Deals: M4 MacBook Pro hits all-time low at $125 off, GPS+Cell Apple Watch Series 10 $50 off, Alpine Loops, more

Joining all-time lows on the 42mm and 46mm , today Amazon has decided to carry the deep discounts over to the , including both the aluminum and higher-end titanium variants (the best prices ever across the board). Next up we have a particularly notable deal on Apple’s most affordable new all-time low ($125 off) as well as a that is now at the Amazon all-time low. Those offers join deals on the 2024 official

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Coming soon to Apple Vision Pro: mixed reality hit game ‘Little Cities: Diorama’

More mixed reality games that became popular on Meta Quest headsets are coming to Apple Vision Pro. Little Cities: Diorama offers an all-new version for Apple Vision Pro. Notably, it blends your real-world environment with a virtual city you create. Considering the mixed reality fidelity on Vision Pro, this should be the best version of Little Cities .

Here’s what you can expect from Little Cities: Diorama , according to and :

A collaboration between Little Cities’ developer Purple Yonder and XR specialists Near Light:

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Apple’s new ‘HomePad’ is exactly what I want in a home device

Apple has a new home device launching early next year, as detailed in an extensive Mark Gurman report . And this as-yet-unnamed ‘ ’ sounds like exactly what I want in a smart home product.

Up until now, Apple’s efforts in the smart home space have always felt lacking.

The company built HomeKit as a platform for home devices. It supported the creation of Matter for a more robust cross-platform ecosystem.

Yet Apple left nearly all creation of home devices to third parties.

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Apple Arcade announces 15 new titles, here’s what’s coming

Apple Arcade is always adding new games for subscribers, but the service is preparing for an especially big holiday season and start of 2025. Today 15 new titles that are dropping soon. Here’s what’s coming.

The featured release is by Outfit7, where “players can join Talking Tom and friends in an epic battle to save Blast Park from the mischievous Rakoonz. Armed with wacky blasters like the Duckinator and Power Plunger, players must blast through waves of Rakoonz and their trash to restore

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Apple’s hitting its AI stride right as competition is slowing

Apple Intelligence just arrived last month , and some of its most exciting features will arrive with iOS 18.2 in the coming weeks . Meanwhile, a indicates Apple’s major AI competitors are hitting speed bumps with their growth. It seems Apple may be hitting its AI stride at just the right moment.

It happens all the time. Tech giants ship exciting new technology while Apple’s projects stay veiled in R&D, leading to the constant narrative that the company is ‘behind’ in that area.

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iOS 18.2 Music Recognition will tell you where you heard a song

Shazam was once so ubiquitous that it was a verb, but since Apple’s acquisition and rebranding of the feature as Music Recognition, you don’t even need to have the Shazam app installed any more.

Apple has continued to improve the feature, and as of the iOS 18.2 beta, it can now tell you where you were when you heard a song …

Whenever you ask your Apple device to identify a song, it adds the track to your history, so that you can remind yourself later


Surgical complications really brought home the value of Apple’s Health Records feature

Apple first launched its Health Records feature way back in 2018, to provide a unified view of our own health records.

Recent complications following surgery really showed how valuable this could be if universally adopted, not just for us as patients, but also to assist healthcare providers in delivering the best standard of care …

While the feature has been trialled in the UK , it hasn’t rolled out broadly – and my own experience illustrated the gap it could fill.

I’ll spare you the gory details,

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I effectively previewed Apple’s wall-mounted smart display in 2019, and I think it’ll be a winner

A Bloomberg report yesterday suggested that Apple is working on a wall-mounted smart display panel to act as “a command center for the home” – and that it could launch as early as March of next year.

I effectively trialled this concept back in 2019, wall-mounting an old iPad Air to serve as a dedicated smart home control panel , and reactions to that were enough to convince me that the upcoming new product is likely to be a winner …

We first spotted code for the device back


Apple Vision Pro proves best home theater as 2024 top grossing films arrive in 3D

For many, Apple’s new ultrawide Mac Virtual Display feature in visionOS 2.2 beta is the killer app on Apple Vision Pro. But you don’t need to be a Mac user to appreciate Apple Vision Pro and its role as an incredible mobile movie theater.

I’ve been splitting my time for the last two months between my home and my family’s place four hours away. At home, I have an attached to my wall-mounted 65-inch Micro LED 4K TV.

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Apple’s head of accessibility highlights the importance of AI in helping people with disabilities

As reported last week , Apple’s global head of accessibility Sarah Herrlinger spoke this Tuesday at the Web Summit Lisbon 2024. At the event, Herrlinger talked about everything Apple has been doing to make its devices easy to use for anyone and also highlighted the use of AI to help people with disabilities.

As reported by , Herrlinger emphasized that Apple has had a team specializing in accessibility since 1985. The company’s vision since then has been to make accessibility “a human right” as

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