In this special (extended) episode of 9to5Mac Daily, Zac Hall discusses Apple’s education event in Chicago with Bradley Chambers who attended the keynote. 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app, Stitcher, TuneIn, Google Play, or through our dedicated RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.

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Apple last year announced a major expansion of its Everyone Can Code initiative, aimed at making the Swift-based coding curriculum available to half a million Chicago students.

In support of this program, Apple has today revealed that Lane Tech College Prep High School – the venue for yesterday’s education event – will become a hub for teacher training in the curriculum …

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Investors fear that the fate of global stock markets are too heavily dependant on a handful of tech giants, Apple among them …

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Snapchat appears to be planning to allow more connected apps, third-party apps that have access to some or all of your Snapchat data …

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Huawei has long copied Apple’s EarPods look in the headphones it supplies with its Android smartphones, but it has now announced a pretty blatant copy of the iPhone maker’s wireless AirPods …

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Best Buy has a surprise to start your Wednesday morning. It just launched a new 24-hour sale, which is arguably one of the best that we’ve ever seen from them. Not only will you find all-time lows on MacBooks, but we’re also seeing a rare Apple Watch discount along with deals on TVs, smart home gear and much more. Free shipping is available on orders of $35+ or you can opt for in-store pickup on just about anything. We’ve rounded up our favorite Apple deals below…

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly plans to accept an invitation to testify before Congress on the user data privacy controversy. The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday demanded that the chief exec appear before them, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee also expects Zuckerberg to testify.

Lawmakers want to know how the social network seemingly permitted data from around 50 million users to be used to influence the US presidential election …

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The interval between Apple being accused of wrong-doing and the first lawsuit is never very long, but the revelation that the company was deliberately slowing older iPhones appears to have resulted in a record number of cases.

Last time we counted, there were 30 separate cases, and that number has now almost doubled. However, a meeting tomorrow aims to combine all the US cases into a single class action lawsuit …

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Several reports over the past few weeks have indicated that Apple has another color option for the iPhone X planned. Now, designer Martin Hajek has created mockups imagining what a PRODUCT(RED) iPhone X could look like…

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The iWork suite, including Pages, received a substantial update today as a part of Apple’s iPad education event in Chicago. The biggest feature included in the new update is Apple Pencil support for annotating text and objects and for drawing within a document.

In this hands-on video walkthrough, we step through how to use both drawing and Smart Annotations in Pages. Even if you don’t have an Apple Pencil, Smart Annotations and drawing support enhances the overall usefulness of the entire iWork suite. more…