We learned this week that Apple has become an official partner of this year’s London Marathon, which takes place next month.

The Apple Watch has of course helped a great many runners prepare for their own marathons and other long-distance races, but one of them wonders whether the sponsorship indicates plans to go further …

Apple isn’t the lead sponsor for the event – that’s IT consultancy TCS – but has the rather clunky title of “official performance technology product partner” for this year’s event

The US has long been an outlier when it comes to Apple’s keyboards, using text labels for things like the tab, return and delete keys. The company has long been using glyphs instead of text for all of its keyboards in the rest of the world.

That has now ch anged , with Apple switching from text to glyphs in the latest US versions of the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro , and matching this in the new MacBook Neo . There are some exceptions, however, and a likely practical reason for

Both the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) have confirmed that they’re buying location data of US citizens from data brokers without warrants.

Senator Ron Wyden has described this as both “dangerous” and an “outrageous” privacy abuse of the Fourth Amendment …

The FBI has has admitted to buying location data previously, but said back in 2023 that it was without a warrant. Then-Director Christopher Wray said at the time: “We previously – as in

Following the recent news that Jeff Daniels ( ) will join The Morning Show’s upcoming season, that Jesse Williams ( ) will also be added to the show’s lineup. Here are the details.

As Deadline reported:

The fifth season of Apple TV’s multi-award winning The Morning Show is adding Jesse Williams. The actor will play Vernon, UBN’s newest Head of News, who is known as a brash pot-stirrer with a talent for grabbing and keeping an audience.

Williams, alongside

Apple has until the end of the month to respond to a set of technical and legal issues from CADE, Brazil’s competition watchdog over alleged anticompetitive rules tied to the iPhone’s NFC. Here are the details.

Last month, Apple accused Brazilian banks of seeking a “free ride” in an anticompetitive probe involving contactless payments on the iPhone.

This investigation started last year, after Brazil’s central bank (Banco Central) and banking lobby group Febraban asked CADE to investigate whether Apple was unfairly limiting third-

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Apple’s platform for recording and managing security camera footage has been experiencing performance issues for over 24 hours. Here are the details.

If you rely on HomeKit Security Video and have been encountering performance issues, you’re not alone.

Apple confirmed yesterday at 6:49 p.m. ET that an ongoing HomeKit Secure Video issue has been affecting some users, causing the service to be “slow or unavailable.”

As a result, some users aren’t getting motion alerts from their HomeKit cameras

AppleVis has released its 2025 edition of the , which focuses on the needs of people who are blind, DeafBlind, or who have low vision. Here are the highlights.

Since 2016, Jason Snell has been curating and publishing the fascinating , in which he asks “a collection of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people for their opinions about how Apple fared in the year just gone by.”

Inspired by that, AppleVis has been publishing its own report card since 2

Overcast, the third-party podcast player for iOS, will soon include transcripts for podcast episodes. When the feature arrives, it will have an edge over the version in Apple’s Podcasts app.

Back in iOS 17.4, Apple introduced auto-generated transcripts of podcast episodes in the Podcasts app on iPhone. The feature works a lot like lyrics in , but for podcasts.

Two years later, Overcast is tackling automatic podcast transcription in an upcoming version of the app.

The feature is currently only available