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Apple unveiled HomeView, a $299 smart home hub available in countertop and wall-mounted versions, featuring a 7-inch display, FaceTime camera, microphones and speakers. The device runs an updated Siri assistant, comes preloaded with apps like Calendar, Messages, Photos and Music, and can control smart home accessories such as locks, cameras and doorbells that Apple also announced.
Kelly Clarkson publicly accused Brooklyn curiosity shop Art of Play of treating her as if she couldn't afford a $15,000 singing bird automaton, saying staff offered her a 'comparable' item instead. Art of Play disputes her account, saying the bird named Molly is a fixed mascot, that it offered her an identical model for $15,000 plus a $2,000 alternative, and that her visit lasted about five minutes. Clarkson has rejected the shop's version, calling it 'rude' and a 'liar' and sharing a photo of the item's price tag.
A technology explainer outlines why smartphones running CarPlay or Android Auto often heat up during drives. Contributing factors include wireless charging, direct sunlight or heater vents, simultaneous use of GPS navigation, streaming audio, and background apps, plus the combined load of Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular radios running at once in wireless setups.
Hypermass released a command-line tool that lets users subscribe to live data streams and sync them directly to a folder on their computer using just two commands. A demo stream of SOHO solar telescope images shows files arriving automatically as new data is published, roughly once per day. The tool tracks fetch history and preserves publish order, letting users process and delete files once handled.
Apple introduced the HomeView smart speaker at its Welcome Home event in New York, featuring a seven-inch square Liquid Retina display, two full-range drivers for Spatial Audio, and Apple's A18 chip. The device acts as a home hub for entertainment, smart home control, and interacting with Apple Intelligence and the revamped Siri assistant, while also personalizing itself to recognize individual users.
Apple unveiled a fourth-generation Apple TV 4K featuring an A19 chip and Siri AI, priced from $299. Alongside the launch, Apple confirmed that the new Siri AI beta will also work on 2nd- and 3rd-generation Apple TV 4K models via a future tvOS update, rolling out at launch in the US, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and the UK in English.
Apple has launched the HomePod mini 2, updating its compact smart speaker with a new S10 chip, refreshed color options, and support for the newly upgraded Siri AI assistant. The speaker also introduces Sound Glow, a glowing light display on top that reacts to music in real time, and the device is available for pre-order now alongside the new Apple TV 4K and HomeView display.
Character.AI announced a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and plans to sell the company through a court-supervised process. The chatbot startup, once valued above $1 billion without revenue, had already lost founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas to Google in a 2024 deal worth $2.7 billion, and faced lawsuits including one from a mother who said her teenage son died by suicide after interacting extensively with its bots.
Robke's, an Italian restaurant in Northport, Long Island run by the Selvaggio family for 48 years, operates without delivery, reservations, or credit cards. Owner Louis Selvaggio says the restaurant keeps these restrictive policies because demand remains high, while his daughter Mia credits Instagram Reels, including videos of the restaurant's signature pork chop martini dish, with boosting its popularity. The restaurant was featured in Entrepreneur's America's Favorite Mom & Pop Shops list, profiled by editor Jason Feifer.
Apple introduced HomeView, a smart home display with a tilting 7-inch Liquid Retina touchscreen, available in countertop and wall-mounted versions. The device runs Apple Intelligence with Siri built in, can recognize individual users' faces to show personalized screens, and supports Apple Watch-style customizable widget faces.
Researchers used high-speed videography and stereomicroscopy to film honey bee stingers removed from live worker bees and partially inserted into artificial gel, capturing the pumping mechanism frame by frame. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that two sliding lancets and a widening stylet work together like a double-piston pump, allowing the stinger to keep penetrating tissue and injecting venom even after it detaches from the bee.
Apple introduced a refreshed Apple TV 4K during its 'Welcome home' event, its first update to the product in four years. The device features an A19 chip with faster CPU and GPU performance, built-in far-field microphones for hands-free Siri use, and an upgraded Siri Remote with Find My support. Pre-orders begin today at $299, with shipping starting November 13; the remote alone is available separately for $59.