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From fashion to fragrance, celebrity sells. And with marijuana sales expected to reach $8-10 billion by the end of this year – and projected to double to $20 billion by 2022 – more celebs are investing money and lending their names to get a foothold in this growing market. Ben Tracy talks with Tommy Chong (who helped invent the stoner comedy genre), who's put his name to Chong's Choice marijuana, on sale in six states; and with Melissa Etheridge, whose experience with marijuana to relieve the effects of cancer chemotherapy has inspired her to build a farm for medical marijuana products.

Apple has announced tvOS 26 for Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD (2015)New features include a 'Liquid Glass' interface design Other new features enhance Apple TV 4K's profiles, FaceTime interface and Sing Karaoke featureToday, Apple dropped news of the new tvOS26 at WWDC 2025. We covered that announcement in our WWDC 2025 liveblog, but a more complete breakdown of the new features coming in tvOS26 that Apple TV 4K users should expect soon can be found below.The leap from the current tvOS 18 to tvOS 26 adheres with Apple’s new naming convention, which seeks to align all operating systems under the same version umbrella: iOS 26, iPadOS 26, MacOS 26, etc.Along with getting the same version number, all Mac devices, including the Apple TV 4K, will now share a unified "Liquid Glass" interface. This takes its visual cues from the “floating” interface used by visionOS on the Apple Vision Pro headset, where icons appear suspended in 3D space over motion backgrounds.The good news for Apple TV fans is that tvOS 26 will be available as an update for the full range of Apple TV 4K players going back to 2017, along with the Apple TV HD (2015). Here’s the complete list of supported players:Apple TV HD (2015)Apple TV 4K (1st generation, 2017)Apple TV 4K (2nd generation, 2021)Apple TV 4K (3rd generation, 2022)1. Liquid Glass interfaceApple’s new Liquid Glass design will show up in tvOS 26 as transparent playback control icons that let you see the action onscreen rather than obscuring it. The same level of transparency will extend to Control Center, which will have a transparent quality when making adjustments to audio, sleep timer, or other options.2. Poster art(Image credit: Apple)The Apple TV app is also getting the Liquid Glass treatment, with a new Poster Art design with an expanded number of show recommendations that pop out on the screen as you navigate through them.3. Display profiles(Image credit: Apple)In tvOS 26, viewers can choose to see display profiles when their Apple TV wakes, letting them easily access a custom list of personalized viewing recommendations, along with their custom watchlists in both the Apple TV app and in Apple Music. Apple is also adding a new API for developers to link logins for apps to your Apple account, making it easy to sign in using an iPhone.4. iPhone becomes a microphone(Image credit: Apple )The Sing feature in Apple Music, which shows scrolling song lyrics when listening, is getting a big enhancement with tvOS 26’s ability to transform your iPhone – and also the iPhones of your guests – into a microphone. Your voice will be amplified through the TV’s speakers when singing along, and you can also react to songs with onscreen emojis and add visual effects.5. More personalized FaceTimeNew in tvOS 26 is a personalized FaceTime experience that shows a contact’s custom photo and name when you start a FaceTime call on Apple TV. Live caption options have been expanded to include French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Spanish, and Apple TV will be able to display Live Captions for FaceTime conversations.Other featuresOther features Apple announced today as coming to Apple TV include a new set of aerial screen savers with scenes from India, including Goa and Kerala, along with a personalized screen saver option that lets you choose between specific Cityscape, Earth, Landscape, or Underwater Aerials.Apple TV users will also be able to choose a specific AirPlay-enabled speaker as the permanent speaker for their Apple TV box.You might also like...Apple Music gets AutoMix and Music Pins, plus lyrics translation/pronunciation – and your iPhone can become a mic in Sing on tvOSApple CarPlay just got 4 big free upgrades with iOS 26AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 will get two useful free upgrades in iOS 26

Apple has just revealed macOS Tahoe 26 at WWDC 2025 and as well as taking the wraps off the next incarnation of its desktop OS – known as Tahoe – the company gave us the scoop on hardware compatibility.In other words, we now know which Macs will be good to run macOS Tahoe, and which Apple laptops and computers will be left out in the cold, stuck on the current version which is macOS Sequioa.And as you might expect, continuing the trend set last year, more of Apple’s Macs with Intel CPUs are going to be barred from entry with macOS Tahoe.So, which Macs will be compatible with macOS 26? Here’s the full list for the various models of Apple’s computers:MacBook Air M1 or laterMacBook Pro 16-inch 2019 or laterMacBook Pro 2020 or laterMacBook Pro 13-inch 2020 with four Thunderbolt 3 portsiMac 2020 or laterMac mini 2020 or laterMac Pro 2019 or laterMac Studio 2022 and later(Image credit: Future)Newer hardware that’s out of luckAs you might realize, this leaves some relatively new Mac hardware languishing in the land of macOS 15, never being able to make the leap to macOS 26.Most notably, that includes a laptop from 2020 – the MacBook Air with an Intel CPU, as only the MacBook Air with M1 from that year is supported by macOS Tahoe.While that’s the worst offender in terms of being prematurely shuffled off the support coil, those who own a MacBook Pro from 2018 are also left in the lurch, as are Mac mini 2018 owners for that matter.All of those are still pretty recent machines – you could argue the iMac Pro 2017 is, as well – and none of them will be able to upgrade to macOS 26. Boo, hiss and so forth…That doesn’t mean these Macs are suddenly rendered unusable, though. Even though Tahoe isn’t an option for them, Apple will continue to provide security updates for macOS 15 Sequoia going forward. So, it’ll remain a perfectly good operating system for as long as that happens (which should be a couple of years of updates, typically).You just won’t get the new features that macOS 26 delivers (and you can read more about them here).If your Mac is compatible and you want to try out macOS Tahoe 26 right now, then we show you how to download the macOS 26 Tahoe developer beta.You might also like...What to expect from Apple Macs in 2025Microsoft accused of ‘tech extortion’ over Windows 10 support ending, by campaign urging people to upgrade to LinuxiOS 19: new features, a new design, and everything you need to know