TikTok ban: Supreme Court asked for emergency injunction; Trump meeting

The TikTok ban is once again in doubt, despite an appeals court rejecting the company’s argument that it was protected by the First Amendment.

Parent company ByteDance has applied to the US Supreme Court for an emergency injunction against the law requiring it to sell TikTok to a US company or be banned …

The saga began back in 2020 , when then-president Trump announced that he would ban TikTok from the US unless the app was sold to a US company by September of that year . The deadline was


Apple @ Work Podcast: Mac enterprise growth continues to surge

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PSA: iPadOS 18.3 and macOS 15.3 betas still don’t have the redesigned Mail app

Apple on Monday released the first betas of iOS 18.3 and macOS 15.3 to users , just a few days after the public release of iOS 18.2. There’s not much to say about today’s betas when it comes to new features, and unfortunately for Mac and iPad users, iPadOS 18.3 and macOS 15.3 still don’t have the redesigned Mail app.

With iOS 18.2, Apple introduced a new Mail app – which

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ChatGPT Search is now available to everyone for free

Back in October, OpenAI launched its own search engine integrated into ChatGPT . At first, the feature was made available only to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, but now OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Search to everyone – including free users.

As , ChatGPT Search will be available to any logged-in user starting today. All users need to do is open ChatGPT on the web or app and then tap the search button. ChatGPT’s knowledge is currently limited to data obtained up to June 2024, when the GPT


Apple’s foldable iPad could be the dream all-in-one I’ve always wanted

Rumors have once again surfaced of Apple developing a large foldable iPad. But now we have some new details, and as a heavy iPad user I’m very excited—though several key questions remain.

For some time now, there have been rumors of a foldable iPad and/or all-screen MacBook. An all-screen Mac has never made sense to me , and now a new report leans heavily in the direction of this future product being an iPad after all.

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Apple designers are developing something akin to

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Instagram rolling out ‘2024 Collage’ and other year-in-review features

As we approach the end of the year, Instagram is rolling out a new year-in-review feature. This year, you’ll be able to create a collage for your Instagram Story showing off your favorite moments of the year.

As , the new “2024 Collage” feature will be accessible via the “Add to story” interface in the Instagram app. You’ll see a new option to create the collage when you create a story, making it super easy to collect your favorite


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iOS 18.3 adding Home app support for robot vacuums, per beta

Apple released iOS 18.3 beta 1 today for developers , five days after shipping iOS 18.2 to the public. One change in the new update is Home app support coming for a key new device category.

Back at WWDC in June, Apple announced that robot vacuum support would be coming to the Home app in iOS 18.

Robot vacuums didn’t make it into the initial iOS 18 release in September, but for a while they were still planned for iOS 18.2.

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Genmoji comes to Mac with macOS Sequoia 15.3 beta

Apple recently introduced Genmoji with iOS 18.2 , which lets iPhone and iPad users create their own emoji using Apple Intelligence. Although the feature wasn’t included in the macOS 15.2 update, Genmoji is now available on the Mac with the first beta of macOS Sequoia 15.3 .

As confirmed by 9to5Mac , macOS 15.3 beta 1 – which was released to developers on Monday – finally enables Genmoji for Mac users. The button to create a new Genmoji can be

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visionOS 2.3 beta 1 now available, plus tvOS 18.3 and watchOS 11.3

It’s new beta time. Apple has released beta 1 for visionOS 2.3, tvOS 18.3, watchOS 11.3, and more, exclusively for developers. Here’s what to expect.

Apple releasing beta 1 for its various platforms means two things:

  1. We’re likely to see a variety of new features introduced today
  2. But new bugs and performance issues will likely be present too

For users who may not run beta software regularly, it’s important to know that beta 1 can

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