Enter the world of Steven Universe with Unleash the Light on Apple Arcade. Photo: Turner Broadcasting/Apple
Fans of Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe can play as their favorite character in Unleash the Light, a role playing game that just launched on Apple Arcade.
These books offer rare insights into an incredibly secretive company. Image: Killian Bell
Whether you’re buying for yourself or a friend or family member, there’s no shortage of great books about Apple. But with so many millions of words written about the Cupertino company over the years, which books most deserve your time?
Allow Cult of Mac‘s gift guide to fill you in on the 10 Apple books that deserve space on your shelf.
Big changes are predicted for the 2020 iPhone lineup. Photo: Ben Geskin
Apple’s next-generation iPhone 12 lineup could introduce a more compact 5.4-inch model, according to a new report.
The handset could be a Pro model, despite its smaller size, with a high-end OLED display supplied by Samsung. And it could replace the 5.8-inch option we’re already familiar with.
The high-end iPhone 12 Pro Max, on the other hand, could get even larger with a 6.7-inch display.
Japan Display makes Apple's LCD displays. Photo: Apple
There’s more bad news for struggling Apple display-maker Japan Display. After news of a former executive embezzling funds, the company has announced that it will be reviewing its past earnings.
That’s a major headache at a time when the ailing business is trying to raise 50 billion yen ($460 million) from Apple and other investors.
Learn 14 languages through more than 10,000 hours of high-quality language education online. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals
New languages can be hard to learn, but mastering one is like getting a passport to the wider world. Just imagine what opportunities open up when you learn a dozen languages.
This online service will give you the tools you need to learn up to 14 languages. Its format makes the process easy (and even fun). And big discounts make it more affordable than ever.
Even Apple didn't expect the AirPods Pro to be the hit they've been. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac
Apple is reportedly doubling production of the AirPods Pro from 1 million to 2 million units per month. That suggests that even Apple is surprised by how big a hit they have proven.
Coming to Apple TV+ soon. Photo: St. Martin's Griffin
When India launches an incentive program to lure production companies to make movies in the country, Apple apparently wants in. According to a new report, upcoming Apple TV+ series Shantaram might become “one of the first major foreign productions to tap into the country’s impending film incentives scheme.”
You can get up to $20 free. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac
Apple is now offering customers 10% in bonus credit when they add funds to their Apple ID.
The promotion offers a maximum bonus of $20. It can be spent in iTunes and the App Store, or on services like iCloud, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, and app subscription fees.
Apple's privacy stance is good. But is there a Photo: Apple
Most people seem to agree that Apple’s stance on user privacy is a good one. However, U.S. lawmakers suggest it could be a cover for something else: anti-competitive behavior.
According to a new report, some legislators think Apple might be using privacy as a “shield” to get away with behavior that lets it strengthen its own position, while hurting rivals.
Redout: Space Assault is just one of the games that debuted this month on Apple Arcade. Photo: Apple/34BigThings
To make sure some of the best titles recently added to Apple Arcade don’t get overlooked, Apple created a video preview showing off the action from Redout: Space Assault, The Mosaic, Sociable Soccer, Monomals, and more.
And find up to $80 off Apple Watch Series 5! Photos: Apple, Casetify, Amazon
Retailers just can’t stop slashing prices on Apple Watch Series 3. Amazon is now offering brand-new units from just $169.99 — the lowest price to date! Go grab yours now before they all sell out.
Steve Jobs signatures are rare, and this one is on a nice piece of Apple memorabilia. Photo: RR Auctions
Rare Apple computers made in the 1970s sell for amazing sums, but a bit of company memorabilia is up for auction at a price an average Mac fan might be able to afford. Which isn’t to say that a 3.5-inch disk signed by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is expected to go for cheap.
The new AirPods Pro are shaping up to be one of the most asked for items on peoples’ Christmas lists this season, there’s just one small problem: shipping times on Apple.com are showing units won’t arrive until after Santa Claus comes to town.
Touch sensitive and toasty. Photo: David Pierini/Cult of Mac
For the longest time, winter gloves had one job: Keep our hands warm. When smartphones came along, things got complicated for gloves.
Consumers demanded a fabric conductive enough for our gloved hands to work our touchscreens. Simple enough — except, of course, on really cold days, when fingers inside those typically thin touchscreen gloves felt like icicles.
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Ocean’s 11-style capers, whether in movies or in the real world, are a lot more colorful than the typical online heist. But they are usually a lot less lucrative than real-life cybercrimes. The top online thefts in recent history netted copious amounts of cash or financial data. And despite increasing sophistication, hackers sitting at their keyboards often have a considerably easier time of it than George Clooney’s all-star cast of super-grifters did in the movie.
If the top five online heists described below don’t make you feel the acute need to review your own personal online financial security, they should.
Pixelmator Photo should be on every photographer’s iPad. Photo: Nuria Gregori
Pixelmator decided to get a jump start on Black Friday. It’s offering Mac users who need a capable image editor a 25% discount on Pixelmator Pro, but that’s just the start: iPad fans can get Pixelmator Photo completely free.
Charging -- not just about cables any more. Photo: Cult of Mac
Charging an iPhone used to be so simple. You’d grab your 30-pin dock connector cable, the one that was almost as big as an AirPods charging case, and you’d jam it into the huge slot on the bottom of your iPhone. Then you’d wait.
Today, the kids don’t know how easy they have it. They can plug in a svelte, skinny Lightning cable to charge their iPhones, but they can also opt for several other ultra-modern (and probably fashionable) charging methods. Hell, even the olde worlde cable method has some high-tech, high-speed alternatives.
Let’s get right into it. Here are six different ways you can charge your iPhone.
Variety calls Servant the “most watchable show yet” on Apple TV+. Photo: Apple
After binging on Thanksgiving dinner you can binge on Servant, a new horror series debuting on Apple TV+ tomorrow. It’s creepy and compelling enough to pull in generally positive reviews, and for Apple to greenlight the second season.
Go wide! The new Moment fisheye lens lets you shoot in Night Mode and capture RAW images on the iPhone 11 series. Photo: Moment
By now, we’ve learned that two of the three rear-facing cameras on the iPhone 11 Pro are worthy of the Pro name. The third, the ultra-wide, is merely adequate.
Mobile phone lens-maker Moment has a new chunk of glass to bring fisheye drama to your photos with the image quality you expect from a camera with Pro in the name.
Apple's got some fascinating ideas for Apple Car. Photo: Aristomenis Tsirbas/Freelancer
Currently, drivers only have the rearview and side mirrors of a car to let them know what’s going on behind them. But a new Apple invention describes an upgrade — that may eliminate blind spots by projecting mirrored images of the surrounding environment onto the window or windshield.
This could give the driver more contextual information about their surroundings, depending on where they are.
These great iPhone and Mac accessories won't break the bank. Photo: Cult of Mac Deals
Upgrading your digital gear doesn’t have to mean draining your wallet. For proof, check out these five deals on accessories for under $15. They include camera covers, Lightning cables, iPhone cases and more.
Apple stock may have risen fairly consistently through 2019, but that hasn’t been enough to stop Harvard dumping the stock.
Harvard Management Company, the Harvard-owned investment company which is the largest academic endowment in the world, has sold all of its Apple stock. At the end of the second quarter of 2019, it owned more than $100 million of AAPL.
Apple has another lawsuit slapped out of court. Photo: Apple
A California judge this week dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed against Apple over claims it “sold and otherwise exposed” the listening data of Apple Music and iTunes users.
U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup found that the evidence presented by plaintiffs was inadequate. They are now blocked from bringing amended claims against Apple in the future.