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Apple TV sign language feature: Being Heumann on a TV with an interpreter in the lower-right corner, beside an Apple TV box

Apps & Software · 3 min read

Apple TV adds sign language interpreters you can switch on, starting with Being Heumann on 13 November

Apple TV sign language interpretation starts 13 November with Being Heumann. How to turn it on or off, which films have it, and what is still unclear.

Video of the day

Google opens Gemini 4 Carbon to paying developers and AI Ultra users, with a price rise due 1 December

Official video, played from YouTube. Read our story

AI

Photo prints of Airbnb stays: a wooden treehouse in autumn woods and a cabin among orange trees

Airbnb is building its own AI travel agent, and says a chatbot is the wrong way to plan a trip

Meta's Muse app can now talk back, with a cartoon face that reacts as you speak

Google's photo for its AI in schools update: a teacher helps a student at a Chromebook

Google turns AI off by default for students, but schools that say no to all of it lose Search

Big Tech & Business

Poster in Nvidia colours about Nvidia H200 chips sold to China, with the words 'Approved buyer? Empty office'

US cleared Chinese firms to handle Nvidia's H200 chips; some had empty offices, the Times reports

Binance CFO Kaiser Ng leaves nine days after the US$6.3bn hack; Justin Yek takes over

Google takes over Crusoe's Wyoming site and plans a US$17bn data center there

Science & Breakthroughs

Artist's impression of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft touching down on the small grey asteroid 1998 KY26

Hayabusa2's next asteroid, 1998 KY26, is too warm to hide ice, a new study finds

NASA astronaut applications are open until 3 December, for a class that could live at the Moon Base

Artist's concept of NASA's six-wheeled PROMISE rover drilling on the Moon's surface at night

NASA Moon Base: eight companies can bid for up to $10bn of lander work, and a rover reuses Mars parts

Phones & Gadgets

iPhone Duo opened flat, showing the Slack app laid out across its wide inner screen

Apple says more than 100,000 apps are now built for the iPhone Duo, two weeks after launch

Hands holding the Motorola Signature 27 sideways, showing its woven dark back and camera block

Motorola Signature 27 is the first phone beyond Pixel to support GrapheneOS, at US$1,599

The 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro OLED models side by side, with a Dynamic Island at the top of each screen

Apple's first touchscreen Mac is an OLED MacBook Pro, and it starts at US$2,899

Apps & Software

Windows 11 tests a way to switch off the Sticky Keys pop-up for good, from the pop-up itself

Chainalysis breach: every user's password hash and live tokens were exposed, the company now says

EU says TikTok's For You feed pulls users into harmful 'rabbit holes'

Launches

GTA 6 leads Jason and Lucia escaping on a dirt bike as a police car and helicopter chase them through Vice City

GTA 6 launch trailer lands: Grand Theft Auto VI arrives 19 November on PS5 and Xbox, with no PC date

The new white Tesla Roadster with both doors open and a large rear wing, in a dark studio

Tesla's new Roadster flew in a Texas demo, but buyers still have no price or delivery date

Gaming

A Horde village in WoW: Forever with spiked wooden fences and red banners under green mountains

WoW: Forever is the biggest World of Warcraft launch ever, Blizzard says, but it shares no player count

Collage of classic EA game box covers, including Wing Commander, Road Rash and Ultima, floating on a starry dark background

EA puts 25 classic games on Steam, with Wing Commander restored from a rediscovered tape vault

Nintendo Switch 2 sales pass 26 million, but slow down as memory costs bite

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