9to5 Mac

• Apple Card keeps getting better, here’s everything new
  August 29, 2026 by Chance Miller
  Apple Card launched seven years ago this month, and it keeps getting better. There are new features, perks, rewards, and more. Plus, there’s one major change looming. Here’s everything new with Apple Card lately.
• Will Apple’s ‘revamped’ Health app with AI health coach debut next month?
  August 29, 2026 by Michael Burkhardt
  Earlier this year, rumors were rampant about a revamped Health app coming to iOS 26.4. Then the project was delayed, and iOS 27 came and went, and the revamp still didn’t arrive. With the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 debuting next month, it’s worth asking: will we see the features debut alongside […]
• Indie App Spotlight: ‘Laytr’ is a one stop shop for logging everything you want to see later
  August 29, 2026 by Michael Burkhardt
  Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact. If you lose track of things you’d like to reference later, Laytr might be a nice solution for you. All of us […]
• As a relatively new Apple Vision Pro user, this is my favorite way to use it
  August 29, 2026 by Michael Burkhardt
  Apple Vision Pro is one of Apple’s most interesting hardware releases yet. It’s technically very impressive, yet it seems almost certain that this form factor won’t last – and is instead just a temporary platform to introduce visionOS to the world before we eventually get glasses. I did buy one late last year, and while […]
• Apple CarPlay gaining a new AI chatbot app before Siri AI arrives
  August 29, 2026 by Zac Hall
  Since iOS 26.4, Apple has supported conversational apps on CarPlay. This category includes AI chatbot apps. Siri AI joins the CarPlay party starting with iOS 27. The iPhone software update is currently in beta ahead of the official launch in September. Meanwhile, the fourth third-party AI chatbot has arrived with Apple CarPlay support: Meta AI.

Macworld

• One $30 subscription gets you GPT, Claude, Gemini & Sonar for a year
  August 29, 2026
  Macworld TL;DR: New users pay $29.99 for one year of ChatOn AI’s multi-model AI access, real-time web search, 100-plus prompts, document tools, and image and video creation. Keeping several AI tools open at once can make a simple task feel like managing a very opinionated digital committee. ChatOn brings GPT, Gemini, Claude, Sonar, and more into one platform, […]
• iPhone 18 Pro: Release date, price, specs and latest rumors ahead of Apple’s event
  August 28, 2026
  Macworld The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are expected to launch at an Apple event on September 9, 2026 featuring several cutting-edge hardware advancements, including the debut of Apple’s C2 modem, and a shift to a 2nm manufacturing process for the A20 Pro chip.  Other key rumored upgrades include a smaller Dynamic Island with […]
• Apple TV this week: ‘Dark Matter’ season 2 is now streaming
  August 28, 2026
  Macworld What’s new on Apple TV? What are the best shows and movies? How do you sign up and what does it cost? This article will answer all of that, and you’ll also get a list of all the currently-available Apple TV content. There’s also a ton of new content in the works for Apple’s […]
• Anker’s powerhouse 250W desktop charger just hit a new record low
  August 28, 2026
  Macworld Anker Prime 6-port Charging Station View Deal (function () { document.querySelector("#sticky-promo-block a").addEventListener("click", function(e) { const debug = document.location.host.search(/lndo.site|go-vip.net/) !== -1; const text = this.closest("#sticky-promo-block").querySelector("p.promo-title").textContent; const data = { event: "stickyConversionUnitClick", eventCategory: "Sticky Conversion", eventAction: "Click", eventLabel: text }; if(debug)console.log("Sticky Conversion CLick – pushing to dataLayer: ", data); dataLayer.push(data); return true; }); })(); If you […]
• Apple TV just got another price increase
  August 28, 2026
  Macworld Apple TV has been on a bit of a roll lately, with a string of hit shows including Widow’s Bay, Severance, Pluribus, and the return of Ted Lasso. Unfortunately, all that premium programming doesn’t come cheaply, because Apple is raising prices on its streaming service once again, from $12.99 to $14.99 a month. The […]

Technology

• Prediction Markets and States Clashed, Setting Off a Furious Political Battle
  August 29, 2026 by David Yaffe-Bellany and Sharon LaFraniere
  A legal dispute over the future of Kalshi, Polymarket and others has drawn in the Trump administration, the president’s son and nearly every state attorney general.
• Influencers Have a Lot to Say About Politics. Many Are Quietly Paid for It.
  August 29, 2026 by Ken Bensinger and Stuart A. Thompson
  Their videos have proliferated on social media, but the payments are frequently hidden from viewers.
• How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together
  August 29, 2026 by Cecilia Kang and Eli Tan
  State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.
• Prediction Markets Should Be Regulated as Gambling, Appeals Court Says
  August 28, 2026 by Lauren McCarthy
  The outcome contradicted an earlier appeals court decision. Federal regulators said the split rulings called for resolution by the Supreme Court.
• Social Media and the Myth of the Big Tobacco Moment
  August 28, 2026 by David Streitfeld
  Smoking used to be everywhere, the way Facebook, TikTok, Snap, YouTube and Instagram are now. Society decided to break the habit, but it took a long time.

Personal Tech

• Benjamin Rosen, Who Brought Venture Capital to Tech, Dies at 93
  August 28, 2026 by Clay Risen
  An advocate for Apple on Wall Street, he was also a founding investor in early personal computing firms like Lotus and Compaq, where he served as chairman.
• Google’s Pixel 11 Comes With Plenty of A.I. Does Anyone Want That?
  August 19, 2026 by Brian X. Chen and Minh Connors
  The phone’s artificial intelligence can order groceries, book tables and take photos on a user’s behalf. But is it something people really want?
• Everyone’s Using This A.I. Dictation App That I Want to Murder With a Hammer
  August 19, 2026 by Amy X. Wang
  Wispr Flow is supposed to make writing effortless and magical. So I “wrote” this column with it.
• I Tested a Popular A.I. Slop Detector. It Felt Empowering.
  August 14, 2026 by Brian X. Chen
  Pangram excels at distinguishing chatbot-generated words from human writing. But it’s not reliable for spotting artificial images.
• Follow the Markets and Track Stocks With These Free Apps
  August 6, 2026 by J. D. Biersdorfer
  Google Finance and Apple’s Stocks app have added new features over the years to make them more useful for tracking the markets and your investments.