Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller stepped down as head of the App Store on or before 6 September 2026, citing concerns about the platform's future direction. Schiller will remain at Apple as a Fellow while focusing on family and philanthropic work.
Ada Yonath, an Israeli chemist who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the ribosome's complete structure, died on 2026-08-31 aged 87. She also received Israel's national prize in chemistry in 2002 and worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science.