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Apple has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) last year. Here are the details.

ChatGPT users can now book restaurant reservations and join waitlists through Yelp without leaving their chats. Here are the details.

While WhatsApp has long offered a search option in the chat info screen, the app is now working on a faster way to access it directly from a conversation. Here are the details.

There are tons of MagSafe battery variations, and I may own most of them. The new TESSAN AERO 5000 caught my eye because it’s really thin and has a titanium finish. It also uses a new battery technology to reduce heat and improve overall safety. After reviewing the entire spec sheet, I think this might be one of the more interesting MagSafe batteries hitting the market this year, and I can’t wait to get my hands on one.

Apple TV confirmed today that it has picked up Alfonso Cuarón’s Ascension series, marking his second collaboration with the platform. Here are the details.

The official Apple Certified Refurbished Store is a particularly compelling resource for landing great offers on iPhone, MacBook, Studio Display, Apple TV, and even accessories. This is not some guy in his basement shilling iPhones that fell off a truck at a discount, or some third-party selling refurbs of questionable quality, but rather, units with an official Cupertino seal of approval that have passed Apple’s “rigorous refurbishment process” and, perhaps most importantly, often times at lower prices than retail.

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References included in iOS 27 beta 5 point to a new feature designed to authenticate the camera source of an iPhone photo. Here are the details.

AirTag 2 launched this year with upgrades to range, a louder speaker, and more . But one key feature didn’t improve: battery life. Fortunately, there’s an add-on accessory that extends AirTag 2’s roughly one year of battery life to 10 years or more.

Apple released iOS 27 beta 5 today, giving developer beta testers the next preview update since iOS 27 debuted at WWDC. Developers can download the new beta now.

iOS 27 is a major iPhone update centered around Siri AI, Apple Intelligence, Liquid Glass refinements, and a long list of quality-of-life changes. Here’s what we’ve found so far in iOS 27 beta 5.