
AppleMagazine
IOS 19 TO ENHANCE IPHONE BATTERY LIFE WITH AI-POWERED MANAGEMENT
Apple has revealed plans to introduce an AI-powered battery management feature in iOS 19, set for release in September 2025, leveraging Apple Intelligence to optimize iPhone battery life, as announced this week.
3 min |
May 16, 2025

AppleMagazine
GOOGLE LAUNCHES AI FUTURES FUND TO SUPPORT STARTUPS WITH MODELS AND TOOLS
Google has introduced the Al Futures Fund, a new initiative to invest in artificial intelligence startups, providing them with capital, early access to advanced Al models, and technical support, as announced this week.
2 min |
May 16, 2025

AppleMagazine
PERPLEXITY AI SECURES $500 MILLION FUNDING ROUND AT $14 BILLION VALUATION
Perplexity AI, a San Francisco-based startup developing an AI-powered search engine, is finalizing a $500 million funding round at a $14 billion valuation, marking its second major capital raise in six months, as announced this week.
2 min |
May 16, 2025

AppleMagazine
TOYOTA SIMPLIFIES NAME AND UPGRADES TECH FOR ITS SOLE U.S.ELECTRIC VEHICLE
Toyota has unveiled a revamped version of its only all-electric vehicle in the U.S., renaming the bZ4X to simply “bZ” and introducing significant technological upgrades for the 2026 model year, as announced this week.
3 min |
May 16, 2025

AppleMagazine
MICROSOFT CUTS THOUSANDS OF JOBS WHILE BOLSTERING AI INVESTMENTS
Microsoft is trimming its global workforce by about 6,000 jobs, roughly 3% of its 228,000 employees, while pouring significant resources into artificial intelligence, as announced this week.
3 min |
May 16, 2025

AppleMagazine
APPLE UNVEILS BRAIN CONTROL ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES FOR IPHONE AND IPAD
Imagine firing off a text, flipping through apps, or adjusting your music playlist just by thinking about it—no taps, no voice commands, just your brain at work.
5 min |
May 16, 2025

AppleMagazine
GOOGLE HAILS 1 BILLION DAILY RCS MESSAGES IN U.S. WITH IPHONE BOOST
Google revealed this week that Americans are sending over 1 billion Rich Communication Services (RCS) messages every day, a massive leap fueled by Apple’s decision to embrace RCS in iOS 18 last September.
3 min |
May 16, 2025

AppleMagazine
ESPN LAUNCHES DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER STREAMING SERVICE AT $29.99, RESHAPING SPORTS 7 IN THE STREAMING WARS
ESPN will debut its highly anticipated direct-to-consumer streaming service, simply named “ESPN,” in September 2025, priced at $29.99 per month, as announced this week.
7 min |
May 16, 2025

AppleMagazine
BAIDU PLANS DRIVERLESS TAXI LAUNCH IN EUROPE, TARGETING SWITZERLAND AND TURKEY
Chinese tech giant Baidu is gearing up to test its driverless ride-hailing service, Apollo Go, in Europe for the first time, with plans to establish a local entity in Switzerland and begin trials by the end of 2025, as reported last week by The Wall Street Journal.
4 min |
May 16, 2025

iPhone Life Magazine
5 WAYS TO GET MORE OUT OF SIRI WITH CHATGPT
While Apple has failed to follow through on bringing us the much-hyped contextual Siri with Apple Intelligence, it has delivered ChatGPT integration to help make up for it. Here are five of the best ways to use Siri with ChatGPT to level up your iPhone searches.
4 min |
Summer 2025

iPhone Life Magazine
SIZING UP THE IPHONE 16e
WEIGHING THE TRADEOFFS OF APPLE'S NOT-QUITE BUDGET AI
2 min |
Summer 2025

iPhone Life Magazine
WELCOME TO THE BEST APPS OF 2025
With so many apps on the market (there seems to be a Duolingo for just about everything these days), it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Confronted with the endless options available in the App Store, I start to feel download fatigue. But working on this issue every year reintroduces me to the joy of discovery. The fact of the matter is, there are so many cool apps out there!
5 min |
Summer 2025

iPhone Life Magazine
REENCLE VS. MILL
ONE SMART COMPOSTER TO RULE THEM ALL
6 min |
Summer 2025

iPhone Life Magazine
WHAT'S ON DECK?
EVERY APPLE DEVICE EXPECTED IN 2025
5 min |
Summer 2025

iPhone Life Magazine
WHO CAN TRACK YOUR IPHONE?
7 VULNERABILITIES YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW YOU HAVE
7 min |
Summer 2025

iPhone Life Magazine
YOUR AT-HOME HEALTH KIT
THE BEST MEDICAL TECH FOR HEALTH MONITORING & MORE
4 min |
Summer 2025

iPhone Life Magazine
AI Image Creation: An Experiment
I am writing a book about my coaching practice. To lighten things up and convey the ideas visually, I decided to see if I could use artificial intelligence to generate the illustrations. But where to begin?
2 min |
Summer 2025

iPhone Life Magazine
DEEPSEEK ENTERS THE ARENA
IS IT USEFUL? IS IT SAFE?
4 min |
Summer 2025

iPhone Life Magazine
TECH THE IPHONE LIFE TEAM IS LOVING
A.R.C. Crossbody Bag ($69.99)
3 min |
Summer 2025

iPhone Life Magazine
LIVEN UP YOUR HOME WITH SIRI
HOMEPOD COMMANDS YOU'LL USE EVERY DAY
3 min |
Summer 2025

iPhone Life Magazine
BUILD YOUR BEST BUDGET
TWO BUDGETING BEHEMOTHS GO HEAD TO HEAD
9 min |
Summer 2025

Stereophile
Stenheim Alumine Two.Five
LOUDSPEAKER
10 min |
June 2025

Stereophile
Amphion Krypton3X
LOUDSPEAKER
10+ min |
June 2025

Stereophile
Fezz Equinox
D/A PROCESSOR
10+ min |
June 2025

Stereophile
Lyngdorf Audio MXA-8400
8-CHANNEL POWER AMPLIFIER
10+ min |
June 2025

Stereophile
GRAMOPHONE DREAMS
Jamming with cans
10+ min |
June 2025

Stereophile
A Four-Cent Cigar and the Tyranny of Better
Edward Mott Robinson, a Quaker tycoon from whaling-era Massachusetts, would turn down fine cigars. He preferred the cheap kind. “I smoke four-cent cigars, and I like them,” he declared.¹ “If I were to smoke better ones, I might lose my taste for the cheap ones that I now find quite satisfactory.”
3 min |
June 2025

Stereophile
Staying true to the passion
Steve Jain, cofounder and managing director of Fidelity Imports, has been busy since launching the company six years ago in the Philadelphia area.
4 min |
June 2025

Stereophile
FOLLOW-UP
Following Kalman Rubinson’s review and John Atkinson's testing, which were published in the April 2025 issue, the Charcoal Black Technics SC-CX700 streaming amplified speaker system was shipped to me.1 I checked out some of the features Kal described, dug into the underlying tech with Technics's Bill Voss, and spent a few dozen hours listening, especially to the system's phono circuit.
10+ min |
June 2025

Stereophile
RABBIT HOLES
The spirit of Rush ever lingers
3 min |