Apple Home rumors, ranked
The Vergecast | 03 sep 2026 | 00:36:36
Apple's big hardware event is coming next week. iPhones are the main draw, but senior reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy has her eyes on the rumors around — what else? — smart home gadgets. Andrew O'Hara from the Smart Home Insider podcast joins Jen to fire up the Rank-o-Matic and speculate on which rumored gadgets are most likely to see the light of day.
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Further reading:
OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion
Microsoft slashes Xbox Cloud Gaming to just 15 hours a month for Ultimate subscribers
Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming with new pay-as-you-go option
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