Apple’s excellent Sports app for iPhone has a new version out today that includes two new features. Both MLB and NASCAR fans will appreciate the latest improvements.

First, Apple Sports version 3.9 adds a new Major League Baseball datapoint: probable pitcher.

“Now MLB fans can see the probable starting pitcher for each game in advance,” per the release notes.

The 2026 MLB season starts with the first pitch this Wednesday, with a single Opening Night game between the San Francisco Giants and New

Meta claimed for years that it was technically challenging to implement end-to-end encryption across Facebook Messenger and Instagram DMs, but back in 2023 said that it had resolved those issues .

Unfortunately, the company has now made a U-turn on Instagram direct messages, and that’s bad news for all of us …

Meta had been working on making end-to-end encryption (E2EE) standard for Facebook Messenger since 2019. The company said at the time that

Season five of lands on this Friday. The new episodes are must-watch TV for fans of early seasons of the sci-fi series.

The show goes from weird to gut-wrenchingly emotional to outright cinematic and suspenseful over the course of the first eight episodes. As a viewer, I can’t wait to see where this season’s finale takes us in this alt-history timeline’s future.

After six years and five seasons, however, the challenge for “For All Mankind” is very

The tech industry is currently in the middle of a rather gradual security transition from usernames and passwords to passkeys .

Passkeys are far more secure as online services don’t store your username and password, but Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says that the use of Face ID and Touch ID has an additional benefit …

We’re almost at the 10th anniversary of an opinion piece I wrote, calling for Apple to extend the use of Touch ID. That of course happened, but the pace of the shift from usernames and

Early folding phones were notorious for the internal display being vulnerable to damage. Indeed, the first Samsung Galaxy Fold saw because of this issue.

A new supply chain report suggests that Apple is adopting two further measures in order to protect the iPhone Fold display, as well as reduce the visibility of the crease …

The original launch of the Galaxy Fold is probably now a case study in industrial engineering classes.

It was only days after the first review units shipped when with the device were reported. As more screen failure reports followed

While everyone is careful to acknowledge that Apple CEO Tim Cook isn’t likely to retire imminently, and that the decision about his replacement hasn’t yet been made, there seems little doubt that John Ternus is the current heir apparent.

An extensive new Bloomberg profile underlines this, describing both internal and external pointers to the company’s favored choice …

They have long been conflicting reports about when current Cook is likely to retire.

Back in the summer of last year, it was said that there were no apparent plans

According to , the iPhone Air is about twice as popular compared to the iPhone 16 Plus, in the comparable launch period for the iPhone 17 and year-ago iPhone 16 lineup.

While the Air is seemingly the least popular model of the iPhone 17 generation, Apple will still consider it a relative success, as this report shows the Air has firmly eclipsed the sales performance of the outgoing Plus model.

Ookla’s data is sourced from crowdsourced cellular network data, including analytics gathered from real-world

In the era of Apple Silicon, MacBooks are more affordable than ever. Nowadays, you can buy a with 512GB of storage and 16GB of memory for $1099 directly from Apple, when such a configuration would’ve cost $1599 just a few years ago. And on top of that, we have bringing the entry-point down substantially.

Even with Apple’s prices coming down though, there’s still a number of deals to be found out