President Trump may have announced a 90-day tariff pause on most countries earlier today, but China isn’t one of them. In fact, the China tariff increased from 104% to 125%, effective immediately.
In case you haven’t been keeping track, the China tariff started off at 20%. Then, in a matter of a week, it became 54%, then 104%, and now 125%.
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As Apple continues to grow the catalog of immersive video content for Apple Vision Pro users, we’re now learning more about the production process of this content. In a new interview , Kent Bye was joined by , a freediving athlete featured in the “Ice Dive” episode of “The Adventure Series” immersive video show.
In the interview, Williams describes the process of shooting the episode, which was a collaboration between Apple Studios and Atlantic Productions:
I got contacted by Atlantic Productions, who were looking to make something
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Today was the first day that huge tariffs went into effect for most US imports, but it seems the impact will be short-lived—at least for many. President Trump has just enacted a 90-day pause on the most severe of the tariffs, with China a major exception. As a result, risk to Apple may be lessened, but they certainly aren’t in the clear.
Trump :
Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby
Meta has been working on a new privacy feature for WhatsApp, which will enable “advanced privacy” for chats. With the feature, users will have the option to further protect sensitive messages.
As reported by , the new privacy feature is currently hidden in the latest beta of WhatsApp for iOS available on TestFlight. Advanced Chat Privacy adds a “new layer of privacy and security to chats,” making it harder for other people to share the content of that chat.
For instance, WhatsApp chats with advanced privacy enabled can
Meta is rolling out a new feature that will make it easier to switch from X to Threads. The new option is rolling out today in beta and allows you to “follow the same popular creators you’re following on X.”
Here are the instructions from Meta on how to import your X data into Threads:
Apple released iOS 18.4 for iPhone users last week. The update included Priority Notifications, new emoji, an Ambient Music feature, and more. Now, the company is working on iOS 18.4.1 as a bug fix update.
Evidence of iOS 18.4.1 has recently surfaced in analytics data for 9to5Mac and our friends at . This indicates that Apple is ramping up testing of the update before releasing it to the public. The update could come as soon as
Following Severance’s success, Apple TV+ has been rolling out compelling new shows one after another . And coming soon is , a new sci-fi dark comedy that could be one of the best yet based on its just-released trailer.
Murderbot is a genre-defying series that’s part sci-fi, part workplace comedy, with some action thrown in for fun.
The show premieres on Apple TV+ on Friday, May 16 with its first two episodes, followed by weekly drops through July
While Amazon is still offering some deep clearance pricing on the with 15-inch models at up to the original prices, we also spotted some notable chances to save on the most affordable new . Best Buy’s open-box listings with full Apple warranties are now starting at $890, or up to the going rate, much like this deal on . From there, we also spotted the alongside deals on and the . All of that and more awaits below in today’s 9to5Toys
A new image today by leaker Majin Bu provides an… interesting look at iPhone 17 Pro cases. They might not all necessarily look what we initially expected.
iPhone 17 Pro is going to move away from the traditional square camera bump in the upper left hand corner. Instead, it’ll be implementing a long camera bar that spans the top of the phone. It’ll look something like this, at least dimensionally: