This certainly is one way to stop getting your TV to spy on you. The Verge’s John Higgins takes us through why users are doing this and what got us to this point.

We get a lot more detail on why Apple went with this display size plus what they specifically had to customize for the Duo.

You’ll be able to locate the remote with precise directions to it, and it finally includes a speaker to play an audible chime. And BEST OF ALL, its backwards compatible with all the previous generations of Apple TV 4K. However, in order for the precision finding feature to work (which here uses Bluetooth channel sounding vs. Ultra Wideband) you’ll need an iPhone Duo, iPhone Air or iPhone 17 or later (except the 17e, because of course).

You can preorder now at various retailers like Amazon and Best Buy for $59 here in the US. A perfect stocking stuffer for anyone who’s constantly loosing their Apple TV remote.

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Tom Warren, reporting for The Verge, takes us inside Microsoft’s lab where it tests all of its new flagship devices. This latest one is meant to take on one of the most prominent laptops in tech history.

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What makes them Pro? With a flip of the switch, they’ll turn off their EQ tuning and give you a flat sound profile for reference monitoring. If you work in a studio, edit videos, music, etc., that’s pretty dope, and something we’ve been hoping Apple would do with the AirPods Max. And yes, they’ve got the same great controls as the previous version (we’ll leave a link to our review of those below. You can read more about it in Nothing’s press release.

David Pierce, reporting for The Verge, got an inside look at how the Googlebook project came together at Google and what problem it’s trying to solve.

There was a lot announced at this year’s Meta Connect, from new Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, ones without the camera, to Meta’s impressive VR Glasses, which feel like a slimmed-down version of what the Vision Pro should have been. They discuss it all, plus how the company is handling privacy with its new Muse AI product, and its response to the “Pervert Glasses” controversy. Highly recommend giving this interview a watch: