Welcome to the Tech Mean Ride Home for Tuesday, September 12th,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today. All the headlines from the iPhone

event today at Apple HQ.

Why is Meta blocking some basic terms on their new Threads search feature?

Tik-Toc Shop is rolling out broadly.

And the US Copyright Office keeps knocking down copyright claims for AI generated art.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

iPhone 15 event today.

Today, gotta do it a bit differently.

Let's just get right into it with what's new and not mess around.

They started with the Apple Watch First new generation series 9 looks basically the same as the

previous generation in terms of design and chassis it's got a new Apple Silicon

chip though it's called the S9 SIP. The CPU has 5.6 billion

transistors, 60% more than the Series 8. The GPU is 30% faster. It's got a

four core neural engine now that allows Siri requests to happen on the watch itself.

All this gives you 18 hours of battery life, which I think was what the previous version got. of the There's a new gesture called Double Tap. If you tap your index finger and thumb together twice with the hand that has the watch on it,

you can do things like answer and hang up calls. It's basically the primary button on any

app that actually looks pretty useful. Sort of double tapping kind of feels like it

was inspired by the Vision Pro's hand gestures. What else? There's some new pinkish colors, the new Apple

watches apparently Apple's first entirely carbon neutral product. Then it was on

to the Apple Watch Ultra. There's a new watch face called Modular Ultra,

which uses the outer edge of the display. The screen can now hit 3,000 nits,

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