Amazon's MacBook Air deals this April 1 are no joke, with $200 off both M1 and M2 models.April markdowns hit the MacBook Air.Kicking off the sale at Amazon is the lowest price we've seen in 30 days on the standard M2 Air with an 8-core GPU, 8GB of memory and a 256GB SSD in your choice of Space Gray, Silver or Gold. Now discounted to $999.99, the $200 price drop marks the cheapest price available on the latest iteration of the ultraportable Air, according to our M2 MacBook Air Price Guide.

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A quickfire series of tweets to the Apple TV Twitter account wasn't a hacking, but a prelude to a quick-fire trailer for shows and films on Apple TV+.[Apple TV+/Twitter]On Saturday morning, after promoting the MLS Season Pass, the Apple TV Twitter account then started releasing a series of tweets. While normally expected from social media accounts for some brands, the content of the tweets and the seemingly unconnected nature between them all may have confused its followers.

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Whether buying a croissant in Paris or haggling over souvenirs in Bali, you must know if you are getting a fair price. Here's an app that helps you convert currencies when traveling abroad, even without Wi-Fi.My Currency Converter and Rates app reviewAs its name implies, My Currency Converter and Rates is an app that helps you calculate currencies. Using a currency converter app is vital for international travelers to ensure they are not getting tricked into paying too much for goods and services.

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Today's top deals include 20% off TurboTax Deluxe 2022, $100 off a Samsung 65-inch QLED 4K Smart TV, $100 off a Robosen Transformers Optimus Prim Elite G1, and moreDiscounts on the iPad Mini, Ninth-gen iPad, and AirTags are in Saturday's deals. The AppleInsider deals crew scours the internet for massive deals at online retailers to compile a list of bargains for you to enjoy, including discounts on Apple products, storage devices, accessories, TVs and other gadgets. We share the best offers in our Daily Deals list to help save you money.

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Snap up exclusive savings on Apple's 2023 Mac mini with M2, with the 512GB model dipping to $699 on top of a new price drop on AppleCare.Save $100 on this 512GB Mac mini.For those seeking a powerful yet compact computing device, the 2023 M2 Mac mini with 512GB of storage is a great option. Powered by Apple's M2 chip, it offers exceptional speed, efficiency, and performance, all within a sleek design.

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The UK antitrust authority's bid to investigate Apple's browser dominance on iOS has been stopped before it really got going — but not because of the merits of Apple's case.Cloud games are restricted in the App StoreThe UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced in November that it would investigate the dominance of Apple and Google in the mobile browser market, with a focus on mobile gaming. In particular, the CMA wanted to examine Apple's decision to restrict cloud gaming apps in the App Store.

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Apple announced WWDC this week. The annual event takes place in June as it always does with an event in Cupertino and the rest being held online. One product we might get a glimpse of is Apple Goggles or Glasses, whatever you want to call them. Of course there will be lots of information about the new operating systems for all of the company’s products. Dave and I also look at the recently released Apple Music Classical app.

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General Motors plans to gradually replace CarPlay and Android Auto in its vehicles, in favor of an in-house infotainment system developed with Google, leaning on subscription services.GM snubs CarPlayAs Apple prepares to launch the next generation of CarPlay it teased in 2022, some automobile manufacturers are taking a step back. For example, after being late to the game in integrating third-party systems, GM will no longer offer CarPlay and Android Auto in future electric vehicles, starting with the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer.

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The New York Philharmonic will perform at Apple Fifth Avenue to celebrate the launch of Apple's new classical music streaming app.Image Credit: AppleThe event, which is already full, will take place on Friday, March 31, at 6:00 pm. It is expected to run for about 45 minutes.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook is continuing his tour of China and has now met the "phenomenal team" behind hit game and previous Apple Design Award winner "Genshin Impact."Tim Cook in Shanghai (Source: Weibo)Cook was one of the few US CEOs to attend the revived China Development Forum, and then later met with the Chinese Commerce Minister. Just as with his previous tours of Japan, and also Europe, Cook has added developer visits to his itinerary.

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WWDC 2023 kicks off on June 5th, there are some questions about the launch of the rumored AR headset, Apple Music Classical is officially available, and more, all on this week's episode of the AppleInsider Podcast.Apple Music Classical is hereYour hosts discuss WWDC 2023 and what may or may not be announced. The Apple AR headset was all but confirmed until it wasn't, and rumors suggest internal sentiment about the product is quite negative.

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Police tracked a suspected luggage thief with an AirTag that the owner wisely stashed in his luggage, and busted the bandit wearing the owner's clothes.AirTag on a bagIn yet another incident where AirTags reunited an owner with their suitcase, Jameel Reid in Georgia recovered his luggage and "about $3,000 worth of stuff" in it.

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The Emotn N1 projector, with its officially licensed Netflix app onboard, is a simple-to-use product that just works.N1 projectorThe Emotn N1 is a portable projector officially licensed with Netflix, meaning the app is on the projector and ready to start streaming as soon as you log in to your account.

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The Beats brand has recently released a new Beats Flex in collaboration with Girls Don’t Cry and Verdy. The custom-designed Beats Flex has a blue and red theme, and a heart charm that can be attached or de-attached to the cable part of the earphones. The collaboration is between Apple, the Girls Don’t Cry project, [...]

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Apple today set the date for its anticipated WWDC 2023 on June 5 to 9. The 34th annual Worldwide Developers Conference will be an online-only event and will take place starting June 5 through 9. All developers and those interested can join the conference without having to register or pay to access it. Apple will [...]

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Apple has updated Pages, Numbers, and Keynote to support Apple Pencil's recent hover mode and other improvements.Apple updates iWork appsApple is currently issuing upgrades to its collection of iWork apps after updating its operating systems with iOS 16.4, macOS Ventura 13.3, and other releases. They include various fixes for bugs and performance and an Apple Pencil feature for iPad Pro.

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Rapidly declining laptop sales are a grave portent for India's overall PC market, but Apple's dominance of the tablet portion of that market with the iPad remains a bright spot.iPad shipments dominated in Q4 2022The PC market in India, which comprises desktops, notebooks, and tablets, fell 4% year-over-year to 5.1 million units in quarter three of 2022. Notebook shipments drove the overall decline, decreasing by 21%.

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Today's top deals include an EyeVac home touchless stationary vacuum for $90, an LG 50" Class 4K webOS Smart TV for $318, 65% off a Seagate Expansion 16TB external hard drive, and 74% off a 2-pack of mophie car chargers.Get an Self Emptying Robot Vac for $98The AppleInsider team scours the web for stellar deals at online stores to create a list of top-notch bargains on trending tech items, including discounts on Apple products, TVs, accessories, and other gadgets. We post the most valuable finds in our Daily Deals list to help put money back in your pocket.

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Apple wants to know every time you move a muscle in any part of your body, so it can more accurately build a picture of your fitness, and also possibly map your location in a room better.Apple already has technology such as accelerometers in the Apple Watch that mean it's able to automatically detect you're walking, even though you forgot to turn on the Outdoor Walk workout. It also recently applied for a patent for a camera on the Apple Watch which, as well as for photography, was about detecting movement.Now two separate patent applications have been revealed, which despite being applied for a year apart, both aim to detect every movement — and use it.

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If a new rumor is correct, the MacBook Air will get a high-tech OLED screen at some point after a migration to the technology in the MacBook Pro and iPad.M2 MacBook Air (left) and M1 MacBook Air (right)A supply chain report from Korean publication The Elec discusses mostly who will make the screens for the device, but not specifically when. The display for the rumored OLED MacBook Air is said to be made by Samsung, as LG is busy making OLED for iPad.

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An Apple Watch takes a dive without its owner but is recovered a day later and returned without damage thanks to Lost Mode.Apple Watch Series 3There are regular reports of working iPhones being recovered from bodies of water, but rarely, if ever, an Apple Watch. However, one unlucky man from Praia Grande would put his Apple Watch's water resistance to the test.

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Some users have reported Apple Pay services are down, from Apple Cash to Apple Card, and Apple is investigating the problem.Apple Pay and Wallet is downApple Pay and Apple Wallet have been down since around 4:15 p.m. EST on Wednesday. The outage prevents certain Apple Pay transactions or payments to the Apple Card from working.

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Enlarge / A woman uses AutoCAD on a MacBook Pro in this promotional image from Autodesk. (credit: Autodesk)

It has been two years and four months since the first Apple Silicon Mac hit the market, and now Autodesk has finally updated some of its massively popular professional applications (AutoCAD and Maya) to run natively on M1 and M2 chips.

The availability of AutoCAD for Mac 2024 was announced in a blog post on Autodesk's website on March 28. Like other major AutoCAD updates, it adds new features like expanded automation tools and easier workflows, but the announcement that "for the first time,...

Apple’s long-awaited classical music app is now available on the App Store. App rollout began on March 27 for international users, with most seeing the app on the App Store a day later. It’s localized for regions in Spain, Portuguese, Italy, Germany, France, The Netherlands, and the UK, and works on iPod and iPhone that [...]

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Apple recently partnered up with PlayStudios to offer a one-month free trial of its Apple TV+ service by playing Tetris. In a marketing move, Apple will reward players who play Tetris through PlayStudios free Apple TV+ for one month. Tetris is available to play on the playAwards platform, where gamers can earn points by completing [...]

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Mark your calendars—Apple has announced that its Worldwide Developer Conference will kick off on 5 June 2023. Will the keynote reveal more than the next versions of Apple's operating systems?

Verizon's AirPods Pro 2 deal offers best-of-the-web pricing on the earbuds, beating Amazon.com by $40.AirPods Pro 2 are heavily discounted today.Verizon's $194.99 price on second-generation AirPods Pro rings in as the cheapest available, according to the AppleInsider AirPods Price Guide.

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Apple set a June 5 date for the event where it plans to unveil a mixed-reality headset, the first major new product since its smartwatch debuted eight years ago. From a report: The company scheduled its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, better known as WWDC, to kick off on that Monday and run through Friday, June 9. It typically uses the first day of the conference to discuss its next-generation platforms and operating systems. This year's conference will be held as an "all-day experience" at headquarters in Cupertino, California. Central to the agenda this time around will be the headset, likely to be dubbed the Reality One or Reality Pro, Bloomberg News has reported. Apple will also showcase the accompanying xrOS operating system and a way for developers to write apps for the device.

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The Apple of 1976 should be unrecognizable compared to today's gigantic corporation, and yet key early decisions by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and more, are still having their effect today.Steve Jobs with the original Macintosh, made eight years after Apple's foundingTim Cook marked the 45th anniversary of Apple with a tweet looking back to his friend and colleague, co-founder Steve Jobs.

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A handful of macOS apps let you make near-exact copies of your Mac's storage devices, which can be handy for backing up in case of a data emergency.Sometimes it's handy to make a full, complete, exact copy of one of your Mac's drives - especially the Startup Disk. Due to the complexity of macOS's UNIX underpinnings and the huge number of files installed with macOS, making a disk clone can be a daunting task.There are several apps you can use to make a disk clone or to back up and restore your Mac's drives and volumes. These include, but are not limited to:

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Apple's Beats by Dre is collaborating with Verdy's "Girls Don't Cry" brand on a special edition of Beats Flex earbuds that go on sale March 31.Beats by Dre and Girls Don't CryBeats by Dre announced the partnership on Twitter and showed the new design in a YouTube video. It features model Jasmine Daniels lying in bed listening to "Something I Need" by Koteri.

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A new report delves into how iPhone and Android smartphones both stay in good shape for years, enabling them to be reused — but Android smartphones fare slightly better at maintaining good battery life.iPhone batteryThe majority of old iPhones are reused in some way, whether it's being given to a friend or member of the family, or exchanged for a new one. Some people also keep their old iPhones as a spare or backup.

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Robocalls can be the bane of your mobile life. Here's how you can deal with the extremely annoying and unwanted phone calls.Tired of receiving robocalls on your iPhone? You're not alone. It's not just the hassle of being interrupted (maybe even infuriated) every time one comes through.Picking up, let alone interacting with, a robocall can put you in real danger of being defrauded or otherwise scammed.

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A new rumor claims that Apple is adapting a super-low energy mode so that whether a battery is dead, or the phone is turned off, its new buttons can react to touch.Render of new buttons on the iPhone 15 Pro modelsApple's A16 Bionic, and other A-series chips, already feature an energy-saving mode. It's specifically designed so functions such as Find My and Apple Pay can work when a battery is so depleted that the phone has turned off.

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Seoul's fifth Apple Store opens on March 31 and will feature a limited-time Pop-Up Studio experience featuring K-pop band NewJeans.Apple GangnamApple previously shared that the Apple Gangnam retail location would open on March 31. The company even offers a dedicated Apple Music playlist celebrating Gangnam's, well, style.

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With the limited launch today of a new service called Apple Pay Later, Apple will now lend money directly to users through the Wallet app on devices like the iPhone.

We first  heard about the service in 2021, and it was officially announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2022. It faced several delays, though, as iOS 16 began...

The high-end MacBook Pro with a top-of-the-line M2 Max chip is $300 off in addition to a new $80 price drop on AppleCare.Save $300 on this 2023 MacBook Pro.The exclusive $300 discount is valid at Adorama, an Apple Authorized Reseller that has been in business since 1974. When promo code APINSIDER is entered during Step 3 of checkout at Adorama, readers can unlock savings on every 2023 Mac, including the M2 Max-equipped 16-inch configuration with a 38-core GPU, 32GB of unified memory and a spacious 1TB SSD.

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You don't need to use fiddly physical SIM cards anymore. Here's how to get started using the modern eSIM with your iPhone.You don't need physical SIM cards anymore [PublicDomainPictures/Pixabay]A SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is that tiny contact-covered card your carrier provides so your iPhone and other devices work on their cellular network. However, in a constantly-evolving market, they, too, have been replaced by something newer.

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Apple’s iOS 16.4 update brings the iPhone 14 feature Emergency SOS via Satellite to six new regions. In a press release, Apple said that Emergency SOS via Satellite will go live in Portugal, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Belgium, and Austria. For the iPhone 14 to work the device has to be updated to iOS 16.4. [...]

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Apple Pencil Hover is a new feature that’s coming to the iPadOS 16.4 update. Leslie Ikemoto, Input Experience Director, and Stephen Tonna, Platform Product Marketing Director recently spoke in a TechCrunch interview about the hover feature. With Procreate as the software, the two discussed how users will now see a mark on the screen whenever [...]

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Apple has restarted the beta cycle once again, with the release of the first developer beta of macOS Ventura 13.4 for testers to try out.macOS Ventura gets a new betaDevelopers signed up for the beta program can pick the latest builds via the Apple Developer Center, or by updating Macs already running beta software. Public beta versions usually arrive a little after the developer versions, and are accessible by the Apple Beta Software Program.

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China has advised Apple, one of the most privacy-forward tech companies in the world, to improve its data security practices.Tim Cook at the Summit in 2019Apple CEO Tim Cook took part in Beijing's China Development Forum, which involved a lot of discussions with senior government figures. However, in the case of one official, it seems they made an odd statement to the company.

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Apple: Apple today introduced Apple Pay Later in the U.S. Designed with users' financial health in mind, Apple Pay Later allows users to split purchases into four payments, spread over six weeks with no interest and no fees. Users can easily track, manage, and repay their Apple Pay Later loans in one convenient location in Apple Wallet. Users can apply for Apple Pay Later loans of $50 to $1,000, which can be used for online and in-app purchases made on iPhone and iPad with merchants that accept Apple Pay. Starting today, Apple will begin inviting select users to access a prerelease version of Apple Pay Later, with plans to offer it to all eligible users in the coming months.

Apple Pay Later is built right into Wallet, so users can seamlessly view, track, and manage all of their loans in one place. With Apple Pay Later in Wallet, users can easily see the total amount due for all of their existing loans, as well as the total amount due in the next 30 days. Apple Pay Later is...

To tantalize would-be listeners, Apple Music Classical has offered a sneak peek at an exclusive performance of one of Beethoven's concertos by two talented women in classical music.Apple Music Classical rolled out on Monday, providing curated access to a range of classical and classical-inspired music.A new ad uploaded to the Apple Music YouTube channel on Tuesday gives users a quick look at what they can expect when using Apple Music Classical. The ad touts the app's spatial audio and robust search features, allowing listeners to search by artist, conductor, composer, instrument, and orchestra.

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A future iPad could be made with an enclosure entirely formed from glass, giving Apple's tablet a striking new appearance.An iPad or iPad Pro may one day be encased in glass, without an aluminum backing. The iPad and iPad Pro lines differ from the iPhone in a number of ways, but a big one is in construction. While the iPhone is glass-backed, the iPad lineup still relies on a metal enclosure covering its back side.

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