Adding to a full week of Apple releases, the company has refreshed the AirPods with a new wireless sync chip that allows for “Hey Siri,” and longer battery life — and the arrival of the Wireless Charging Case.

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The European Commission has fined Google $1.7 billion for illegally favoring its own AdSense in search advertising, bringing the company’s total fines for anticompetitive behavior so far in the region to $9.42 billion.

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Disney has closed its $70 billion acquisition of assets from 21st Century Fox, giving the entertainment company control of a considerable amount of content and studios, control which could become a problem for Apple and streaming video providers in general.

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Apple has given Mac developers the option to issue updates that roll out over a week, so if problems are discovered, the release can be paused before it reaches everyone.

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Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab on Tuesday filed an antitrust complaint against Apple with its home country’s Federal Antimonopoly Service, alleging the tech giant’s tight control of the iOS App Store amounts to monopoly power.

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Addressing questions as to why the 2019 iPad Air and mini don’t support the second-generation Apple Pencil, a report on Tuesday claimed the required inductive technology was too costly to include in the builds.

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Release of iOS 12.2 appears imminent as the sixth beta was recently released to developers with a number of new changes and polish. AppleInsider goes through everything that is new in the latest — and possibly last — iOS 12.2 beta.

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While HBO is in talks about appearing on Apple’s impending video service, other WarnerMedia content hasn’t been discussed, according to one report.

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Apple has rolled out a new feature for those shopping on behalf of a business, speeding up the checkout process with a new pass integrated into the Wallet app on the iPhone.

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Google on Tuesday revealed Stadia, a new cloud-based gaming platform able to stream high-end PC games to phones, tablets, computers, and TVs.

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