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Rare Apple TV 4K deals, ecobee’s new SmartThermostat, and early Prime Day deals highlight today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Head below for more. Apple TV 4K deals deliver markdowns to $139 Rare is an understatement when it comes to Apple TV 4K deals in 2019. If you’ve been holding out for Apple’s streaming media player, consider jumping on this deal at $139. That’s good for $40 off the regular going rate and the best we’ve seen this year....

Apple has updated the Mac mini today alongside the new MacBook Air and iPad Pro. The MacBook Air got a nice update today with two times faster performance, the new Magic Keyboard that the 16-inch MacBook Pro got at the end of last year, and bump in the storage of the standard configurations from 128GB to 256GB. In a small paragraph at the end of the MacBook Air announcement, Apple highlights that the Mac mini is also getting its storage doubled for the standard configurations....

Bloomberg reports today that Apple will unveil its streaming video service at its rumored March 25th event. BuzzFeed News first reported the March 25th date yesterday in the context of Apple’s news subscription service, but it was unclear if the video service would also be included at the event. According to Bloomberg, Apple has invited a handful of Hollywood stars to the event to commemorate the launch of the video service:...

We’ve regularly heard stories of the Apple Watch’s health features helping save a user’s life. Now, another such story has popped up on Reddit, with an Apple Watch Series 4 user explaining how the device’s ECG app alerted him to bigger problems. Phil Harrison writes that he was training for the Brighton Marathon when he started experiencing heart palpitations that wouldn’t stop. He then used the ECG app on his Apple Watch to see what was wrong....

Today’s best deals include Apple Watch Series 5, 16-inch MacBook Pro, and Apple’s new Magic Keyboards for iPad Pro. Hit the jump for all that and more in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break. Apple Watch Series 5 discounted across various models The latest from Apple delivers a new always-on Retina display, 30% larger screen than Series 3, and a swimproof design. Improved features like heart rate tracking, ECG, and a new compass are a few of the other notable upgrades here....

Today Apple made the rack-mountable Mac Pro available for purchase, starting at $6499. The unit, which features the same build to order components as the regular Mac Pro, features rack mounting rails that ship in a separate box. The base model rack mount Mac Pro comes with an 8-core Intel Xeon W CPU, 32GB of memory, a Radeon Pro 580X GPU, and 256GB of flash storage. A fully fleshed out Mac Pro with all of the fixings will set you back a cool $54,048....

Apple has informed its official retail stores, AppleCare employees, and authorized resellers that a small number of third-generation Apple TV units have WiFi issues. These issues surround not being able to locate a WiFi network, unable to join a network, and dropped or intermittent connections. If an Apple technician determines that an applicable Apple TV has these issues, the unit can be replaced as part of a replacement program that Apple has begun because of these WiFi issues....

As it normally does before earnings calls, Apple noted on its investor news webpage this evening that it will hold its fourth quarter earnings call on October 27th. The call will be held at the standard time of 2PM PT/5PM ET, with the earnings release itself being sent out roughly thirty minutes before then. This earnings call will be an important one for Apple and investors alike as it will provide the first look yet at early sales of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus....

From Electrek: Apple signed a deal this week to power to its Sparks, Nevada data center with possibly the cheapest contracted starting price for solar power in the US. The deal was signed with NV Energy, owned by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway. The deal’s start price is 3.099¢/kWh with a 2% a year escalator making it very inexpensive energy. The size of the solar project is 50MW. Concurrently, NV Energy also signed two other solar power PPAs that might be the lowest overall price for solar power in the USA – 3....

Apple today has released an update to the Apple Store app for iOS. The update brings the app to version 5.2 and includes new Siri Shortcuts, delivery options, and more. Apple Store for iOS originally added Siri Shortcuts integration back in November. At the time, the feature was limited to pre-ordering the iPhone XR. Headlining today’s update, however, is a new array of Siri Shortcuts functionality. Apple says that you can now create custom voice commands with Siri Shorts to check product availability and check order status....

Apple keynote day is officially here. As is tradition, the company has taken its online store offline and is now displaying the message “We’ll be back.” The store won’t come back online until after its keynote is wrapped later this afternoon… Apple teases its new products with the message “We’re busy updating the Apple Store for you,” and encourages users to come back later to see everything that’s new. Apple today is expected to unveil a trio of new iPhones, including the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X....

Apple is rolling out a nice update to the Apple Support application for iPhone and iPad. With today’s release of version 4.4, the Apple Support app now lets you easily get Express Replacement Service for devices in-app and more. Head below for the full details on what’s new. For those unfamiliar, Express Replacement is one of the most useful benefits of AppleCare+ in the United States. It allows you to get a replacement for your broken or damaged iPhone before sending in your original device....

Apple is now sending a new survey to Apple Watch users, this time to learn more about how its consumers use it to monitor health data. Interestingly enough, the company asks if the user has any apps installed to monitor eating habits, medications, and blood glucose levels. The survey has a section dedicated to health features, which have become a major selling point of the Apple Watch since its introduction. Apple first asks about the features built into watchOS, such as step counting, flights climbed, activity rings, stand up reminders, and the Workout app — the company wants to know which of these features consumers use the most....

France has begun asking US tech giants for what has been labelled an ‘Apple tax’ – a specific tax on tech giants which the country considers tax avoiders. It has been hoped the country would agree to wait for a global agreement on the tax treatment of large tech companies, but France has now decided to proceed unilaterally. The move promoted a threat of retaliation from Washington, leading to fears that it could provoke a trade war between the two countries …...

Apple will soon open a brand new store in East Rutherford, New Jersey, as the company has opened positions in this location on the Apple Jobs site. This will be the company’s first new retail location in the US after almost a year. As posted by Michael Steeber in his Tabletops newsletter, the East Rutherford is Apple’s “wholly new location in the US since Apple The Mall at Bay Plaza opened” last September....

It’s taken just two months from launch to the first Apple TV+ award nomination. The Critics Choice Association made the announcement, but Apple may not shout about it too loudly… The nomination is for Billy Crudrup as Best Supporting Actor. Crudrup plays recently appointed news head Cory Ellison. The reaction of critics to the show as a whole has been rather more mixed, leading producers to go on the offensive....

iPhone addiction can be a serious and uncomfortable problem for a lot of people in modern life. With the right settings, Apple Watch can help you create new behaviors away from your phone without being totally disconnected. iPhone Addiction That concern is why Apple included new Screen Time and Down Time features in iOS 12 that let you track and limit how you use your smartphone and apps with rules you create....

After hiring a new team of fashion sales and marketing experts from Yves St. Laurent, Louis Vuitton, and Burberry, Apple has developed a unique Apple Store purchasing experience just for the 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, according to sources briefed on the launch plans. When a customer interested in the Apple Watch Edition enters the store, he or she will be given no-wait access to a dedicated Expert, who will provide a personalized “journey” from the beginning of the appointment until the end, as much as one hour later....

When I wrote my first Apple Watch Series 6 diary piece on Monday, I was still waiting for my graphite stainless steel model to arrive. I was concerned about the graphite replacing the space black, and after some hands-on time, it’s apparent that the differences are noticeable, but I don’t think they are a dealbreaker. Before you read today’s diary installment, read the first one: Apple Watch Series 6 Diary: How I’m making my upgrade decision Graphite Apple Watch Series 6 vs space black Over the years, Apple has offered an array of different shades of black across its product lineups, ranging from the jet black iPhone 7 to the space gray used in the iPhone 11 today....

FXX delivers the first trailer for Archer: 1999, the latest re-imagining of the long-running animated series from creator Adam Reed. The past few seasons have seen the one-time super spy Sterling Archer in a number of wildly different scenarios, like Archer: Dreamland, a noir-inspired detective story, and last season’s disappointing Archer: Danger Island, which, for better or worse, put the show’s characters in the midst of a classic adventure serial. The changes have all been predicated on the cliffhanger ending of season 7, which left Archer comatose, following a near-fatal gunshot wound....