Ben Lovejoy

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iPhone 17 Pro Max has the best battery life of 35 smartphones tested - 9to5Mac

Technology February 6, 2026

Battery life tests carried out by CNET reveal that the iPhone 17 Pro Max has the best battery life of any of the smartphones tested, and that Apple heads the brand rankings across its models. AppleοΏ½...

iOS 26.2.1 causing crashes, freezes, and severe battery drain for some - 9to5Mac

Technology February 5, 2026

iOS 26.2.1 was released last week, adding support for AirTag 2, alongside bug fixes. However, a small minority of users are reporting that it has introduced bugs rather than removed them. Among the οΏ½...

New Mac configurator may point to separate CPU and GPU options - 9to5Mac

Technology February 3, 2026

Apple last week changed the way you buy a Mac online, removing the previous lineup of customizable pre-configured options and instead putting you straight into configuring your spec from scratch. WhοΏ½...

Latest Intel chips beat Apple’s M5 in multi-core scores – for maybe two days - 9to5Mac

Technology January 28, 2026

Two laptops with the latest Intel chips have beaten out the MacBook Pro with M5 chip but it’s already clear that this will be an extremely short-lived victory. Benchmark results show impressive mul...

149M logins exposed in unsecured database, inc 900k Apple accounts

Crypto January 27, 2026

A database containing 149 million account logins has been found sitting unsecured on a cloud service. The records include 900,000 usernames and passwords for Apple accounts. It was discovered by theοΏ½...

iPhone 18 Pro Dynamic Island confusion now appears to be resolved - 9to5Mac

Technology January 22, 2026

There’s been considerable confusion about the fate of the iPhone 18 Pro Dynamic Island, with conflicting claims about the position of the selfie camera, the visibility of the Face ID components, and...

Gemini Personal Intelligence previews what we can expect from the new Siri - 9to5Mac

Technology January 16, 2026

The long-awaited launch of the new AI-powered Siri now looks much closer thanks to Apple’s partnership with Google. The company this week confirmed reports that many Siri features will be powered by...

Apple will pay billions for Gemini; OpenAI decided against Siri deal – FT - 9to5Mac

Technology January 16, 2026

A new report on Apple’s partnership with Google to have Gemini power the new Siri appears to confirm speculation that the iPhone maker is paying around a billion dollars a year for the deal. It als...

Apple may have hinted at a high-end MacBook Pro launch on January 28 - 9to5Mac

Technology January 15, 2026

The first M5-powered MacBook Pro launched in October of last year. Apple described the chip as offering β€œthe next big leap in AI for the Mac.” There was no update for the 16-inch MacBook Pro, how...

macOS 26 windows are hard to resize because they aren’t really rounded - 9to5Mac

Technology January 14, 2026

One of the things I noticed after upgrading to macOS 26 was that I would sometimes fail when trying to resize windows I’d try to grab the corner, but nothing would happen. It turns out that this is...