Earlier today, Tim Cook remotely rang the Nasdaq Opening Bell from Apple Park, where he also gave a short speech. Here’s what he said.

The Nasdaq Opening Bell ceremony took place remotely from Apple Park today, rather than the usual Times Square setup.

In the minutes preceding the ringing of the bell, Nasdaq Regional Vice President Dylan James spoke briefly about having worked with Apple for the last 16 years, while Nasdaq Chair and CEO Adina Friedman thanked Tim Cook and the rest of Apple’s leadership and

iOS 26.4 launched last week, packing a wide array of new features , including a change for personal hotspot that makes it easy to see who’s using your data.

Until I went all-in on cellular iPads in the last couple years, I relied on personal hotspot on my iPhone all the time.

I would connect my iPad or MacBook to my iPhone’s cellular connection whenever I worked outside of the house.

But I always had to be very careful about data usage. I’ve

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Apple celebrates its 50th birthday this year, having originally been founded on April 1, 1976. Coinciding with that anniversary, veteran technology reporter “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent David Pogue is out with a new book that

Apple has expanded App Store Connect’s localization support, allowing developers to localize their app metadata in a total of 50 languages. Here are the details.

Apple announced today that App Store Connect will support localization in 11 new languages, including Bangla, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Slovenian, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.

With today’s additions, developers can now localize metadata in their apps to 50 languages in App Store Connect, which Apple says will help them

Apple Park is hosting an exclusive Paul McCartney concert for employees today in celebration of the company’s 50th anniversary tomorrow. And ahead of the festivities, Apple has started offering special 50th merch gifts to staff. Here’s a look.

Ahead of tonight’s Apple 50th anniversary party at Apple Park, photos of special employee-exclusive merch have begun circulating.

Posts on X from and offer a great look at the employee gift packages.

Each merch set includes a T-shirt,

Apple has its list of vintage and obsolete products today, with additions that include select Apple TV HD, iPad mini, and MacBook Air models.

Last week, Apple released iOS 26.4, which enabled support for voice-based AI apps to CarPlay for the first time.

Just a few days later, OpenAI has updated the ChatGPT app for iPhone to take advantage of this change. Now, ChatGPT is fully accessible via a dedicated CarPlay app.

As we’ve explained before, Apple limits the categories of apps that are allowed in CarPlay. This is done for safety reasons, as well as design limitations of Apple’s CarPlay framework. Unlike iPhone

arrive in stores tomorrow ( read our 9to5Mac review here ), and ahead of their launch, Apple has shipped new firmware for the headphones.

If you’re picking up a new pair of AirPods Max 2 tomorrow, Apple already has a new update ready to install.

Apple just released firmware build 8E251 for AirPods Max 2.

Exactly one week ago, Apple shipped new firmware for AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Pro 2, and AirPods 4.

Since the AirPods Max 2 include the same