Going on 20 years now, Kantar has released its BrandZ Most Valuable Global Brands report, which combines financial data with consumer perception metrics to find the world’s 100 most valuable brands.

In a year in which the total value of the Top 100 reached an all-time high of $10.7 trillion (a 29% jump from last year), Apple has once again led the pack.

After a seven-year stint in which it lost the top position, Apple

This is Rumor Replay , a weekly column at 9to5Mac offering a quick rundown of the most recent Apple product rumors, with analysis and commentary. Today: iPhone 20th anniversary model, iOS 19 features, 2027 “product renaissance,” and more. Here are this week’s Apple rumors.

After a tough period of laying staff down and hiking prices up following its acquisition by Bending Spoons, Evernote has finally been getting some cool features.

Recently, the platform got multimodal AI transcription support, and it’s actually pretty good.

The new AI Transcribe tool is available in the main Evernote app, as well as a .

You can upload an audio, video, or image file or record audio on the go with the tool’s built-in recorder. The web tool also allows you to paste in

Apple TV+ has had several hit shows so far this year, but there’s a lot more on the way. It’s still early, so Apple likely has more announcements planned for summer TV+ releases. But with the summer movie season in full swing and schools starting to let out, here’s an early look at what Apple TV+ has planned for the months ahead.

It’s the time of year when the NFL schedule for the coming season gets revealed, and one team, the Baltimore Ravens, making a Severance parody video as part of their schedule announcement.

Severance may be on a hiatus as work continues on season 3 , but the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens have just made a parody worthy of the Apple TV+ show’s high production values.

The nearly 7-minute video showcases the team’s deep knowledge of all things Severance, with references to:

• goats
• watermelon

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Benjamin and Chance react to all the new accessibility features Apple previewed for iOS 19, like Magnifier and vehicle motion cues for Mac. This week also saw the surprise debut of next-gen CarPlay, now called CarPlay Ultra, arriving first in partnership with Aston Martin. We’ve also got some more rumors about some software features to expect at WWDC.

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Apple and Comcast kicked off a partnership this year to , which saw Major League Soccer matches stream on Comcast Xfinity cable channels. In an expansion of that relationship, Apple is making more of the MLS Season Pass content free to watch for Xfinity subscribers, at no additional charge.

All of the Major League Soccer broadcasts are already integrated into the Comcast Xfinity cable channel guide, so you don’t even need to open the Apple TV app to watch. Just navigate to the MLS channels in the EPG and tune in.

Rumors have long indicated new AirPods Pro were in the works, with a fall launch expected. But now, a leak from Apple’s own software has brought the first official hint that AirPods Pro 3 are coming soon.

Aaron Perris a string of code he discovered in “a recent software release from Apple.”

The code string points to AirPods Pro 3’s arrival not being too far off.

As seen in Perris’ screenshot below, he noticed a key change.