HomeView

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Apple’s Welcome Home event brought the $299 HomeView smart display, LG and Schneider smart home gear, and a HomePod mini 2. Meta’s Muse Wonder caught up to the frontier, and Epic delayed a game over “no more hand-written code.” Apple unveils the $299 Apple HomeView, a 7" smart display with an A18 chip, tabletop and wall-mounted versions, and “HomeView software”, shipping November 13 (Wired) Apple Home Collection, made with LG and Schneider: a $349 LG smart lock with Home Key, a $249 video doorbell, $199 indoor and $299/$399 outdoor cameras, and $199 thermostats, with locks and thermostats arriving in December (The Verge) Apple’s HomePod mini 2 costs $149.99, up from the $129 original, with an S10 chip, new Green and Pink colors, and Siri AI coming later in a free update; it ships October 30 (TechRadar) New Apple TV 4K gets an A19 chip, Siri AI, far-field mics and an upgraded Siri Remote with Find My; it costs $299 and ships November 13 (9to5Mac) Meta introduces Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, saying that they “deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks” (Meta) Muse Wonder builds on Muse Spark with “active memory” and “active