Back in November, it was reported that Apple was working with film studio A24 to produce original movies. Now, Variety reports that the first initiative to come of that partnership is a feature film starring Bill Murray and Rashida Jones. The film is entitled “On the Rocks” and will mark the reunion of Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray, who previously worked together on the iconic film “Lost in Translation.” Rashida Jones of “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation” will also star in the film....

Apple TV 4 isn’t the only new hardware coming out of Cupertino today. Announced earlier this month, the new Beats Pill+ is now available to order for $229 in black or white finishes. The new portable Bluetooth speaker is the first new design to come out of Beats since Apple bought the headphones and speaker company last for $3 billion last year in part to use its Beats Music service as the foundation for Apple Music....

Stop it, AT&T (great name) notes that Apple has a job opening for a Carrier Engineering team member in the Kansas City Missouri area.(via MR) Sprint of course is based in the Kansas City (Kansas) suburb of Overland Park. Analysts recently reported that Apple would be rolling the iPhone to Sprint and T-Mobile later this year. Kansas City is also where Google plans to roll out its 1GB Fiber to the home project....

Apple is coming together with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla to deprecate the use of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 by early 2020. TLS stands for Transport Layer Security and is used to protect web traffic. ArsTechnica was first to report on the agreement, while Apple’s WebKit blog has also detailed the change. In a post on the WebKit blog, Apple’s Secure Transport team explained that TLS provides confidentiality and integrity of data transmitted between clients and servers:...

As we reported yesterday, Apple is now selling contract-free iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in retail stores and online. Following historic pattern, the 16 GB base model iPhone 6 costs $649 with higher tiers costing $100 extra. The iPhone 6 Plus starts at $749. Unlocked iPhones can be activated for use any carrier, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon or T-Mobile. Apple usually launches unlocked models of their phones a couple of months after normal debut, but this year it seems slightly delayed....

Apple has officially announced the dates for its annual WWDC event and keynote. This year, the event will take place entirely virtually from June 6 through June 10. This year at WWDC, we expect Apple to announce the future of its operating systems including iOS 16, watchOS 9, and macOS 13. Head below for all of the details on WWDC 2022. WWDC 2022 is official! Here’s what Apple says we can look forward to at WWDC 2022:...

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Apple has been requiring all customers to wear a mask in its retail stores, a policy the company unsuccessfully tried to discontinue last year. However, it seems that the company once again wants to drop the mask mandate for Apple Stores in the United States. As reported by Bloomberg on Tuesday, the company told its employees in a memo that customers will no longer be required to wear a mask in “eligible stores....

A new report from CNBC today dives into the differing usage of mobile payment platforms such as Apple Pay around the world. The report explains that while mobile payment usage is growing in many countries, adoption in the United States continues to lag. One of the drivers of mobile payment adoption by consumers in other countries is the fact the main alternative is cash. Gerard du Toit, partner and head of Bain’s banking and payments financial services practice in North America, explained that economies in countries such as China and India have long been heavily reliant on cash....

Apple continues to make moves into the arena of scripted television with news that the company plans to turn Terry Gilliam’s 1981 fantasy-adventure film Time Bandits into a TV series. The technology company reportedly has acquired the rights to the film, making it another potential offering in Apple’s soon-to-be available original content, along with projects from Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, Ron D. Moore, Damien Chazelle, and M. Night Shyamalan. And that’s in addition to the proposed Amazing Stories reboot that Bryan Fuller recently dropped out of, as well as Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V....

One month after Apple unveiled the iPhone 13 Pro, the company continues to promote the camera capabilities by showing how some users can stretch to the limit of these cameras and create beautiful images. This time, Apple commissioned an experiment with photographer Dong Hoon Jun and visual artist James Thorton for a sci-fi short. The video called “Movie Magic” shows that with the iPhone 13 Pro, users can shoot “practical special effects that look just like the movies....

After launching Big Sur to the public last week with macOS 11.0.1, Apple has released the 11.1 beta to developers. Apple made the macOS Big Sur 11.1 beta available via its Developer website and should arrive as an over-the-air update for those already enrolled in the beta. The macOS 11.1 beta just includes generic release notes, but it should come with bug fixes and performance improvements that many will be waiting for before upgrading to the major new Mac release (or since upgrading)....

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Apple had considered setting up an in-house medical service that would offer primary care clinics with doctors employed by Apple. The Journal says the company was exploring how the Apple Watch could be used to improve healthcare. This project was envisioned in 2016 but has seemingly been put on pause, partly because Apple’s dogfooding of a similar project for its own employees saw limited use....

If you haven’t caught Apple’s September keynote yet or just want an easy way to watch Apple unveil its latest and greatest products, you’re in luck as Apple has now made the stream available on YouTube. Just two days ago Apple unveiled gold and rose gold Apple Watch Sports, the new Apple Watch Hermes collection, new Sport and Classic Buckle straps, the 12.9″ iPad Pro and an updated iPad mini 4, the all new Apple TV and tvOS, and the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus....

Apple’s lack of lobbying presence in Europe left in largely in the dark about the long-running investigation into its Irish tax arrangements, argues the WSJ. It has been ruled that Apple underpaid tax in Europe to the tune of €13B ($15B). The piece contrasts this with Google, which spent ‘at least’ €4.25M ($4.8M) in the same timeframe. Google says that the money has been spent trying to help Brussels understand what the company does and how it works....

Apple announced yesterday that it would add replacement parts for its M1 MacBook Air and Pro laptops. Now, the store is back online after a brief period of maintenance, and now it offers replacement trackpads, displays, batteries, and more parts to fix your own computer. This creation of the Self Service repair store has been a long time coming. Apple’s repair program was announced late last year, and the store officially opened earlier this year with replacement parts for recent iPhone models....

Apple is rolling out some changes to the web app for Apple Music in beta form. For the first time, Apple Music on the web now supports the popular time-synced lyrics feature that first launched on iPhone and iPad in 2019, followed by the Mac in 2020. Now, you can use the feature from anywhere, right in your web browser… With this change to Apple Music on the web, you can now use the time-synced lyrics feature from your web browser on any machine....

The Apple-owned sleep monitor app Beddit is out with an update today that makes good on a promise from the company a few months ago. With today’s update, the cloud syncing functionality of the app has been removed. Today’s update brings the app to version 2.9.2, and as reported before, Beddit Cloud is no longer available to users. Beddit Cloud let users upload and backup their sleep tracking data to the cloud, in addition to syncing to the Health app, for example....

Following a rollout to the Royal Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce earlier this month, Apple Pay is now coming to the other three big banks in Canada. With this rollout, Apple Pay is now supported by all of Canada’s “big five banks.” As reported by The Toronto Star, BMO, TD and Scotiabank customers will be able to use Apple starting tomorrow, June 1st. More specifically, Apple Pay will work with Visa, MasterCard, and Interac at TD Canada Trust, Visa and Interac at Scotiabank, and Interac and MasterCard at BMO....

Having filed a prospectus today with the SEC, Apple plans to offer around $5 billion in bonds, following a 2013 bond offering of $17 billion, and a 2014 offering of $12 billion. While Apple’s corporate coffers stand at over $178 billion after its most recent record-breaking quarter, even thriving companies sometimes use bond offerings to fund projects, lessening tax consequences in the process. Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs put together the offering, which Apple says will be used towards...

Apple plans to start selling the 12.9-inch iPad Pro on Wednesday, November 11th via both its physical retail and online stores, according to multiple sources. Apple previously only said that the large tablet would become available during the month of November, a couple of months after the introduction in early September. The iPad Pro’s marquee accessories, the Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard, will also become available for purchase on November 11th....