Sources: Apple is ramping up work on a mixed-reality headset to be introduced as early as next year and has renamed the headset’s OS from realityOS to xrOS (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Apple is ramping up work on a mixed-reality headset to be introduced as early as next year and has renamed the headset’s OS from realityOS to xrOS  —  Apple Inc. is ramping up work on a mixed-reality headset, its first major new product category since the Apple Watch …

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Sources: Apple’s mixed reality headset is expected to have the ability to scan the irises of users to let them log in and make payments inside the headset (Wayne Ma/The Information)

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Sources: Apple’s mixed reality headset is expected to have the ability to scan the irises of users to let them log in and make payments inside the headset  —  By the time Apple introduces its much-anticipated mixed reality headset—planned for sometime next year—Meta Platforms …

Meta unveils the $1,499 Quest Pro headset, offering eye and face tracking and color passthrough video for mixed reality, shipping on October 25 in 22 countries (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

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Meta unveils the $1,499 Quest Pro headset, offering eye and face tracking and color passthrough video for mixed reality, shipping on October 25 in 22 countries  —  Meta has finally announced the Meta Quest Pro: a $1,499 virtual reality headset it’s been teasing for the past year.

Sources: Apple will launch new iPad Pros with M2 chip this month, and is working on a Mac mini with M2, Apple TV with A14, and a new entry-level iPad with USB-C (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Apple will launch new iPad Pros with M2 chip this month, and is working on a Mac mini with M2, Apple TV with A14, and a new entry-level iPad with USB-C  —  Apple’s next product launch is just days away.  Also: The company withholds new employee benefits from its unionized retail store …

Sources: Apple plans to launch M2-based versions of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros in early March 2023; M2 Max will have 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to launch M2-based versions of the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros in early March 2023; M2 Max will have 12 CPU cores and 38 GPU cores  —  Apple’s next group of Macs probably won’t launch until early next year, which means it will have fewer new devices to sell in the holiday quarter.

Sources: Apple paused hiring last month for many jobs outside of R&D, including some corporate functions and hardware and software engineering roles (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Apple paused hiring last month for many jobs outside of R&D, including some corporate functions and hardware and software engineering roles  —  Apple Inc. has paused hiring for many jobs outside of research and development, an escalation of an existing plan to reduce budgets heading …

Sources: Apple’s search for a new product design lead has been hindered by high turnover, leaving few candidates for a department still in Jony Ive’s shadow (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Apple’s search for a new product design lead has been hindered by high turnover, leaving few candidates for a department still in Jony Ive’s shadow  —  Turnover at Apple Inc. has hindered efforts to replace the head of product design, leaving a gaping hole at the helm …