Apple’s foldable iPhone Duo runs a flexible graphite pipe through the hinge to move heat between the two halves, preventing hot spots when closed. It’s part of a bigger A20 Pro cooling redesign — direct chip cooling, “metal over foam,” and a floating vapor chamber — enabling ~35% higher sustained GPU performance than the iPhone 17 Pro.

I said to Siri, using my watch button to trigger it: "Remind me in 4 hours to give the dog her medication"

Siri proudly proclaimed on my watch screen: "At 5:00pm you can give your dog her medication"

That was it. No entry in Reminders, nothing else. I have done this exact thing countless times since I first got an Apple Watch in 2015. It has literally never failed if it understood me correctly until today. I cannot overstate how much I hate the current state of software in the world.

Edit: when the reminder happened that I set with my phone there were TWO! One of them just said “reminder” 🙃 good job guys

• Apple's home hub with a touch-enabled display will be named HomeView, seemingly confirming a trademark filing.
• HomeView is equipped with an A18 chip, which has 8GB of RAM in iPhones.
• HomeView will support Siri AI for voice control.
• HomeView will be available in a tabletop version with a speaker base made of metal, as well as a wall-mounted version with a flat, square wall plate.
• The tabletop HomeView will offer "better sound quality" than the HomePod mini.
• The tabletop HomeView will be available in four finishes: Gray, Silver, Starlight, and Rose. The wall-mounted version will be limited to Gray and Silver.
• HomeView will be unveiled this Tuesday, October 13, but the device is apparently not launching until "around mid-November."
• HomeView will have a selection of Apple apps, but no App Store for third-party apps.
• HomeView will be accompanied by an "Apple Home Collection" of accessories that brands such as LG and Schneider Electric developed in partnership with Apple. This will include a smart doorbell, deadbolt lock, thermostat, temperature sensor, indoor and outdoor security cameras, and a floodlight camera.
• LG's accessories for the HomeView will not ship "until later this year at the earliest."
• The new HomePod mini will be equipped with the Apple Watch Series 10's S10 chip, up from the S5 chip in the current model.
• The new HomePod mini will be available in green, pink, blue, white, and midnight.
• The new Apple TV 4K will be equipped with an A19 chip, which has 8GB of RAM.
• The new Apple TV 4K may have built-in microphones for Siri AI.
• The new Apple TV 4K may have an updated Siri Remote with a built-in speaker that makes it easier to find.
• The new HomePod mini and Apple TV 4K models will be unveiled on October 13 and launch on Friday, October 30.

>Tested the all-new base model M6 Mac mini (16GB RAM, 256GB Storage) to see if it can handle heavy gaming.

>From native Mac App Store hits to demanding Windows titles running through GameHub, the 12-core M6 chip delivered surprisingly solid performance.

>I benchmarked its CPU and GPU against desktop heavy hitters like AMD's 9800X3D and Nvidia's RTX 4060, then ran it through 7 AAA games including Cyberpunk 2077, Crimson Desert, and Ghost of Tsushima to evaluate native resolutions and MetalFX upscaling.

Man, I dunno.. “Apple Intelligence“ is kind of ass.. Siri isn’t learning name pronunciation unless you add a field for correct pronunciation in the contacts app any longer? Also, raise to speak is not working as well as it was on watchOS 26? Like, it’s working 10% of the time for me, if that even. Also, I don’t know what the hell is causing this, but my phone keeps disconnecting from my Wi-Fi network to cell randomly when no other devices are. I have already turned off connectivity assist.

Very underwhelming and frustrating.

18PM/Series 12

chordlist is a songbook app for iPhone and iPad (iOS 26 or later). Lyrics and chords live in one Markdown file per song, in a folder you choose, so they work with iCloud Drive, Obsidian or any text editor. No account, and your library is never uploaded.

What sets it apart from services like Ultimate Guitar is that the chords are stored separately from the lyrics, not as characters over each line. This lets chordlist find songs in your library that share a progression, even in different keys, so learning one song teaches you others, and two songs with the same changes make an easy mashup.

Features
- Transpose and autoscroll
- Filter by tags, search and shuffle
- Import from a web link or the share sheet

Pricing: your first 10 songs are free, then a one-time unlock for unlimited songs, no subscription. The launch price is €6.99 / $5.99 until the end of the year; after that it will increase €9.99 / $8.99.
This special offer code gets it for €4.99.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6798344297
Website: https://chordlist.app
ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/chordlist

If you use an app while playing instruments, what's the one thing that would make you switch from your current solution?