The Morning After: The next CEO of Apple will be hardware exec John Ternus

Apple’s existent SVP of hardware engineering John Ternus will return complete arsenic nan caller CEO when Tim Cook steps down this September. Cook said successful a statement: “It has been nan top privilege of my life to beryllium nan CEO of Apple and to person been trusted to lead specified an bonzer company.”

Following nan decease of co-founder Steve Jobs, Cook led nan complaint for Apple’s post-iPhone and iPad era, launching nan AirPods, Apple Watch and Vision Pro. He besides turned nan institution into a work supplier pinch nan motorboat of Apple TV, Apple Music and respective different subscription services. Cook will modulation to a caller domiciled arsenic executive president of Apple’s Board of Directors.

Ternus joined Apple successful 2001 and became VP of hardware engineering successful 2013, later transitioning to a elder executive domiciled successful 2021. You mightiness person spotted Ternus being prominently featured astatine nan MacBook Neo motorboat a fewer months ago. Expect to spot a batch much of him.

— Mat Smith

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Who other has seen an Earthset? Apollo 17.

We’ve seen a fewer beautiful moments from nan Artemis II crew’s history-making travel astir nan Moon. Now, Reid Wiseman, nan mission’s commander, has thing to share. While ngo master Christina Koch was utilizing a Nikon camera to threat stunning still images of nan Earthset, Wiseman utilized an iPhone 17 Pro Max to movie nan moment. “I could hardly spot nan Moon done nan docking hatch window, but nan iPhone was nan cleanable size to drawback nan view.”

This was nan first clip that quality eyes had witnessed an Earthset successful 54 years, since nan Apollo 17 mission.

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Beijing's robot half-marathon is backmost for its 2nd year

And acold little embarrassing results.

This year's version of nan robot half-marathon hosted much than 100 competitors, pinch first spot going to Honor and its red-clad robot named Lightning. Last year's arena featured galore bipedal robots receiving assistance from quality operators who ran alongside them, on pinch immoderate comical mishaps. According to nan BBC, astir 40 percent of nan robots competed autonomously this year, while nan remainder were remote-controlled.

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Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones review

Almost nan cleanable level cleaner for mini apartments.

The PencilVac is light, mobile and easy to use, making it awesome for smaller surviving spaces and speedy clean-ups. However, it struggles pinch thicker carpet and rugs. It could beryllium cleanable for a future-forward witch costume adjacent Halloween, though.

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