According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is working on the next generation of AirPods Pro, and they might have some new health-related features – though that’s a rumor we heard earlier in 2021.
The company has reportedly started testing features like temperature sensing and heart rate monitoring for the earbuds. Apple has found that the Apple Watch still does the latter better, but the AirPods “aren’t too far off” in their readings.
The company may also have revived its idea of putting cameras in the AirPods, a rumor we’ve heard several times over the past year. But it’ll still probably be years before camera-equipped AirPods arrive.
Intel’s Arc B580 is a rarity: a $250 GPU that delivers solid 1080p and 1440p gaming, even with a little ray tracing. Faster than the major GPU players’ Radeon 7600 and RTX 4060, and Intel’s XeSS upscaling works well, even if it’s not as well supported as DLSS 3. According to our review, this is a clear win for Intel – until we see what’s new from AMD.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon and Barbara Broccoli, the producer who inherited the franchise from her father and filmmaker Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, are in the midst of a battle that has halted the production of the next Bond film. Apparently, Barbara doesn’t trust Amazon with her family’s famous film franchise.
Broccoli was quoted as saying to some of her friends that the people running Amazon’s media empire are “idiots.” When Amazon bought MGM, executives began thinking about ways to expand the Bond film franchise into other mediums like a Moneypenny spinoff series for Prime Video or a separate spy movie or TV show in the Bond universe. Broccoli denied any of these projects were moving forward. He also took umbrage at Amazon Entertainment executive Jennifer Salke’s use of the word “content” to describe new James Bond projects. (I like it.)
It’s been almost five years since Apple Arcade launched, and though the service hasn’t quite delivered on Apple’s promise in 2019, it may still be worth paying for. Of course, that’s only if you’re willing to explore the 200-ish games currently available on the service. I’ve been playing Apple Arcade games since it launched, and these are some of my favorite games that have stood the test of time.