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Source: The Verge After almost four years without a hardware update, a new version of the AirPods Max has been announced by Apple today. The AirPods Max, the first over-ear wireless headphones in Apple’s AirPods lineup, debuted in 2020, four years after the company’s first wireless earbuds were announced. Both the AirPods and subsequent AirPods…

Source: The Verge The 10th version of the Apple Watch has been announced at Apple’s event on Monday and features a 40 percent brighter wide-angle OLED screen that’s larger than the display on the Apple Watch Ultra. The new Apple Watch Series 10 is just 9.7 millimeters thick, making it 10 percent thinner than the…

Source: The Verge People aren’t buying phones like they used to, so Apple’s really gotta put the squeeze on us every upgrade cycle. And recently, that has meant pushing more people toward the Pro iPhone, rather than the regular one. Every year for the past few years, Apple has withheld more and more features for…

Source: The Verge It’s glowtime, baby. Apple is expected to announce the iPhone 16 today — and the launch of Apple Intelligence along with it. Apple is late to the AI party, which makes its arrival all the more intriguing. While we got a glimpse of Apple Intelligence at WWDC, we’re expecting a more practical…

Source: The Verge Amazon will begin inviting a small group of Audible narrators to train AI-generated voice clones of themselves this week, with the aim of speeding up audiobook production for the platform. The US-only beta test was announced on Audible’s creator marketplace and will be extended to rights holders like authors, agents, and publishers…

Source: The Verge Meta appears to have leaked the Meta Quest 3S, its rumored budget follow-up to last year’s Quest 3 headset, in its own Windows Meta Quest Link PC software. Spotted by UploadVR, the images posted on Reddit show a VR headset that’s visually a bit of a cross between the Quest 2 and…

Source: The Verge It may be iPhone 16 announcement day, but there’s a great deal available right now for Android fans. Now that all versions of the Google Pixel 9 are out in the wild (including the excellent Pixel 9 Pro Fold), last year’s Pixel 8 Pro has dropped to a new low of $624…

Source: The Verge Sony is holding a PlayStation “Technical Presentation” tomorrow, just days after teasing a PS5 Pro console. The nine-minute stream will be hosted by Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS5 console. Cerny previously revealed the full PS5 specs ahead of its debut in 2020. The announcement comes just after Sony teased…

Source: The Verge Today, I’m talking with Mike Krieger, the new chief product officer at Anthropic, one of the hottest AI companies in the industry. Anthropic was started in 2021 by former OpenAI executives and researchers who set out to build a more safety-minded AI company — a real theme among ex-OpenAI employees lately. Anthropic’s…