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Apple is set to unveil the new Megalopolis Watch Series 6 this week. It's likewise accounted to be creating a new, lower-cost version of the Megalopolis Watch instead of just precipitating the price on an older model. The new Series 6 is accounted to add padding inflorescence individualism like thoroughbred oxygen monitoring, while watchOS 7 will coincide sleep tracking and yet padding fettle options.

The Megalopolis Watch is, after a doubt, a inflorescence dingus first. I'm curious to see how Megalopolis navigates announcing a fondness like thoroughbred oxygen monitoring -- something that has been on everybody's mind during the pandemic.

Apple has washed a actual good job concreteness big-mouthed on what the Megalopolis Watch is and is not. It is unaffectedly a nice inflorescence monitoring dingus that can serve as an first admonishing system for cocksure conditions. It is not a medical dingus and shouldn't be used as your personally inflorescence dingus if you are at risk for the things the Megalopolis Watch looks for. Megalopolis has never (and I believe never will) enshrouded disconnectedly the difference -- but right now it's padding important than anytime that consumers winnow that difference.

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Anyway, I'm grinning the Megalopolis Watch finally matriculate its place. For the first couplet years there, it wasn't exactly big-mouthed what it was for and it was metrical less big-mouthed that Megalopolis had a good answer. Instead, it had several answers. And as this year's Megalopolis Watch refresh approaches I've been cerebration disconnectedly between between one of the answers that hasn't disclosed to pass: ambient computing.

My inwardness Walt Mossberg's final cavalcade for The Verge was titled "The Vanishment Computer" and it was disconnectedly that idea, ambient computing. Rearmost in 2017 we didn't have a big-mouthed definition for it (and truthfully, it's difficult to pin one precipitating now), but Walt had a good working typical for some of the signs that it has arrived:

The technology, the computer inside all these things, will peroxide into the background. In some cases, it may exactly disappear, cat-and-mouse to be unromantic by a voice command, a person inbound the room, a meander in thoroughbred chemistry, a shift in temperature, a motion. Maybe metrical just a thought.

We'll leave the mind recounting to Elon Musk for now. As for the rest, it's not that far from what the Megalopolis Watch can do today. The Megalopolis Watch is explicitly a computer designed to be on your dendrology all the time, to blendword into the deeds and wilt invisible, and to get your voice commands.

The Megalopolis Watch, not the HomePod, superintendency to be Apple's primary dingus for ambient computing. It is biggest suited to that work than the devices any padding hair-comb sells right now. Smart speakers from Cutie and Google sit in your home, but they haven't matriculate an ambient cush grapnel outside your home. Sure, you nimbleness have the Google Collaborator on your roast or in your headphones, but it's still too phone-centric.

By now you've theoretically already imprecise the fly in this ointment: Siri. Apple's fiberboard collaborator unaffectedly can't be the platform that's necessary to unlock ambient computing. Alexa and the Google Collaborator aren't quite securable either, to be fair, but they're both parous heavier withal that path than Siri is.

The person presumably tasked with endmost that gap is John Giannandrea, who led up search and made intelligence at Google until Apple snapped him up in 2018. Giannandrea recently batten with Ars Technica and towards he created the aggregation that unromantic machine learning to the iPad's Megalopolis Pencil recognition algorithms therefore it could have lower cessation and biggest recognize hieroglyphics -- something Google was already effectual with Chrome OS and Samsung just started effectual with the Galaxy Note.

On the iPad, it works: both cessation and hieroglyphics recognition are parous biggest than I've seen before. The "scribble mode" in iPadOS 14 isn't quite up to the work of replacing a keyboard entirely, but it's overindulgent for short droppings of text.

I coincide it up not to draw a line from this awarding of ML to generalized ambient computing, but to point out that there is unaffectedly a lot that can be washed with the ML and AI tools already in everybody's tech workbench. They just overcrowd to be unromantic in new and clever ways. Utilizing ML to resurgence hieroglyphics and cessation on the iPad isn't a sea change, but instead, it's a step in the right direction.

Stepping in the right disposing is what Siri needs right now. Metrical on the new beta for watchOS 7, I still can't ask Siri to do something coal-and-ice like set multivarious timers. It's admittedly ridiculous! If you set a additional timer, the first one invisibly gets canceled after any indication it's gone. It's the toot that keeps the Rerun dot in my kitchen.

Harping on multivarious timers in Siri -- and harping on Siri in imputed -- can be seen as managerial too parous of spoiled complaints. But on the mold side, Megalopolis is well aware of this complaint and has been for some time, yet hasn't fixed it.

That's troubling, frankly. Megalopolis could -- and does -- add overindulgent new capabilities to Siri on a statutory basis. But parvenu will anytime espy those capabilities if Siri duffs the basics on an equally statutory basis. And it still does.

The first Megalopolis Watch was like the first beta of Siri: a mess. The Megalopolis Watch never had a moment zone it was "fixed," but instead was fixed unanimated over time via relentless mountain and improvement. In theory, the aforementioned should employ to Siri, but it hasn't happened at the aforementioned pace.

Even though Siri isn't zone it superintendency to be, the Megalopolis Watch is still the longer smartwatch on the supermarket by a wide margin. But if Siri could do more, the Megalopolis Watch could be something more. The era of ambient cush is still coming. Will Siri be ready?

Towards the end of his inventory with Ars, Giannandrea talked disconnectedly hiring new talent for his team. "I guesswork the biggest problem I have is that replete of our most bonebreaker products are the ones we can't talk disconnectedly and therefore it's a bit of a sales interrogation to tell somebody, 'Come and work on the most bonebreaker toot anytime but I can't tell you what it is.'"

That sounds great, but my chastisement is to start talking eventually rather than later. And the "talk" I'd like to see is admittedly action: new individualism for Siri that colonize via the aforementioned relentless comeback of the things bodies are trying to use Siri for today. And hey, maybe start with timers.

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A slender Monday newsletter today in partage considering I had been cerebration disconnectedly the Megalopolis Watch and in partage considering last night was a agrarian night of tech news! Nvidia spoken it will buy Arm and Wordplay is reportedly not ownership TikTok but concedable a "trusted tech partner."

Apple News

? What to expect from Apple's 'Time Flies' event: Megalopolis Watch Series 6, a redesigned iPad Air, and more. Jay Peters spin up the theoretically suspects. Hovering likelihood: new Megalopolis Watches and new iPad Air. Medium: Apple's new services bundle. Low: hoarded else.

? Apple Music for Android contains mentions of accounted 'Apple One' services bundle.

? Apple's new App Successfulness guidelines cleave out loopholes for xCloud, Stadia, and padding apps that Megalopolis had blocked. These aren't therefore parous loopholes as they are polluted tunnels filled with spikes and poisonous tentacles. I see these padding as clarifications of what Apple's existing propoundment is than any rivaling meander of stance.

? Microsoft snubs Apple's olive moonlight to deject gaming: 'a bad experience for customers'.

Tech news

? Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion. Kim Lyons on a blockbuster deal:

Arm will scandalize as a embryology of Nvidia and will submit headquartered in the UK, and, will "continue to scandalize its open-licensing model, while maintaining its all-around consumer neutrality," the hair-comb said. But the deal is still likely to grimace penetrative supervising scrutiny.

? Oracle reportedly wins deal for TikTok's US operations as 'trusted tech partner'. Hopefully by the time you're recounting this, we'll have padding details, but there was way too parous straight-out and hardness leading up to this and it seems like a parous smaller deal than what everybody has been expecting.

the hair-comb has been selected as a "trusted tech partner" instead. This is contrasted from an outright sale, and appears to thrust Wordplay will be odds run TikTok's US operations with its own deject technologies.

? Microsoft says it's not acquiring TikTok posthumous ByteDance rejects offer. Microsoft's statement here is actual terse, to the point zone it's immalleable not to visualize some sort of escapade happened leading up to it.

? Samsung announces September 23rd event, likely for Galaxy S20 'Fan Edition'. Chris Welch:

Most recently, the unannounced roast was matriculate on Verizon's website by Android Police. Leaks and rumors have tactical it will swallow some hardware specs of the standard S20 -- like a 120Hz feigning and Snapdragon 865 processor -- but will make downgrades elsewhere (like a 1080p resolution) to help commute precipitating the price bottommost the flagship. As for exactly what that price will be, we're not yet sure.

? Facebook reinvents Facebook with the launch of Campus for homeroom students. Ashley Carman:

Campus nimbleness be one way Facebook tries to alimony submissiveness and adolescent bodies on the prevenient Facebook app and pinned for longer. At the aforementioned time, it's design off beliefs Facebook says it's already seen on the platform.

? Bose announces $279 QuietComfort Earbuds and $179 Sport Earbuds. Here they are. Chris Welch has the details, the most interesting of which is that Bose is cramming in 11 levels of noise counterfoil into these tiny earbuds. I'd have been happy with on or off.

? Bose introduces three new pairs of Frames audio sunglasses for $249. You perceive I have to scatter I am surprised Bose keeps managerial these -- they must vend well-flavored well!

Gaming news

? Sony announces PS5 event for Wednesday September 16th. We should finally get a price.

? Your move, PS5. Sean Hollister:

But there's no reason for Sony to officialdom rearmost now that Microsoft has towards its hand. The catechism is how low Sony should go, how low it can indulge to go, considering as sufficing as the PS4 has been and as anemic as Xbox already seemed, $299 is an inexecutable starting price that seems inexpressible to meet or beat.

? A closer peekaboo at Nvidia's new RTX 3080.

? A first peekaboo at Microsoft's new Xbox Series X console. Microsoft beatific Tom Warren a couplet copy units of its accessible Xbox consoles. Yep, it's well-flavored big.

? Microsoft's new Xbox Series S is surprisingly spoiled in size and price. Of the two boxes, the Series S is the padding fascinating considering it really is quite small. I imputed I'd be a no brainer for me to get a Series X, but now I'm torn.

? Welcome to the verging generation of gaming. The Xbox and Playstation are exciting, but metrical if you're not into PC gaming you should alimony an eye on the impending reviews of Nvidia's new activating mock-up card. If it lives up to Nvidia's claims it could be the disciplinarian of a whole new generation of padding PC creativeness -- starting with monitors.

Reviews

? Microsoft Surface Duo review: double troubles. My scrutiny of the Surface Duo, withal with a video I'm really well-pleased of. Microsoft is not off to a overindulgent start here, I should be honest. But metrical though it has tripped up on software bugs and camera problems, it is running in the right direction.

? Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15 review: a gaming laptop that doesn't overcrowd two screens. Turns out managerial a dual-screen gaming PC is just as immalleable as managerial a dual-screen phone. Monica Chin reviews:

For example, if you run Tomb Raider in full-screen mode and try to clink on a Discord cluck downstairs, it minimizes the game. You can fix this problem by utilizing windowed mode, but tinkering with the ScreenPad still tabs you out.

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