October 9, 1991: A court orders Apple to pay $26.5 million to Apple Corps, The Beatles’ record label and holding company, for trademark infringement. The end of this Beatles versus Apple lawsuit marks the second time Cupertino is forced to pay the English rock band.

The ruling comes a decade after Apple swore it would never get into the music business.

Apple reportedly has a second major product launch event planned for this month, and this time the spotlight will be on the Mac lineup. The star of the show, supposedly set for October 27, will be the first-ever MacBook Pro with a touchscreen. Plus, Macs updated with the latest Apple silicon are expected, and a significantly revamped iPad mini.

Word of this event comes just hours after Apple sent out invitations to a product launch event on October 13. The focus of that one is expected to be smart-home products.

The new smart home products produced by LG Electronics in partnership with Apple will feature a “tap to set up without power” feature, according to a leaker who spotted the reference in iOS 27.

Also, LG Electronics apparently won’t be the only second-party manufacturer Apple works with to create new smart home products. The same leaker says Schneider Electric, a French company with its North American headquarters in Boston, will produce thermostats, temperature/humidity sensors and possibly more.

Apple invited select media and creators to an event in New York on October 13. With “Welcome Home” as the theme, the invitation strongly hints that its long-awaited smart-home push is finally about to begin.

Rather than being held at company headquarters, the event will be in New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood. And it’ll start at 6 a.m. PT.

October 8, 2014: Apple says it is “surprised” after GT Advanced Technologies, the supplier previously rumored to make ultra-strong sapphire glass displays for the iPhone 6, files for bankruptcy.

The announcement appears to mark the end of the road for sapphire glass iPhone screens, a highly anticipated upgrade that promised to make devices more durable but never arrived.

The iPhone Air 2 could be thinner than the original iPhone Air, according to a new rumor. And it may even slim down to match the iPhone Duo when unfolded.

That means the Air’s already slim 5.6mm body will be down by 0.4mm. What’s more surprising is that the battery could grow instead of shrink.

WhatsApp is reportedly preparing to finally bring Liquid Glass to its built-in video player on iPhone. In the latest beta version, the playback progress bar sports a translucent, floating look.

But it’s not in the regular version yet. That makes the video player one of the final screens still waiting for the redesign. Anyone using WhatsApp will easily notice the mismatch every time they open a video.

If your iPhone is running short of space, the culprit might be a bug in iOS that causes System Data to grow out of control.

It can be a serious problem. Gigabytes of storage can be choked with useless data, preventing you from using it.

Here’s what to do if your iPhone is running out of space because of an enormous iOS System Data collection. And it doesn’t require deleting your precious photos and apps.

Meta’s Muse personal AI agent just arrived on the iPad. Wednesday’s release gives Apple’s tablet a native version of an AI assistant that has quickly become one of Meta’s most visible consumer AI products.

iPad support arrives less than a month after Muse launched on iPhone (and Android). 

Apple partnered with LG Electronics to create an array of smart home devices, including a doorbell, a thermostat, a smart lock and indoor and outdoor security cameras, according to a new report.

The devices will work with Apple’s long-rumored smart home hub, which supposedly will launch next week. Although the LG-produced gear won’t arrive for several months, it should bolster Apple’s attempt to catch up in the smart home game. And new images purport to show what three of the devices will look like and function.

Apple Watch repairability barely budged this year, according to teardowns of the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4.

Both watches scored just 4 out of 10 on iFixit’s repairability scale, with the Series 12 benefiting from a handy new battery pull tab. However, with both models, you still need to pry off a glued screen to swap out a failing battery.

October 7, 2011: Two days after the death of Steve Jobs, Apple opens preorders for the iPhone 4s.

The last iPhone that Jobs worked on directly, the 4s boasts a speedier A5 chip, an improved 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video recording, and — most significantly — Apple’s new AI virtual assistant, Siri.

Apple TV is getting Dolby Atmos for F1 races, starting with the US Grand Prix in Austin this month.

So far, Apple’s F1 streams have been using 5.1 surround sound. Atmos should make engine roars feel far more immersive, provided your TV or audio system supports it.

This AI training bundle teaches you how to make the most of six of the most popular AIs around. It covers ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity AI, DeepSeek and Tabnine AI.

With more than 180 lectures and 25 hours of video, it will help you master the biggest AI platforms with a single, self-paced curriculum. And for a limited time, you can secure lifetime access to The Ultimate AI Assistant Masterclass for just $15.99 (MSRP $39).

ChatGPT for Mac can now act as a note-taking assistant in meetings. The new Meetings plugin takes notes during calls and provides a personalized summary afterward.

You can also share meeting notes with your team members or ask ChatGPT to take follow-up actions based on them.

The Apple Watch Translate app can help you quickly speak in a different language while you’re abroad, right from your wrist. Translate between 20 different languages by speaking out loud, play translations out of your Apple Watch speaker and build a list of favorite phrases you can play instantly.

Keep reading or watch our video to learn how to use it.

Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris was made for consoles but is perfect for mobile. The action-puzzler delivers a compact arcade-style game easily broken up into playable chunks.

So it makes complete sense that Feral Interactive brought the game to iPhone and iPad. And rather than creating a stripped-down mobile version, Feral has delivered what is essentially the full 2014 game, including its downloadable content.

The result is an unusually complete mobile port that holds up surprisingly well more than a decade after the original’s release. I loved the original and I’m enjoying the heck out of the port.

Siri AI on Apple TV looks closer than ever, thanks to fresh code found in the latest tvOS 27.2 beta. The code references Apple’s foundation models and a new Siri messaging framework.

Both hint that the next Apple TV set-top box could get Apple Intelligence features, possibly as soon as October 13.

October 6, 1997: Michael Dell makes an incredibly bleak appraisal of Apple’s fortunes, uttering a quote that will become notorious. Asked what he would do with the struggling company, the founder of Dell Inc. says he would “shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”

As incorrect forecasts go, this ultimately will go down as one of the more notable in tech history. But it doesn’t seem that way at the time.

Text-to-speech software is useful, but most of the stuff you actually want to convert isn’t sitting neatly inside a text box. It’s in PDFs, presentations, web pages, images and documents. AnyToSpeech solves that problem easily — it’s designed to turn all those formats into natural-sounding audio.

It quickly turns text, PDFs, documents, images and URLs into audio, and can even clone your voice, transcribe media and create two-speaker podcasts. And right now, you can secure lifetime access to AnyToSpeech’s Hobby Plan for just $39.99 (MSRP $249). 

The right accessory can make your iPhone or Mac even more useful. A compact charger can replace several power adapters in your travel bag, while a Thunderbolt dock can simplify your Mac desk setup.

Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days give you a chance to pick up these upgrades for less. Below, we have rounded up the best accessories worth checking out.

Apple’s October launch plans might extend beyond its rumored October 13 event, with the first touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro potentially debuting later in the month.

This could make its rumored October 13 smart home event just the start of a much bigger launch spree.

You can already get a real deal on an M6 Mac mini even though Apple only launched the tiny desktop last month. This deal is kind of amazing for such a new model, dropping the base model to $779.99, saving you $119.

Or you can save on the new M5 Pro Mac mini with faster performance. An Amazon deal drops the base configuration for this variant to $1,549.99.

A new open-source tool lets Mac users remove Apple Intelligence from macOS 27 and regain 12GB of storage or more. Named RemoveMacAI, the tool runs from Terminal.

Apple took away the Apple Intelligence master switch in macOS 27. Now, if you turn off individual features, the AI models still sit on your drive. On a Mac with a small SSD, that’s a lot of dead weight.

Apple CEO John Ternus is reportedly spending far more time in the design studio than Tim Cook ever did. He’s there several times a week, sometimes more than once a day.

It’s clearly different from the Tim Cook era. Many people think design influence at Apple slipped after Jony Ive left the company back in 2019, but Ternus seems determined to fix that.