Marcus Mendes is a Brazilian tech podcaster and journalist who has been closely following Apple since the mid-2000s.
He began covering Apple news in Brazilian media in 2012 and later broadened his focus to the wider tech industry, hosting a daily podcast for seven years.
Today, Marcus co-hosts several tech-focused shows at Gigahertz FM, a Brazilian podcast network he co-founded in 2022 with 9to5Mac’s own Guilherme Rambo. Outside of Gigahertz FM, he also hosts IA Sob Controle, a podcast featuring in-depth interviews and news about artificial intelligence.
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Bloober Team announced today that its award-winning game Cronos: The New Dawn will launch on Apple silicon Macs with native support on April 28. Here are the details.
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A new report from IDC shows that while the overall PC market posted slight year-over-year shipment growth in the first quarter, Apple saw one of the strongest gains among its peers. Here are the details.
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The new update to Adobe’s experimental camera app adds initial support for iPads with at least 6GB of RAM and the new iPhone 17e. Here are the details.
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Apple TV subscribers can now stream the platform’s new comedy film, Outcome, starring Keanu Reeves (The Matrix), and co-written and directed by Jonah Hill (The Wolf of Wall Street). Watch the trailer below.
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Update, April 22: Apple has released iOS 26.4.2 with a bug fix that addresses an issue where “notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device.” Apple did not directly link the bug fix to the situation described in this story. The original post follows below.
A new report from 404 Media reveals that the FBI was able to recover deleted Signal messages from an iPhone by extracting data stored in the device’s notification database. Here are the details.
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Retro tech archivist TechyThings has published a great video on Instagram showcasing the startup sounds, tones and chimes from multiple Apple desktops and laptops throughout the years, dating all the way back to the Apple I. Watch it below.
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A now corrected issue allowed researchers to circumvent Apple’s restrictions and force the on-device LLM to execute attacker-controlled actions. Here’s how they did it.
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Apple has moved to obtain internal Samsung data from South Korea in its ongoing antitrust fight with the U.S. government over alleged monopoly practices. Here are the details.
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Apple confirms that Stolen Device Protection will be enabled by default for enterprise devices updating from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.4.1, and from iPadOS 26.4 to iPadOS 26.4.1. Here are the details.
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The Apple Museum, in Utrecht, opened a few days ago, just in time for Apple’s 50th anniversary celebrations. Here’s what visitors can find there.
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Apple’s Self Service Repair Store was updated today to offer several standalone repair parts for recently released products, including the repair-friendly MacBook Neo. Here are the details.
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A new Counterpoint Research report shows that the iPhone 17 lineup led the market in Q4 2025, with its core models taking the top three spots and anchoring Apple’s presence in the top 10 best-selling smartphones for the period. Here are the details.
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Following just a few days of beta testing, WhatsApp has now released its improved CarPlay experience to all iPhone users. Here are the details.
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Vietnam: The War That Changed America received three nominations today for the 47th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Here’s what it’s up against.
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Apple researchers have published details of SQUIRE, an experimental AI-powered tool that helped developers explore and refine interface ideas with more control than with typical AI coding tools. Here are the details.
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Designed specifically for students, this new free tool generates study guides, mind maps, podcasts, and other AI-powered visual and auditory learning content based on class notes and other uploaded materials. Here are the details.
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During the Artemis II spacecraft’s final approach for its historic lunar flyby, Commander Reid Wiseman showed off a fantastic photo of the lunar surface he took on his iPhone 17 Pro Max. Here are the details.
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Lawsuit says Apple used a dataset comprising millions of YouTube videos to train an AI model, as described in a study published in late 2024. Here are the details.
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Apple has removed Bitchat from the Chinese App Store, following a request from the country’s Cyberspace Administration. Here are the details.
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Update, 8:21 p.m. ET: After the court granted Apple’s motion to stay the decision, Epic filed a motion asking the Ninth Circuit to reconsider that order, and another asking it to deny Apple’s request for a stay altogether. Find the new details below.
As expected, Apple has filed a motion signaling that it plans to ask the Supreme Court to review its latest setback in the Epic Games case. Here are the details.
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Thanks to the new possibilities afforded by AI coding tools, the App Store is seeing a resurgence in new app submissions, even as Apple continues to take issue with some of the ways these apps are built and behave. Here are the details.
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Earlier this year, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman confirmed that astronauts on the Artemis II mission would be allowed to ”fly with the latest smartphones.” Now, The New York Times has reported what it took to make that happen.
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A new interactive data project from sheets.works lets you scroll through every iPhone model ever released, complete with tech specs, colors, and even a timeline of hardware features Apple removed from the device over the years. Check it out below.
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Ex-Human, the developer behind Botify and Photify AI, is suing Apple over what it calls “arbitrary” App Store removals. Here are the details.
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