Asking Siri about the coronavirus COVID-19 now pulls up interactive questionnaire and answers sourced from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Public Health Service, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Apple is planning to implement a pair of interesting improvements to its Find My software on iOS 14, including augmented reality mode and new location triggers.
Apple is allegedly working on interesting photography improvements for future iPhones.
After placing per-customer restrictions on bulk iPhone, iPad and Mac orders last week, the company has now lifted restrictions on purchasing multiple devices by a single customer.
Oprah Winfrey has teamed up with Apple on a new free-to-view series in which the popular talk show host and producer holds remote interviews with people personally affected by COVID-19.
Apple is donation N95 masks to healthcare providers fighting COVID-19 in the US and Europe.
If you needed any more proof that we were supposed to get a spring Apple event, Wednesday's unexpected hardware launches via a pair of press releases and an Apple website refresh probably have you covered. We got a new dual-camera iPad Pro with a laser scanner (a first for Apple), a faster MacBook Air with scissor keys, a new pair of Powerbeats with "Hey Siri" and 3 additional hours of battery life, refreshed Apple Watch bands for the spring and other tidbits.
Sumo Digital's "Spyder," a spy-on-the-wall adventure video game set in a retro universe in which you play as the most sophisticated miniature robot spider on earth, is the latest addition to Apple Arcade's stable of exclusive titles.
Jason Snell of Six Colors ran the Geekbench synthetic benchmark from Primate Labs on a mid-range version of the new MacBook Air, equipped with Intel's quad-core 1.1GHz Core i5 CPU.
As iDownloadBlog reported this morning, Hollywood studios are starting to experiment with releasing some films early digitally as theaters remain closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The studios breaking their traditional theatrical window is major news, but Steve Jobs actually predicted digital home premiere of flicks still in theaters... well, a decade ago.
In response to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak and coronavirus pandemic, major entertainment companies such as Disney, NBCUniversal and WarnerBros are breaking their traditional theatrical window as Hollywood starts to grapple with cratered box office ticket sales due to the current public health crisis that has prompted audiences to avoid crowded venues.
Major video-streaming platforms like Netflix, Google-owned YouTube and Amazon's Prime Video have reduced streaming quality in the European Union to avoid straining the Internet as millions of employees switch to teleworking amid the coronavirus pandemic.