The Morning After: The iPhone 16 launches September 9

Apple pretty much always announces the year’s iPhone in the first chunk of September, so no surprise here. with the usual pomp and show at Apple’s campus, complete with global live stream. Dubbed It’s Glowtime, the event name hints at the new features leveraging Apple Intelligence.

Being a diligent technology news outlet, . It’s likely the hardware won’t change too much, with small tweaks all around. That includes slightly bigger screen sizes, new colors and a faster chipset better able to run Apple Intelligence. Personally, I’m excited for a second action button as a camera trigger, given how often I’m snapping with my iPhone.

— Dan Cooper

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Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

Real-life Batman villain Martin Shkreli has been . The album’s current owner gained an injunction demanding he document any copies made and hand them over within the next week. Probably shouldn’t have boasted he’d sent the album to various people and stored copies in safes all around the world.

It’s not entirely clear why Durov has been arrested.

Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, the messaging platform, . French law enforcement says Durov’s arrest is part of a wider investigation into online crime, but Durov’s connection isn’t clear. Shortly after the arrest, Telegram said it’s “absurd” to arrest its CEO because some users may be misusing its platform.

Good luck to the crew.

Bankrolled by billionaire Jared Isaacman, Polaris Dawn is a private space mission that aims to . Due to launch August 27, the Polaris Dawn capsule will travel into the high atmosphere before two of the four crew members exit the craft. The flight will also test SpaceX’s innovative idea of not building the capsule with an airlock. Instead, the crew will all don spacesuits then open the door, exposing the rest of the crew and the spacecraft to the vacuum of space. We’re all keeping our fingers crossed.

Boeing’s annus horribilis continues.

After years of having its backside handed to it by SpaceX, Starliner was meant to be Boeing’s comeback story. NASA has announced that, instead, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will get home on a SpaceX Crew Dragon scheduled for February 2025.