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Pricing, availability and specification reveals around new consumer device releases.
Apple is expected to launch at least three smart-home products on Tuesday at 9 am ET, Macworld reports. The biggest is a Siri AI hub that Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports will ship about a month after its unveiling.
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Meta priced its glasses-shaped VR headset at $1,299 and moved the processor into a puck you carry in your pocket. Shipping is promised for what the company calls Spring 2027. That means March 2027 at the earliest.
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Vonder costs $299, has no cameras and ships in November. Viture's cofounder says the built-in assistant messaged him unprompted about how he was treating his 10-year-old at tennis tournaments.
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Apple's stock camera app picks up controls that used to mean buying a third-party app. On the f-numbers 9to5Mac prints, the wider aperture buys about half a stop of light, and the sensor behind it is unchanged.
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Dyson's record says the difference between a category-maker and a write-off is whether the annoyance being solved was real. The CameraJet puts that judgement on public test. The engineering was never the hard part.
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