Apple Watch Ultra is an advanced rugged smartwatch

Source: Apple

Apple has officially taken the wraps off the long-rumoured rugged premium smartwatch, the Apple Watch Ultra. It sports a new look with a larger display and a slew of features built for outdoor use.

The Watch Ultra gets a new button guard on the side, a redesigned crown, and a new Action button. The Action button is customizable for everything from workouts, compass waypoints that lets you map points of interest on a map, and its new trackback feature to help you retrace your steps. You can use these physical buttons even if you're wearing gloves, which some outdoor athletes/enthusiasts use. 

All of these features are kept in a 49mm titanium case. A sapphire crystal protects the watch display, going up to an impressive 2,000 nits of brightness.

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Garmin launches Venu Sq 2

Source: Garmin

Garmin refreshes its Venu Sq line with its new model. It's iterative and brings a few useful features. It has a slightly bigger 1.4-inch OLED display and its Health Snapshot feature that sows information like heart rate and heart rate variability, blood oxygen level, stress, and respiration. The biggest change is it almost doubles the battery life from six to 11 days.

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Google to debut Pixel 7, Pixel Watch on October 6

Source: Google

Google has officially set a date for the launch of the Pixel 7 and Pixel Watch. The announcement drops a day before Apple's set to launch its new iPhones. If you are more Team Pixel, you need to mark your calendars for October 6, Thursday, 10 AM ET. If you're getting deja vu, Google did tease the arrival of these devices at I/O earlier this year.

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Sony PlayStation's lead architect Masayasu Ito to leave company afyer 36 years

Source: Sony

Sony is losing one of its main architects for its PlayStation consoles. The company confirmed with Bloomberg News that Masayasu Ito is leaving on October 1st. He joined the company in 1986 and began working on the development of its in-car audio equipment in those years. 

He moved to the console division in 2000 and worked on PlayStation devices since then. Ito became the Executive Vice President of Hardware Engineering and Operation and representative director of Sony Interactive Entertainment. He led the development of the PlayStation 4 and 5. The company didn't elaborate on Ito's departure in its announcement but confirmed with Bloomberg that the 60-year-old is retiring.

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