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Sound like a superhero with new wireless AI gaming microphone

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Maono DM40 Pro Wireless Gaming Microphone
In white or black, Maono's new USB/Wireless microphone offers AI-powered voice effects and more.
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The new Maono DM40 Pro Wireless Gaming Microphone brings professional-grade audio quality and cool features like AI voice effects, the company said Tuesday. Also sporting Apple-esque design sensibilities, the new mic looks like a great companion for your Mac gaming and streaming setup. And you can get 10% off right now, too.

Satechi Stand & Hub for M4 Mac mini: Sleek and super-useful [Review] ★★★★

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Satechi M4 Mac mini hub and stand★★★★
The Satechi Stand & Hub for the M4 Mac mini is a sleek and practical accessory.
Photo: Rajesh Pandey/Cult Of Mac

The M4 Mac mini stands out as one of the best value-for-money Macs in Apple’s lineup. But it’s not perfect, with the lack of an SD card slot and USB-A ports being two major annoyances. Satechi’s Mac Mini M4 Stand & Hub with SSD Enclosure aims to address these flaws while offering a way to expand storage on the cheap.

That’s a bold pitch. So, does the accessory deliver? Here’s what I found.

These open earbuds pair all-day comfort with killer sound for $40

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Photo of a man wearing Treblab X-Open earbuds
Grab these open-ear earbuds if you don't like the feel (or price) of AirPods.
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Treblab’s X-Open wireless earbuds prove you don’t need to pay a high price for premium wireless audio. These open earbuds deliver all-day comfort, crystal-clear sound and a surprisingly impressive feature set for just $39.99 (regularly $99.97) with free shipping.

Score a powerful Anker charger combo on the cheap

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Anker charger deal
I'll have what she's having. It's an Anker MagGo 3-in-1 charger, included among Anker's current deals.
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With one great Anker charger deal — or maybe two or three — you can cover most if not all of your device-charging needs. That’s because accessories powerhouse Anker offers an array of deals on charging combos like power banks bundled with cables or pairs of different chargers bundled together at up to 10% off through June 30. So with one purchase, you can save up to $55 and get two products at once. Whether you want to save even more with additional purchases is up to you. See the deals below.

How to manually add a workout to Apple Fitness+

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Log Your Own Workouts
Add workouts by hand if you’re missing some.
Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac

You can manually add a workout to Apple Fitness+ if you need to log some exercise while you weren’t wearing your Apple Watch. Maybe your watch ran out of battery at the start of your run, or maybe you simply forgot to turn it on. By adding a missing workout, you can give yourself credit for the exercise you did.

This power could be used for evil as well as good. You could, hypothetically, say you ran a three-hour marathon every day last week. But you would only be fooling yourself.

To find out how to add a workout to Apple Fitness+, watch our short video or keep reading below.

iPhone 17 Pro might miss out on major display upgrade

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Will iPhone SE owners buy iPhone 16e
No anti-reflective upgrade for this year's iPhone.
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The iPhone 17 Pro will reportedly miss out on a key display upgrade. Apple seems set to skip the planned anti-reflective coating on its next Pro iPhones.

Apple offers a similar nano-texture coating as an optional upgrade on the MacBook Pro lineup.

Dual MacBook rig seems quite at home in camera and Lego museum [Setups]

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Lego models and camera collection
Plenty of users adorn their setups with knick-knacks, but rarely do we see such extensive collections. And a pooch, no less.
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OK, today’s MacBook setup doesn’t actually live in a camera and Lego museum like the headline on this post suggests — but close enough. The user is clearly a collector. The sheer number of cameras on display is impressive, and the Lego Star Wars spaceships flying up high on a shelf in the photo inspire some awe, too. And it’s not every day we see a dual-MacBook setup with both mounted open on stands, either.

3 Apple TV+ shows score BAFTA TV craft awards

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3 Apple TV+ shows score BAFTA TV craft awaards
Darkly funny espionage thriller "Slow Horses" won two BAFTA Television Craft Awards.
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Celebrated Apple TV+ shows Slow Horses, Bad Sisters and The Velveteen Rabbit won BAFTA Television Craft Awards at a ceremony Sunday in London. Espionage thriller Slow Horses nabbed two while the others took home one apiece.

BAFTA’s craft awards are similar to technical Emmy and Oscars awards, bestowed separately from the main awards. The main BAFTA awards ceremony takes place May 11.

Which Apple Watch should you buy?

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Photo of Apple watch to illustrate Apple Watch buying guide
See which Apple Watch makes the most sense for your lifestyle.
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Confused about which Apple Watch to buy? With Apple Watch Ultra 2, Apple Watch Series 10 and Apple Watch SE currently vying for your wallet’s attention, it all depends on what you want out of a smartwatch — and how much you’re willing to pay.

This buying guide breaks down what each Apple Watch does best, helping you match your needs (and budget) with the right device, whether you’re a fitness enthusiast, an outdoor adventurer or simply looking for a reliable, everyday smartwatch.

Ends soon: $35 wireless charger will fast-charge your iPhone on the go

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This $40 wireless charger will fast-charge your phone on the go.
Apple fans love this speedy wireless iPhone charger, now on sale for just $35.97.
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Forget having to find a wall outlet to charge your phone, or even using a cable to connect an external battery pack. To charge your phone in real luxury is to enjoy fast charging, totally wire-free. And one of the best options we’ve found to enjoy just that is the Speedy Mag Wireless Charger for iPhone.

Usually $119.95, you can grab it right now for only $34.97. But this price drop won’t last forever.

I want everything in this Mac Studio workstation [Setups]

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pegboard stands
Pretty much every piece of this setup is enviable.
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Today’s featured computer setup pretty much has it all in terms of enviable gear, though it could use better lighting. Its M1 Max Mac Studio may not be the latest Apple M-series desktop, but it’s still formidable. And it drives a Pro Display XDR, perhaps the ultimate external monitor. And the setup even excels at the little things, including great audio gear and a pair of illuminated pegboard stands I’ve never seen before.

Things you can do with an old Apple Watch

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What To Do With An Old Apple Watch
Here are six useful things you should consider before you chuck it in a drawer.
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There are a few useful things you can do with an old Apple Watch after you upgrade to a new one. You might think of the Apple Watch as being a disposable product — because who would wear two watches? But there are actually quite a few surprising use cases for having a daily Apple Watch and a secondary watch.

Keep reading or watch our latest video.

Battle aches, pains and the dreaded tech neck with this stretching app

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Photo of the Moova break timer app opened on an iPhone.
Get up and get moving with a lifetime sub to Moova.
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Sitting all day is terrible for your long-term health, so break timer app Moova helps you sneak in exercise breaks. It offers more than 200 targeted exercises for battling stiffness, aches, RSI, bad posture and general low energy — without throwing off your daily routine.

Simple, effective and customizable, it’s an easy way to start feeling better ASAP. You don’t even need to set aside a ton of cash for monthly fees, either. You can grab a lifetime subscription for just $79.99 from Cult of Mac Deals (regularly $164.97).

Turn your hand-drawn sketches into AI images with Image Wand

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Turn Your Sketches Into “Art”
The quotation marks around “art” are doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
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Image Wand is a new feature in Apple Notes that turns rough sketches into full images — and creates images from scratch based on text prompts. Granted, it’s powered by Image Playground, so the imagery it creates isn’t exactly state of the art. Apple’s image-making tools still lag other AI systems. But if you’re a struggling artist, it may improve your squiggles.

Image Wand is part of Apple Intelligence, the growing set of AI features that work on the latest iPhones, Macs and iPads. It runs entirely on-device, so you don’t have to worry about usage limits, tokens or setting up accounts.

Check out how Image Wand works in the article below, or watch our quick video.

Apple plans to make all US iPhones in India

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More iPhones are made in India than you might think
Made in India iPhones could become common in the United States next year.
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In a major supply chain shift, Apple plans to move the production of all iPhones sold in the United States to India by the end of 2026. This move should allow the company to avoid the extra tariffs the U.S. government imposed on China amid escalating trade tensions.

Apple shifts robotics team to hardware as leadership shuffle continues

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Apple robotics team gets new leadership
This fanciful AI image may or may not approximate future Apple robotic products.
AI image: Grok

In another significant leadership reshuffle at Apple, a little-known robotics team will soon move from AI chief John Giannandrea’s oversight to John Ternus, Apple’s senior VP of Hardware Engineering, according to a new report Thursday.

This shift follows last month’s decision to remove Siri from Giannandrea’s responsibilities after concerns about execution on product development.

iOS 19 might transform your iPhone into a mini Mac

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iPhone mini mac
What if your iPhone could become a mini Mac?
AI concept: ChatGPT

An iPhone running iOS 19 will be able to display applications running in windows on an external screen, according to a Thursday report from a noted tipster.

If true, it’ll enable iOS to act much more Mac-like than ever before. If Apple continues developing in this direction, an iPhone could eventually be someone’s only computer .

All the ways Apple Watch has saved lives

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Apple Watch showing Emergency SOS feature.
Apple Watch has helped save plenty of lives.
Photo: Leander Kahney/Cult of Mac

The Apple Watch repeatedly saves lives around the world, thanks to its health monitoring features and emergency functions.

Here’s a comprehensive roundup of some of the most notable ways Apple Watch has saved people’s lives. From fit teenagers with undiagnosed health problems to car crash victims in danger of drowning, Apple’s smartwatch helps people cheat death in remarkable ways.

iPhone 17 ‘Air’ and Pro models set to get memory boost for AI

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iPhone 17 rumors
Even the rumored super-slim iPhone 17 "Air" may get 12GB RAM to handle AI tasks.
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Most of Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17 lineup may receive a significant memory upgrade that will power the next generation of Apple Intelligence features, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said Thursday. The iPhone Series 17 RAM boost will even come to the rumored ultra-thin iPhone 17 “Air.”

iPadOS 19 may add Mac-like home screen menu bar

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iPadOS 19 menu bar rumor
iPadOS 19 might get a home screen menu bar similar to the one in macOS.
Photo: Majin Bu

iPadOS 19 will include a menu bar at the top of the screen like the one in macOS, according to a noted tipster on Thursday. If true, it’ll be a major step toward making iPads act more like Macs.

In addition, the system for managing floating application windows is supposedly in for an upgrade in iPadOS 19.

Meet the greatest con artist of all time

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Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story
The podcast debuts June 23.
Photo: Apple TV+

In 1920, Italian immigrant Charles Ponzi defrauded investors in the Boston area and across the nation of what would today be a quarter of a billion dollars, going from penniless to the high life in no time and giving the classic “Ponzi scheme” its name, Apple TV+ said Thursday. It plans to tell the story of Ponzi’s mercurial rise and devastating fall in Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story, an eight-episode docudrama set to premiere on Apple Podcasts June 23.

And to listen, you can hook up your Apple TV+ account to Apple Podcasts to gain full access to the series. I’m betting it’s worth the investment of your time (but keep your money safe).

These iPhone-friendly binoculars let you see (and capture) nature’s beauty

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Binoculars with iPhone attached to the built-in adapter, with nature background
These $$69.99 binoculars connect to your iPhone or Android device.
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When you head outside to watch wildlife, you’d better bring a good pair of iPhone binoculars. These HD binoculars from Gllysion offer powerful magnification (up to 12x) and also let you bring home evidence of what you spotted.

Cult of Mac Deals has a small stash of these refurbished iPhone binoculars on sale for $69.99 (regularly $149.99). Don’t miss your chance to see more of the great outdoors.

10 years of Apple Watch history: A timeline

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Apple Watch: 2015 to 2025.
Technically it was announced in 2014, so it’s a little over ten years.
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For the 10th anniversary of its launch, we compiled over a decade of Apple Watch history into a quick timeline. Starting with the original three collections — including models in solid 18 karat gold — all the way to today’s far more advanced (and sensible) Apple Watch Series 10 and Ultra 2.

The Apple Watch was the first major product introduction of Tim Cook’s reign as Apple CEO. There was immense pressure on Apple to prove that it could still innovate without Steve Jobs. While the Apple Watch wasn’t as flashy as the iPhone and iPad, it’s grown into an incredible business rife with breakthrough technology, in one of the most physically constrained form factors yet.