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Fujifilm has announced the Instax Square 2, a square-format instant camera that adds a mood filter switch letting users slide a warm or cool colored filter in front of the lens. The camera will launch later this month for $119.95 in slate blue, brick red, and misty white, alongside a new Soft Haze film variety priced at $18.99 for 10 exposures that produces reduced saturation and contrast with warm, diffused shadows.
Tesla is holding what it calls its final unveiling event for a human-driven vehicle, finally showing the production Roadster 2 six years after its promised launch date. Deliveries are expected to begin in 2026, nearly nine years after Elon Musk first announced the car in 2017.
Nintendo is remaking The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Switch 2, adding modern conveniences such as a dedicated jump button, a real-time item-swapping menu, and a new progression tracker called Threads of Time viewable from the pause screen. The remake also integrates with the Nintendo Switch app's Zelda Notes feature, letting players view maps and other information on their phone. A preview session let a reporter play roughly 90 minutes covering Child Link and Adult Link sections of the game.
Apple revealed the second-generation HomePod mini at its Welcome Home event, alongside new Apple TV 4K, a HomeView smart-home hub, and Apple Home smart accessories. The speaker keeps a similar design to its predecessor but adds a new lighting feature called Sound Glow and will later gain an upgraded Siri AI via software update in eight countries including the US and UK. It can function alone or link with up to three other units for multi-room audio, and works with Apple Intelligence-enabled devices to handle simple contextual tasks.
Fairphone has released the Fairbuds 2, a redesigned stemmed earbud with a case 37 percent smaller than its predecessor. Battery life nearly doubles to 40 hours without noise cancellation, and the buds add bio-cellulose drivers, LDAC codec support, multipoint connectivity and a five-band EQ. The earbuds cost £99/€119 in the UK and Europe now, with a US launch at $119 on November 2nd.
A study of more than 100,000 people found that those with more 'active' brown fat—tissue that burns calories to generate heat—had lower rates of conditions including type 2 diabetes, depression and anxiety. Researchers used an AI model to measure active brown fat from medical scans and compared it against participants' health records. The findings were published in Nature.
Mini DisplayPort has largely disappeared from new laptops and graphics cards, though older devices using it remain compatible with modern monitors via Mini DP-to-DP cables since they share the same underlying protocol. Full-size DisplayPort continues to be used on high-end monitors and graphics cards, offering up to 80 Gbps of bandwidth with DisplayPort 2.1, compared to 48 Gbps on HDMI 2.1.
Apple released developer and public firmware betas, build number 9B5043a, for several AirPods models including AirPods 5 and AirPods Pro 3. The rollout coincided with developer beta 4 of macOS 27.2, iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, and other OS updates. Apple has not disclosed what changes or fixes the new firmware contains.
Apple released iOS 27.2 beta 4 to developers, introducing a redesigned Apple Music app icon that drops color in favor of a white icon with black logo (black with white logo in dark mode). The update also changes the Music app's tab bar to blue for the active tab, switches widgets to black backgrounds, and removes color from Library section listings like Playlists and Albums.
Apple's revamped Health app, which debuted in iOS 27.2 developer beta 1 and appeared in two public betas, has been removed in developer beta 4. The release reverts to the previous Health app layout, though Apple says beta-collected health data will be preserved and viewable in Settings, and still expects the new app to launch this year.
Apple has pushed out the fourth developer beta for its 27.2 software lineup, covering iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS and other platforms. The update follows beta 3, which arrived about a week earlier, as Apple continues refining the release ahead of a planned public launch later this month.
Apple has released second Release Candidate builds for macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 (build 24H225) and macOS Tahoe 26.7.2 (build 25G325), just a week after the first RCs appeared. Release notes for both still cite only unspecified 'important security fixes' with no further detail provided.