Back in the summer, a new Apple Manufacturing Academy was announced, partnering with Michigan State University. The initiative provides free training and consultancy to American businesses to help them innovate their production processes.

Small businesses that received help from Apple engineers said that the company shared frank lessons about its “bendgate” experience …

The US has suffered its worst November since 1995 in terms of hardware sales, according to Circana’s Mat Piscatella.

In his monthly thread detailing sales figures and retail highlights, Piscatella confirms that a total of 1.6 million hardware units were sold across all platforms in the US during November. This is the lowest total since 1995, during which a total of 1.4 million units were sold.

To potentially explain this figure, Piscatella also notes that the average price paid for a new piece of hardware was ”an all-time November high of $439”, which is up 11% compared to a year ago.

HBO Max has released the official trailer for The Pitt’s second season, bringing back Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) for a fresh shift at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. Unfortunately for him, it looks no less gruelling than the first one we saw.

Picking up 10 months on from the last season, The Pitt Season 2 takes place during a busy July 4 weekend in the emergency room. It’d be unsurprising to see some firework-related injuries, which tend to significantly increase around Independence Day. If that wasn’t stressful enough, it looks as though a cyber attack will take the emergency room’s computer systems offline during this shift, forcing the team to ”go analogue.” It seems like a perfect recipe for chaos in an already busy emergency department.

Apple has released the first public betas of iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, macOS Tahoe 26.3, watchOS 26.3, and tvOS 26.3 for users to test. The release comes just a couple of days after Apple seeded the first developer betas of the new software.

This first beta of iOS 26.3 introduces a new built-in option that makes it easier for users to move from an iPhone to an Android device. It also includes a Notification Forwarding feature for wearables in the EU. No major new features have been spotted yet in the watchOS or tvOS betas.

A new study from the University of California at Los Angeles has found that more than 90 per cent of streaming shows are created by white people, with a decline in cultural diversity both behind and in front of the camera.

The latest edition of the Hollywood Diversity report, published yesterday (December 16), found that more than 91.7 per cent of the top 250 most-viewed current and library scripted series in 2024 were created by a white person, with 79 per cent of all show creators being white men. White actors were cast in 80 per cent of all roles, too – another increase.

In a sane political universe, we’d have cause to hope that Donald Trump would be losing public favor as a result of his many crimes, moral trespasses, abuses of power, and bigotries. The saga of his second term has involved his casually bypassing any and all guardrails to shore up small-r republican self-governance in the crass pursuit of his preferred megalomaniacal obsessions, from the hulking wreck of his White House renovation to his hate-fueled brownshirt raids targeting law-abiding immigrant communities, to his campaign of murder in the Southern Hemisphere to his crypto-and-crony schemes of self-enrichment.