Dennis Sellers

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple TV+’s <em>The Morning Show</em> is doing well this awards season. At Sunday's 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles Jennifer Aniston won an SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her leading role as morning news anchor Alex Levy in the series.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I’m skeptical that Apple will ever make its own accessory lenses for the iPhone or iPad, but you never know. The tech giant has been granted a patent (number 10,534,154) for “interlock arrangement for attaching a lens barrel to a lens carrier” that will, at least, make it easier for third parties to make photographic accessories for iOS and iPad OS devices.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has announced details about lots of its Apple TV+ series:</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Northeast Mississippi Community College has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished School – a prestigious designation achieved by only seven other colleges and universities in the country, reports the <a href="https://www.djournal.com/news/nemcc-receives-prestigious-apple-distinguished-schools-designation/article_222d994b-ab32-57d1-be07-a6012903f5ed.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Daily Journal</a>.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Future Apple Watches may be able to tell if you’re right or left-handed. Apple has been granted another patent (number 10,531,808) for a "method of detecting the wearing limb of a wearable electronic device.” The goal is to improvement the smartwatch’s health/fitness features.</p>

<p class="" 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 this week’s picks.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><em>MacVoices</em> has a slew of reports from the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Check 'em all out at <a href="https://www.macvoices.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.macvoices.com.</a></p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple has announced “Dear…,” a new documentary series executive produced by Emmy and Peabody Award winner R.J. Cutler (“The September Issue,” “Untitled Billie Eilish Documentary”). The series will premiere globally this spring on Apple TV+, a new home for the world’s most creative storytellers.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus (<em>Veep, Seinfeld</em>) has reportedly inked an overall deal with Apple TV+ to develop new projects exclusively for the platform as executive producer and star though no initial project has been announced.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/privacy-advocates-say-fbi-not-apple-undermining-public-safety-2020-1?r=US&IR=T" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Business Insider</a> says privacy advocates are backing Apple in its brouhaha with the FBI.The iPhone maker appears to be headed toward a legal battle with the Trump administration over its refusal to create a so-called "backdoor" that would let the FBI crack encryption on devices like the iPhone.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">In the latest round of an ongoing legal battle, Cornell-educated engineer testified for the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on Thursday that Apple and Broadcom infringed the university's patents in Wi-Fi chips used in Apple devices, reports <a href="https://www.law360.com/technology/articles/1235258/apple-devices-smaller-better-by-infringing-caltech-jury-told?nl_pk=ade0cf2b-ea3f-464b-bc93-d8e19277ac63&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Law360 </a>(a subscription is required to read the entire article). They said the infringing technology allowed the companies to make smaller devices while improving their wireless data capabilities.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Today Tile, which makes a Bluetooth tracker and app combo (pictured), will testify against Apple in the latest hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee.</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Apple wants to make its AirPods and AirPods Pro fit even better and stay in place even more securely as evidenced by a new patent filing (number 2020021903) for an “earbud stability anchor feature.”</p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Hey, why didn't Apple think of this? <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmojo.vision%2F&esheet=52159504&newsitemid=20200116005221&lan=en-US&anchor=Mojo+Vision&index=1&md5=02fd795f3d11fa645d7ee446d919ad77">Mojo Vision</a> says it's building the world’s first true smart contact lens, called the Mojo Lens. </p>

<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;"><em>The Banker</em> will finally arrive in March. Apple told Variety that it did its due diligence around the accusations and has announced theatrical and Apple TV+ release dates, reports <a href="https://variety.com/2020/film/news/the-banker-release-apple-1203469575/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Variety. </a>Originally scheduled for January, the film was delayed after someone came forward with accusations of abuse at the hands of an executive producer of the film.  </p>