This Sunday is the Super Bowl, the biggest TV event of the year in the US. But aside from sponsoring the halftime show, you might not see much from Apple in the way of paid ads — except for one F1 ad created by Cadillac. Apple and Cadillac partner for F1 Super Bowl ad At … Read more
If you know where to look, you can often get deals on Apple’s ever-expanding line of AirPods. Both the AirPods Max and AirPods 4 (without ANC) are now regularly discounted, as are the newer AirPods Pro 3. And while recent shopping events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday have brought some of the steepest discounts … Read more
This week we started seeing big savings thanks to Valentine’s Day and Super Bowl sales, which include discounts on everything from iPhone 17 cases to monitors and TVs. You’ll also find deals on the Apple Watch Series 11 and AirPods 4 below, each with the best prices of the year so far. Note: MacRumors is … Read more
Reddit is gearing up for more mergers and acquisitions, the company told analysts on Thursday’s fourth-quarter earnings call. Reddit CFO Andrew Vollero said the online forum site is looking for businesses that can either take advantage of Reddit’s scale — meaning their products will have a bigger impact when deployed across Reddit’s massive user base … Read more
Super Bowl LX is this Sunday, February 8, and there’s a way for US viewers to watch it for free. Our instructions below are aimed at iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV, but of course this method will work on different devices. The 2026 Super Bowl features the New England Patriots against the Seattle Seahawks … Read more
A month after introducing mandatory facial verification to access chats on its platform, Roblox says 45% of its daily active users passed age verification as of January 31. Roblox’s launch of age checks followed a wave of child safety lawsuits, including lawsuits from the attorneys general of Texas, Kentucky and Louisiana. The lawsuits were filed … Read more
A senior Democratic lawmaker with knowledge of some of the US government’s most classified operations said he had “deep concerns” about certain activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. The two-line letter, written by Senator Ron Wyden, the longest-serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, does not reveal the nature of the CIA’s activities or the … Read more
The removal of ICE’s monitoring app nearly a year ago has raised new questions about whether the US Justice Department crossed a constitutional line in its dealings with Apple and Google. On Friday, House Judiciary Committee member Jamie Raskin vowed to investigate the Justice Department over allegations that it pressured tech giants to remove ICE … Read more
Siri hasn’t gotten the big AI upgrades we’re expecting soon, but it sounds like Alexa’s recent AI upgrade already has at least one user running back to the arms of the “old” (current) Siri. The struggles with the new Alexa have made Siri look good Jennifer Pattison Tuohy writes at The Verge: I’ve been using … Read more
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced Wednesday that NASA astronauts will soon be allowed to fly with the “latest smartphones,” starting with the SpaceX Crew-12 and Artemis II missions over the next few months. In an email, an Apple spokesperson said this will be the first time an iPhone has been fully qualified for extended use … Read more