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Apple TV released a trailer for the second season of its German-language dark comedy 'Where's Wanda?', premiering October 21 with eight new episodes airing weekly through December 9. The new season finds the Klatt family working to clear daughter Wanda after she's found standing over a dead body, leading them into their town's criminal underworld.
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 chip at its Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, designed to power a new generation of 'hearables' including earbuds, headphones, audio glasses and other multimodal wearables. The chip is meant to enable features like adaptive sound processing, real-time translation, AI note-taking and combined audio-visual interactions in devices with cameras.
Apple has started beta testing iOS 27.2, just days after releasing iOS 27 and confirming that iOS 27.1 will ship exclusively with the upcoming iPhone Duo on October 23. The new beta introduces a redesigned Health app with Insights, Longevity, and Browse tabs, including a Health age metric drawn from Apple Watch data, plus profile support in the Apple TV app for the first time on iOS.
Logitech has released the Yeti 2, an updated version of its original 2009 Blue Yeti USB microphone popular with podcasters and streamers. The new model adds a 3D proximity sensor that automatically adjusts gain, EQ and pickup pattern as the user moves, plus an onboard AI denoiser meant to filter out background noise like keystrokes and mouse clicks.
Alibaba Cloud has launched Qwen Image 2.1, an open-weight image generation model with only 7 billion parameters, small enough to run on older consumer GPUs like the RTX 3090. The model adds native transparent-background generation and can combine up to 10 reference images into a single consistent output, and Alibaba's own benchmarks claim it outperforms closed models including Google's Nano Banana 2.0. Unlike its predecessor, the new licensing terms bar commercial resale without a separate agreement from Alibaba.
Strands harness is a preassembled agent harness that developers can run locally or deploy to cloud providers with a single line of Python or TypeScript code, released under an Apache 2.0 license. It is designed as a general-purpose agent rather than a coding-specific one, and its makers report it costs 28% less than comparable harnesses across six benchmarks while maintaining similar or better accuracy, and 77% less than Claude Code on the Fable 5 benchmark while scoring higher on Terminal Bench 2.1.
Apple's iOS 27.2 beta expands FaceTime's Dual Capture feature, which shows a caller's front and rear camera views simultaneously, to Group FaceTime calls. Previously introduced in iOS 27, Dual Capture was limited to one-on-one calls; it requires an iPhone 17 or later, with other participants needing iOS 27, iPadOS 27, or macOS 27 to view the dual streams.
Apple's tvOS 27.2 beta 2 now lets users pair four HomePods—two sets of two—wirelessly through the Home app to serve as surround speakers for Apple TV 4K, according to FlatpanelsHD. The feature currently works with Atmos and surround audio from video content, but lacks the ability to assign specific speaker roles like front and rear, and menu or game audio still only plays through the front pair.
Logitech G has released the Yeti 2, successor to the original Blue Yeti USB microphone launched in 2009, priced at $159.99 in black or white. The mic features a built-in proximity sensor that tracks a speaker's position in 3D and automatically adjusts gain, EQ and pickup pattern, along with an interactive LED display and AI de-noising.
Logitech has released the G Pro X3 Superstrike, a haptics-based gaming mouse priced at $199.99 and available October 6th in pink or black. It builds on the G Pro X2 Superstrike from February, adding a faster Hero 2 sensor, longer 135-hour battery life, wireless 8,000Hz polling, and a lighter build, while the X2 remains on sale for $179.99.
DJI's new Osmo 360 II 360-degree camera keeps the 1/1.1-inch square sensor from its predecessor but upgrades the processor, now supporting 8K video at up to 60fps and 4K at 120fps. The company also says dynamic range has increased to 14.5 stops and added a SuperNight 2.0 noise-reduction mode with an 'Anti-motion Blur' setting for low-light shooting, alongside improved repairability over the original model.
NASA launched Artemis 2, sending astronauts on a lunar flyby mission using the Orion spacecraft for its first crewed flight. The mission was designed to test Orion's life-support, navigation, and other systems with humans aboard after previous uncrewed testing.