The September update for Amazon’s cloud-based gaming service Luna comes with multiple new features, the most prominent of which is one that will allow up to 7 other players to remotely participate in the same gaming session.
Since its aggressive relaunch earlier this summer, Amazon has pinned its hopes for Luna on multiplayer games and the casual market. Anyone with an active Amazon Prime subscription has access to Luna and can launch it directly from the Prime Video app, which allows them to stream an assortment of video games to their TV, browser, or tablet via Amazon’s cloud servers.
This includes around 60 casual-friendly multiplayer games, designed to be playable by just about anyone of any age as a group activity, and some of which are exclusive to Luna as a platform.
Its newest feature, Remote Play, changes how multiplayer titles work on the service. One player with a Prime subscription can now invite up to 7 other people to participate remotely in a multiplayer Luna game, as long as all 7 of those people have an account on Amazon and a compatible device. This reportedly works with every multiplayer game on Luna, including those that formerly required every player to physically be in the same room.
Two new games have been added to Luna’s library that specifically take advantage of Remote Play. This includes a Luna-exclusive mobile version of Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield’s 2011 board game King of Tokyo, in which players take the role of giant monsters fighting one another in the ruins of Japan.
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Other additions to Luna this month include access to two relatively recent games from the French publisher Ubisoft: 2024’s Star Wars: Outlaws and 2023’s Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, the latter of which is set in the universe of James Cameron’s film franchise.
Amazon has not shared user data for Luna since its recent relaunch, so it’s difficult to tell from outside the company how much of an audience it’s been able to build. Luna represents a bet by Amazon that, in the midst of the ongoing component crunch and the related rise in hardware costs, it can build an audience by offering access to popular video games via whatever devices people might already have in their homes.
A few years ago, cloud gaming as a whole was one of the major topics in the games industry, with some analysts going so far as to predict that it was the future of hardware. Instead of purchasing an Xbox or PlayStation in your own home, you’d simply dial into a remote server and stream games to your TV.
That gold rush has largely faded in recent years, as the furor over genAI has stolen some of its thunder, but cloud gaming is still a going concern and a surprisingly competitive market. Luna might be the most accessible option for would-be cloud gamers, as it’s bundled into a subscription that 200 million households already have, but it’s quietly up against giants like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Sony.
Some of the biggest names in the games industry have placed a quiet bet that the “RAMageddon” will quietly push audiences further towards the cloud. As yet, there’s no solid evidence whether or not it’s paid off. Still, if you’re looking to get into video games but missed your window to get a relatively inexpensive computer or console, the cloud might offer you some worthwhile options.
Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement and will build a music creation platform on it that lets fans produce remixes, mashups, new interpretations and personalised vocal experiences using tracks from artists who choose to take part.
It is ElevenLabs’ first deal with a major label, covers product development as well as licensing, and extends to further artist and fan products over the coming years. The platform is in development, will be launched by ElevenLabs, and will sit separately from its existing Music API and ElevenMusic products.
This is not the Universal catalogue; it is whichever artists and songwriters opt in, and the announcement names none of them, gives no launch date, and discloses no financial terms. Everything that determines whether this matters, including how many artists say yes and what they are paid, is absent.
What makes it a European story is who signed it. ElevenLabs was founded by two Poles, the Polish state took an $11mn stake in the company earlier this year, and its chief executive Mati Staniszewski has been talking publicly about $600mn of revenue. The first AI audio company to be licensed by the world’s largest record company is not American.
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“AI opens up incredible possibilities for interacting with our favorite music and artists,” said ElevenLabs cofounder and CEO Mati Staniszewski.
“By combining UMG’s global community and rights management expertise with our AI models and products, we’ll enable artists and songwriters to create powerful new experiences for their fans, and ensure they are fairly compensated.”
It also completes a pattern that has taken about eighteen months to form. Suno launched models trained on licensed catalogue from Warner and BMG this week; Universal has already done an AI covers and remixes deal with Spotify, and the majors have taken equity positions in AI companies including Stability.
Meanwhile, Sony is suing Udio over 30,000 songs, and a German court has found that Suno infringed copyright. The industry is running licensing and litigation at the same time, which is not a contradiction. It is the mechanism: the lawsuits set the price, and the deals collect it.
ElevenLabs already sells a music API to media and social platforms and an app for generating original songs, both built without a major-label licence. Adding a licensed product alongside them means the company can now offer developers something its rivals cannot, and it makes Universal a distribution partner rather than a plaintiff.
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For a company whose core technology has spent three years being described as a threat to performers, being the first one a major label signs is worth more than the licence fee.
The specifically uncomfortable part is what ElevenLabs is good at. Personalised vocal experiences, in a product built by a voice cloning company, touch the exact thing the industry fought hardest to control. Universal spent 2023 getting an AI-generated fake of two of its artists pulled from streaming services. It is now licensing vocal work to the company whose technology we have reported is reviving Stan Lee for digital cameos.
That is not an accusation of hypocrisy. It is the whole logic of the deal. If synthetic vocals are going to exist, a label would rather they exist under licence, with consent from the artist and a payment attached, than as an unlicensed track going viral on a Tuesday.
Sir Lucian Grainge framed it as putting artists and fans at the centre and unlocking new revenue.
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“The most exciting possibilities for AI and music are those that put artists, songwriters, and fans at the center,” said Sir Lucian Grainge, Chairman & CEO, Universal Music Group.
“UMG and ElevenLabs are aligned that responsible AI can inspire discovery, deepen engagement between artists and fans, and unlock new revenue opportunities for the creative community.”
Whether it works depends on things nobody has said. If a fan can generate a personalised vocal from a participating artist, who owns the output, how is it licensed onwards, and can it be uploaded to a streaming service?
For Europe, there is one more thing worth watching. ElevenLabs operates under the AI Act, and a consumer product that generates synthetic voices of identifiable people carries transparency obligations regardless of how thoroughly the rights are cleared. A licence from Universal settles the copyright question, but it does not settle the labelling one.
Subscriptions that already use the service can continue creating, modifying, and managing sync groups and member databases until retirement. Other subscriptions can no longer adopt it.
The service uses a hub-and-spoke model, with an Azure SQL database serving as the hub and other databases joining its synchronization group. Members can be other Azure SQL databases or on-premises SQL Server databases, which require a sync agent. A conflict resolution policy determines whether the hub or member database takes precedence when changes clash.
SQL Data Sync supports scenarios including hybrid environments, in which applications and databases are split between local infrastructure and Azure, as well as geographically distributed applications.
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Microsoft acknowledged that customers will need to choose among several possible replacements. It offered little technical explanation for the retirement, referring only to evolving “operational, security, and compliance requirements.”
Microsoft announced the retirement two years ago, but blocking first-time deployments gives customers another reason to begin planning their transition. Microsoft lists alternatives including Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, read replicas, linked servers, database mirroring, availability groups, and transactional replication. However, it noted that “there is no single replacement that maps to every SQL Data Sync configuration.”
Existing users have just over a year to migrate before the final cutoff. Those without a migration plan will need one before the service shuts down. ®
Nifty little AMOLED screens are easy to get nowadays, and [Sophie D] demonstrates they are both thin and light enough to be worn with OpenChoker, a design for a choker necklace that was a hit at DEF CON.
The choker consists of an AMOLED touchscreen flanked by short RGB LED strips. Behind the display is the PCB which contains an RP2350 and micro SD card slot for external storage, and at the rear of the choker is an 18650 cell to power it all. The display plays an eye-catching animation that gets generated on the fly while the LEDs sparkle away.
[Sophie] shares a number of interesting takeaways from designing and building this device. One is that the bulk of the PCB design work was interfacing to the display, since no existing footprint or reference design could be found. So if you find yourself with a Hello Lighting HL020E21-02 2.14″ touchscreen display you’re hankering to use in your own project, do yourself a favor and check out [Sophie]’s board design instead of starting from scratch.
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Battery life was more than enough for a device like this. A single 18650 cell powered the choker effortlessly for a 16-hour stretch and still the cell measured a robust 3.7 V. While a light-up choker used indoors isn’t a great candidate for wearable solar power, it’s encouraging that there’s no need for a tethered battery pack.
Another tip to consider relates to the screen’s touch sensitivity. In short, the capacitive touch screen responded perfectly when plugged into a development computer, but when mounted and isolated on the choker it responded so poorly as to be useless. It didn’t keep the rest of the choker from doing its job, but it might be worth keeping in mind as something to watch out for with a device like this.
There’s one final mystery [Sophie] ran into: with only one day to spare, glue used to affix some wires ended up melting away the wire insulation, revealing bare copper. We’re not sure what happened there, but if nothing else it’s a reminder that Murphy’s Law is always ready to strike when one is on a deadline.
Microsoft worries developers are submitting a higher volume of extensions due to AI
It’s already made some review changes, but the Edge team has had to make further changes
Edge extensions will also be reassessed every 15 days to prove quality
Microsoft‘s Edge team has warned that vibe coding has contributed to a sharp rise in extension submissions for the browser simply because developers can build and tweak their extensions far more quickly.
While the company largely sees this as a positive for the Edge ecosystem, which has always struggled against the likes of Chrome, it also worries about the additional pressure its own developers now face.
Even though the team introduced an “expedited review process” in 2025, its “review pipeline has experienced additional strain” and review times are suboptimal.
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Edge has seen a huge rise in AI-generated extension submissions
As a result of this additional stress, the company says it’s streamlined how extension submissions move through the review pipeline in order to reduce the amount of time developers wait for approval, but crucially, the changes do not reduce the number of checks or reduce the standards.
One of the changes include the addition of automated systems to identify known policy violations and security issues.
“Our objective is to make Edge the easiest place to build, publish, and grow an extension,” Microsoft wrote, but the company clearly knows Edge falls short of Chrome in terms of outright user adoption.
Per the latest Statcounter figures, Chrome accounts for 71% of all desktop browsing sessions, with Edge in a distant second place with an 11% market share.
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At the same time, Microsoft is also making changes to its Featured badge, which assesses extensions across “more than 60 quality signals.” The increasingly automated system will now re-check extensions every 15 days – “With this more frequent cadence, high-quality extensions can earn recognition sooner, and developers receive faster feedback on their investments in quality,” the company added.
More than 40 cars are listed on the platform currently
Car shoppers in Singapore now have a fresh option to browse new and used vehicles, following the launch of Grab’s online car marketplace on Sep 9.
At the time of writing, there were more than 40 cars listed on the website, including used ones belonging to dealerships such as SG Car Choice and CarTimes Automobile. Some also belong to Grab’s rental arm, GrabRentals.
Used cars are priced between S$11,800 for a Mazda 3 Sedan with eight months left on its certificate of entitlement and S$204,997 for a Toyota Alphard Hybrid with seven years left.
On the other hand, all of the over 20 new cars listed are either electric or hybrid vehicles. These include models such as the BYD Seal 6 DM-i plug-in hybrid, Dongfeng Box Electric Essential and Proton e.Mas 7 Electric, as well as the Hyundai Kona Hybrid.
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Those looking to list their vehicles for sale can reach out to the company via email.
Some of the motor dealers who are listed on the platform also supply cars to Grab’s private-hire and taxi operations.
A spokesperson for Volt Auto, the authorised distributor of Dongfeng electric vehicles (EVs), told The Straits Times that the company did not have to pay to list its cars on the website. The dealer views the marketplace as a fresh avenue to reach customers, on top of its existing marketing efforts.
Ng Choon Wee, commercial director of Komoco Motors, the Hyundai distributor, also told the publication that there are no sales targets set for its participation in the marketplace at the moment.
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In a press statement on Sep 9, Grab said that the Car Marketplace was launched to simplify vehicle sourcing, adding that the marketplace will offer “more pathways” for drivers looking to own EVs. More comprehensive vehicle data, including EV-specific diagnostics, may be added to listings belonging to GrabRentals.
The website also advertises the services of digital bank GXS AutoLoan, which is backed by Grab Holdings and telco Singtel.
When asked whether buyers need to take out loans from GXS to finance their purchases from the marketplace, the firm said GXS AutoLoan is “one of the financing options” available to its private-hire drivers, who, according to the GXS AutoLoan webpage, can finance the entire cost of their private-hire car through the scheme.
Oracle Red Bull Racing put Sebastian Vettel’s 2012 championship RB8 onto Madrid Metro rails this week and drove it through closed tunnels as if a subway line had suddenly become a racetrack. Heritage Team staff and Spanish engineering collective Andtonic did the work at Metro de Madrid’s Canillejas workshops, racing a two-week deadline to finish custom metal wheels before the Spanish Grand Prix weekend at the new Madring circuit.
The rail gauge was already near enough to the RB8’s track width that neither the car nor the rails needed to be shortened. Everything depended on wheels that were light enough not to damage the suspension, transmission, or driveshafts. Early prototypes were very hefty. The final pieces consisted of a central hub and precision-cut spokes weighing 29.8 kilos each, which is about twice the weight of a regular Formula One wheel. Renault’s 2.4-liter RS27 V8, which produces approximately 750 horsepower at 18,000 rpm, remained in situ. The kart test came first, followed by the real car.
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Patrick Friesacher, a former Minardi driver, took over once passenger service was suspended. He passed Estadio Metropolitano station and the Sacedal and Chamartín depots, traveling almost five kilometers of gloomy tunnel. The steel wheels slipped slightly at first, but eventually held. Friesacher described the journey as strange, and he now includes Metro driver on his resume.
After 45 years, Spanish Grand Prix racing returns to Madrid, having previously taken place at Jarama in 1981. Madring will even have a Metro station inside the circuit grounds, allowing fans to ride underground to the track. Red Bull brought the old double-title vehicle down there first, filming the entire process, and leaving the current drivers, Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar, to tackle the asphalt this weekend. [Source]
Google on Thursday introduced a new password manager switching experience on Android that doesn’t require you to download CSV files when migrating to a new app.
With the new feature, users will be able to move all of their passwords — and even passkeys — between apps seamlessly.
To use the new system, users first open their new password manager app and choose to import or copy passwords from the old manager app. Android will detect manager apps on the device and coordinate transfer between both apps. Users can review the information being transferred and approve it in a few taps.
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Because this method also supports passkey transfer, users won’t need to set them up again when moving to a new password manager app. Plus, the company said that this averts the risk of exposing data from a CSV file.
Google said the new experience is already available on select partners as well as in Google’s own password manager app. Bitwarden, 1Password, and Dashlane are currently supported, with more apps coming in the future.
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The password manager switching feature will be available on all devices running Android 8 or above.
Instagram is rolling out a small but useful new feature that gives users a little more control over what appears on their profiles. Starting today, you can add posts you’re tagged in directly to your main profile grid.
While it’s not exactly a groundbreaking update, it’s one of those changes that a lot of people will probably find useful. Most of us have experienced coming home from a party, concert, vacation, or night out with friends and going through the shared album, only to realize one of them has already beaten everyone to the punch and posted one of the best group photos, tagging you in the process.
While you could post the same photo yourself, that feels a little awkward. So, now, Instagram has a new solution.
You can add a tagged post to your grid from the DM notification you receive when you’re tagged, directly from the post itself, or through your Tagged tab. If you change your mind later, you can easily remove the post from your profile.
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The original post stays exactly where it is. Adding it to your grid doesn’t delete or duplicate the original post, and you can remove it from your profile at any time without removing it from your Tagged tab.
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Instagram says the feature could also be useful for creator collaborations, giving creators another way to showcase posts they’ve been tagged in without having to republish the same content or use the “Invite collaborators” option. It could also come in handy for brand campaigns featuring multiple creators who want to highlight a piece of content they were all tagged in on their profiles.
The update is part of a broader push from Instagram to give users more control over how their profiles look. Back in June, Instagram introduced the “Reorder your grid” feature, allowing users to rearrange the content on their main profile grid.
Instagram has also been adding new tools to make creating and managing content easier. One recent addition is “First Draft,” a new editing feature that automatically trims selected video clips and removes pauses, pulling together the best moments into an initial cut.
There’s also the newly launched “Replace Audio” tool, which lets users update the music on an existing post whenever they want.
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It’s been one year since Kirk’s death, and conspiracy theories about the shooting have persisted, supercharged by social media algorithms and right-wing influencers like Candace Owens, who has used her huge following to push baseless allegations about the incident.
Experts believe these conspiracy theories will continue for a long time to come. “There’s no reason to believe conspiracy theories about Kirk’s murder will lose steam anytime soon,” Jared Holt, senior researcher at Open Measures, tells WIRED. “If anything, I expect them to escalate further as the criminal trial against Tyler Robinson, the man accused of killing Kirk, plays out over the next year or so. The trial is bound to draw major media attention and offer conspiracy theorists a source of new material to work from.”
But ultimately, the baseless claim that persisted is that someone close to Kirk, or operating on behalf of Israel, was responsible for his death, that Robinson was simply a patsy and what really killed Kirk was an exploding microphone. This is the narrative that has been central to Owens’ months-long conspiracy theory campaign. Her Kirk content has racked up hundreds of millions of views.
Owens’ success is fueled in a large part by the way that social media platforms today encourage their users to post content. “X and YouTube are rife with speculation about Kirk’s death, where it is both still possible to recruit new audiences and monetize them,” Joan Donovan, assistant professor of journalism and emerging media studies at Boston University, tells WIRED.
The end result is that Kirk’s death has become yet another rabbit hole, or a way for viewers to distract themselves from reality. “Candace and other conspiratorial influencers make things seem much more mysterious and exciting,” Renée DiResta, an associate research professor at Georgetown University who tracks disinformation, tells WIRED. “For many, her explanations are preferable to the reality of an act of violence by a solo individual.”
There have already been real world repercussions: Researchers at the Network Contagion Research Institute recently found that “Candace Owens caused a measurable, statistically significant surge in death threats and calls for violence against [Charlie Kirk’s wife] Erika Kirk.” In May, a man was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Erica Kirk ahead of her appearance at a Turning Point USA event in San Antonio, though the man has yet to be charged. Owens did not respond to a request for comment.
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Erica Kirk and Turning Point have repeatedly called for Owens and others to stop spreading baseless rumours about the assassination. While those calls have not been heeded, Turning Point believes the impact the conspiracy theories are having is fading.
“The conspiracy theories have much less reach and potency now than they did six months ago, and I think I’ll say the same six months from now,” Andrew Kolvet, a Turning Point spokesperson, tells WIRED. “They won’t stop because many of these personalities were completely unknown and broke before Charlie was killed and this is their money maker, but their influence and credibility has collapsed and will continue to do so.”
But some experts disagree, arguing that conspiratorial thinking has been an aspect of American life for decades.
“Historically, this is quite normal,” Joseph Uscinski, professor of political science at the University of Miami and author of American Conspiracy Theories, tells WIRED. “Majorities of Americans have believed for decades that JFK was killed by a conspiracy rather than by a lone gunman. In fact almost 80 percent of Americans believed in the 1970s there was a conspiracy behind the assassination.”
The latest Apple Watch Series 12 is promised to deliver the “most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable”, but how does it compare to the Google Pixel Watch 5?
Sure, choosing between the Apple Watch and Google Pixel Watch will mainly come down to what phone you use, but what actually separates the two wearables? Are you missing out on features if you go for one over the other?
We’ve compared the specs of the Apple Watch Series 12 to the Google Pixel Watch 5 to see what really separates the two wearables. Make sure you also check out our Apple Watch Series 12 vs Series 11 guide as we explain what’s new with this year’s flagship.
If you’re not sold on Apple or Google’s wearable, then our best smartwatch and best fitness tracker guides offer more options across multiple brands.
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Specs Comparison Table
Apple Watch Series 12
Google Pixel Watch 5
Chip
S11
Snapdragon W5 Gen 2 Accelerated
AI
Apple Intelligence, Audio Intelligence
Gemini Intelligence
Operating System
WatchOS 27
WearOS 7
Emergency SOS
Yes
Yes
Water Resistance
50m
50m
Battery
Up to 24 hours
Up to 40 hours
UK RRP
£369
£369
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Price and Availability
At the time of writing, the Apple Watch Series 12 is available for pre-order and will launch officially from September 18th. The wearable starts at £369/$399 for the 42mm, aluminium case.
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The Google Pixel Watch 5 is available to buy now and shares the same starting price of £369/$399.99 as the Apple Watch Series 12.
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Pixel Watch 5 is made for Android and Apple Watch Series 12 is made for iPhone
One of the most important differences to keep in mind is that the Pixel Watch 5 is made for Android while the Apple Watch Series 12 is designed purely for iOS. That means you simply cannot use a Pixel Watch 5 with an iPhone, nor can you use an Apple Watch with an Android phone either.
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Google claims the Pixel Watch 5 has the “best GPS” of a smartwatch
The Pixel Watch 5 is fitted with dual-band GPS that’s powered by machine learning, which Google claims is the best of any smartwatch. In addition, Google claims a 2x improvement in accuracy specifically in urban environments by utilising data from Google Maps. If you’ve ever tried to navigate your way through a city packed with skyscrapers, you’ll know how difficult it can be to follow a route.
GPS route tracked from Pixel Watch 5. Image Credit (Trusted Reviews)
While overall we found the Pixel Watch 5 to accurately track our outdoor runs and walks, we did see a few wobbles through Canary Wharf. Even so, generally the device is accurate and most users won’t be disappointed.
We haven’t reviewed the Apple Watch Series 12’s GPS ability yet, however we did find that last year’s Apple Watch Series 11’s GPS “consistently locks in quickly” to accurately track a route. With that in mind, we expect a similar performance with the newer Watch Series 12.
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Apple claims the Apple Watch Series 12 offers the most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable
While Google claims its Pixel Watch 5 has the best GPS of a smartwatch, Apple claims its Apple Watch Series 12 has the most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable. Apple backs this claim with a study conducted on over 1000 participants which compared the Apple Watch’s new heart rate sensing accuracy against leading wearables. The result saw Apple Watch provide the highest accuracy across devices”.
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So what’s behind Apple’s accuracy claims? Essentially it’s Apple’s new Health Sensing System which features new optical and electrical heart sensors plus larger LEDs that measure heart rate every five seconds. In addition, the Apple Watch Series 12 now measures HRV up to 24 times more often too, so you can gain wider insight into your stress and recovery.
Google Pixel Watch 5 promises longer battery
Neither Apple nor Google are famed for their industry-leading battery life promises and, although there have been some improvements, it’s a similar story with their 2026 flagship wearables. While the Apple Watch Series 12 promises 24 hours of life between charges, which is unchanged from last year’s Apple Watch Series 11, the Pixel Watch 5 promises 40 hours.
In fact, we found in our review that we could eke out even more than Google’s promise, and found we saw 45-50 hours between charges – though that was for the larger 45mm variant.
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Both wearables also offer fast charging too. While a 15-minute top-up will give the Apple Watch Series 12 an additional 12 hours of battery, the Pixel Watch 5 sees 40 hours with the same amount of time.
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Apple Intelligence vs Gemini Intelligence
The Apple Watch Series 12 runs on Apple’s own S11 processor which is hailed as the brand’s “most powerful wearable chip”. The processor enables the Apple Watch to accurately track health and fitness metrics, plus powers Apple’s new Audio Intelligence features too.
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Audio Intelligence is new the Apple Watch Series 12 and utilises the wearable’s built-in microphone for tools including Sound Recognition which detects sirens, doorbells and other alerts that you should be aware of, Live Rewind which lets you go back by 15 seconds to catch something you may have missed, and Siri recap which actively takes notes for your conversations.
Apple has claimed that you can control when Siri Recap is listening, and the Apple Watch Series 12 doesn’t store recordings on-device either.
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Otherwise, the Pixel Watch 5 is fitted with Google’s Gemini Intelligence. We’ve concluded that Gemini is one of the most useful smartwatch assistants around, as it responds to queries quickly and accurately. Gemini Intelligence also powers the Google Health app – specifically Google Health Coach that’s found within the Premium subscription. With Google Health Coach, you’ll receive personalised insights into your data alongside advice on how to reach your fitness goals.
It’s an additional £7.99/$9.99 a month and, though it isn’t a necessary add-on, we would recommend it as it works brilliantly.
Early Verdict
The main deciding factor between the Apple Watch Series 12 and Google Pixel Watch 5 will ultimately come down to whether you’re sporting an iOS or Android phone. However, if you have some flexibility then there are additional factors that might influence your decision.
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While the Pixel Watch 5 promises the best GPS, is fitted with Gemini Intelligence and offers longer battery life, the Apple Watch Series 12 is promised to be more accurate than ever, and is equipped with new Apple Intelligence features too.
We’ll update this versus once we review the Apple Watch Series 12.
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