Marcus Mendes is a Brazilian tech podcaster and journalist who has been closely following Apple since the mid-2000s.
He began covering Apple news in Brazilian media in 2012 and later broadened his focus to the wider tech industry, hosting a daily podcast for seven years.
Today, Marcus co-hosts several tech-focused shows at Gigahertz FM, a Brazilian podcast network he co-founded in 2022 with 9to5Mac’s own Guilherme Rambo. Outside of Gigahertz FM, he also hosts IA Sob Controle, a podcast featuring in-depth interviews and news about artificial intelligence.
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As Apple enters the final stretch of the post-WWDC beta season, it has moved now to the wekly schedule of developer releases. The seventh batch of betas is now rolling out. Here’s what to expect.
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Despite a recent 15% bump, following positive Q3 2025 results and a stunt that brought it tariff relief, Apple’s stock is still 5% in the red for the year. But in a recently published investor note, Morgan Stanley says it believes momentum will keep shifting.
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DigiTimes Asia is out today with a new report saying Apple Watch sales in the first half of 2025 came in about 10% above expectations. Still, the more interesting part of the report touches on what to expect from a very promising 2026 lineup. Here are the details.
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A new report from Appfigures shows ChatGPT firmly leading the pack in revenue per download among the top AI assistant apps. Here’s the breakdown.
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In a new study, a group of Apple researchers describe a very interesting approach they took to, basically, get an open-source model to teach itself how to build good user interface code in SwiftUI. Here’s how they did it.
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Uber is inquiring select Brazilian customers on a series of new services, including multiple forms of insurance. Here are the details.
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Intel’s stock spiked late in trading today after reports that the Trump administration is in talks to take a stake in the company. The news follows Trump’s recent call for the ouster of CEO Lip-Bu Tan and a subsequent meeting between the two.
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J.D. Power’s 2025 U.S. Credit Card Satisfaction Study is out. And this time, contrary to the last four years, Apple didn’t top the list, reflecting the company’s broader struggles with its credit card program.
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As it usually does towards the final stretch of the beta season, Apple is moving to the weekly schedule of beta releases. Following Monday’s release of a new developer beta batch, the third round of public betas is rolling out now, including macOS 26 Tahoe beta 3. Here’s how to install it.
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With just two days to go until its theatrical release, the first reviews for Highest 2 Lowest are in. Here’s what critics have to say about the new Spike Lee movie, featuring Denzel Washington.
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I can’t say that I have ever paid much attention to competitive sailing. But if I owned an Apple Vision Pro, I would absolutely start following each SailGP race, with the new SailGP RaceScape XR app out today. Here’s what using it looks like.
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Following a recent series of welcome updates as Threads turned two, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that his X competitor crossed 400 million monthly active users (MAUs), a 50 million boost since April.
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Last night, Elon Musk took to X to complain about the fact that Apple never seems to feature either X or Grok on the App Store. He claimed the company was unfairly favoring ChatGPT, and said xAI would take “immediate legal action”. Today, Apple responded.
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Since Apple’s latest earnings call, talk of a potential Perplexity acquisition has quieted down (the fact that Perplexity was once again allegedly caught red-handed sidestepping content restrictions didn’t help).
Meanwhile, with the ever-increasing number of engineers from its Foundation Models team jumping ship, Apple’s need for fresh talent is getting more urgent by the day. But if Perplexity is a no-go, who else could Apple buy?
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Legendary actor John Malkovich (Burn After Reading, Rounders) has been confirmed as a guest star in “Prodigies”, an upcoming seven-episode Apple TV+ series also featuring Ayo Edebiri (The Bear, Inside Out 2). Here are the details
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Elon Musk is (once again) going after Apple, this time accusing the company of an “unequivocal antitrust violation” for allegedly favoring OpenAI in the App Store’s AI rankings. Here are the details.
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Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: just hours before a new wave of tariffs on Chinese goods was set to kick in, President Trump signed an executive order extending the pause by another 90 days. And this time, it’s especially good news for Apple.
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Last week, President Trump called for the dismissal of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan over “highly CONFLICTED” ties to China, further escalating an already difficult situation for the executive.
Today, following a meeting, Trump appeared to soften his stance, even if partially.
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When Apple announced Live Translation at WWDC25, it highlighted use cases like FaceTime, phone calls, and messages. But one major use case was missing: real-world conversations. As it turns out, that was in the works too.
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Alongside the new macOS 26 developer beta 6, Apple is also rolling out the sixth developer beta of visionOS 26, and the rest of its operating systems.
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Less than a week after releasing the last batch, Apple is now rolling out developer beta 6 of macOS Tahoe 26 and its other systems. Here are the details.
A new research paper from Apple details a technique that speeds up large language model responses, while preserving output quality. Here are the details.
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Yesterday, President Donald Trump publicly called for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan’s resignation, over accusations of “deeply conflicted” ties to China. Now, he is speaking out and making it clear he has no plans to step aside.
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