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Here are some of the latest hardware and accessory announcements: ° MOFT has launched the Trackable Field Wallet, It’s compatible with Apple Find My and Android Find Hub. It’s designed do make it easier to keep track of the wallet and everything inside it. carries up to 8 cards while maintaining a slim profile that snaps securely to the back of an iPhone or any MagSafe® case.

Since I can’t cover everything, here are some recommended articles from some other neat sites: ° From MacRumors: Apple has stopped signing several older versions of iOS for a group of legacy iPhone and iPad models, cutting off the paths to reinstall or downgrade the affected software. ° From Macworld: There’s never a good time for price rises, but Apple’s latest risk causes serious harm to its products. ° From 9to5Mac: Rumored iPhone 18 Pro Max specs point to Apple’s heaviest iPhone in years.

Here are some of the latest software announcements. ° Flighty, a flight tracker app, has launched its new Connection Assistant.

Apple TV has unveiled the trailer for “Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy,” premiering globally on Friday, July 31. In the new original special under the Snoopy Presents banner, Snoopy is devastated when his beloved doghouse is accidentally sold at a yard sale. In an effort to cheer up his pal, Charlie Brown leads Snoopy on an adventure to find his old doghouse, and along the way, they learn what makes a house truly a home.

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The U.S. Department of Commerce is relaxing export restrictions for the United Arab Emirates, giving approved companies — including Apple —  easier access to certain advanced computing hardware and other controlled technologies, reports Reuters. And they can do so license-free. UAE companies G42 and Core42 and U.S. companies operating in the country, including Apple, Amazon, and xAI, are among those that no longer need licenses for AI chips and servers, the article adds.

According to Seeking Alpha, citing The Information, PrismML has compressed Alibaba’s open-source Qwen 3.6 large language model to run on the iPhone 17 Pro. PrismML is an AI startup and research lab spun out of Caltech that has pioneered commercially viable 1-bit and ternary (+1, 0, -1) neural network architectures. By storing model weights at extreme low-bit precision, PrismML shrinks AI models by order-of-magnitude factors without severely sacrificing reasoning or generative capabilities.

JustWatch, the largest streaming guide in the world, has published its “Q2 2026 Market Shares” report about streaming in the US. Here are some highlights from the report: Apple TV+ posts the strongest annual growth: Apple TV+ gained 1 percentage point (pp) this quarter, overtaking Hulu and HBO Max to become the fourth-largest SVOD [Subscription Video On Demand] platform in the U.S. It has also grown 5 pp annually, the strongest annual gain of any platform.

Apple TV will be making a big splash in Hall H at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con International for the first time ever, reports Deadline.

India has scrapped import duties on some parts used to make ‌mobile phones and other electronic devices, removing the current 7.5% and 5% levies, which will help companies like Apple, reports Reuters. Here are details from the report: Items include key parts for producing wireless charging modules for mobile phones, displays for medical devices and automobiles, and lithium-ion cells. The exemption will be valid until March 31, 2029.