TSMC is a major Apple partner, producing chips for its many hundreds of millions of new devices each year. But per the company’s founder, there was once a time when Intel got a shot at iPhone chip production, and failed to impress.

Today’s best deals in Apple gear and accessories include Apple Watch Series 10 at up to $136 off alongside ongoing Black Friday pricing across the entire lineup. These offers join the $110 price drop on Apple Watch Ultra 2, but Amazon has also brought back the most affordable M4 MacBook Pro at the lowest we have tracked with $200 in savings alongside a massive $400 price drop on select M4 Max MacBook Pro configs for folks looking to score a real beast of a new laptop. Satechi is running a serious 50% sale on its desktop and workstation accessories, plus you’ll find everything else down below. 

Yesterday Meta reported its quarterly earnings, and amid sharing updates on Threads, Instagram, and yes, the metaverse, CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined an interesting new priority for this year: getting back to ‘OG Facebook.’

You don’t have to be in the Super Bowl stadium to be exposed to a lot of noise during the game. A new Apple Watch study found that noise levels across America are significantly higher than normal for about nine hours on Super Bowl Sundays.

On average, across the US, you’re likely to be exposed to noise levels between 1.5 and 3 decibels higher than usual – which is a lot worse than it sounds when it comes to potential hearing damage …

Apple is set to add PGA TOUR Pro Golf to Apple Arcade on February 6th. As someone who was obsessed with console games while I was growing up, I can’t help but get excited about this release. This is just another console-level game being added to the already growing portfolio of high-level games. Here’s what you should expect.

Netflix is by far the most dominant player in streaming, and today the company revealed its content release plans for 2025 with lots of big new shows and movies debuting. Here are the highlights.

In a major security failing, Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek exposed chat history and other sensitive data in a database accessible without any authentication.

The security researchers who discovered the issue say that the exposure included more than a million lines of log entries, which included chat history and secret keys …

Satellite video calls will be coming to Europe from later this year, following a successful demo of the tech by Vodafone in partnership with AST SpaceMobile. Rollout in the US through AT&T will follow some time later.

As with existing satellite text and voice calls, the service will operate in remote areas where no cellular coverage is available …

For the 18th year running, Apple has been named Fortune’s Most Admired Company. The rankings are based of a survey of more than 3,000 company execs across 30 countries.

While Apple’s number one position was unchanged, a new company made the top five for the first time this year …

DeepSeek privacy concerns have led to investigations being opened in both the US and Europe, and seen the app removed from the App Store in Italy. It seems likely the same will happen in other countries.

Italian’s privacy regulator questioned whether the app complied with GDPR, a tough privacy law that applies across 30 different countries …

Apple’s flagship iPhone 16 line launched last fall with a heavy focus on Apple Intelligence. But another new iPhone is coming soon, offering some of the same modern tech but at a much lower cost. Here’s when to expect the iPhone SE 4.

Last year I reviewed the ViewFinity S9, Samsung’s 5K monitor that competes directly with . In my own words, “the ViewFinity S9’s big selling point is price.” But what about the Studio Display? Is it still a good monitor two years after its launch? Is it worth the price? That’s what I’ve been trying to find out for the last few months.

Gaming on Vision Pro isn’t yet the device’s strong suit, but one recent launch should start to change that. Gamers will now find a massive expansion of new games available—more than 2,000 total—thanks to NVIDIA GeForce NOW coming to visionOS.

Apple is expected to launch the M4 MacBook Air very soon. When it arrives, the device will offer a compelling upgrade for existing MacBook Air users, particularly anyone using the M1 model.

Apple may face new shareholder scrutiny over its AI practices following a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The document was filed ahead of Apple’s next Annual Shareholder Meeting that’s scheduled for February 25 at 8 a.m. PT.

The National Legal and Policy Center has submitted a proposal urging Apple to disclose how it acquires and uses external data for AI training. The filing, disclosed on the SEC’s website, highlights potential legal risks tied to data privacy and intellectual property rights. That’s despite Apple’s brand alignment with privacy-centric policies.

In a blog post for Windows Insiders, Microsoft has announced that Start menu phone integration on Windows 11 now works with iPhone. The feature was previously tested for Android last year with iPhone support promised at a later date.

Rejoice iPhone and iPad users, Netflix has added a new button that will surely save you time and improve your overall life.

iOS 18.3 launched this week with several new features, but it also temporarily disabled one feature. Apple has deactivated AI notification summaries for two app categories, and one of them is a big mystery to me.

AI chatbots have changed the way we work, think through problems, and discover information. While Apple Intelligence doesn’t offer a chatbot experience yet, the best chatbot apps run on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

You don’t need to regularly use all of these AI chatbot apps to be familiar with the latest in AI. Follow my 9to5Neural series for that. But spending time with any of these apps will give you access to the newest AI technology.

Big-time price drops continue on the most affable M4 MacBook Pro and iPad mini 7 configurations, but today we are starting with Apple Watch Ultra 2. The Natural Titanium model is now undercutting the Black Friday price at $680 in new condition while refurb OG Apple Watch Ultra configs are now $399 off the original price. From there we move over to iPhone 15 Pro – Amazon premium renewed units are $489 under the original price – alongside the official Apple iPhone 16 cases starting from $22. All of that and more awaits below in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break.

Apple today unveiled its plans for the upcoming 2025 Major League Soccer season, through its MLS Season Pass service. The subscription provides worldwide unrestricted access to all MLS games, with no blackouts. The 2025 season officially kicks off on February 22, but you can subscribe now to see preseason games including LAFC vs Liga MX on February 11, and Inter Miami vs Orlando City on February 14.

This season, there’s a new featured game fixture on Sunday nights branded as ‘Sunday Night Soccer’. Sunday Night Soccer games will also be available to stream for free for all Apple TV+ subscribers.

If you haven’t heard, Kendrick Lamar is set to perform at the Apple Music Halftime Show during Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Sunday, February 9. The rematch between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs starts at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT, and there’s a free way to stream it in 4K this year.

Adding to the hype is an exclusive Apple Vision Pro experience through Apple Arcade. The immersive music game and Apple Design Award nominee Synth Riders is launching an exclusive Kendrick Lamar “HUMBLE.” Synth Riders Experience in anticipiation of the Apple Music Halftime Show.

Apple is about to report its earnings for the all-important holiday quarter, and many onlookers hope to see a big Apple Intelligence impact on iPhone sales. Here’s why that’s not going to happen now, but it absolutely will in due time.

When Elon Musk bought Twitter, one of his many controversial decisions was to rebrand the company and social network platform as X. He said at the time that the purchase was “as an accelerant for X, the everything app” – aka a western clone of China’s WeChat.

Part of this vision includes becoming a mobile payment platform to compete with Apple Pay, and the company’s CEO today said part of this functionality will launch later this year …