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  While it likely started as an April Fools Day prank, Twelve South is committing to producing its newest product — Stoner — a marble base for your iPhones MagSafe charger. Stoner is described as an "elegant marble charging base" for your iPhone 12 device when using MagSafe. Your MagSafe puck is inserted into the Stoner which holds onto the puck. That allows you to pick up your phone without picking up the charging puck with it. How Stoner holds your MagSafe puck By keeping your MagSafe...

  Early Thursday, Eve Systems started rolling out a new firmware update to its Eve Aqua that enables support for Thread on the smart HomeKit watering system. The update is available to download now for users via the free Eve app for second-gen Eve Aqua devices. Users unsure of whether they have the first or second-gen device can identify it using Eves web tool. Speaking to AppleInsider, Eve said its goal was to get the update out the door ahead of the lawn and garden season. With Eve Aqua, yo...

  Chip designer Arm Ltd. has announced its new v9 architecture, a design that could eventually appear in the Apple Silicon powering future iPhones, iPads, and Macs. The new Arm v9 focuses on three areas: performance, security, and machine learning (ML) capabilities. Arm says the design will provide more than a 30% CPU performance boost over the next two generations of mobile and infrastructure CPUs. AI is another critical area Arm targeted with its v9 design. The architectures new Scalable Vec...

  Apple is researching how to detect environmental noise levels and user voice patterns so Siri can respond with a yell or a whisper as needed. Siri has been widely criticized for its lack of feature parity with rivals. The discontinuation of HomePod has again placed Siri in the spotlight as the smart assistant approaches its tenth birthday. A patent application published on Thursday shows one area Apple seeks to improve with its assistant — environmental awareness. Currently, Siri will res...

A third-generation iPhone SE model said to launch in 2022 could retain a 4.7-inch LCD display but may have 5G support, according to a source familiar with Apple's display supply chain.

April deals on iPhone 12 accessories are here, with bonus savings knocking 30% to 43% off ESR's new MagSafe-compatible wireless chargers and cases at Amazon.

  A judge has reduced the scope of a class action lawsuit concerning Apples 15-inch MacBook Pro display issues, but denies the companys move to dismiss the case. Apples 2016 15-inch and 13-inch MacBook Pro design featured a thin flex cable linking the display. Opening and closing the MacBook Pro put stress on the cable and some users found it tore, leading to what was called a "stage light" effect with the backlighting being damaged. While Apple changed its design to remove the issue, and also...

  Pop-up retail booths could let customers interact remotely with Apple personal shoppers, as they demonstrate iPhone or other devices through video and AR. Apple has already experimented with virtual demonstrations in the Apple Store. Its created in-store HomeKit hands-on demos for lighting too. And its researched having Apple personal shopper staff appear in your home through AR. Now a newly-revealed patent application shows that Apple is looking at how to create demonstration units, devices...

  Apple is now required to offer Russian iOS users a selection of local apps when setting up a new device, per legislation passed in the country in 2019 and took effect on April 1. The Russian law, passed in November 2019, requires that companies present a list of government-approved apps on devices sold within the country. Initially slated to go into effect in January, it was then delayed until April 1. As of Thursday, the law affects all new devices sold and set up in Russia — including i...

Goldman Sachs believes that a slowdown in App Store growth and the possibility of an end to Apple TV+ free trials presents "significant downside risk" to Apple's investors looking ahead to 2022.