Apple's Hide My Email gets caught leaking real addresses, the EU hands Apple another loss, Meta's smart glasses run into privacy tampering, Trump's FIFA favor blows up on Team USA, and we hook you up with how to wipe your number before selling your iPhone.

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Hide My Email Had One Job

Apple Intelligence Starts Snitching on Google Cloud

Apple Loses Its EU Digital Markets Act Appeal

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Meta Locks Down Tampered Smart Glasses

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Trump, FIFA, and Team USA's World Cup Exit

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How to wipe Your Number Before You Sell Your iPhone

The numbers are out, but how will the people respond?

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Real Numbers behind Apple Increases

OpenAI Is Raiding Apple's House

Apple Is Lobbying US to Buy Chips From a Chinese Military Company

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Google Just Killed the GIFs — Well, Sort of

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BET Awards 2026

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How to NOT Get Scammed on Your World Cup Tickets

RAM shortages, lawsuits, AI passports, and a $40 vinyl that's got Black Twitter in its feelings.

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Your Next iPhone Is About to Cost More — Tim Cook Said So

Congress Wants Inside the App Store — Apple Is Not Having It

Apple vs. Jon Prosser: The Liquid Glass Leak Has Consequences

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Show Your ID to Use AI? Apple Wallet Could Be the Key

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Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt Turns 30 — But Did He Have to Pick Target?

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How to Stop Your AirPods From Jumping to Other Speakers

Apple's raising prices and we're going to complain, pre-order, and repeat.

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The iPhone Fold Is Basically Confirmed

Apple Is Paying Out $250 Million for Overhyping Sir

Apple confirms price increases are coming to its products due to RAM shortage

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U.S. Government Pulled the Plug on Anthropic's Most Powerful AI

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FIFA Fun!

Happy Juneteenth

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Double Your Cash Back at Nike with Apple Card

Siri finally showed up, Meta got exposed, and the World Cup's real scandal is at the arrivals gate — it's a lot.

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Siri AI — what it actually does now, and who doesn't get it

macOS 27 "Golden Gate" — what Mac users need to know

Apple Home Secure Video — Apple Intelligence now tells you what's on your cameras

Time Allowance — Apple completely overhauled parental controls

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Meta quietly shipped facial recognition to 50 million phones — then deleted it after getting caught

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The World Cup is here — and some athletes are being welcomed like suspects

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Your AirPods are a camera shutter button — here's how to use them

WWDC’s All Systems Glow event kicks off on Monday and we get into what may be launched.

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WWDC 2026 — "All Systems Glow" Drops Monday

Apple's Smart Home Era Is Finally Here… Maybe

The Apple Design Awards — Apple Just Told You Exactly What It Values

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IBM Just Bet $10 Billion That Quantum Computing Is No Longer a Dream

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Roots Picnic 2026 — Jay-Z Showed Up, Showed Out, and the Internet Has Not Recovered

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Schedule Messages in iMessage

From yield issues on the iPhone Fold to paying Google to fix Siri, Apple is having a moment — and we've got receipts.

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iPhone Fold Production Problems

Apple Smart Glasses: 4 Designs Revealed

Apple Pays Google $1B to Rebuild Siri

Apple Splits iPhone 18 Launch Into Two Windows

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Sam Altman: AI Won't Kill White Collar Jobs

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Big Tech Kills DEI — Black Creators Fight Back

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How to Customize Your iPhone Alarm Snooze in iOS 26

AI definitely gets a (deserved) bad rap, but there is definitely a good side.

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Getting free AirPods Pro 3 sounds simple until the Apple Card fine print kicks in

iOS 26’s Wallet app has long-awaited order tracking fix, here’s how to use it

Apple announces AI-powered accessibility features and eye-controlled wheelchair functionality

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Hands-On With All of Google’s New Upcoming Android XR Smart Glasses

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Election Day across the country

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Lock Individual Apps with Face ID

Apple cuts a $250M check over Siri's broken promises, we look at who's making Apple's chips next, OpenAI enters the media game, and SC State students go toe-to-toe with a lieutenant governor — plus a tip that'll make you never wait on hold agai

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Apple's $250M Siri Settlement — You Might Get a Check

iOS 26.5 RC: What's New Before WWDC

Apple Eyes Intel & Samsung for U.S. Chip Production

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OpenAI Just Bought a Media Company

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SC State vs. The Lt. Governor: HBCUs Under Fire

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How to Never Wait on Hold Again With Your iPhone

Apple built the most exclusive club in tech, but the velvet rope is down, AirDrop crossed the aisle, and Android just pulled up.

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iOS 26.4 gave your iPhone an alarm feature that’s long been missing

Apple cuts interest rate for Apple Card Savings accounts… AGAIN

Apple Vision Pro Used in World-First Cataract Surgery

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AirDrop is now widely available on Android phones

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Future Faking or Change of Heart

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Quick video editing on iPhone