If you’ve been looking to upgrade your smartwatch, now’s probably the right time. Our favorite smartwatch, the Apple Watch Series 10, is on sale right now, with the 42mm model down from $399 to $370 in jet black. The 46mm model is down from $429 to $399 and is available in jet black and silver aluminum.
Apple released its Series 10 Watch just a month ago alongside new products like the AirPods 4 and iPhone 16. We gave it 90 points in our review, noting its slimmer frame and larger screen – up from 41mm to 42mm and 45mm to 46mm. The watch also lets you listen to music and podcasts through its onboard speaker, which works fine for listening in a quiet space. Its battery also lasts slightly longer than its predecessor.
In terms of health, the Apple Watch Series 10 brings sleep apnea monitoring, which tracks your sleeping patterns for 30 days to determine if it’s worth visiting a doctor. Notably, the Series 10 watch does not include the Blood Oxygen app as Apple is facing a copyright lawsuit that argues that the tech giant infringed on patents owned by health tech company, Masimo.
It looks like the ultra-thin iPhone we’ve been hearing about for the past few months will get Apple’s “Air” branding. In the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says that the iPhone 17 lineup will feature a new model that could be called the iPhone 17 Air, and that it will be about 2 millimeters thinner than any other model we’ve seen so far.
“It will have a base-level A19 chip and a single-lens camera system,” says Gurman, and it will “serve as a testing ground for future technologies, including technologies that allow for foldable devices.” According to Gurman, it and the upcoming new iPhone SE will use Apple’s first in-house modem.
We’re also likely to see upgrades to the entry-level iPad that will make it compatible with Apple intelligence. Gurman revealed that the next-generation iPad will get an A17 Pro chip and 8 GB of memory. That news should arrive in the spring with the iPhone SE and new iPad Air models, according to Gurman.
The rise of the AI NPC has felt like a threat for years, as if developers couldn’t wait to dump human writers and offload NPC conversations to generative AI models. At CES 2025, NVIDIA made it abundantly clear that the technology is just around the corner.
PUBG developer Krafton, for example, plans to use NVIDIA’s ACE (Avatar Cloud Engine) to power AI companions that will assist and joke around with you during matches. Krafton isn’t just stopping there – it’s also using ACE in its life simulation title InZOI to make characters smarter and generate objects.
While the use of generative AI in games seems almost inevitable, as the medium has always toyed with new ways to make enemies and NPCs smarter and more realistic, watching several NVIDIA ACE demos back to back really gave me stomach pain.
It wasn’t just slightly smarter enemy AI – ACE can create entire conversations out of thin air, simulate voices and try to give NPCs a sense of personality.
It’s also working locally on your PC, powered by NVIDIA’s RTX GPUs. But while this all might sound good on paper, I hated nearly every second I saw the AI NPCs in action.