New limited-time Apple Card offer now available: Earn $75 in Daily Cash

Once again, Apple has dropped a for new users who choose to sign up. Traditionally, the Apple Card does not offer a sign up bonus, so this is worth looking into.

Update 2/21: Offer previously ran through January 12th, but has now been extended through March 31st.

Through March 31st, Apple is offering a special Apple Card sign up bonus, where you can after spending $75 in your first 30 days. In short, you can look

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Apple’s upcoming AI smart glasses are starting to sound a lot more exciting

Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that Apple will be “accelerating” the development of three upcoming AI wearables: smart glasses, a pendant, and AirPods with cameras. These three products are all meant to integrate Siri deeper into our everyday lives, and I’ll be focusing on the glasses aspect of it.

Obviously, Apple has always had an ambition to make glasses. The idea of Apple making AR glasses has been in the rumor mill for ages . For now, that’s on pause – and Vision Pro

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Apple @ Work: How the iPhone forced the entire printing industry to adopt AirPrint

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WhatsApp working on anti-spoiler feature for text messages

Users will soon be able to mark messages as spoilers, so their content isn’t immediately visible to recipients. Here are the details.

As , the latest TestFlight build of WhatsApp includes references to a feature that will let users mark messages as spoilers.

WABetaInfo says the feature “is currently in development and not yet available for beta testing,” but reports on how it is most likely going to work once it’s released.

According to the report, the spoiler formatting option will appear alongside tools like Bold,

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Apple researchers develop on-device AI agent that interacts with apps for you

Despite having just 3 billion parameters, Ferret-UI Lite matches or surpasses the benchmark performance of models up to 24 times larger. Here are the details.

In December 2023, a team of 9 researchers published a study called “ ”. In it, they presented a multimodal large language model (MLLM) that was capable of understanding natural language references to specific parts of an image:

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9to5Mac Daily: February 20, 2026 – iPhone’s satellite features, more

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Protect your family’s private data by removing it from the internet

Taking proactive steps to protect the privacy of yourself and your family has never been more important than it is today. Buying and selling personal data is now a big business, with hundreds of data brokers devoted to doing exactly this.

Trying to manually remove your family’s data from the web is incredibly difficult, but fortunately there’s a very simple alternative in the form of .

It seems hard to believe that data brokers are allowed to buy and sell your personal data, but despite occasional talk of legislators or regulators

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iOS 26 added my favorite new iPhone ringtone, listen here

My iPhone stays on silent most of the time, but a new iOS 26 ringtone has made me very tempted to rethink that choice because it’s such a pleasant tune. Here’s my new favorite iPhone ringtone.

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Strava adds five activity modalities, including dancing

Activity-tracking platform Strava is rolling out a new set of activity categories, including some of the most-requested from its community. Here’s what’s new.

Today, is adding five new activity types to its platform, including:

  • Basketball
  • Cricket
  • Dance
  • Padel
  • Volleyball

This, according to the company, will give its “180M+ global users more accurate ways to log the activities they already love.”

Previously, users who practiced any of these five activities had to log them under the generic


Apple rolls out Xcode 26.3 Release Candidate 2

Apple is rolling out the second Release Candidate of Xcode 26.3, which will feature agentic coding capabilities. Here are the details.

Earlier this month, Apple announced that Xcode 26.3 would gain agentic coding capabilities, integrating natively with AI coding tools such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex.

Apple rolled out Xcode 26.3 Release Candidate 1 around the same time as RC versions of iOS 26.3, macOS 26.3, and its other platforms.

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