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I’ve been absorbing every iPhone Duo review I can find (after ours), so I thought I’d share links to a few others that I liked:

It’s apparently available in the iOS 27 release candidate, according to Creative Strategies analyst Max Weinbach. Things could always change ahead of the public release full release, but the feature seems likely to make the final cut.

We have the iPhone Duo. A couple of them, in fact. And we have a lot to discuss. Allison Johnson and I will be live at 1PM talking about The Verge’s Duo review, her experience with the phone, and as many of your questions as we can answer. Come hang! Bring feelings!

She used a custom-built robot called “Hingey” to fold the Duo 17 times per minute “for eight hours straight,” for a total of 32,640 folds. You can watch Stern’s review to see how Hingey works, and check out The Verge’s iPhone Duo review for more on Apple’s new foldable.

I highlighted a couple of Time’s clips last week, but it published a nine-and-a-half-minute video today from a conversation with Apple’s new CEO. He doesn’t say anything earth-shattering, but it’s an opportunity to see and hear more from the person now steering Apple forward.

This update allows you to perform tasks across your apps and files without transmitting data to the cloud, but Perplexity recommends 36GB of RAM or more. It uses Apple Silicon to run Qwen 3.6 or PPLX Pro (a post-trained version of Qwen) directly on your Mac, while allowing you to transfer certain tasks to the cloud for access to updated information and browser use.

The Pennsylvania-based Perryman will supply titanium for its products, including the new iPhone Duo, according to an announcement on Tuesday. Apple is also building upon its partnership with Delaware’s Qnity Electronics, which will help produce films for the iPhone 18 Pro’s variable aperture camera system.

A European Commission page noting tech acquisitions has a listing under Apple dated June 17th for a company called Samplab GmbH, as reported by AppleInsider. An archived “About” page for Samplab notes that “AI will revolutionize the music industry.”

According to 9to5Mac, the latest HomePod 27.2 beta adds Sound Glow support on the second-gen HomePod and first-gen HomePod Mini. Apple announced the feature with the HomePod Mini 2 last week, and says it can sync the HomePod’s LEDs colors to match album art or Apple’s ambient soundscapes.

The Duo’s imminent release means the EU released its energy and durability ratings, including its rated battery capacity of 4,883mAh. Rated capacities are lower than typical marketed capacities, so this battery is bigger than in either the Galaxy Z Fold 8 or Z Fold 8 Ultra, but still smaller than in foldables from Oppo and Honor.

According to Mark Gurman, Apple’s retail stores are planning a “reset” on the evening of November 5th into Friday the 6th. Generally, that means new signage and demo devices indicating that it could be the on-sale date for the M6 iMac, touchscreen MacBook Pro, and OLED iPad mini rumored to be announced later this month.

Delivery estimates are already delayed into 2027. Bloomberg reports that Apple said:

Then check out this episode of TWiT’s Tech News Weekly, where I chat with host Mikah Sargent for an hour about HomeView, Apple TV, HomePod Mini 2, and the Apple Home Collection. (Audio options here.)

An unreleased iPad mini Smart Folio is listed on Apple’s French regulatory site, and its A3632 model number doesn’t match any known ‌iPad mini‌ cases. It adds weight to existing rumors that Apple will refresh the iPad mini alongside the expected touchscreen MacBook Pro launch later this month.

“How do we build deeply personal experiences leveraging AI that help us all be more creative, be more productive, do whatever it is that we want to do,” Ternus says in an interview with TIME.

Thirteen years after selling at auction for $686,000 in 2013, a working Apple-1 computer, originally owned by Fred Hatfield, just sold at auction again through Bonhams for nearly twice that amount. The machine is especially rare because it’s signed by Steve Wozniak who hand built its motherboard and includes a letter signed by Steve Jobs offering Hatfield a hardware upgrade.

It’s a little broken as a result of being a nearly 20 year old operating system, but it’s a joy to play around with. Kelindi says in a follow up post that the OS is “running on an emulated ARM11 CPU and S5L8900 chipset, compiled to WebAssembly.”

There’s not a ton of new info to glean from the profile, but it’s one of the most thorough looks at the rise of Ternus and how the iPhone Duo came to be a defining moment for the company and an early triumph for the new CEO.

Shortly after US District Judge Edward Davila said he was “highly likely” to grant Apple’s injunction, OpenAI voluntarily conceded instead. It agreed not to use Apple’s proprietary information for product development while the rest of the lawsuit plays out, and will hand over forensic images of the drives of 14 employees who defected from Apple.

The company closed the day above a $5 trillion valuation, though it has surpassed the milestone six times in intraday trading, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The launch will include some of Apple’s earlier Apple Intelligence features, but not the just-launched Siri AI, according to Bloomberg. The update is set to release in December.

US District Judge Edward Davila said during a hearing on Wednesday that he’s “highly likely” to grant Apple an injunction preventing OpenAI from using proprietary information allegedly shared by the iPhonemaker’s former employees, according to a report from Bloomberg.