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December 18, 2023

Apple to halt Apple Watch 9, Ultra 2 sales in US over patent dispute with Irvine’s Masimo

By Mark Gurman | Bloomberg Apple Inc. will stop selling the latest versions of its smartwatch in the US due to a patent dispute, taking the devices off the market in the middle of the...

December 22, 2023

Irvine Shuttle will halt its service for four days in late December

Those bright blue and green Irvine Shuttle buses are hitting the breaks for four days next week. Like the Metrolink trains, the iShuttle buses will not operate from Dec. 26 to Dec. 29. While any...

December 19, 2023

Irvine-based Masimo’s CEO open to settling Apple Watch rift

By Mark Gurman and Caroline Hyde | Bloomberg Irvine-based Masimo Corp. Chief Executive Officer Joe Kiani, head of the medical device maker that has put Apple Inc.’s smartwatch on the brink of a US ban,...

December 22, 2023

Skating around Orange County: Find an outdoor ice rink this holiday season

There’s still time to lace up your skates and practice your figure eights at one of several outdoor ice rinks around Orange County this holiday season. From hours of operation to how much you can...

December 22, 2023

Great Park’s resident task force is coming to an end

Less than two years since its creation in 2022, Great Park‘s resident task force is dissolving. The task force, an ad-hoc committee composed of 15 appointed residents who represent the Great Park Neighborhoods, was meant...

December 27, 2023

Irvine teen advocates ‘everyone deserves equal access to knowledge’

When Gretchen and Charles Hill adopted their son, the orphanage director “told us that Henry is a game changer – influential, inspirational, game changer,” his mother said. “I think Henry is all of the above.”...

December 27, 2023

How an email from an Irvine engineer to Tim Cook set Apple Watch saga in motion

By Mark Gurman | Bloomberg At about 1 a.m. California time in 2013, a scientist in Irvine emailed Apple’s Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook with an irresistible pitch. “I strongly believe that we can develop...

December 28, 2023

Jeanne Keevil, first editor of Irvine World News, dies at 96

When Jeanne Keevil was a college student at the University of Oregon in the 1940s, journalism was a man’s world. When male students who had served during World War II began returning to school as...

December 29, 2023

Phony MIT physicist bilked investors out of $24.6 million with Irvine tech firm, SEC alleges

An Irvine man bilked more than 50 investors out of $26.4 million with phony academic credentials, a fanciful rags-to-riches story and a promise to usher in “the next age of humanity” with cutting-edge nanotechnologies that...

December 30, 2023

These crafty teens create smiles for pediatric patients

When friends Maryam Quraishi and Eman Umer were volunteering at a local hospital about three years ago, the coronavirus was forcing strict limitations on the number of visitors and volunteers who could be with patients....