AI’s memory crunch just killed a phone. Even Apple flinched.
AI’s memory crunch just killed a phone. Even Apple flinched.

For a year, AI’s hunger for memory chips was a price story: your next laptop or phone would cost more. This week it became a product story. Nothing has scrapped its planned CMF Phone 3 Pro, with a co-founder saying the company could not build a budget …

The latest iPhone Ultra leak leaves little to the imagination, includes a much-awaited iOS feature

Prosser’s new iPhone Ultra video shows a final-looking design and reveals the iOS feature foldable users have been waiting for since Android got it in 2016.

In season 2 of Sugar, Colin Farrell’s quirky detective becomes much more human
In season 2 of Sugar, Colin Farrell’s quirky detective becomes much more human

When Colin Farrell was doing press for the first season of the detective series Sugar, he had to be very careful with how he spoke. Sugar is a story about a quirky private detective, but it’s also secretly a work of science fiction, something that doesn’t become clear until halfway through the season. “I knew […]

Trump says Intel will make chips for Apple in a major win for U.S. manufacturing

President Trump says Apple has agreed to work with Intel on chip design and manufacturing in the U.S., a partnership that could reshape Intel’s manufacturing future.

Apple opens iOS to rival app stores in Brazil after antitrust settlement with CADE
Apple opens iOS to rival app stores in Brazil after antitrust settlement with CADE

Apple on Wednesday announced changes to iOS in Brazil that will allow developers to distribute apps through alternative marketplaces, operate their own app stores, and process payments for digital goods outside Apple’s In-App Purchase system. The chang…

Apple opens up App Store to new competition in Brazil

Apple’s grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.

Apple to raise prices as memory chip shortage bites, Tim Cook says
Apple to raise prices as memory chip shortage bites, Tim Cook says

Apple is going to raise prices, and Tim Cook is no longer pretending otherwise. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the chief executive said the company could not keep absorbing the soaring cost of memory and storage chips. “Unfortunately, pr…

Trump says Apple will build chips with Intel in the US
Trump says Apple will build chips with Intel in the US

The news that Apple had agreed to make its chips in the United States did not come from Apple. It came, on Thursday, from a post by President Donald Trump on Truth Social, announcing that the company had agreed to work with Intel to design and manufact…

Google’s updated migration tool takes the pain out of iPhone to Android switching

Google’s upgraded Android Switch tool adds support for app data migration, iMessage transfers, passkeys, eSIMs, and more as it rolls out to Android 17 devices.

AI is hurting Apple in more ways than one: it may force iPhone price increases

CEO Tim Cook said in a recent interview that the situation is “unsustainable.”