It’s iPhone time! Wait a minute… this isn’t September – there aren’t red and golden leaves on the trees. How is it possibly time for another iPhone? I guess we should ask Apple, and specifically Tim Cook, who has officially teased that a new product will be unveiled next Wednesday.
All signs point to it being the new, redesigned iPhone SE 4. If you've been following Apple for long enough, though, you’ll know that the timing of this likely update to the most affordable iPhone is not unusual – the SEs never arrive alongside Apple’s flagship phones.
And the timing may be calculated. After all, we expect iOS 18.4 to be released any day now, and it will bring with it, finally, the full version of Apple Intelligence. It makes some sense for Apple’s AI vision to arrive alongside, and on, a new iPhone.
While Apple has us primed for next week, the AI world was as busy as ever this week, with OpenAI looking to rethink its ChatGPT lineup (think a helpful simplification), and a slightly alarming study from Microsoft warning about what this omnipresent new technology might be doing to our brains – although I’d suggest we don’t need to get too worked up about it.
If you’re the type who likes to work out rather than get worked up, we’ve got some interesting findings on the views of Garmin users in the wake of last week's big outage – and the brand also put that unpleasantness behind it this week by launching a couple of new devices.
Maybe don’t spend a chunk of your weekend heading to the theater to see Captain America: Brave New World, as our own Tom Power has more or less deemed it a disappointment. Sigh. I guess I’ll just have to wait for James Gunn’s Superman if I want to see a decent superhero film.
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It looks like a successor to the iPhone SE 3, above, is just days away (Future)
Apple CEO Tim Cook has teased a launch for this coming Wednesday, February 19, posting “Get ready to meet the newest member of the family” on X – and we're fairly sure that the new family member in question will be the iPhone SE 4.
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AI is making our lives easier in all kinds of ways, but new research from Microsoft and a leading American university suggests that it's also causing “the deterioration of cognitive faculties” – although apparently we don't need to start panicking just yet.
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There are plenty of great movies and shows to catch at home this weekend, including Cobra Kai’s final five episodes and the return of The White Lotus. We suspect, though, that you’ll be watching Captain America: Brave New World in a theater near you first.
