Apple is expected to unveil a smart home hub with a 6-inch touchscreen at its October 13 'Welcome Home' event, The Verge reports. The leaks suggest Apple will own the control screen in the kitchen while LG and other partners build the locks and thermostats it runs.
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Vurt launches Apple TV and Android TV apps for its vertical microdramas, with 675,000 users since March
Vurt has put its vertical microdramas on Apple TV and Android TV after growing from 10,000 to 675,000 users since March, The Verge reported. The figure is not split by device, so whether vertical drama keeps viewers on a living-room screen is still unproven.
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Apple will stream Formula 1 in Dolby Atmos from the U.S. Grand Prix weekend on October 23, pairing it with its existing Dolby Vision picture. Apple already holds exclusive U.S. rights, so the upgrade is aimed at subscribers it already has whose TVs and speakers support Atmos.
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Apple TV was still down for some users after Apple restored the App Store, Music and Fitness+ from its September 30 outage, according to MacRumors. Apple's status page calls it scheduled maintenance. The entry gives no return time and does not say which screens still play it.
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Apple TV added 13 licensed library films for US subscribers on October 1 at no extra charge. For a $14.99-a-month service built almost entirely on originals, that rotating shelf is the closest thing it has to a back catalog.
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Apple shares rise 2.2% on a reported home hub that recognizes each user by face or voice
Apple plans to unveil a smart home hub on Oct. 13 that answers each user from their own data, Bloomberg reported. Shares rose 2.2% before any price emerged, though price will show whether Apple wants volume against Amazon and Google.
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Luminate counts 41 percent of Netflix's 2025 US slate as quietly unrenewed
The 32-page report sets 41 percent unrenewed against 11 percent cancelled outright. It also lists Wonder Man at 52 percent retention, two points above the threshold the industry treats as a renewal, among the shows that ended.
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Astra's Blender demo alienated the exact community it was built to impress
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra video shows the model driving Blender on voice commands. The 3D and game-development communities spent the next two days telling OpenAI to stay away from human-made art, and a Fast Company column argues that better demos now land worse.
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Every paid tier down to 50GB now carries both services for up to five family members. Apple is cancelling standalone Apple TV and Arcade subscriptions in those countries, and closing Apple One to new customers.
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Bloomberg says the revamped Siri clears Apple's held-back Apple TV for autumn
The refreshed box is reported to carry an A19-class chip and as much as 12GB of RAM, and its main selling point is software that only shipped on Monday alongside iOS 27. The price tiers set earlier this year are expected to hold.
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TechRadar recasts Apple's next platform cycle as John Ternus' AI delivery problem
The column that hands Tim Cook the crown for a supply-chain era offers no usage numbers for the AI one, which leaves teams shipping on Apple's platforms to work out how much of their roadmap needs Apple to go first.
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