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Screenshot Apple confirms Mac event on Oct. 28, analysts bearish on iPhone Duo, Apple buys a sampler, EFF rescues privacy, and Slow Horses will reach Season 8.

This may interest you, it’s one of the first power banks for the iPhone Duo I’ve been made aware of.

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Apple has a $240 billion market opportunity that ticks many of its environmental targets, would be of huge benefit to all of us, and really marries deep into its vision for circular manufacturing and smart homes: Apple Home Energy.

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UK operator EE is first out the gate to announce future support for Apple’s useful iPhone Handoff feature, which lets you switch between two iPhones using the same mobile number.

Apple will open up iPhone Duo pre-orders this morning, and has closed its online store in preparation for the anticipated rush.

It’s all about Apple’s event, HomeView, Siri AI and EU.

Weekend sees more leaks on what to expect from Apple on October 13, the company’s big push for iPhone Duo, Tim Cook is in China hooking up new business links, and more in the complete edition, which you can read and subscribe to here.

Apple has announced a launch event on October 13, to do so it has eschewed the traditional ways to invite people to such things, no printed invitations, press campaign, and a few emails.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down with the fortunate and exceptionally well-mannered David Phelan this week to celebrate the launch of the company’s new Creative program with the King’s Trust.

Apple and The King’s Trust are building an immersive new education program to help young people build careers in the creative industries.

Not one but two big Apple events include quadrophonic Apple TV and new Macs, Apple scolds OpenAI again, James Corden and Ruth Jones team with Apple TV, iPhone Air is Apple’s value deal and more… Welcome to the much shorter edition of the full Apple News s…

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In a quiet move, Samsung has increased the cost of its best smartphones, the Galaxy S26 series in a move that makes the range more expensive than their iPhone equivalents.

Will the new HomePad be made in Vietnam?

After months of rumor, Apple today finally launched Apple Pay in India with Axis Bank.

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Apple didn’t just get into 5G with iPhone, it got into networking tech In a very short press statement, Qualcomm today confirmed the renewal of its ongoing global patent licensing agreement with Apple, effective April 1, 2027.

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Apple has opened Apple Music Hall, a brand‑new state‑of‑the‑art live music venue in London.

Wall Street is heating up its iPhone sales estimates, Apple’s new CEO John Ternus is winning his charm offensive, while his old boss Tim Cook does politics.

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Tata Electronics and Foxconn-owned factories in India are working in overdrive to churn out Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max devices.

Apple has announced, “What Holds Us”, a New York City iPhone photography exhibition curated by Kathy Ryan.

Apple has lots more in the pipeline coming in the next few weeks, possibly including the touchscreen Mac – plus, CEO John Ternus goes viral for his Duo show at the Emmy Awards where Apple took 29 gongs, even while the company pushes hard at OpenAI.

Screenshot ‘Twas the week before JNUC, and MacPaw has introduced Leebry, its all-new AI solution for enterprise IT designed to take away the pain of repetitive tech support work.

Slow Horses also took home an Emmy Award, plus in this shot – that feels like me!

Apple faces its latest wave of regulation as India’s consumer regulator investigates if the terms of its software warranty following allegations that an iOS 18 update damaged iPhone functionality.

Apple is arguably the new HBO and just took home 28 awards at the 2026 Emmys.

Apple’s product jamboree is set to continue in the coming weeks.

Apple’s recent iPhone introductions became market-real as pre-orders began.

Apple Store is down today as Apple opens up to pre-orders for the new iPhones.

Apple’s new CEO John Ternus and marketing chief, Greg Joswiak sat down to speak with Tom’s Guide and TechRadar this week to talk about iPhone Duo, Apple’s design approach, keeping secrets, and succession.

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Screenshot IDC analyst, Francisco Jeronimo shared a series of great points following Apple’s big launch September 9.

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Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus led the company’s big iPhone launch event with the following words.

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I’m really taken by Dynamic App Design’s new jazz exploration app, Sessionography: Jazz Explorer.

You can complain all you want about how Apple won’t let you remove pre-installed apps, but in the EU, at least, you can remove 98% of them.

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While it isn’t likely to fix the price problem, a new memory supply deal may at least guarantee Apple has enough of it to put inside its products.

Pretty quiet, it’s all coming next week.