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MLS boss says Apple bringing more viewers than expected, promises transparency

Apple took over the next decade of Major League Soccer distribution starting with the 2023 season, so how have things been going for the league in terms of viewership?

According to the MLS Commissioner, the partnership has resulted in “more subscribers than we and Apple thought we would have,” which doesn’t say much. However, the MLS boss promises more “transparency” in the future.

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Apple Music did a better Spotify Wrapped than Spotify for two reasons

The narrative for years has been that Spotify Wrapped, a look back at your music listening habits for the year, has left Apple Music members longing for a matching experience. Apple Music, of course, has been developing its Replay feature for nearly as long. Still, Spotify Wrapped has made vocal Apple Music subscribers jealous each December.

This year, however, a tide shift seems to have occurred for two reasons.

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9to5Mac Daily: December 4, 2024 – Apple and Amazon, Spotify Wrapped

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Here are the best Apple ecosystem ‘magic moments’ you should know

We’ve all heard the term the Walled Garden when talking about the Apple ecosystem. Apple’s biggest competitive advantage is the fact that they control everything from both a hardware and software perspective, allowing its customers to experience these little features I like to call Magic Moments. These are smaller utilities or features that are only possible because you have multiple Apple products that work off of each other giving us these wow moments. So here are some of my favorite Magic moments of the Apple Walled Garden.

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Homey Pro Dashboards

Homey unveils dashboards: making smart home control easier than ever

Today, Homey, the universal smart home platform, unveiled Homey Dashboards, a new feature designed to give users greater control over their smart home devices. Available within the Homey app for iOS and Android, this customizable control panel lets your build dashboards using widgets for temperature, energy usage, device control, automation, and more.

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Apple deals-Apple Watch-iPhone Pro

Deals: Apple Watch Ultra 2 $99 off, iPhone 15 Pro $449 off, 2024 Bose speakers, MagSafe chargers, more

Joining ongoing Cyber Monday prices on Apple Watch Series 10 and AirPods 4, today we spotted a large selection of natural Apple Watch Ultra 2 configurations at $99 off the going rate courtesy of Amazon – you can still score the OG Apple Watch Ultra at $429 off too. We also spotted a massive price drop on Amazon Renewed Premium iPhone 15 Pro units at $449 off the original new price tags joined by the Bose speaker holiday sale that is delivering deals matching the best we have tracked on its 2024 slate of portable and home releases, some solid offers on MagSafe charging gear, and more. Everything awaits below in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break.

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Scan your iPhone for Pegasus spyware using a $1 app

Scan your iPhone for Pegasus spyware using a $1 app (screengrabs shown)

A newly-released app lets you regularly scan your iPhone for Pegasus spyware – which can access almost all the data on a phone – for a one-off cost of just one dollar.

A mobile security firm created the app, which allows you to scan your iPhone or Android phone and send the results to them for analysis – and they’ve so far detected seven phones infected by the spyware …

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Two reasons to suggest the iPhone 17 may have Face ID embedded in the display

iPhone 18 Pro Dynamic Island could move to left with selfie camera | Render shows central position

Apple has been granted another patent for technology that would allow it to have Face ID embedded in the display, enabling the company to reduce the size of the camera cutout.

While Apple has been working on this for many years, there are a couple of reasons to suspect that the tech may perhaps debut in the iPhone 17 line-up …

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Tim Cook denies OpenAI rumors; talks AI energy use; Apple Glasses; saving lives

Tim Cook Wired interview | Cook seen against abstract background

A wide-ranging interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals him (kind of) denying OpenAI rumors; addressing the potential conflict between the power requirements of AI and Apple’s environmental goals; the journey toward Apple Glasses; and how Apple’s greatest legacy may be saving lives.

Cook kicks off by denying that Apple was late to AI, pointing out that the company first built a neural engine into its products back in 2017 …

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