Articles by Ben Lovejoy

A new Apple accessibility video highlights a variety of features designed to offer independence to people with a range of disabilities.
Set to the soundtrack “I Am the Greatest” by Spinifex Gum (with Marliya Choir), it opens by showing a woman telling…

Apple’s dependence on China has never been brought into sharper focus than now, with COVID-related disruption at the biggest iPhone assembly plant costing the company an estimated billion dollars per week.
A new report says that the company’s efforts …

Apple has been sued after last week’s fatal Apple Store crash in Hingham, Massachusetts, in which one person was killed, and 20 others were injured, some of them seriously …
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The butterfly keyboard lawsuit has been resolved after a judge approved Apple’s proposed payouts to owners of MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro models with the faulty keyboard design.
Owners whose machines required repair are set to receive compen…

The iPhone City lockdown has ended, allowing free movement of residents and workers in Zhengzhou, China. The move will help relieve pressures at the Foxconn plant after massive production disruption which is estimated to have cost Apple around a billi…

The Apple Podcasts Award winner for 2022 has been announced. Apple named Slow Burn as its show of the year, for its coverage of the history of the landmark abortion rights case, Roe v. Wade.
The Cupertino company has also announced the availability of…

Composers and musicians have long argued that streaming music treats them unfairly, with smaller artists earning tiny sums. But a UK competition watchdog has ruled that the streaming music industry is fair to both artists and consumers …
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After Musk announced that most banned Twitter accounts would be reinstated, a report says that around 62,000 accounts with more than 10K followers each have so far been restored.
Other Twitter news includes a claim that the layoffs and resignations ha…

Apple faces the prospect of a union busting lawsuit, over alleged illegal activities designed to persuade Apple retail staff to abandon plans to unionize. It follows two formal complaints about the company breaking the law in the US.
Union organizers …

Google has issued an emergency Chrome update for Mac users, to fix what the company refers to as a “high-severity” security vulnerability …
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