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John Ternus, who succeeded Tim Cook as Apple's chief executive, posted a simple 'hello' on X to mark the transition. The reply section quickly filled with users pitching hardware ideas and design changes, reflecting Ternus's background leading Apple's engineering teams.
New generations of ultra-short-throw projectors are being marketed as direct substitutes for traditional televisions, offering improved brightness, faster setup, and sleeker industrial design than earlier models. Despite these upgrades, the devices remain significantly more expensive than comparable large-screen TVs.
Forward-deployed engineering, where vendor engineers embed with customers to wire AI products into real operating environments, has become a core sales and delivery model in enterprise AI. The piece argues the real test of this approach is whether repeated engagements shrink into pure services work or actually feed back into a more capable, reusable product over time.
A developer argues against the trend of adopting dedicated feature flag management software, contending that simple hardcoded conditionals are sufficient for most use cases. The piece frames flag platforms as marketing-driven complexity that adds separate infrastructure, monitoring needs, and non-deterministic behavior to codebases without proportional benefit. It concludes that any added system complexity, including feature flag tooling, deserves scrutiny before adoption.
John Ternus, now Apple's CEO, sent his inaugural company-wide memo thanking Tim Cook for his leadership and years of service, and noting Cook will remain executive chairman. Ternus also flagged an upcoming major product launch and hinted at future innovations still in development.
Amazon launched a new Alexa for Shopping feature called 'Update Me When,' which sends personalized notifications when events like a new product line, book release, or concert announcement could prompt a purchase. Users manually set up these alerts for now, choosing what brands, artists, or products they want tracked.
John Ternus sent his first internal memo after officially becoming Apple's CEO, thanking outgoing chief Tim Ternus... rather Tim Cook for his guidance and years of leadership, and welcoming him into his new role as executive chairman. Ternus told staff a 'huge launch' is coming next week and hinted at further undisclosed products in development.
Sonos hosted an Open House event on September, unveiling its next wave of hardware after CEO Thomas Conrad hinted in July that the company had spent two decades building what he called an operating environment for AI in the home. The event, not livestreamed, was covered by Engadget staff on-site through a live text blog, with speculation swirling around potential new speakers, headphones, or app fixes.
The FTC and a bipartisan coalition of 22 states have sued Amazon, claiming it secretly manipulated its advertising auctions to charge advertisers more than they should have paid under the stated 'second price' bidding rules. The complaint alleges Amazon pocketed roughly $20 billion since 2019 by making Sponsored Products advertisers pay their full winning bid nearly 80% of the time instead of one cent above the next-highest bid. Amazon has called the lawsuit 'misguided' and denies misleading advertisers or consumers.
ZDNET published a roundup of the ten products its readers bought most often over the past month, with phone cases making up a large share of the list. The list is compiled from actual reader purchase data through ZDNET's affiliate links rather than editorial rankings alone.
Tim Cook is completing his final day as Apple's chief executive after 15 years in the role, with John Ternus set to officially become CEO the next day. Cook will transition to executive chairman of Apple's board, continuing to manage the company's relationships with President Trump and the Chinese government while supporting Ternus in other areas as needed.
A product management analysis describes how many teams keep every idea, from major platform overhauls to minor UI tweaks, in a single flat backlog list. One Head of Product described their 400-item backlog as a two-year-old 'graveyard with a search bar,' where sprint planning devolved into arguing over items with no shared context for comparison.