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Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Sandlot vibes.

Backyard Baseball 2001 is getting remastered for Steam, iOS, and Android as Backyard Baseball ‘01, releasing July 8th.

The quarter-century-old sports game was the first of the series to include real MLB players, and 28 of the original 31 pros return in the remaster: including Mike Piazza, Carlos Beltran, Derek Jeter, Mark McGwire, and Jose Canseco. So you can reunite the The Bash Brothers to take on some kids.

Google Calendar now has an Apple Watch appGoogle Calendar now has an Apple Watch app
Andrew Liszewski
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Proton is joining a class-action lawsuit against Apple.

“We are seeking to permanently end anti-competitive behavior on the App Store, and we are joining this lawsuit to ensure that any future settlement enforces real changes to Apple’s practices and policies to benefit all consumers, developers, and competition, and not just cosmetic changes,” Proton says in a blog post.

Apple CarPlay Ultra hands-on: more continuity, less disruption

Luxury automaker Aston Martin is the first OEM to offer support for Apple’s enhanced phone mirroring system, so we hopped in a DBX707 to give the new software a test drive.

Bradley Iger
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
A MacBook with an iPhone chip.

That’s what Apple is working on next, at least according to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. The more affordable MacBook would use the same A18 Pro chip found in the iPhone 16 Pro series, and pack a 13-inch display and colorful finishes like silver, blue, pink, and yellow.

Apparently Apple is aiming to sell 5-7 million of them too, making up more than a fifth of its overall laptop sales.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Apple’s F1 movie is a hit.

The Brad Pitt-starring racing drama opened to more than $55 million in the US this weekend, and $144 million worldwide. That’s still a ways short of the movie’s $200-300 million production budget, but it’s easily on track to beat the $221 million-earning Napoleon as Apple’s biggest film yet.

Sadly we may never know how many of those ticket sales came from the unexpectedly pushy ads in Apple Wallet notifications.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
8BitDo’s customization software now supports more controllers on Macs.

The company has released an update to its Ultimate Software V2 that expands the number of devices you can customize using the macOS version, bringing it more in line with the Windows version, it announced on X.

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An Apple computer on a wooden desk running 8BitDo’s Ultimate Software V2.
An update for the macOS version of 8BitDo’s Ultimate Software V2 is now available for download.
Image: 8BitDo
Apple overhauls EU App Store rules following penaltyApple overhauls EU App Store rules following penalty
Emma Roth and Jess Weatherbed