Apple Card now offering rare sign up bonus for a limited time: up to $200

Historically, Apple Card has never offered a standard sign up bonus. Apple has certainly run a number of limited time promos , and now there’s a new one on the table. It’s a unique offer, and doesn’t have a minimum spend requirement, unlike previous Apple Card sign up bonuses.

If you apply and get approved for an Apple Card by March 21st through , you can earn a special sign up bonus of up to $200. It doesn’t necessarily have

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Apple pulls ad that showed Siri being useful after delaying feature that could make Siri useful

Since last fall, Apple has been marketing the iPhone 16 and Apple Intelligence with an unreleased Siri feature. After confirming today that the more personal version of Siri isn’t coming anytime soon, Apple has pulled the ad in question.

The commercial starred Bella Ramsey who should probably win an award for acting like Siri worked.

In , Ramsey sees someone familiar approaching and asks Siri the name of the person they had a meeting with the previous month at a specific restaurant.

Siri immediately responded with the name presumably based on

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9to5Rewards: Enter to win a MacBook Pro from Chargeasap [Giveaway]

There’s still time to enter to win Apple’s latest MacBook Pro courtesy of our friends at Chargeasap. This month, the company has launched its new , the world’s first dual OLED 275W powerbank. Head below the fold to enter the giveaway now and learn more about the new Flash Pro Ultra by Chargeasap.

Chargeasap is launching a Kickstarter campaign for a brand new kind of powerbank. is the world’s first 275W portable battery that uses an OLED screen for displaying charging


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Here’s how much faster the M3 Ultra’s GPU is compared to M4 Max

Following the announcement of the new generation Mac Studio this week, the first Geekbench test results with the new M3 Ultra chip have been floating around the web. The difference between the CPU of the M3 Ultra and M4 Max chips isn’t huge, but what about the GPU? A new benchmark test reveals how much faster the M3 Ultra is for graphics processing.

While the first Geekbench test with the M3 Ultra chip only had scores for CPU performance, (via ) includes results for the GPU


Bloomberg: Apple could have to scrap new Siri AI features and start over

Earlier today, Apple announced that it is delaying the launch of the “more personalized” version of Siri, which was first announced at WWDC last year. In a statement, the company said it anticipates rolling the features out “in the coming year.”

In a new report this afternoon, details the internal turmoil that led to this delay, with Apple’s software chief Craig Federighi reportedly voicing “strong concerns that the features didn’t work properly” in his testing.

Apple initially hoped to include the revamped


Six months with Apple Watch Series 10: Fantastic hardware under-utilized

Time flies, and somehow Apple’s last fall launches happened a whole six months ago. That means I’ve been using an Apple Watch Series 10 for half a year. Here’s how the new Watch has measured up in that time, and why its hardware is being held back by software.

Apple Watch Series 10 comes with a variety of impressive hardware upgrades.

It starts, of course, with the display.

The display tech itself is better, with a wide-angle OLED that makes

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Google Maps for iPhone gets sheet & directions redesign, improves reachability

Following Android , Google Maps is now rolling out a sheet-based redesign that replaces most fullscreen UIs in the iPhone app.

Upon opening the map, you’ll notice that all bottom sheets in the app feature more rounded corners. After tapping on a place listing and sliding all the way up, the map remains visible at the top behind the status bar. This sliver helps preserve context as you navigate through the app.

The other big usability change is that you no longer close listings by tapping a back button at

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Apple’s new MacBook Air line removes the cosmetic problem that recently plagued it

Before Apple introduced the , there was another new color that made headlines for all the wrong reasons.

The M2 MacBook Air from July 2022 was the first product to come in Apple’s blackish-blue color called midnight. The dark aluminum finish has a look that was the closest to black at the time. It also had an ugly problem that customers were quick to put their finger on: the new color was a magnet for fingerprints and oils from skin.

Even the most careful handler of the

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Two new Apple products will launch this spring, here’s what’s coming

Apple just wrapped up a big week for new product launches , but there’s more still ahead. Two big Apple products are expected to launch this spring. Here’s what’s coming.

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Apple prevails in AliveCor patent case over Apple Watch

Apple and health technology company AliveCor have been embroiled in multiple legal battles for years, including a back-and-forth case with the International Trade Commission.

In a decision today, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a previous decision from the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that found the three AliveCor patents at the center of its ITC case to be unpatentable.

In 2021, AliveCor went to the ITC to accuse Apple of infringing on three

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