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Apple TV's new action-comedy Mayday, starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh and directed by the Game Night team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, premieres September 4. Early reviews from outlets like JoBlo, Empire, and The Hollywood Reporter praise its action sequences, humor, and the leads' chemistry, with several critics noting it feels strong enough to have warranted a theatrical release.
An open-source project uses autonomous Claude 5.1 agent swarms to research, model, and validate browser-based 3D reconstructions of real-world locations, starting with San Francisco's Union Square. The system generates buildings, storefronts, traffic, and pedestrians from open data like OpenStreetMap and public imagery, packaged as runnable Three.js applications rather than relying on a game engine or proprietary 3D tiles.
Apple's iOS 27 update includes three specific fixes for the Mail app: more accurate unread message badges, faster loading of messages, and improved search indexing reliability. These changes were included alongside a long list of quality-of-life improvements Apple presented during the iOS 27 announcement.
Writer Ploum recounts telling businesses he has no smartphone to avoid being pressured into installing apps or scanning QR codes for basic services. He says he had to push back against 18 separate app installation demands in the past year, including for kitchen appliances, a car, and even a toilet with separate apps for its seat, flush, and ventilation.
Florida International University researchers tested the Apple Watch Series 8, Fitbit Sense 2, Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 and Garmin Forerunner 955 against a Cosmed K5 metabolic device and ECG chest strap during controlled workouts with 58 participants. All four smartwatches overstated calorie burn, with margins of error ranging from 15% to 25%, meaning a reported 200-calorie burn could really be closer to 160-174 calories. Apple Watch was the most accurate, while Samsung and Garmin overestimated more, and Fitbit had enough tracking glitches that some of its data had to be excluded.
A functioning Apple I computer, signed and accompanied by a 1978 letter from Steve Jobs, is heading to auction at Bonhams on October 14. The letter shows Jobs personally offering original owner Charles Hatfield a trade-in for an Apple II board after Hatfield complained about lacking software. Hatfield turned down the offer and instead sold the machine for $40,000, far less than its current value.
Apple TV has dropped the first trailer for 'Being Heumann,' directed by Siân Heder, whose previous film 'CODA' won Best Picture in 2022. The movie dramatizes the 1977 disability rights sit-in at a federal building, starring Ruth Madeley and Mark Ruffalo. It opens in limited theaters November 6 before streaming on Apple TV starting November 13.
Apple has officially unveiled the M6 chip ahead of a new 14-inch MacBook Pro expected this fall, keeping the same industrial design as current models. The chip adds a dual 16-core Neural Engine for faster on-device AI, a 12-core CPU with super, performance and efficiency cores alongside a 12-core GPU, and is built on a new 2nm manufacturing process for greater power efficiency.
Amazon has cut the price of Apple's AirPods Pro 3 to $199, a $50 discount off the $249 list price, as part of its Labor Day sale event. The retailer is also running an all-time-low deal on AirTag 2 at $20 each, restocking refurbished M5 MacBook Air units, and offering pre-order discounts on the new M6 Mac mini alongside cheap Apple accessories starting at $5.50.
iOS 27 introduces a revamped Apple Pay checkout interface for apps and web payments, replacing the previous layout used across millions of transactions. The update adds swipeable card switching alongside the default card and uses color-coded icons to display shipping, billing and address details more clearly at a glance.
Apple has activated Apple Wallet driver's license support for Oklahoma residents, letting them add their ID to iPhone and Apple Watch by scanning both sides of the physical license and verifying their identity. The rollout follows Virginia's launch just a week earlier and brings the total number of participating states to 16.
A Washington Post-Elon University poll found that more than a quarter of Americans use AI chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini for emotional or personal support, with many saying they consider these tools friends or a way to feel less alone. Apple executives Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak previously said Siri AI is deliberately built to avoid this kind of engagement-driven, sycophantic behavior seen in rival chatbots.