Devices & Hardware

Few corporate handoffs carry stakes this visible, because on Sept. 1 John Ternus will step into the CEO role with a mandate larger than margin protection or supply-chain precision: he must explain, and then ship, an AI vision that fuses Apple’s hardware, software, and services into a daily

Supply lines that once flowed predictably have been jolted by AI’s appetite for parallel compute, pulling wafer starts, advanced packaging capacity, and top-tier memory toward accelerators while leaving CPUs to fight for space in the same fabs. The result is a new hierarchy: GPUs first, HBM close

Pressed shoulder to shoulder at a festival gate, a wallet wedged in a front pocket and a split-second brush against a stranger, a $2.47 charge later that night, and a nagging question the next morning: did a payment just happen without a tap, a swipe, or even a glance at a screen. Contactless

The quiet ping of an update alert might have seemed harmless, but behind that prompt often sat a critical fix that closed a door an attacker had already tried to pry open, a performance patch that kept a fan from spinning needlessly, or a compatibility tweak that unlocked features needed for

Daily step counts and gentle nudges may seem like simple tricks, yet for older adults trying to stay active the crucial difference-maker often lies not on the wrist but in the relationships that surround it, and a national survey analysis led by Li, Budhathoki, Han, and colleagues put numbers

Studio-grade electric piano tone used to mean dragging heavy cases or tethering to a desktop, yet mobile musicians now expect character, immediacy, and credible dynamics in a pocketable rig that boots fast and never stumbles on stage or in transit. That expectation set a high bar for an iOS