Apple has announced the opening of Apple La Vaguada, in north Madrid, marking the city's fifth store and its first in ten years.


Just over a decade on from the opening of its Apple Puerto del Sol store, Apple is adding a new retail location around 10 miles away. The new store is located on the top floor of Madrid's La Vaguada Shopping Center, on the Avenue de Monforte de Lemos.

Apple revealed the store with a new Apple Store webpage for it, which says it will open on Friday, November 28, 2024. "Let's do cool things," says the new store page, in translation.


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Apple will be bringing back "Mythic Quest" to Apple TV+ for its fourth season in the new year, with spin-off series "Side Quest" to air right after its conclusion.


Arriving over three years after Apple renewed the show, "Mythic Quest" is finally nearing the release of its fourth season. It's also going to bring along its spin-off, renamed "Side Quest" from the original title "Mere Mortals."

The main show, "Mythic Quest," will start from January 29 with two new episodes, reports Variety. One new episode will be released every week, until it ends on March 26.


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All it takes is cracking open your Mac Studio and voiding your warranty, but it's been proven that you can upgrade to 8TB SSD for less than half what Apple charges.


Now may not be the best time to buy a Mac Studio, since it's likely that an M5 version may be just a few months away. But it is never, not ever, the right time to pay Apple's SSD upgrade prices because they are so very much overpriced.

You just may not have to. We'll have to see what happens when this gets out into the hands of more users, but a successful Kickstarter campaign by Polysoft was offering SSD upgrades for both the M1 and M2 models of the Mac Studio.


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The original Mac Studio still offers a lot of performance, but a comparatively-priced M4 Pro Mac mini offers a better deal. Here's what $1,200 could get you in either Mac flavor.


Introduced in March 2022, the Mac Studio promised high performance in a compact casing. Effectively a Mac mini on steroids, the Mac Studio aimed high with its performance, while still sticking to the concept of a small block of computing power.

The Apple Silicon chip generations have flown by, with the newest Mac models sporting an M4 chip. This may be a three-generation difference, but the original Mac Studio is still showing its worth to consumers.


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OWC has released the Envoy Ultra Thunderbolt 5 SSD, an external drive that takes advantage of the M4 Pro and M4 Max Mac's connections.


As part of its M4 Mac upgrades, Apple upgraded some of the ports on its M4 Pro and M4 Max models to use Thunderbolt 5. Following a preorder period, OWC has now started to ship a drive that takes advantage of the increased amount of bandwidth.

The OWC Envoy Ultra is a Thunderbolt 5-based portable SSD, claimed to be the first in the world. Taking advantage of the massive bandwidth of Thunderbolt 5, it can transfer data to and from a Mac at speeds exceeding 6,000MB/s.


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Google is increasing the competition with Siri and Apple Intelligence on iPhone, by releasing a standalone iOS app for Gemini.


Google's Gemini has been available to use for some time on the iPhone, but as part of the main Google app. Now, Gemini is available as its own standalone app for iOS, and is being framed even more as a personal AI assistant.

In an official blog post, Google explains that the app offers something called Gemini Live, a version of the assistant offering "free-flowing conversations." Using Live, users can have a back-and-forth conversation with Gemini, complete with the ability to interrupt mid-response, or to pause a conversation to pick it up later.


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The UK's "Which?" consumer group and publication is to sue Apple over what it claims is the company's anti-competitive way of locking users into paying for iCloud storage.


It's not the first lawsuit against Apple over iCloud storage, and the company's free 5G has certainly been aggravating for many years. Now Which? has announced what it describes as a landmark legal claim over Apple's "rip-off prices" for iCloud.

"We believe Apple customers are owed nearly 3 billion pounds [$3.8 billion] as a result of the tech giant forcing its iCloud services on customers and cutting off competition from rival services," said Anabel Hoult, Which? CEO, in a statement. "By bringing this claim, Which? is showing big corporations like Apple that they cannot rip off UK consumers without facing repercussions."


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The release of iOS 18 brought a number of new features to Apple's Journal app, including the new ability to search and sort entries.


Apple's Journal app was originally introduced in December 2023 alongside iOS 17. In October 2024, it received its first major update, as part of the iOS 18 upgrade.

There's new support for noting one's state of mind, if desired, along with the ability to print individual entries, and more. The biggest new addition to Journal in iOS 18, though, is the arrival of search and sort functionality.


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Apple's professional apps, Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Camera, and Logic Pro, have all received major updates. Here's what you need to know.


There is a suite of Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps offered by Apple for everyone from the novice to Hollywood professional for audio and film development. Several have been updated with new features that address new formats offered by iPhone 16 like Spatial Video and 120 fps 4K video.

Apple provided updates to Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Final Cut Camera. More minor updates were provided to the Compressor app and iMovie.


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Apple's long-overdue overhaul of the Mac mini shrinks an already great package even more, yet it still punches far above its weight class.


I've owned a Mac mini since the very first G4 model. In an era of bulky towers and a G4 Cube just years before that impressed but didn't deliver, the little box brought Apple power to a small desktop package, and I was enthused.

And since then, I've had one in service 24/7 constantly. Even now with a Mac Studio on my desk, there's one upstairs in use with a family member, one in the other room silently humming away acting as my network attached storage and test platform, and a few more on my shelf that I've hoarded over the years, just waiting for an application.


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A class-action lawsuit is accusing Apple of false advertising, claiming the crackling issue of the first-gen AirPods Pro go against Apple's marketing promises.


Filed on November 1 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the proposed class action lawsuit titled "LaBella et al v. Apple" claims that Apple was incorrect in marketing the high-quality audio of the AirPods Pro. Across 51 pages, the lawsuit alleges that the audio issues of the personal audio accessories go directly against the quality claims.

The lawsuit, first reported by ClassAction.org, discusses how consumers complained about audio problems when using the AirPods Pro within months of release. The issues were significant enough for Apple to launch a service program for affected units made before October 2020.


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A new report claims that despite overall sales declining, Apple's iPad continues to sell steadily, and is second only to the iPhone.


While the iPad dominates the US market, overall it's sales have been declining, and the latest models reportedly failed to reverse that trend. Nonetheness, the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) says in a new report, that iPad sales are chiefly stable.

Apple does not release detailed sales data, so information such as CIRP's has to come from surveys. CIRP also does not give actual sales figures though, so its use solely of percentages is only illustrative of the differences between the iPad models.


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Apple and A24 are working on a film adaptation about Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX crypto scandal, with the script set to be written by Lena Dunham.


The two studios are in the early stages of developing the film based on the New York Times bestseller "Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon" by Michael Lewis. The book covers the rise of Bankman-Fried, followed by the eventual discovery of missing funds at the cryptocurrency exchange and subsequent fraud charges.

Lena Dunham has been attached to the film, reports Variety, having previously starred and produced the HBO series "Girls," as well as "Camping" and "Generation." Her work on "Girls" led to eight Emmy Award nominations, as well as one Golden Globe.


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This popular M4 Max configuration packs a 32-core GPU and 1TB storage, making it a well-equipped model that's $200 off and in stock now.


To grab the $200 discount, head over to Apple Authorized Reseller Adorama and enter promo code APINSIDER during Step 4 of checkout (step-by-step instructions can be found further down this page). This high-end retail spec features Apple's M4 Max chip with a 14-core CPU and 32-core GPU. It also has 36GB unified memory and a 1TB SSD to help future-proof the laptop.

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The CEO of smart ring firm Oura has detailed the reasons there shouldn't be an Apple Ring, but sounds like he's hoping Apple is listening.


Oh, just bring out a ring already. Apple Ring has been rumored for years, but in the last few months we have had absolutely certain claim that the project is dead. But that claim was followed only hours later by another one saying that Apple's smart ring would be out in 2026.

Now Tom Hale, CEO of the Oura Ring company, has told CNBC that it won't happen. For one thing, an Apple Ring would undercut the Apple Watch, and for another, making smart rings is so hard that Apple can't just walk in and do it.


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Advanced configuration parameters control how your Mac stores cached content. Here's how to change the settings.


Content caching controls what internet content gets stored locally in macOS when you visit websites and other online servers.

When you visit a site, some of the data (content) gets downloaded and stored locally on your Mac. This is so that if you access that content later, it can be loaded more quickly from the cache - instead of having to make more trips to the internet to fetch it again.


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Check out the latest from Bluetti with an exclusive discount on the Elite 200 V2 portable power station capable of generating reliable 2 kWh power for 17 years.


Bluetti is an innovator in the home battery backup space that's been pushing the limits of consumer backup power solutions. The company offers some of the best portable power station units that serve you everywhere from the campground to your home during a power outage.

Tuesday, Bluetti has unveiled the latest in its lineup — the Elite 200 V2. It is a 2 kWh portable power station that is rated for 6,000 life cycles, which equates to over 17 years.


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The pivot from Apple Car set the stage for bigger investments in the smart home, and the initial products from that shift could be launching as soon as March according to a new rumor.


Apple has offered smart home options since 2014 with the launch of HomeKit. Beyond Siri integrations, HomePod, and few product category additions over the years, the company's investment in the area hasn't been as strong as some of its competitors.

That could change as soon as March with the launch of a new smart display that isn't an iPad, doesn't have an App Store, and is voice-first. This device would be a precursor to the rumored display with a robotic arm that's been rumored since Apple Car was abandoned.


Rumor Score: 🤔 Possible


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Apple's decision to place the power button of the M4 Mac mini underneath has been questioned by users. In some cases, they've come up with their own "solutions" to the problem.


The introduction of the M4 Mac mini was welcomed by critics, with the already small Mac made to be even smaller. Getting to that size meant there had to be a compromise, and that took the form of an awkward power button placement.

Rather than at the rear, the button is instead underneath the corner of the Mac mini's enclosure. It's in a position that you have to lift or tilt the Mac mini to access it, which can be awkward for people with larger digits.


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iOS 18.2 with access to ChatGPT integrations, Image Playground, and Genmoji could finally roll out to the general public on December 9 based on a notice recently posted by a UK carrier.


On Monday, Apple released the third developer beta of iOS 18.2. Along with the various changes and quality-of-life improvements, the software also contains an update for carrier-specific settings.

The third developer beta contains an update for devices using the British carrier EE. The carrier settings shipped with iOS 18.1 and the second developer beta of iOS 18.2 had the version number 59.5.1, while iOS 18.2 developer beta 3 increased the EE carrier settings version to 60.5.2.


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One day after most of the other developer betas get new builds, visionOS 2.2 turns up for testers using the Apple Vision Pro.


On Monday, Apple introduced the third round of developer betas for iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS SZequoia 15.2, it also brought out the second builds of tvOS 18.2 and watchOS 11.2 for testing.

Missing from the group was visionOS 2.2, but it arrived one day later, on Tuesday.


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Apple's late 2024 update to its Mac and MacBook ranges has brought M4 to the product line. Here's how to choose the best portable Mac for your budget for the 2024 holiday season.


Apple's fall product updates covered many areas, but for the Mac product category, it meant an update to M4. Following the introduction of the chip in the iPad Pro lineup earlier in the year, the MacBook Pro now uses the speedy chip.

Even better, Apple didn't stop at just M4, as it brought out M4 Pro and M4 Max variants as well. These additions offer a lot more performance options, and in the case of the M4 Max, more performance than an M2 Ultra in some benchmarks.


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