While it was unclear exactly when this would take place, John Ternus was considered the front-runner to be Apple’s next CEO. He replaces Tim Cook, who will remain CEO until September 1st, and then will become executive chairman of Apple’s board of directors. This is a pretty big shakeup in the tech industry, especially considering Ternus is better known as a product guy, while Cook was better known for his supply chain operations prowess. Read the full press release.

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Throughout 2026, you’ll see us roll out a lot more features and functionality improvements across the site. And if you really want to nerd out, you can follow all the new features via our Changelog, accessible from the site footer.

We also received a kind of weird email from NETGEAR’s CEO about it. The Verge has great coverage on this, which we suggest you check out. Here’s the first part of the email we received:

In a blog post, Google announced that Gemini finally has a native Mac app. While it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude app, which let agents run tasks for you, it’s great to see Google FINALLY embrace native Mac apps vs. relying on Chrome apps.

As reported by MacRumors, every Surface device is now more expensive than its Mac counterpart due to higher memory and component costs. And the increases aren’t small. Some prices have gone up a full $250.

You can check them out here. We’ve been testing out the $6 Matter smart button we got earlier in the year, mainly on Apple Home, and so far… It’s actually worked flawlessly.

It’s designed to let you think more freely, rather than having to focus on typing with your phone’s keyboard. The app will clean up the text you say and automatically copy it to your clipboard. It’s available on iOS (shockingly before Google’s own Android platform), and will later be available on macOS.

The Verge’s Victoria Song spent a year testing out various CMG montiors which are all the rage in tech health. This piece is quite similar to Josh’s experience testing these monitors last year and is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in this health tech space.

The Verge has an excellent Apple 50 package, including a page that lets you rank the top 50 Apple products (and see the live results). The NTY has an interesting story from one of Apple’s first employees, Chris Espinosa, and Apple itself changed Apple.com to celebrate the anniversary.

As reported by the BBC, you’ll still be able to purchase models that have already been approved; this only applies to new WiFi router models. Companies can apparently get exceptions from the FCC if they commit to moving manufacturing back to the US. This will likely mean a slowdown in new WiFi routers entering the US market and/or a lot of made-up promises by executives to bring router manufacturing to the US.

As spotted by The Verge’s Jess Weatherbed, the new feature is rolling out first in Korea before expanding to more regions later in the week (including the US).

Google says to expect up to a 40% improvement in response times when controlling smart home devices, shorter responses to requests, fixes to alarms and timers, more accurate local weather, and the ability to create multiple calendar events with the same details. Check out the full release notes.

They’ll be available to pre-order starting March 25 and include several updates: better noise cancellation and sound quality with the H2 chip, Bluetooth 5.3 (up from 5.0), camera remote with the digital crown, reduced wireless latencey for gaming, live translation, conversational awareness, personalized volume, loud sound reduction, personalized spatial audio, lossless audio and ultra-low latency audio via USB-C (note this came to the USB-C AirPods Max 1), though note, Apple is specifically marketing the AirPods Max 2 for Logic Pro mixing in Personalized Spatial Audio with head tracking.

Two other interesting things Apple mentions here: 1. Custom High Dynamic Range Amplifier. This is likely how they’re getting better audio quality. 2. Studio-Quality Recording. While the number of mics hasn’t changed, the mic system seems to have been upgraded, which, combined with a new digital signal processing algorithm, is how they’re also likely getting better transparency (which was already best in class for headphones).