Slow Horses lands season 6 renewal on Apple TV+

Apple TV+ just wrapped up season 4 of Slow Horses last week. Around now, a season 5 renewal might be expected—except Apple’s ahead of the game. Long before season 5 even airs, Slow Horses has for a season 6.

Slow Horses has become one of the most beloved series on Apple TV+. And fortunately, Apple keeps giving it more seasons.

Apple had previously green-lit season 5 and wasted no time shooting the forthcoming season.

Last week when season 4 ended, Apple debuted


An October Apple event suddenly looks unlikely

Today Apple announced a new iPad mini with Apple Intelligence support. The new model doesn’t just have ramifications for iPad fans, though. Here’s what today’s news could mean for Apple’s October event plans.

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New iPad mini tidbits: All the details you might have missed

Today Apple announced a brand new iPad mini . The headliner feature is an A17 Pro chip that enables Apple Intelligence support. But there are all kinds of smaller tidbits worth noting about the new device. Here are the details you might want to know .

The new iPad mini includes upgrades in its support for both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth networking.

For Wi-Fi, the previous mini offered Wi-Fi 6 compatibility, but the new mini takes it further by supporting Wi-Fi 6E.

The previous

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YouTube rolling out new miniplayer, fine-tunable playback speed, sleep timer, and more

YouTube is making official a number of updates that it’s been testing in recent months, like the new miniplayer and .

The YouTube app on Android and iOS is getting a . Instead of a second bar above the bottom bar with a tight rectangular crop, play/pause, and an x, it now looks like a picture-in-picture window.

The video appears above with a close button in the corner, while a strip below gives you play/pause and 10-second rewind/forward.

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A $2,000 plastic Apple Vision could be an upgrade, not a downgrade [Poll]

Mark Gurman didn’t sound overly excited when he reported his expectation that a lower-priced Apple Vision product would launch as early as next year , but it might well be the model to have me press the button.

Gurman said that Apple is expecting sales of the $2,000-ish model to double those of the Vision Pro , “but that’s not saying much” …

Gurman’s newsletter didn’t add much to what we’re already expecting.

I expect a lower


Apple announces new iPad mini with A17 Pro chip, Pencil Pro and Apple Intelligence support

Apple today unveiled a new generation of iPad mini, upgraded to be powered by the A17 Pro chip. That’s the same chip as the iPhone 15 Pro. This means the new iPad mini can support the full suite of Apple Intelligence features. It also features support for the .

The new iPad mini is priced at $499, with 128 GB storage — that’s double the storage of the previous generation for the same price. Customers can order iPad mini right now,


iPhone filmmaker says iPhone 16 Pro not a big upgrade; talks drone footage

iPhone filmmaker Joey Helms, noted for his cinematic city footage of each year’s iPhone Pro models, says that the iPhone 16 Pro is not a big upgrade from last year’s model.

He also answered questions about how he mounted the iPhone on a drone for the aerial shots in this year’s video …

Helms has shot sample footage showcasing the capabilities of the last three generations of iPhone Pro models:

He said that he finds the Camera


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Future iPhones getting even more memory: 12GB from next year

This year’s entire iPhone 16 line-up got 8GB RAM to run Apple Intelligence features, and it looks like we can expect 12GB in future models.

A previous report suggested that iPhone 17 Pro Max would get 12GB, and it now appears that this may be true for both iPhone 18 Pro models …

It appears 8GB RAM is the minimum needed to run Apple Intelligence features.

All four iPhone 16 models got 8GB, in contrast with last year’s


You can now subscribe to Apple TV+ inside of Amazon Prime Video

As previously announced , Amazon Prime Video is directly inside its app. Prime Video users can subscribe to Apple TV+ at the regular price of $9.99 per month, with a seven-day free trial for new subscriptions.

The experience is still rolling out, but it seems that the entire catalog of Apple original TV shows and movies are available, including latest releases like the new limited series .

If you want to subscribe to the TV+ channel through Amazon, the easiest way currently is to simply and


ByteDance knew kids could get addicted to TikTok in 35 mins, and harmed their development

Accidentally released TikTok documents reveal that the company knows the app is addictive to children, and damaging to their mental and social development.

The documents also show developer ByteDance knew that screen-time tools it introduced would be ineffective, and were nothing more than a PR measure …

ByteDance is fighting potential TikTok bans in both the US and Europe , as well as lawsuits filed by attorneys general in multiple US states. NPR reported last week that more than a dozen states are suing the company.

The lawsuits, filed separately on Tuesday

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