Severance. | Image: Apple The Writers Guild of America’s current strike is shaping up to be a shining example of just how much power workers have when working collectively. Take, for example, the way production has been halted on Apple’s Severance and HBO’s upcoming Game of Thrones spinoff A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight due to picketing WGA members and allies refusing to cross the line. Deadline reports that, in direct response to the organized demonstrations of striking writers, production on Severance’s second season in New York City and on The Hedge Knight — which is still being written — has stopped, with no clear date as to when things might ramp back up. In addition to…

A TikTok video shows a skydiver dropping his iPhone from a plane during a dive, with it somehow surviving the 14,000-foot fall to the ground.[TikTok/@capt_rumcoffee]Dropping an iPhone can be a fear-filled occasion for most users, worrying over potential cracks to the screen or other damage. In a video doing the rounds on TikTok, a skydiver showed what could possibly be the most extreme version of that situation. Read more...

Brydge, a once thriving startup making popular keyboard accessories for iPad, Mac, and Microsoft Surface products, is ceasing operations. According to nearly a dozen former Brydge employees who spoke to 9to5Mac, Brydge has gone through multiple rounds of layoffs within the past year after at least two failed acquisitions. As it stands today, Brydge employees have not been paid salaries since January. Customers who pre-ordered the company’s most recent product have been left in the dark since then as well. Its website went completely offline earlier this year, and its social media accounts have been silent since then as well. Those former Brydge employees largely attribute the company’s failure to mismanagement during growth, misleading statements from its two co-CEOs, and…

Happy May the 4th! While you’ll find all of the best Star Wars Day deals rounded up courtesy of our friends at 9to5Toys, the team also has some other notable discounts from the Apple side of the Galaxy. On tap today, you can save $519 on a refurbished M1 iMac while OtterBox celebrates the galactic holiday with a 15% off sitewide sale on its Star Wars iPhone 14 cases. And this Anker 100W Charging Station with retractable USB-C cables rounds out the savings with a drop down to $80. Hit the jump for all that and more in the latest 9to5Toys Lunch Break. more… The post Deals: Save $519 on refurb M1 iMac, OtterBox 15% off sale, Star Wars Day savings, more…