Episode 189: It’s Time for EU’s Apple Probes, New Space Surveillance Capabilities, Nvidia’s Strea...

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In This Episode:








• News




• EU commission assessing whether the iPad offers sufficient interoperability with third-party headphones and (https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/04/eu-ipa...) (https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/04/eu-ipa...) ‘smart (https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/04/eu-ipa...) pens’ (https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/04/eu-ipa...)


• Apple to be fined for breaching EU’s Digital Markets Act, Bloomberg reports (https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/06/app...)


• NRO chief: (https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/...) (https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/...) “You (https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/...) can’t hide” from our new swarm of SpaceX-built spy satellites  (https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/...)


• NASA fires up super-quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft (https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/0...)


• Nvidia are slapping a 100-hour monthly cap on GeForce Now streaming, with charges for extra time  (https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/nvid...)



• Rumours




• Kuo: iPhone 18 Pro to feature upgraded main camera with variable aperture (https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/08/iphone...)


• Kuo: Apple to release its own smart home camera in 2026, with AI features (https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/12/kuo-ap...)


• Intel's Battlemage GPUs rumoured to arrive in December, well ahead of AMD and Nvidia's next-gen chips (https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/grap...)












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