OS X El Capitan users are continuing to deal with a problematic bug that prevents messages from showing in the Apple Mail app’s VIP mailboxes, AppleInsider has learned.

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A dubious rumor on Friday from the Far East claims that a fifth-generation Apple TV is starting trial production this month, and will go into mass production as early as the first quarter of 2016, just a few months after the fourth-generation model arrived in consumers’ living rooms.

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A flurry of hardware rumors was at the core of this week’s AppleInsider podcast, which discussed Apple’s potential axing of iPhone’s 3.5mm headphone jack, an oft-speculated return to the 4-inch smartphone format and hearsay about a 15-inch MacBook Air.

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After years of trials, retrials and multiple appeals, Samsung on Thursday said it has agreed to pay Apple $548 million for infringing on the Cupertino, Calif., company’s patents.

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Apple on Thursday kicked off a Beats hardware promotion to entice users to sign up for Apple Music subscriptions, giving away $60 iTunes gift cards with the purchase of most headphone and speaker models.

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Hollywood actor and director Jon Favreau is the latest high-profile personality to lend his face to Apple’s iPhone 6s ad campaign, showing up in a 15-second spot highlighting the handset’s “Hey Siri” functionality on Thursday.

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Apple on Thursday sent out an email blast notifying users of the erstwhile Beats Music service that they have until Jan. 19, 2016, to transfer playlists, song picks and preferences to Apple Music before that data is flushed.

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HP, the world’s third largest PC and tablet maker in unit volumes behind Lenovo and Apple, is exiting the low-end tablet market to focus on smaller volumes of higher-end products priced similar to iPad.

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Apple has grand ambitions for its newly open-sourced Swift programming language, senior Software VP Craig Federighi suggested in a Thursday interview, including making it a “front to back” development option.

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Russian iPhone owners can now bill iTunes purchases to their carrier, instead of having to pay via a credit or debit card, a report said on Thursday.

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