Actress Kerry Condon (“The Banshees of Inisherin”) will star with Brad Pitt in Apple’s forthcoming Formula One racing movie. Etan Vlessing for The Hollywood Reporter: Damson Idris was earlier announced to also appear in the feature from the filmmaking team behind “Top Gun: Maverick,” with Joseph Kosinski set to direct, as well as produce alongside Jerry Bruckheimer. Ehren Kruger, one of the writers on “Maverick,” will pen the screenplay. Condon launched her stage career with celebrated performances in Martin McDonagh’s plays “The Lieutenant of Inishmore” and “The Cripple of Inishmaan” and also appeared in his Oscar-winning feature “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri.” She earned an Oscar nom for best supporting actress earlier this year for “Banshees,” also from McDonagh.…

Macworld Apple has planted its own flag in the streaming wars with Apple TV+, its in-house streaming service that focuses almost entirely on original programming rather than an extensive library of existing TV shows or movies. This resource will list all the Apple TV+ content you can watch today, grouped into: TV shows, limited series, and movies. There’s also a ton of new content in the works for Apple’s $6.99-a-month service. If you want to know what’s on the way, check out our list of upcoming Apple TV+ shows and movies. Updated 05/05/23: Season 2 of children’s animated series Harriet the Spy and the post-apocalyptic thriller Silo are now streaming. u003cbru003eMentioned IN THIS story Apple TV 4K (2022, 3. Gen.)…

The first credible report of Apple preparing an iPad Pro with a display larger than 12.9-inches came from Bloomberg News’ Mark Gurman back in July 2021 who reported that the company was in the early stages of the work. Apple’s current 11- and 12.9-inch iPad Pro models Michael Potuck for 9to5Mac: Almost a year later, in June 2022, Ross Young shared that the larger iPad Pro in development is 14.1-inches in size. He also said it features mini-LED lighting for the display along with ProMotion 1-120Hz refresh rates that the current and previous iPad Pro have. Later in the year, we saw a report in October 2022 from Wayne Ma at The Information that predicts Apple is also working on…

Benjamin and Zac talk about this week in Apple, including a report on division inside the Siri group impacting feature development, a major rumored overhaul of watchOS coming at WWDC with a focus on widgets, and Apple and Google announce a new universal standard for unwanted tracking detection for Bluetooth trackers like AirTags. Sponsored by Kolide: Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your cloud apps. It’s Zero Trust for Okta. Watch an On-Demand Demo today!  more… The post 9to5Mac Happy Hour 432: watchOS 10 redesign with widgets, universal AirTag detection, Siri bureaucracy appeared first on 9to5Mac.

Macworld It’s a big moment when Apple unveils a new version of iOS at WWDC each summer. After all, this software is running on a billion-odd iPhones and can fundamentally change the way they all behave: iOS updates add new features, correct flaws and UI issues, improve reliability (hopefully), and generally enhance the iPhone experience. All this without costing a penny to install. In 2023, rumormongers would have us believe, the new features part of that equation will be relatively minor, with development work on the company’s mixed-reality headset apparently costing so many engineer hours that the iOS 17 project had to be scaled back. Multiple pundits have warned that, while some smaller new features will be included, there won’t…

Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser Apple first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed the ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari. ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release 169 includes bug fixes and performance improvements for Web Inspector, CSS, Scroll Snap, JavaScript, Popover, SVG, Accessibility, Media, Rendering, and Web API. The current ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ release is version 16.4 and is compatible with machines running macOS Ventura and macOS Monterey 12.3 or later. The ‌Safari Technology Preview‌ update is available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences or System Settings to anyone who has downloaded the browser. Full release notes for the update are available…