Apple has just announced the HomeView, its first smart home display - and I just got hands-on with the device, which features a gorgeous 7-inch square touchscreen and built-in Siri AI. It's designed as a smart home controller, personal assistant, and home hub for your household, so there was a lot to check out. The…
Vibe coding is all the rage right now, with new apps and services popping up almost every hour. You can now vibe code an app tailored to your needs in minutes. Google is embracing this chaos and making it easier to install these vibe-coded apps on your own Android devices through Google Play, with sharing coming later.
Doug Field, the engineer who ran Tesla’s Model 3 program and later Ford’s entire EV operation, is now president of Mind Robotics, the industrial robotics startup Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe spun out of Rivian last year. He lands at a company that has now raised more than $1 billion in under a year, and he’ll run product, engineering, and operations alongside Scaringe.
The headline feature of the HomePod mini 2 is its impending support for Siri AI, which will be rolled out via a future update in the US, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and the UK.
Beats has partnered with The Pokémon Company to launch a special edition of the Beats Pill portable Bluetooth speaker. Adorned with Pikachu and Mimikyu, the special edition speaker comes in a custom retail box and will be released on October 15 in the US, China, and the UK.
One-Netbook has updated its Asus ROG Flow Z13 alternative. Available with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 processor, the OneXPlayer Super X Pro combines a 120 Hz AMOLED display and an 85 Wh battery with 192 GB RAM, of which 160 GB can be assigned as VRAM.
Tired of losing your wireless earbuds? Constantly charging them? Or just want to see what all the fuss is about? We are big fans of wired headphones here at What Hi-Fi?, and we have reviewed plenty of them in our 50-year history. So if you want a cheap wired pair that also sound sonically sophisticated, our expert audio testers recommend the Sennheiser CX 80U, now only £30 at Amazon. It’s safe to say our reviewers were amazed at how good these buds sounded at this price.
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Apple's HomePod Mini 2 is here, and we've gotten a close-up look at the second-gen smart speaker. The HomePod Mini 2 comes with an upgraded S10 chip capable of powering Siri AI, though Apple says support for new AI features will roll out as part of a future update. It also offers a sound glow…
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Apple has introduced a fourth-generation Apple TV 4K featuring an A19 chip and Siri AI, confirming that the new Siri AI capabilities will also come to select older models. [1]
Alongside the new hardware, Apple unveiled a fourth-generation Siri Remote priced at $59, with deliveries starting on November 13. The accessory works with Apple TV HD and all Apple TV 4K generations released since 2015, retaining its predecessor's design, layout, and USB-C port while adding a built-in speaker and Find My support. However, its Precision Finding feature is limited to users with an iPhone Duo, iPhone Air, or iPhone 17 and later, excluding the iPhone 17e. [1]
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Rega has announced a brand new budget turntable with a completely new design, aiming to "remove all the paranoia and confusion" of the vinyl world by creating the "perfect" plug-and-play deck for new vinyl listeners. The Rega Replay is the brand's new entry-level offering priced competitively at £259 in the UK. Labelled as the "audiophile gateway drug", the turntable has been designed from the ground up over three years, to "deliver exceptional sound at an accessible price".
IBM announced a self-hosted deployment option for IBM Bob on October 1, bringing its agentic software development platform to on-premises, private cloud, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped environments. Bob runs on infrastructure the customer manages, with model inference either on supported models the customer installs locally or, in hybrid configurations, through approved external model services. IBM
Apple just announced its long-rumored smart home hub, the HomeView, during its "Welcome Home" event taking place today. As part of the event, it showed a video featuring the new device, and if you want to see it for yourself, you can watch it right here. The HomeView is a 7-inch square display. It costs…
CarPlay and Android Auto do a great job of projecting your phone onto your vehicle's dash. However, certain stresses can cause it to overheat and play up.
Pre-orders are now open for the Apple HomeView, Cupertino's answer to the Amazon Echo Show 11 and Google Nest Hub Max. Priced at $299, the smart home hub will launch on November 13 in either a tabletop or wall-mounted configuration.
Apple has released its long-awaited Apple TV 4K (4th generation). The first Apple TV 4K release in almost four years, the 4th generation model promises to surpass its predecessor with faster performance, an improved Siri remote and the ability to output to four HomePod speakers simultaneously.
Apple debuted its latest Apple TV 4K - its first in four years - and it'll be available starting Friday, November 13th. It's powerful, with the A19 chip (the now-discontinued 2022 model has the A15 Bionic), plus a dedicated AV1 decoder, and it features better wireless connectivity than its predecessor, too. Siri AI is a…
A new scam is circulating on the secondhand graphics card market, according to Russian GPU repair specialist Vik-On. Sellers are offering GeForce RTX 4090 boards described as faulty and “for repair” at low prices.
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Apple has finally unveiled HomeView, its long-rumoured smart home hub with a 7-inch display, facial recognition and a substantially upgraded Siri assistant. The device doubles as a smart home controller and entertainment centre.