Apple AirPods Pro 2 can work as hearing aids

Apple didn't launch new AirPod Pros at its recent event. However, it introduced new features to the AirPods Pro 2 to help improve or at least protect your hearing. Apple introduced an "end-to-end hearing health experience" that introduces features to ensure your hearing health is good. The most notable feature turns the Apple AirPods Pro 2 into a hearing aid.

But that isn't coming to Canada yet, so let's talk about what we are getting first. The aptly named Hearing Protection shields your ears from loud environmental noise while preserving the sound signature of what you're listening to. The ear tips already offer some passive noise reduction, while its H2 chip helps actively reduce louder sounds at 48,000 times per second.

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Annapurna Interactive hit with mass resignation

Stray | Photo: Annapurna Interactive

Following a breakdown in talks for spinning off Annapurna's game division, the staff of Annapurna Interactive resigned. "All 25 members of the Annapurna Interactive team collectively resigned," former president Nathan Gary and staffers told Bloomberg. "This was one of the hardest decisions we have ever had to make and we did not take this action lightly."

Annapurna Interactive is a game company known for publishing independent hits like Stray, Outer Wilds, Gorogoa, Neon White, What Remains of Edith Finch, and many more. Gary tried to negotiate a deal with Annapurna Pictures lead Megan Ellison to turn it into an independent developer. But a week before its latest negotiations, the co-heads of Annapurna Interactive, Deborah Mars and Nathan Vella, along with Gary, announced their departure.

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HONOR MagicBook Art 14 has a detachable webcam

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HONOR shared a novel approach to laptop design at IFA 2024. The Chinese tech company showed off the MagicBook Art 14. At first glance, it looked like your typical laptop with a display featuring uniform 2mm bezels on its top three sides. It'll make you question where the webcam was placed. HONOR made a detachable camera that you can hide in a recess on the side of the laptop. When you need it, you just attach it magnetically to the top via pogo pins.

The chewing gum-like webcam doesn't work wirelessly. It needs to be connected to the top of that laptop for it to work. But you can either face it towards you or away from the laptop. So, if you require to flip the view while taking conference calls, this won't require you to move the laptop around.

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Apple Watch Ultra 2 gets a new colour option

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Apple isn't ready to release a new Apple Watch Ultra yet. But it does offer a new colour option for the Watch Ultra 2. It now comes in a Satin Black finish. This new matte finish is made through a bespoke process that Apple claims makes its exterior more scratch-resistant.

The Apple Ultra Watch 2 is still made out of titanium. Specifically, 95% recycled grade 5 titanium, which you'll also see on the Apple Watch Series 10 titanium model. And its back is made out of tough zirconia.

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