The latest lawsuit over alleged defects in Apple products contends that the company owes $5 million in damages, because all Apple Watches are defective by design.

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Apple appears to be relaxing its grip on Siri’s media capabilities, as the company is building a new “Play Media” integration into iOS 12 that opens the door to compatibility with third-party streaming services like Spotify.

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Every year Apple invites student developers to its Worldwide Developer Conference. This year there were 350 scholarship winners in attendance. This afternoon I met up with Collin DeWaters of Fredericksburg, Virginia, who already has four titles in the App Store and put together a new 3D racing game for his Swift Playground application in three days. He’s 21.

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After Apple released Animoji for the iPhone X, Samsung fired back with AR Emoji, an augmented reality feature that turns Samsung Galaxy S9 users into cartoon-like avatars. Apple will answer Samsung’s retort with Memoji when iOS 12 launches later this year, but you can see how the two features compare right now.

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At WWDC, Apple and Nike celebrated 12 years of collaboration since the original Nike+ iPod by hosting an early morning run Wednesday. For attendees who came to run, Apple gifted Beats powerbeats3 wireless earbuds and Nike brought in professional trainers to share their infectious love for running.

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The newest commercial parody by Conan O’Brien shows an iPhone without buttons, a screen, or any functions at all — the ultimate in device usage management.

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Apple is expanding what can be done with Apple Maps, announcing at WWDC 2018 that MapKit JS can be used to embed maps within a website, a function that has been offered by its competition for a considerable amount of time.

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If the name Apple chose for this year’s macOS release sounds familiar, it’s because Microsoft, ten years ago, used Mojave in an ad campaign as an alternate name for Windows Vista.

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At Apple’s 2018 Worldwide Developer Conference Bash on Thursday evening, the company will host a “special DJ” and a “victorious” performance by multi-platinum artists Panic! At The Disco.

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Three existing Sonos speakers — the One, Play:5, and Playbase — will all get promised AirPlay 2 compatibility in July, the company announced during a Wednesday event.

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