Swift Student Challenge applications are now open, here are the details

Apple has for this year’s Swift Student Challenge. Here are the details on how to apply.

If you want Apple to recognize your app development work, and even have the chance to get invited to WWDC 2026, the Swift Student Challenge is for you.

Apple has just opened for this year’s challenge. The deadline for submissions is February 28, 2026 .

How can you win the challenge? Here’s Apple’s guidance:

Swift Student Challenge winners will be


The Viture Luma Ultra is almost the Apple Vision Air I’d like to see

What started life as a humble face monitor geared to watching video and playing games wherever you happen to be has now evolved into something drawing ever closer to a Mac -powered Vision Pro .

The Viture Luma Ultra it isn’t perfect, but it is the closest thing I’ve seen yet to what I’d ideally like from a future Apple Vision Air product …

When Vision Pro launched, I said that Apple knocked it out of the park. I described it as the most impressive implementation of mixed reality we

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Deals: AirTag Amazon all-time low, iPhone 16 Pro Max $611 off, M5 iPad Pro $399 off, Series 11, more

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is now ready to go. Alongside ongoing $100 price drops across the Apple Watch Series 11 lineup with deals from $299 , we are also tracking a new Amazon all-time low on AirTag at $17 as well as a the 1TB iPhone 16 Pro Max at $611 off the original list courtesy of Amazon’s premium program. We also have a chance to score a 13-inch M5 iPad


Apple’s latest iOS 27 pivot is good news for the subscription-weary

Apple’s ’Services’ business has grown significantly in recent years, leading some users fatigued by an increasing trend toward subscriptions. But Apple’s reported iOS 27 pivot on a planned ‘Health+’ service is good news for the subscription-weary.

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Silo season 3 is coming: Here’s everything we know right now

Apple TV has become a go-to service for sci-fi fans, with shows like Severance and Pluribus proving big hits. Another popular series is dystopian thriller , which has a season 3 coming later this year. Here’s everything we know so far about Silo season 3.

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iPhone 18 Pro Max’s new battery gains revealed by leaker

iPhone 17 Pro Max’s best-ever battery has been a hit with users, and we’ve heard before that iPhone 18 Pro Max will boast an even bigger battery. Now, thanks to a new leak, we know how much bigger.

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Zuckerberg on why Meta should do less safety research: ‘Apple doesn’t study any of this’

New emails unsealed this week and spotted by show Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg suggesting the company should conduct less research into how its platforms harm users, bizarrely citing Apple as a model to follow.

The email was sent in 2021 following a report from that Meta was more than aware that Instagram was “toxic for teen girls,” and had done in-depth research on the topic.

In a subsequent email to Sheryl Sandberg, Meta’s then-COO, and Nick Clegg, head of global affairs,


Apple’s cheapest iPad to get Apple Intelligence support at just the right time

Alongside the iPhone 17e, Apple also has a refreshed base model iPad in the works. A new report from highlights what we can expect from Apple’s update of its cheapest iPad.

Apple released the iPad 11 , formally known as the , last March. While the A16 chip represented a notable upgrade from the previous model’s A14 chip, it wasn’t enough for Apple to offer Apple Intelligence support on the device.

That is set to change this year, though.


Designers teach AI models to generate better UI in new Apple study

Apple continues to explore how generative AI can improve app development pipelines. Here’s what they’re looking at.

A few months ago, a team of Apple researchers published an interesting study on training AI to generate functional UI code.

Rather than design quality, the study focused on making sure the AI-generated code actually compiled and roughly matched the user’s prompt in terms of what the interface should do and look like.

The result was UICoder, a family of open-source models which you can read

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New iPhone launching this month with four key changes: report

According to a new report today, Apple’s next iPhone is launching very soon. reports that the iPhone 17e is set to launch on February 19 — one year to the day following the launch of the iPhone 16e.

The report was first published by Macwelt, which is the German companion to Macworld . The same report has also since been translated and published in English on .

The report cites an anonymous source with information “circulating among case and accessory makers.” That source claims the iPhone

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