Apple’s brand new Home product won’t launch until April or later, per Gurman

Apple is expected to launch its first new products of the year this week. But the launch I’m most excited about, the new ‘HomePad’ device , is going to require a longer wait than expected per a new Mark Gurman report.

Last November, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg published an extensive deep dive into a forthcoming Apple Home product. I’ve been calling it the HomePad .

At the time, he said Apple was targeting a March launch for the new device.

Just last month, however, Gurman

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Apple Sports just added NASCAR and MLB Spring Training to the app

Apple’s Sports app keeps pushing regular new updates . Just two weeks ago, the app added info for where to watch national games plus new navigation shortcuts and more. And today, Apple Sports version 2.5 has introduced NASCAR support and is ready for MLB’s Spring Training.

Ever since launching last February , Apple Sports has become one of the most regularly updated Apple apps. It’s quickly become my go-to app for tracking scores, and I especially love its Live Activity support on iOS and


Apple’s biggest TV+ movie of the year made a Super Bowl appearance

Apple TV+ has been reworking its film strategy and shifting away from theatrical releases and huge budgets. But there’s at least one upcoming movie the company’s still going all-out with: this summer’s Brad Pitt-starring F1 . Here’s the adrenaline-pumping teaser that aired during the Super Bowl.

Even as Apple TV+ has achieved growing success with its slate of TV shows, 2024 wasn’t a great year for Apple’s film division.

and both

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9to5Mac Daily: February 10, 2025 – Apple AR projects, more

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An app for deaf and hard of hearing users providing help for New York MTA riders

A new accessibility program based on an app for deaf and hard of hearing users is being tested on the New York MTA system. It will provide riders with instant access to a live sign language interpreter when engaging with staff.

The approach means that any member of Metropolitan Transit Authority will be able to help with directions and other queries without the need for any ASL skills themselves …

reports that New York’s transit system has been chosen as it’s the busiest in the country.

“No other transit system in all

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Apple describes a way to make Vision Pro much lighter

The two biggest criticisms of Vision Pro have been price and the weight. We know Apple is working on a lower-priced model , and a new patent application describes a way to make the headset very much lighter.

Early reviewers commented on the fact that it starts to feel very heavy when you wear it for more than brief sessions, something I was able to confirm from my own experience of the device …

comments on the weight were fairly typical.

Vision Pro is . I’ve used it for hours at a

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DeepSeek will be banned in the US, believes ARM CEO

Apple Silicon chips have transformed attitudes toward ARM architecture, from being suitable mostly for power-efficient mobile devices to also capable of powering desktop processors which Intel behind.

ARM CEO Rene Haas has now weighed-in on the DeepSeek controversy in a new interview, expressing his skepticism about one of of the key claims and voicing his expectation that China’s AI chatbot will be banned in the US …

DeepSeek caused shockwaves in AI circles when the company posted benchmarks indicating that its performance was comparable to the world’s best existing


The five reasons some people wear their Apple Watch on their ankle

A growing number of people are wearing their Apple Watch on their ankle, according to a new report, with five different reasons cited.

The most mundane of these are people with tiny wrists who find that the Watch is too loose during workouts, even with the smallest of bands …

The reports that this applies to fitness influencer .

In the old days, back when Ana Espinal was wearing an Apple Watch on her wrist at the gym, she often found that her fitness app would shut down during her workout. Ms.

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Android users who want TikTok would be best advised to copy iPhone users

Neither Apple nor Google have returned TikTok to their respective app stores , and with very good reason: the supposed get-out-of-jail-free card offered by Trump is nothing of the sort. Both companies would be left exposed to hundreds of billions of dollars of liability .

As of the weekend, Android users who want to download TikTok do have another option – but it’s not one I’d advise them to take. Instead, they’d be better off using the workaround available to iPhone


Review: SwitchBot Wallet Finder is an incredibly useful accessory to track your wallet with iPhone Find My

I have an on my keychain to keep track of my keys, but obviously an AirTag is too big and bulky to fit inside a wallet. That’s what the is for.

Disguised inside a thin, credit-card form factor, the SwitchBot Wallet Finder connects to the Find My app on your iPhone, so you can follow its location, and it even houses a speaker so you can make it beep to help you find your wallet when it inevitably gets lost somewhere in your home. Read on for my

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