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The Technology-Investigation Edition Monday, February 26, 2024

Apple Ponders Making New Wearables: AI Glasses, AirPods With Cameras, Smart Ring, by Mark Gurman, Bloomberg

For now, the ring idea is just that — an idea. The company isn’t actively developing such a device, but there are certainly people within the walls of Apple’s campus promoting the concept. The glasses, meanwhile, are in an exploratory phase known as “technology investigation” within Apple’s hardware engineering division. The company also is looking into other ideas, such as equipping AirPods with cameras.

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FineWoven Cases Are Junk, Say Majority, As They Share Photos, by Ben Lovejoy, 9to5Mac

A series of polls on social media sites saw the majority of owners describe them as “junk.”

As A Frequent Flyer, This App Helped Me Document My Travels, by Paul Hatton, TechRadar

The achievements include going to both hemispheres, traveling to five countries by train, visiting all the Nordic countries, and even ticking off all seven continents. I’m yet to complete many of these awards, but just reading through the ones I’ve not yet achieved excites me to visit more places and see different parts of the world.

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Apple TV+ Notches 11 SAG Award Nominations -- And Lily Gladstone Wins, by David Snow, Cult of Mac

After the 30th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards showered Apple TV+ with 11 nominations in January — for Apple Original Film Killers of the Flower Moon and hit TV shows The Morning Show, Lessons in Chemistry and Ted Lasso — the streamer managed to net just one win Saturday in Los Angeles. SAG named Lily Gladstone best actress.

'How Much Do You Love Your Wife?' Asked The Apple Vision Pro Salesman, by Chris Matyszczyk, ZDNet

The salesman laughed, but I had another thought: "Also, we like to cuddle when we watch movies and if we both had these masks on that wouldn't be so easy. We'd bang goggles, right?"

Finally, I'd stumped him. Finally, I realized the future was, as yet, not fully formed. He was, akin to so many Apple salespeople, a very polished performer but this clearly hadn't been covered in his training.

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Apple should definitely create a Wedding ring that can automatically send each other their heartbeats.

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