Apple will ship its $299 HomeView hub on Nov. 13, with Siri AI as the selling point. The Wearables, Home and Accessories line it joins reported $7.88 billion in the June quarter, about 7% of revenue, so the hub is a small bet beside the iPhone.
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Apple launches its own smart home line with LG and Schneider after 12 years of HomeKit
Apple has launched its own smart home line with LG and Schneider, with products starting at $200, The Verge reports. The Verge also says Apple is not addressing cost, a barrier shoppers rank high.
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LG Electronics, GS E&C and US firm GRC signed an MoU on October 13 to develop and validate immersion cooling for AI data centers. The companies did not disclose a budget, a timeline or a customer for the work.
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Apple introduced six Apple Home devices co-developed with LG Electronics and Schneider Electric, its first hardware for the platform. Third parties still manufacture them, and The Verge says it has not tested any.
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Chained webOS flaws hand root on certain LG TVs to anyone on the same network
Three chained webOS flaws give a same-network attacker root on certain LG smart TVs without a PIN, according to an SSD Secure Disclosure advisory. LG has issued a fix, but only two models were tested.
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Apple announced a fourth-gen Apple TV 4K at $299 with far-field microphones and Siri AI, shipping November 13. Siri AI launches in beta, shows answers as text and leans on an iPhone for personal context.
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LG will make and sell seven Apple-co-developed smart home devices under its own brand
LG Electronics unveiled seven smart home devices co-developed with Apple on Tuesday, to be made and sold under the LG brand. Apple widens its home range without building the hardware, according to Korea JoongAng Daily.
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Apple's Home Collection, developed with LG and Schneider Electric, reaches the UK in December with four cameras at £179.95 to £349.95, T3 reported. T3 lists every product under an LG or Schneider Electric name. The range is co-developed gear for Apple Home.
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Apple's HomeView hub arrives about 22 months after Apple first wanted it out
Apple will hold a "Welcome home" event on Oct. 13, where Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports a Siri-centered hub named HomeView is expected. Apple has confirmed only the event, and no outlet reviewed lists a price.
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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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LG Electronics marked ten years of its Signature brand in North America by building it out to 10 kitchen product categories. New models will also be shown in major retailers' general stores as well as flagships, Seoul Economic Daily reported, so the push now depends on partners' floor space.
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Apple set an October 13 'Welcome home' launch in New York, where it is expected to show a 6-inch smart home hub, a new Apple TV and a HomePod mini. MacRumors puts the hub near $350 each and says Apple pictures several per home, so a buyer's bill is per household.
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LG's $3,600 RGB LED TV loses on value to cheaper rivals and OLEDs
LG's $3,600 75-inch MRGB95B RGB LED TV gets very bright in The Verge's review, but small flaws make cheaper rival sets the better buy. Its case rests on daytime viewing in a bright room, and the review sends most other buyers to an OLED.
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South Korea will put 1,000 trillion won of fiscal and financial support into its K-GX green plan through 2035, alongside 220 trillion won of private projects. Spread over ten years, that is 100 trillion won a year from the state against 22 trillion won from companies.
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LG Electronics put third-quarter operating profit at 781.8 billion won, up 13.5% on the year and 17% below consensus. Sales came within 2% of forecasts, so almost all of the miss sits in an operating margin about 0.7 points thinner than analysts modelled.
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Apple co-developed seven smart-home devices with LG that will ship under LG's name, with LG handling manufacturing and support, Bloomberg reports. For teams selling locks, cameras and thermostats into HomeKit, LG is now both a rival with Apple's engineering behind it and the obvious partner to call.
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Apple's co-developed LG home devices will show iPhone controls in the Dynamic Island on a tap, leaker pdfu found in iOS 27 code. MacRumors reported a HomeKit-only setup that starts before power is on, so Apple's software handles the first step of installing an LG lock.
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FCC filings put Matter setup codes on all three LG home devices Apple reportedly shaped
FCC filings show Matter setup codes and Thread radios on an LG thermostat, sensor and deadbolt that Apple reportedly helped design. Setup goes through the open standard, while the lock's hands-free entry depends on which phones count as compatible, and the filings do not list them.
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LG and Apple's 3.2 billion-device home alliance starts with door locks and cameras
Apple will unveil smart home devices developed with LG Electronics on October 13, a tie-up the Seoul Economic Daily sizes at 3.2 billion devices. That count holds only if LG appliances and Apple phones end up on one platform, which for now is a possibility.
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KOSPI wins back three-quarters of a 1.11% opening drop in its first 15 minutes
KOSPI opened 1.11% lower on Wednesday despite overnight gains on Wall Street, then cut the loss to 0.27% by 9:15 a.m. Once the index was back near flat, the clearer signal from the morning was how far apart its large caps moved.
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