Speaking publicly for the first time since leaving Apple in April, Angela Ahrendts in an interview Friday reflected on her tenure as the company’s head of retail, calling it “mission accomplished.”

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Apple on Friday confirmed plans to activate Apple Watch Series 4’s ECG feature for users in Canada after receiving approval from the country’s regulatory body, though the company failed to disclose a specific timeline for launch.

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A recent meeting between U.S. Federal Communication Commission chairman Ajit Pai and the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division could presage unification over a planned T-Mobile-Sprint merger, a deal that DOJ staff recommended against.

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Apple has reportedly bought Tueo Health, a startup that was developing asthma-tracking technology for use with sleeping kids.

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Creative’s Sound BlasterX Katana might be overkill for desktop audio, especially on Macs, but it’s impressive nevertheless.

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GE has finally brought HomeKit support to the C by GE app for iOS, enabling the company’s line of smart lights, smart wall switches, and other devices to work with Apple’s smart home platform after years of waiting.

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Compounding Huawei’s woes, the Chinese company has been removed not just from the Wi-Fi Alliance, and RAM spec controller JEDEC, but also from the SD Association, preventing it from offering official SD/microSD support in future devices.

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Apple has issued an unscheduled update for iOS 12.3.1, less than two weeks after the release of iOS 12.3, introducing bug fixes for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch relating to Voice over LTE calls and Messages.

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Apple’s brand-new 2019 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros are hitting store shelves, and AppleInsider is the first to offer readers triple-digit savings of up to $200 off the newly announced computers with our exclusive promo code. These record-breaking markdowns bring prices down to as low as $1,649 (and even eight-core models are eligible for the coupon).

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A teardown of the newly-released 2019 MacBook Pro finds that Apple has made some changes to switch covers and to the dome switches themselves, but it isn’t clear what, if anything, the material shift will do to alleviate keyboard complaints.

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