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The MacRumors Show: iPhone Air 2 – What Changes After a Difficult First Year

The MacRumors Show: iPhone Air 2 – What Changes After a Difficult First Year

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The iPhone Air reaches one year on sale next month, and Apple is now closer to launching its successor than it is to the original’s debut. On this week’s episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss what’s next for the device. The first-generation model has had a difficult run. A KeyBanc Capital Markets survey found virtually no demand for the device within weeks of its September 2025 launch, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported that suppliers were asked to cut capacity by more than 80% between launch and early 2026, and Luxshare and Foxconn both wound down production, leaving the phone believed to be entirely out of manufacture. Apple discounted it heavily in March, and SellCell data put its ten-week depreciation at 44.3% on average, against 34.6% for the iPhone 17 series. The Weibo leaker known as “Digital Chat Station” said in May that the device had barely surpassed 700,000 activations even after multiple rounds of price cuts. A single rear camera left a $999 phone looking less capable than the cheaper ‌iPhone 17‌, which …

Prisoner release: Andy Burnham’s difficult choices

Prisoner release: Andy Burnham’s difficult choices

Published by Sam Flores

The UK may have a new prime minister, but the problem of prison overcrowding in England and Wales remains. Andy Burnham recently clarified the details of the Sentencing Act 2026, which aims to release prisoners earlier than usual. Like other PMs before him, Burnham faces a difficult choice between addressing the overcrowded and chaotic prison environment, and reassuring the rightfully distressed victims and their families. The prison estate in England and Wales is vastly overcrowded. The most recent data shows a population of 86,495 prisoners – the estate can safely hold 81,681. The population increase has been building since the late 1990s. It reduced slightly during the pandemic, but has grown every year since 2023 back to pre-pandemic levels. This has been attributed to increases in sentencing lengths and the creation of new offences as a result of specific concerns or public campaigns. The harm caused by overcrowding is profound and pronounced. Violence, self-harm and suicide are still significantly high in prisons, with 70,632 self-harm incidents, 30,820 assaults between prisoners and 9,833 assaults on staff …

The Tigers Face a Difficult Challenge After Trading Ace Tarik Skubal to the Dodgers

The Tigers Face a Difficult Challenge After Trading Ace Tarik Skubal to the Dodgers

Published by Sam Flores

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Detroit Tigers said their goodbyes to ace Tarik Skubal and now must turn their focus to an uncertain final two months of the season as they try to make a playoff push without their best player. “Baseball has a funny way of challenging you to deal with change,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said before the series finale against the Athletics on Sunday. “Sometimes that’s difficult, sometimes it’s part of the game and part of the business. These guys are callous to some of the emotions that come with it.” Hinch’s team responded with an 11-0 win to complete the series sweep and keep the Tigers within 2 1/2 games of the last wild-card spot. “We played a really good series in the midst of a lot of different things swirling around us,” Hinch said. “This group’s pretty tough. We go through it game by game and showed a lot of character, obviously.” Moving on without Skubal will be the ultimate challenge. The ninth-round draft pick in 2018 developed into …

6 Firm Boundaries People Usually Set When They Are Especially Difficult To Manipulate

6 Firm Boundaries People Usually Set When They Are Especially Difficult To Manipulate

Published by Jenni Sidey

Boundaries should be non-negotiable in any relationship, but some people are constantly bending them to appease others. That leaves them vulnerable to exploitation. But when someone is difficult to manipulate, it’s because they set firm boundaries. They understand that the sooner they put these rules in place, the more control they retain in this relationship. People who are difficult to manipulate set these firm boundaries 1. Expressing and sticking to their values PeopleImages | Shutterstock Not everyone is going to agree with you or live their life the same way. But you have control over who is allowed into your life, and if their views don’t align with yours, you’re allowed to respectfully walk away. The easiest people to manipulate are the ones who don’t stick to their boundaries or stay assertive when people are trying to bring them down. They’re riddled with self-doubt and are more susceptible to believing someone else’s lies over their own feelings. Neuroscientist Dr. Eamonn Walsh said that this is caused by someone being suggestible. The more suggestible you are, …

Tom Holland admits promoting some of his past films was difficult because they were ‘s**t’

Tom Holland admits promoting some of his past films was difficult because they were ‘s**t’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Tom Holland has said he wouldn’t recommend every film in his career as worth watching, saying there have been times during press tours when he secretly thought the movie was “s**t”. The British actor has been promoting his two latest releases back-to-back, and spoke about how he was “absolutely loving” the press run. “When you’re doing press for movies you’re really proud of, it’s really easy. Because when they ask you questions about why should people go and watch this movie, you’re not lying to anyone. You really think people should go see it,” he said on the Dish Podcast. “I’ve had experiences before when people say, ‘Why should you see this movie?’ And in the back of your mind, you’re like, ‘You shouldn’t, because it’s s**t.’” Holland is playing Telemachus in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which follows Odysseus’s decade-long journey …

These Catholic sisters want to start a new order with a difficult mission: Helping clergy abuse survivors

These Catholic sisters want to start a new order with a difficult mission: Helping clergy abuse survivors

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS and NPR) — Sister Theresa Aletheia and Sister Danielle Lussier stand out at daily Mass at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Lexington, Kentucky. Their heads are covered in waist-length teal veils, and black canvas work aprons cover their gray habits. The aprons feature an embroidered image of Jesus on the cross, alive and gasping for air. “It is an important moment for us, when Jesus calls out to the Father, ‘My God, my God, Why have you forsaken me?’” Aletheia said. “That’s the moment that we enter into with the people that we serve.” Aletheia and Lussier call themselves the Sisters of the Little Way of Beauty, Truth and Goodness. They spend most of their time praying for and meeting with people who have experienced abuse of various kinds, including emotional, financial, spiritual or sexual. It’s a daunting and complex mission: serving the Catholic Church by caring for people harmed by it. Right now, Aletheia and Lussier are the only community of religious sisters in the Catholic Church fully dedicated to serving …

Jason Sudeikis addresses ‘very difficult’ phone calls to former Ted Lasso actors ahead of new season

Jason Sudeikis addresses ‘very difficult’ phone calls to former Ted Lasso actors ahead of new season

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The upcoming season of Ted Lasso is introducing brand new characters — but the series’ star and co-creator Jason Sudeikis had to say goodbye to the previous cast first. Apple TV’s hit series was supposed to end with its 2023 finale as Sudeikis’s titular character returned to the U.S. after three seasons as coach of a British men’s soccer team. Instead, Sudeikis and his fellow co-creators began to brainstorm about continuing the show. Eventually, they landed on a fourth season centering on an all-female team, the cast and creators told The Hollywood Reporter in an article published Wednesday. However, the new creative direction meant that the fictional AFC Richmond team at the center of the first seasons would not return. Sudeikis, 50, was tasked with explaining that to the actors who played those teammates in “very difficult” individual phone calls, he told …

Why 1960s technology makes seeing ‘The Odyssey’ in 70mm IMAX so difficult

Why 1960s technology makes seeing ‘The Odyssey’ in 70mm IMAX so difficult

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. It’s relatively easy to see a digital IMAX showing of Christopher Nolan’s new film The Odyssey, although at this point you’ll likely need to reserve a seat well in advance. But only the truly dedicated cinema buffs will catch the summer blockbuster on actual 70mm film as the acclaimed director intended. That’s because only 41 theaters in the entire world are properly fitted with the projection technology. That global IMAX scarcity isn’t an intentional ploy to drum up ticket prices. It’s actually because there are hardly any places left capable of manufacturing the necessary machinery, let alone people who know how to work them. And while it may come as a surprise, IMAX isn’t a new cutting-edge technology. It dates back to the …