Month:August 2025

Chinese smartphone maker Vivo on Thursday unveiled its first mixed reality headset, the “Vivo Vision,” and the photocopiers in Dongguan appear to have been working overtime. The device “launched” as an in-store experience across mainland China today, featuring design elements that clearly ape Apple’s Vision Pro. It’s got a curved glass front visor, downward-pointing cameras, …
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Medical technology company Masimo on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against U.S. Customs and Border Protection in which it challenged the agency’s decision to allow Apple to restore blood oxygen monitoring to its Apple Watch models (via Bloomberg Law). In a complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, Masimo said …
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Google introduced its next-generation Pixel 10 smartphones today, and while there are multiple hardware improvements, Google focused heavily on new AI features. The Pixel 10 devices offer quite a few new AI-powered capabilities, in addition to prior AI features that have come out over the last couple of years. We’ve rounded up the new features, …
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Nanoleaf this week announced the launch of the 4D V2, a product that’s designed to provide ambient lighting that matches the colors on your TV set. The second version of the Screen Mirror and Lightstrip Kit offers more accurate screen mirroring for a more engaging viewing experience. The Nanoleaf 4D V2 has a redesigned zigzag …
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With the launch of the Pixel 10 smartphones, Google announced new AI functionality that’s coming to its Google Photos app and service. Users will be able to describe the edits that they want to make with text or voice in the Google ‌Photos‌ editing interface, and the changes will appear. Google says there will be …
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In select U.S. states, residents can add their driver’s license or state ID to the Wallet app on the iPhone and Apple Watch, providing a convenient and contactless way to display proof of identity or age at select airports and businesses, and in select apps. This week, Apple announced the 10th U.S. state that has …
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Apple today released new iOS 18.6.2, iPadOS 18.6.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 updates, and the software addresses a security vulnerability that is known to have been actively exploited. According to Apple’s security support documents, memory corruption could result from devices that were sent a malicious image file. Apple says that it is aware of a …
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Apple today released macOS Sequoia 15.6.1, a minor update to the ‌macOS Sequoia‌ operating system that launched last September. ‌macOS Sequoia‌ 15.6.1 comes a few weeks after the launch of macOS Sequoia 15.6. Mac users can download the ‌‌‌‌macOS Sequoia‌ 15.6.1 update through the Software Update section of System Settings. It is available for free …
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