Apple Upgrade launched this week, and the iPhone Upgrade Program is being discontinued as a result. But despite some similarities, the two offerings are not the same. Here are the key differences.

iOS 27 is currently in beta, and launches to all users this fall . Here are five new features rumored for iOS 27 that haven’t yet appeared in the beta.

It’s officially the year of the super app. OpenAI recently launched its own super app, which it just admitted is “kind of a mess.” And now Microsoft’s CEO has confirmed has a super app for Copilot launching soon.

Spotify is launching a brand-new music feature that aims to make you a better runner. The new Running Mode feature works by personalizing playlists to your running goals, music taste, and tempo.

Apple will today announce its earnings for its fiscal Q3 ending in June, with the usual Q&A with analysts following immediately afterwards. It follows the company briefly hitting a $5 trillion market cap before slipping back slightly.

Today will be the final earnings call with Tim Cook as CEO, and analysts aren’t expecting any surprises – but there will be one very big question …

Romance scams are one of the oldest cons in the online world, but they continue to pull in new victims all of the time. Joint research by four universities suggests that AI chatbots are now even better at carrying out these scams than humans, and that’s a pretty scary prospect …

Jony Ive and Sam Altman have been teasing an AI hardware device for a long time now, and it’s increasingly looking like that tease was premature. We’re still not expecting to see a launch until some point next year.

OpenAI continues to be exceedingly vague about what form its first hardware device might take, but an interview yesterday seems to point to something rather like a HomePad …

Update, 11:00 p.m ET : Apple’s System Status pages say all the issues have now been resolved. The original story follows below.

For the second time in a week , Apple is facing a widespread outage affecting services for end users and developers. Here are the details.

Tim Cook took to X tonight to announce that Apple will donate to relief efforts supporting those affected by the wildfires affecting southern Europe. Here are the details.

Bloomberg reports that US senators from both sides of the aisle are urging Apple CEO Tim Cook to commit by August 21 to not using memory chips from Chinese suppliers CXMT and YMTC. Here are the details.