Oura remains the king of the smart ring business – at least until Apple enters the arena – but two competitors are trying very different approaches in launching their own models.

French branch Circular hasn’t made much progress to date, thanks to a plastic construction and an absence of wireless charging, but it has fixed both issues in its latest model …

Oura remains king

Oura invented the smart ring, and is the undisputed market leader with around a 49% market share, leaving its competitors to scrabble for single digits.

Apple’s AirTag item tracker has been a huge hit since it was first released in April 2021. Look around, and you’ll see the circular accessory attached to keys, backpacks, and suitcases everywhere.

This year, Apple will release AirTag 2 – its first-ever hardware upgrade to the product. I think it has the potential to be an under-the-radar success.

If you haven’t been following along , here’s a refresher on what to expect from AirTag 2

Washington State is suing T-Mobile over a 2021 security breach which exposed the personal data of some 79 million people, including 2M Washington residents. Data exposed included social security numbers, phone numbers, physical addresses, unique IMEI numbers, and driver’s license information.

The carrier is accused of failing to follow industry-standard cybersecurity processes, which allowed the breach to go unnoticed for four months …

The very phrase begs the question “which one?” and in this case it’s

Apple’s long-term goal for Vision Pro is believed to be an Apple Glasses product, in which an ordinary-looking pair of glasses will be able to display both text and AR content.

We’ve seen some competitors take early steps in that direction, and the RayNeo X3 Pro AR glasses look like the closest thing we’ve yet seen in a real-world product …

A glasses form factor is also believed to be Apple’s long-term goal , with Vision Pro just an early

Around fifty Apple employees have been fired for allegedly defrauding the company via its Matching Grants program, in which the company agrees to match charitable donations made by employees.

So far, six of the former Bay Area employees have also been charged with tax fraud relating to fake donations …

Apple CEO Tim Cook launched a charitable donation matching program back in 2018. The deal is that for every dollar donated to a charity by an employee, Apple will match it with two dollars. The annual limit was capped at $

Depending on the model, an Apple Silicon MacBook Pro officially supports between one and three external displays, but a software workaround lets you boost that number.

The new Plugable UD-7400PD dock takes advantage of that fact to provide a very neat way to allow even an M1 MacBook Pro to simultaneously drive up to five external monitors …

Apple Silicon Macs were a vast improvement on Intel machines in almost every respect, but one downgrade in the specs of the base model M1 MacBook Pro was that it

The iPhone 16 is still banned from sale in Indonesia, despite Apple promising to invest a billion dollars in the country’s economy.

Apple had initially had offers of first $10M and then $100M rejected by the Indonesian government, before offering a cool billion dollars’ worth of manufacturing – which is exactly what the country demanded …

The governments of populous countries are getting increasingly savvy about seeking a quid pro quo for giving Apple access to their markets, demanding inward investment in return.

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Google recently announced that . At the same time, our sister site found evidence of Gemini coming soon to Wear OS – Google’s operating system for smartwatches. On the Apple side, devices like Apple TV and Apple Watch don’t have Apple Intelligence support, and some people are starting to wonder when that will change.

When it comes to Apple Intelligence , the features are only available on iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Even so, the list is quite limited. Apple Intelligence requires devices with the A1

At CES 2025, ESR unveiled the new , an affordable iPad stylus. It supports the Find My network, allowing you to locate your pencil virtually anywhere if it gets lost, similar to the new unveiled early last year.

The new can magnetically attach to the side of the iPad, although it doesn’t recharge that way. It attaches to all modern iPads, 2018 iPad Pro and newer, but not the iPad (10th generation). ESR offers it in three colors