Apple has a wave of new beta software ready. Beta 2 is rolling out now for visionOS 2.3, tvOS 18.3, watchOS 11.3, and more.

After a three-week break for the holidays, Apple has kickstarted the iOS 18.3 beta train once more. iOS 18.3 beta 2 is now available to developer beta testers ahead of its expected release later this month.

Following a holiday beta hiatus, Apple has just released macOS Sequoia 15.3 beta 2. The update is currently available only for developers, not the public beta, and is rolling out now.

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Nomad is back at it again, bringing the glow to your wrist with their new limited edition Glow in the Dark Icy Blue Sport Band. This fresh twist on their best-selling Glow 2.0 delivers a clean, pale blue-white look during the day and a bold, striking glow by night. Whether you’re out for a night jog or just want to stand out in a crowd, this band brings both style and functionality to your Apple Watch.

The CES 2025 gadgets are rolling in like crazy now, holiday pricing on the continues, and we have even more deals to scope out today. First up, you’ll find the 16GB M3 MacBook Air with a 512GB SSD down at $1,099, or $400 off the price it fetched before Apple upgraded to 16GB RAM configs. Next is the return of the official Doorbuster pricing we tracked on Apple Watch Ultra 2 alongside a new all-time low on the latest second-generation Bose SoundLink Flex Bluetooth speaker and launch deals on Anker’s brand new display-laden chargers from CES. All of that and more awaits down below. 

Apple always offers an extended return window for products purchased during the holiday season. But that period is just about to end, making now your last chance to get in any last-minute returns.

Vision Pro has a lot of potential as a gaming device, but that potential has mostly been untapped so far. Today, an NVIDIA announcement is one of the first signs of change on the way.

There are plenty of third-party apps that will create automated lighting scenes with Philips Hue products, but a report that the company will be launching this feature in the official app has today been confirmed.

Users will be able to request AI-generated scenes using either voice or text, with the company citing the example “Give me a scene for a garden party” …

We’re now little more than a week away from Severance season 2, and fans of the show have two things to celebrate today: strong reviews for the new season, plus the arrival of an official Severance podcast.

Govee has just unveiled their latest innovation at CES 2025: the Mini Panel Lights. These compact, customizable lights are designed to transform any space with vibrant colors and intelligent features. And the best part is, they support Matter! Here’s what you need to know.

Writing at Six Colors, veteran tech writer Jason Snell thinks Apple’s plan to address the Apple Intelligence summaries mess doesn’t go far enough, and has three suggestions for the company.

The post follows a series of embarrassing mistakes in attempted summaries of news stories, which have variously claimed that Luigi Mangione shot himself, announced the winner of a competition which hadn’t even taken place, and reported the non-existent coming out of a tennis player …

While some parents treat their kids to an Apple Watch, the Pinwheel Watch aims to offer an interesting alternative. The $160 cellular smartwatch combines strong parental controls with a kid-friendly AI chatbot.

Unlike the real thing, the Pinwheel includes a camera, with the company promising that video calling will be coming later this year …

We already knew that Apple’s fiscal Q4 (calendar Q3) quarter set a new revenue record, but were lacking some details. A new report says that the income reflected record iPhone shipments, and the highest ever average selling price (ASP) achieved for the iPhone line-up.

Counterpoint Research shared the data from its latest Market Monitor report …

Dell was mocked at its own press launch for copying Apple’s iPhone naming convention for its PCs. Both laptop and desktop PCs are now divided into three tiers, whose names are taken straight from the iPhone line-up: Dell, Dell Pro, and Dell Pro Max.

Despite claiming it did this purely for simplicity, and not to copy Apple, Dell actually managed to make its PC line-up even less comprehensible than before …

The News app may finally be expanding its international reach. Since 2019, the app has been exclusively available in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia.

More than five years on, according to the Financial Times, Apple is finally looking to add new supported countries. Apple monetizes News app through a combination of display advertising and the News+ premium subscription.

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LG unveiled a beautiful new 6K display at CES 2025, dubbed the LG UltraFine 6K Display. It marks the first 6K monitor to incorporate Thunderbolt 5, a feature recently introduced by Apple in the new and M4 Pro MacBook Pro models launched in November. Details, including price and release date, are still unknown, but we can learn a few things from LG’s teaser.

It started with a planetarium. Now Theater for visionOS has become the best Plex video player on Apple Vision Pro. That’s because of a collection of new features in today’s version 2.1 update.

The HDMI Forum, which manages the specifications for the HDMI connection, announced on Monday version 2.2 of the protocol. HDMI 2.2, as it’s called, increases bandwidth and aims to considerably reduce audio latency. Read on as we detail what exactly changes with the new HDMI 2.2 protocol.