Marcus Mendes

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Apple drops cryptic teaser for Apple Fitness+: ‘Something big is coming’ in 2026 - 9to5Mac

TechnologyJanuary 1, 2026

Apple has published a fun teaser on the Apple Fitness+ Instagram account, promoting what it promises to be something big that will land on the service next year. Watch it below. In the teaser, publi�...

Tim Cook just bought 50,000 Nike shares, and investors noticed - 9to5Mac

BusinessDecember 26, 2025

Apple CEO Tim Cook, whos been on Nikes board for 20 years, just doubled his stake in the company. The news helped ease a 13% drop after the companys disappointing quarterly results last week. If you�...

Apple study shows how an AI-powered ISP could dramatically improve low-light iPhone photos - 9to5Mac

TechnologyDecember 21, 2025

Apple researchers have developed an AI model that dramatically improves extremely dark photos by integrating a diffusion-based image model directly into the cameras image processing pipeline, allowin�...

You can now watch Stanford’s 2025 SwiftUI development lectures for free - 9to5Mac

TechnologyDecember 21, 2025

All 16 videos and supporting material from the Spring 2025 version of Stanford’s CS193p (Developing Applications for iOS using SwiftUI) course are now online, for free. Since 2020, Stanford Univers...

Apple builds single AI model that can see, create and edit images - 9to5Mac

TechnologyDecember 20, 2025

Building on a previous model called UniGen, a team of Apple researchers is showcasing UniGen 1.5, a system that can handle image understanding, generation, and editing within a single model. Here are�...

It’s not just you: Mail has been broken on iOS 18.5 - 9to5Mac

TechnologyJune 7, 2025

If youve recently found your Mail app stuck on a blank white screen, youre not alone. Its been happening to my girlfriend, to my mom, and to quite a few thousand people around the world. Here are a f�...

Exclusive: Apple prepping support for third-party Control Center widgets in watchOS 26 - 9to5Mac

TechnologyJune 7, 2025

Alongside the expected design overhauls coming to iOS 26 and the rest of Apples platforms at WWDC, 9to5Mac has learned that watchOS 26 is set to introduce one of the most requested Apple Watch usabil�...

WhatsApp to let users build their own AI chatbots to use in the app - 9to5Mac

TechnologyJune 6, 2025

WhatsApp is getting its own version of OpenAIs Custom GPTs, Google Geminis Gems, and so on. These are custom-made chatbots that can be created without a single line of code and with whom the user can�...

visionOS 26 to fully support PlayStation, Xbox and Spatial controllers - 9to5Mac

TechnologyJune 5, 2025

While the Apple Vision Pro may offer a glimpse into Apples, well vision for gesture-based spatial computing, it’s still an awkward fit for traditional gaming. Coming next week, that may change. 9to...

Counterpoint Research finally gives Apple some good news from Europe - 9to5Mac

TechnologyJune 4, 2025

After months of EU regulators breathing down its neck, Apple is finally seeing a happier kind of headline from across the Atlantic. And it comes courtesy of the new iPhone 16e. According to a report�...