Apple released the Apple Watch Series 12 alongside the iPhone 18 Pro series of devices, and it is available today. From the Apple press release:
“Apple Watch Series 12 is designed to be as individual as the person wearing it and is available in an array of beautiful finishes, including dark bronze, black, light gold, and space gray aluminum, and radiant gold and natural titanium. It is also available in a stunning ceramic material, in pearl white and night blue. Aluminum models now feature Ceramic Shield 2, which is tougher than any smartwatch glass and 60 percent tougher than the Ion-X of previous aluminum models.”
Starting at $399, it offers 12 hours of battery life from a 15-minute charge (per Apple) and actual all-day (24-hour) battery life. It has Apple Intelligence built in with these new features:
- Audio Intelligence: Features include Sound Recognition, which comes to Apple Watch to alert users who are deaf or hard of hearing of important sounds, even when their iPhone isn’t with them. This feature listens for sounds like sirens, alarms, doorbells, or a baby crying, and uses on-device intelligence to notify users when they’re detected.
- Live Rewind: Helps users recall what was just said in conversation. A double press of the Digital Crown shows the previous 15 seconds of a conversation as a text snippet, so the user can catch something they may have missed or are less familiar with. Users can ask Siri about the content of the text or save it to the Siri app to revisit later.
- Siri Recap: Creates high-level summaries of conversations that users can review later to jog their memory. When Siri Recap is turned on, after a conversation, Apple Intelligence automatically generates a title and key points in the new Siri app, allowing users to be more present and engaged in the moment.
- Shazam: Instantly detects the music playing around the user and automatically displays the song title and artist’s name on the Music Recognition widget in the Smart Stack, easily glanceable on the wrist.
In other wearable news, Snap has released the Snapchat Spectacles, which we have covered before, but they are finally out (4-hour battery life and all). Per reviews, it has on-device AI that you can talk to, and you can run YouTube and watch it on your face, as well as play 3D augmented reality games.
These glasses “overlay computing directly on the world around you, allowing you to interact with digital objects the same way you interact with the physical world, using voice, gesture, and touch.” They cost upwards of $2000, and limited information is available so far. What we do know is that they feature AR (Augmented Reality) overlays that let you see virtual elements in the real world. According to the BBC, they offer a 4-hour battery life and have a bulky design. -TheTechBoy.org
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According to CNET, it has support for multiplayer games that you can play with others, like dominoes and laser tag (that must be the most expensive laser tag game of all time). In cybersecurity news, a zero-day exploit (an exploit that was previously unknown and unpatched) is targeting Google Pixel phones.Limited information is known about CVE-2026-58704, which has been patched, but it was a zero-click exploit that allowed attackers to access the phone’s modem and infiltrate the phone’s data. These types of exploits are highly dangerous because they do not require user error, like running a virus or accessing a broken link.
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