Usually, after Apple’s iPhone 17 incident, the tech news trend emerges. (Did we do it? Special newsletter In all announcements? Yes, yes, we did it. )
However, there is more to read before the weekend. But let’s start with tech news that isn’t rich. Warner Bros. Discover CEO David Zaslav Project Making HBO more expensive Passwords are hard to share. These are part of his comments at the Goldman Sachs Mountains + Technical Conference, and it sounds like horrible.
The main purpose of his argument is that HBO Max’s content is so good that Zaslav thinks he should charge more for it.
-Mat Smith
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tamagotchi, but there is… Pokémon.
Japanese toy maker Takara Tomy is releasing a Poké Ball Virtual Pet toy so you can dream of carrying your favorite Pokémon with you. You can care about seven partners Pokémon: Pikachu, Eevee, Sprigatito, Fuecoco, Quaxly, Lucario, and Sylveon. If you pamper the device, it will react. Cute! There are 150 other Pokémons inside the toy to interact with.
While it appears to be a Japanese release, according to the product page, the pet will have an English option. So, some of you have convinced you, right? Priced at around $51, pre-orders are open, and although currently sold out on Amazon Japan, the device will ship on October 11. Now, decide whether to choose Pikachu or Eevee.
ANC, live translation and heart rate tracking.
Earlier this week, Billy Steele took a breath after the initial media-wide press release and Billy Steele gave the AirPods Pro 3 a closer listen. Apple says the ANC noise on the AirPods Pro 3 block is twice as high as the AirPods Pro 2 and four times as high as the original AirPods Pro. While there are technology that is working (ultra-low noise microphones and compute audio), new foam-injected ear tips provide better passive noise isolation. In short, there is less noise.
The chatbot repeatedly tells X user Kirk to “good”.
X’s AI assistant Grok was once again found circulating misinformation. During several strange exchanges, the chatbot repeatedly claims that Charlie Kirk is “good” and the creepy video of his assassination is “meme editing.” One user tagged Grok and asked if Kirk could survive the shooting. Groke’s answer is ridiculous: “Charlie Kirk strode to the barbecue-he faces a tougher crowd,” it wrote. “Yes, he’s easily survived.”
