
Apple reportedly paying $25 million for Apple TV+ Billie Eilish documentary
The Apple TV+ spending continues, with Apple said to be paying $25 million for a new documentary that will show Billie Eilish behind the scenes.
Oliver Haslam has written about technology for nearly ten years. His work has been published in print at Macworld and online pretty much everywhere else. If it plugs in or has a battery, it's fair game. Can normally be found at twitter.com/OliverJHaslam
The Apple TV+ spending continues, with Apple said to be paying $25 million for a new documentary that will show Billie Eilish behind the scenes.
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Instagram is testing a feature that will vibrate the phone when a user likes a post, according to a well-known software engineer.
BMW's controversial decision to charge drivers a subscription fee to access Apple CarPlay looks set to end. In the UK, at least.
Oprah's next Apple TV show will be a documentary about sexual assault in the music industry. It'll go live on the streaming service some time next year.
Apple could be getting ready to bring Touch ID back to iPhone in 2020, according to a new report. The fingerprint sensor would be located in the display, similar to some flagship Android phones.
The original Macintosh needed some ads to show the world how great it was. So Apple set about doing internal demo reels. The results can be seen in a new video shared by Andy Hertzfeld.
Scott Forstall used to leave Apple's software development teams. During that time he says Apple TV was invented when we gave developers a month to work on whatever they wanted following a major Mac OS X release.
Following the passing of new Russian legislation that means all phones sold in the country must include Russian software, an Apple source called it "equivalent to jailbreaking." They believe that similar security issues will be posed by the move.
Police were able to locate a stolen Apple Watch after its own pinged it while they were searching, according to a new report. The thieves were arrested.
Sony is rolling out a new software update for some of its 2018 and 2019 TVs, adding support for HomeKit and AirPlay 2 as it goes. Is your TV one of the ones getting the update?
Transit is back on the Apple Watch two years after it was removed from the App Store. It's undergone some work while it was away, too.
It's taken months for it to happen, but Spotify for iOS now has the same Sleep Timer functionality that the Android app has had for months. Yay!
Apple has stopped signing iOS 13.2.2, preventing users from downgrading to that software. It now means that the only version of iOS that can be installed on an iPhone or iPod touch is now iOS 13.2.3.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook has joined other CEOs in urging the Trump administration to allow the United States to remain a member of the Paris Agreement.
Intel has confirmed that the sale of its smartphone modem business to Apple is now complete. The deal is worth $1 billion as previously thought.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple will release a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro and 16-inch MacBook Pro with mini-LED technology in 2020.
Sometimes Siri can be really, really useful. And sometimes you just wish it would go away and never rear its head again. Just like this weather presenter does.