Dennis Sellers

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Ralph Lauren Corp. — known for its apparel, home, accessories, and fragrances products — has announced that it plans to add Angela Ahrendts, Apple’s senior vice president of Retail, to the company’s Board of Directors. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Major tech and aerospace companies including Apple, Amazon, Intel, Qualcomm, and Airbus are vying to take part in a new slate of drone tests set <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-drones-companies/u-s-to-reveal-winners-of-drone-program-that-has-attracted-top-companies-idUSL1N1SF1J5?feedType=RSS&feedName=companyNews" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">announced</a> by the U.S. Transportation Department. I’m not sure what Apple’s drone planes are, but this will be an interesting area to watch.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple’s iPhone X remained the most popular smartphone in Europe in the first quarter of 2018, even as overall shipments fell 6.3% year-on-year, according to new data from <a href="http://www.canalys.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Canalys</a>.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Revealed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fepqIO57f8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">by</a> <em>EverythingApplePro</em> on YouTube a malicious message dubbed “Black Dot” message has been discovered. It takes advantage of a bug in Unicode to crash Apple's Messages app on iPhones and iPads running iOS 11.3 and the beta releases of iOS 11.4. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has been granted a patent involving its current and future iPhone and iPad stands. Patent number 9,966,984 is for a “device case with a balanced hinge” that provides some amount of torsional force that would allow an iPhone or iPad to  be angled “at an almost unlimited number of angles relative to a surface on which the computing device is resting.”</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Scosche's $79.99 <a href="https://www.scosche.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=MagicMount+CHARGE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MagicMount CHARGE</a> is the latest in the company’s cool line of MagicMount line of magnetic, cradle-less mobile device mounts, and is designed for vehicles, and homes, and offices. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Live Photos is a pretty cool feature that Apple offers in its Photos app. And you can turn a Live Photo into an animated GIF.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">On a regular basis, <em>Apple World Today</em> posts a list of notable new apps or app updates that have been released. They may not necessarily be new, but they're popular and deserve mention. Here are today's picks.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple and production house Furlined were among the winners at the <a href="http://www.adcawards.org/">ADC 97th Annual Awards</a>, held last night at New York’s One Club for Creativity, reports <a href="http://www.adweek.com/agencies/apples-barbers-ad-for-the-iphone-wins-top-honors-at-the-adc-awards/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>AdWeek</em></a>.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">NETGEAR is making an addition to its Orbi Home WiFi System product. The company says the new <a href="http://www.netgear.com/orbi/cbk40.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Orbi Tri-Band WiFi Cable Modem Router System(CBK40)</strong></a> joins the line-up as the industry’s first whole-home WiFi router with a built-in cable modem, app setup and patented, high-performance FastLane 3 Tri-Band WiFi. </p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Apple has been granted a patent (number 9,965,995) for an “electronic device having display with curved edges” that shows that the tech giant has at least considered making an Apple Watch with a circular design.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">More than two years after Apple was forced to pay out $450 million to resolve an e-books antitrust case, the tech giant has informed shareholders that it’s agreed to stipulations for settlement of a lingering derivative complaint, reports <a href="https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/05/07/apple-agrees-to-settlement-in-shareholder-derivative-complaint-over-e-book-antitrust-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>AppleInsider</em></a>. </p>

<p>Eltima Software’s Elmedia Video Player is a multifunctional media player for macOS 10.7 and higher that can handle some files and chores that Apple’s QuickTime Player can’t.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">macOS High Sierra includes features that allow you to find and type special characters like emoji and currency symbols.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Japanese blog <a href="http://www.macotakara.jp/blog/rumor/entry-34952.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>Mac Otakara</em></a> — as noted by <a href="http://www.macrumors.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em>MacRumors</em></a> — Apple's upcoming 6.5-inch OLED iPhone will be about "the same size" as the iPhone 8 Plus with an edge-to-edge display and support for horizontal Face ID.</p>