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Apple unveils Apple Watch Ultra 4

Apple has announced the Apple Watch Ultra 4 smartwatch. The device includes updated functionality for health tracking, fitness monitoring, and audio processing.

Introducing Apple Watch Series 12, with the all-new Health Sensing System

Apple has announced the Apple Watch Series 12 smartwatch. The updated wearable features a redesigned sensor architecture focused on biometric heart rate monitoring.

Apple introduces AirPods 5 with best-in-class open-ear Active Noise Cancellation

Apple has announced the AirPods 5 wireless earbuds. The model introduces active noise cancellation within an open-ear design alongside audio performance updates.

Apple debuts iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

Apple has introduced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max smartphones. The updated devices feature revised camera hardware alongside improvements to runtime and general performance.

NVIDIA Brings Real-Time AI to Broadcast, Sports and Global Streaming at IBC

NVIDIA expanded its AI for Media suite with tools targeted at broadcasting and video workflows. The updates include the Synthetic Video Detector microservice for identifying generated footage and the 3D Body Pose software for markerless motion tracking from a single camera. Third-party partners are incorporating these tools into content verification and virtual studio setups.

“Since its initial release, SVD’s accuracy has reached 99.3% for text-to-video content and 97.7% for image-to-video content” — NVIDIA

The internet’s favorite cat comes to Apple Arcade with Pusheen’s Place

Apple announced an update to its Apple Arcade gaming service scheduled for October 1. The upcoming catalog additions include multiple new releases spanning casual collecting games and action titles.

Inside Arm CSS for Mobile 2: The AI-native compute platform for mobile

Arm has introduced CSS for Mobile 2, a compute subsystem tailored for mobile system-on-chips. The platform pairs Arm C2-Ultra and C2-Pro CPUs containing dual SME2 execution blocks with the Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU, which incorporates dedicated neural acceleration hardware for graphics workloads.

“Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU introduces dedicated neural accelerators that enable neural graphics to run natively on the GPU.” — Arm

Inside the Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: Delivering desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics

Arm has introduced the Mali G2-Ultra NX graphics processing unit for mobile devices. The architecture integrates dedicated neural acceleration blocks directly into the shader cores to facilitate AI-driven super sampling, frame rate upscaling, and ray-tracing denoising. It also includes an updated execution engine that increases register capacity to handle more demanding rendering workloads.

“It provides up to 2x more registers per wrap, helping the GPU handle increasingly demanding scenes more efficiently.” — Arm

Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026

NVIDIA announced the RTX Spark PC platform scheduled for launch in October alongside updated inference optimizations for local AI execution. The company highlighted expanded compatibility for several open-weight foundation models across its RTX, DGX, and Jetson hardware, as well as new local networking and agent orchestration tools.

“Perplexity Portable Computer is available on NVIDIA RTX GPUs with at least 24GB VRAM running on Linux, with support on Windows coming soon” — NVIDIA

‘NBA 2K27’ With NVIDIA DLSS 5 Leads 28 New Games Coming to GeForce NOW

NVIDIA added 28 titles to its GeForce NOW cloud streaming service for September, headlined by NBA 2K27 and Onimusha: Way of the Sword. The platform enables DLSS 5 neural rendering features on NBA 2K27 for subscribers accessing GeForce RTX 5080-tier cloud hardware.

“DLSS 5 is available when streaming from a GeForce RTX 5080-powered rig in the cloud.” — NVIDIA

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