iOS 26.4 improved Apple’s Health app, and bigger upgrades are coming soon

Apple’s Health app got a pair of welcome improvements in iOS 26.4, and rumors indicate Apple has major upgrades coming soon in iOS 27.

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Deals: M5 MacBook Air up to $219 off, iPad Air $300 off, 24GB M5 MacBook Pro, Apple Watch Series 11 $160 off, more

The AirPods Pro 3 deals are flying alongside AirPods 4 from $99, but today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is headlined by some seriously notable M5 MacBook Air deals – Midnight 24GB 15-inch up to $219 off and this new low on the base 15-inch M5 MacBook Air at $170 off . We also have the best clearance prices yet on the M3 iPad Air lineup up to $300 off , Apple’s


New iPads will launch later this year, here’s what rumors say is coming

We’re heading into a summer of software unveilings, but Apple has 15+ new hardware products rumored to launch later in the year—including multiple iPads. Here’s the latest on new iPads to expect.

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Facebook and Instagram losing users, with signs pointing to low-quality feeds

Anecdotally, I’ve been hearing for a very long time that Facebook and Instagram users are growing ever more dissatisfied with their social media feeds, and there now appears to be some hard data to support this.

Meta has admitted that its daily active users declined by 20 million this quarter, and the company is taking steps to try to improve the quality of both Facebook and Instagram feeds …

I’m of the Facebook generation, and while the presence of most of my family and friends on the platform mean I


Netflix launches iPhone app redesign, here’s what’s new

Netflix is rolling out an overhaul of its iPhone app today, as previously announced , with a redesign centered around a vertical video feed called ‘Clips.’ Here’s what’s new.

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Motorola Razr Fold price and availability announced ahead of iPhone Ultra

The book-style folding smartphone market continues to grow ahead of the expected launch of the iPhone Fold or iPhone Ultra later this year. We’ve so far seen models from Oppo , Huawei and Samsung , with a new Motorola device available soon.

We already knew a lot of details about the Motorola Razr Fold, but this now includes the price and launch date in the US …

Samsung has so far been the main player in the so-called book-style folding phone market, with the Galaxy Z Fold 7


Sketchy rumor suggests Apple Glasses will support Vision Pro-style hand gestures

We’re expecting to see the launch of an Apple Glasses product at some point next year, and a sketchy rumor suggests that they may borrow a key feature from Vision Pro .

Specifically, it’s said they may be able to recognize hand gestures as a means of interacting with the wearable device – but there’s good reason to doubt the claim …

Early VR headsets relied on hardware like handheld controllers as input devices. Vision Pro greatly streamlined the way users interact with the device by giving it the capability to


Apple China highlights Apple Watch health and rescue stories in campaign with podcast tie-in

Apple launched a new campaign in China called “Thankfully, I was wearing it” (“还好戴着它”), which includes a special podcast episode in which three users share their stories. Here are the details.

Apple and TBWAMedia Arts Lab – China featuring stories from three users who were saved by the device’s emergency features.

On Apple’s Chinese website, a new “Thankfully, I was wearing it” features quotes from three users, Me Junyan, Chen Huimin, and Yang Xiao


Divine, a Jack Dorsey-backed revival of Vine, is now available on the App Store

Featuring hundreds of thousands of archive videos from the original Vine platform, in addition to new videos, is now available on the App Store and Google Play. Here are the details.

Longtime social network users might remember Vine , a short-form video platform that quickly rose to success after launching in June 2012 and was acquired by Twitter almost immediately.

In essence, Vine allowed users to share looped videos that were up to 6 seconds long. It attracted artists and creators, reaching more than 200


Apple researchers built an AI that tests several ideas in parallel before answering

In a new paper, a team of Apple researchers details a creative framework that improves LLM answers in math reasoning, code generation, and more. Here are the details.

In a newly-revised study titled , Apple researchers, alongside researchers from the University of California, San Diego, detail an interesting way to improve the quality of answers generated by large language models (LLMs) in certain domains.

In the past, we’ve discussed diffusion models , which generate text by iterating over many tokens in parallel with each

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