third generation since the company tends to stick with the same Apple Watch design through three generations before changing it, there are a series of …

Eve Launches New HomeKit-Compatible Dimmer Switch Smart home company Eve today announced the launch of the Eve Dimmer Switch, the company’s first smart light switch replacement with dimming functionality. The Dimmer Switch replaces a traditional light switch and it can be used with standard bulbs and lights that have dimming functionality. The Dimmer Switch has a rocker for turning lights on o…

Testing the World’s Thinnest Foldable Smartphone Chinese smartphone maker Oppo recently came out with the Find N5, which is a super thin and lightweight foldable smartphone. It’s thinner and lighter than Samsung’s foldable devices, and Apple’s non-foldable ones. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. The Find N5 has a 6.62-inch display when closed, and an 8.12-inch displa…

Apple Releases New AirPods Max Firmware Apple today released a new firmware update for the Lightning version of the AirPods Max headphones. The new firmware is version 6F25, up from the prior 6F21 firmware the device was previously running. Apple does not often provide much insight into what’s new with firmware updates, but as this is a firmware update for an older model, it likely i…

Philips Hue Sync App Expands to LG TVs LG TV owners can now install the Philips Hue Sync TV app to synchronize their lights with content on the TV without the need for an additional set-top box. Hue parent company Signify said in January that the app would expand to LG TVs in early 2025, and it is now available from the LG TV app store. Previously, the app was limited to Samsung TV…

Apple Fixing ‘Trump’ Dictation Processing Bug Multiple iPhone owners today noticed a pronunciation processing issue that causes the word “Trump” to momentarily show up when using dictation to send a message with the word “racist.” In some cases, when speaking the word racist through the ‌iPhone‌’s built-in dictation feature, the ‌iPhone‌ briefly interprets the spoken word as “Trump” and “T…

Opera One Adds Discord, Slack, and Bluesky to Browser Sidebar Opera has integrated Slack, Discord, and Bluesky into the sidebar of its Opera One desktop browser, providing quick access to the services without launching their respective apps or having to open them in separate tabs. The services join existing integrations for WhatsApp, Instagram, and Telegram. To enable access to the platforms in the browse…

Grok AI Caught Hiding ‘Misinformation’ References to Musk and Trump Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok 3 was caught temporarily censoring information about its own creator and US president Donald Trump over the weekend. The controversy began when users discovered that when asked who spreads the most misinformation on X (formerly Twitter), Grok’s reasoning process explicitly showed instructions to “Ignore all sources th…

Apple’s Phil Schiller Initially Opposed 27% App Store Fee on External Purchases Apple Fellow Phil Schiller testified in court on Monday that he initially opposed the 27% commission Apple now charges on purchases made outside the App Store, citing compliance risks and potential developer backlash (via AP News). Schiller, who oversees the App Store, said he had concerns that the fee would create an “antagonistic relationship…

Apple Cuts Off Russian Access to Its Developer Enterprise Program Apple has reportedly shut down access to the Apple Developer Enterprise Program (ADEP) for Russian developers. Russian IT sources told RBC that developers lost access to the platform on February 12. The shutdown means Russian developers can no longer use ADEP to create and distribute custom iOS apps for internal use without going through the Ap…

Apple’s 2026 Foldable iPhone Has No Visible Display Crease – Report Apple is making significant headway on its long-rumored foldable iPhone, with a new report suggesting the company has achieved a major breakthrough by effectively eliminating the screen crease that plagues current foldable devices. According to Korean publication ETNews, Apple is finalizing its component suppliers for the foldable iPhone, with …

Apple and Indonesia Reach Deal to End iPhone 16 Ban Apple and Indonesia have agreed on terms to lift the country’s five-month ban on iPhone 16 sales, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke to Bloomberg. The deal concludes a battle that began in October, when Indonesia refused to issue permits for Apple’s flagship iPhone lineup over Apple’s failure to comply with domestic manufactu…

Jony Ive Still Asks ‘What Would Steve Do?’ Despite Jobs’ Warning Former Apple design chief Sir Jony Ive says he still frequently asks himself “What would Steve do?” – despite Jobs specifically requesting that he shouldn’t. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Ive shared that Jobs had directly told him before his death in 2011: “I really don’t want you to be thinking ‘Well, what would Steve do?'” T…