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September 9, 2024, 7:35 PM

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Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple unveils iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max with larger 6.3" and 6.9" screens, four titanium finishes, Camera Control, A18 Pro, 48mp ultrawide, 5x telephoto cameras  —  Apple today announced the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max—its latest flagship smartphones—featuring larger displays …
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple debuts the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus with an Action button, a 3nm A18 chip for 30% faster CPU performance vs iPhone 15, a side Camera Control button, and more  —  Apple today announced the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, which Apple said “is built from the ground up” for Apple Intelligence.
Valentina Palladino / Engadget:
The iPhone 16 will start at $799 and the 16 Plus $899, and the iPhone 16 Pro starts at $999 and the Pro Max starts at $1,199; all base models have 128GB  —  If you didn't catch the event in real time, here are all of the details about Apple's newest phones, smartwatches and earbuds.
The Verge:
iPhone 16 Pro, Pro Max hands-on: despite larger displays, they don't feel that much bigger, helped by thin bezels; the Camera Control button is ultra sensitive  —  I just spent a few minutes with the new iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, which feature bigger displays with thinner bezels …
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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple announces hearing health related features for AirPods Pro 2, including a “clinical grade” hearing aid mode and a clinically-validated hearing test  —  Apple has announced some new hearing health related features, coming as a software update for AirPods Pro 2.
Brian Heater / TechCrunch:
Apple unveils two new AirPods 4 models with an H2 chip and USB-C; AirPods 4 for $129 and AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation for $179, coming September 20  —  At any Apple event, new AirPods are never a given.  The earbuds have been around nearly as long as the Apple Watch …
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Apple debuts Apple Watch Series 10, with a thinner design, a bigger screen, smaller bezels, a Jet Black finish, faster charging, more, coming Sept. 20 for $399+  —  Apple on Monday announced the next generation Apple Watch, or Apple Watch Series 10, at its special event “It's Glowtime.”
Daniel Cooper / Engadget:
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple Intelligence will launch in beta in October for US English language users, coming to more countries in December; support for other languages coming 2025  —  Apple today announced that Apple Intelligence will begin in beta starting in October, with iOS 18.1.
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
Jody Godoy / Reuters:
In the first day of the antitrust trial focused on ads, US prosecutors allege Google abused its size to dominate the sector through acquisitions and more  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google sought to dominate all sides of online advertising technology by controlling competitors and customers …
Washington Post:
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
Apple will release iOS 18, macOS 15, iPadOS 18, and watchOS 11 on September 16  —  Apple Intelligence won't be part of the initial launch.  —  Apple is planning to release the next versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to the general public on September 16th, the company announced via …
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
Oracle and AWS debut Oracle Database@AWS, to let customers access select Oracle products within AWS, following Oracle's partnerships with Azure and Google Cloud  —  Oracle and Amazon Web Services announced a strategic partnership to complete CTO Larry Ellison's multicloud trifecta.
Cherlynn Low / Engadget:
Google Pixel Watch 3 review: solid battery life, improved display, and comprehensive health-tracking features, but slightly bulky with some software quirks  —  This year's lineup of Google hardware feels ready to take on Apple at last.  —  2024 might just be Google's year - for its Pixel-branded hardware, at least.
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
HyperWrite's 70B parameter AI model, Reflection, has its performance questioned, after CEO Matt Shumer said something about its upload to Hugging Face was off  —  It took just one weekend for the new king of open source AI models have its crown tarnished.  —  Reflection 70B …
Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware:
AMD plans a unified UDNA GPU architecture, bringing RDNA for consumer GPUs and CDNA for data center GPUs together, as it hopes to rival Nvidia's CUDA ecosystem  —  By Paul Alcorn Contributions from Jarred Walton published  —  Two become one.  —  Here in Berlin, Germany, at IFA 2024 …

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