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TechPulse USA News Desk — 18 October 2026 Apple's next smart-home screen won't just sit there. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, it will scan the room, work out who's talking, and physically swivel to face them. After four decades of Apple telling you where to look, the company is building a display that looks back. That is the striking detail in Sunday's edition of Gurman's Power On newsletter: a premium follow-up to the just-announced HomeView, developed under the internal codename J595, with a roughly 9-inch screen mounted on a motorised robotic arm. The arm gives the display a full 360-degree spin, and voice recognition tells it which person in the room deserves its attention. Gurman's timing: 2027 or 2028. Before anyone reaches for a wallet, the usual warning applies. This is a rumour from a single — albeit exceptionally well-connected — source, and Apple has confirmed absolutely nothing. But Gurman's record on Apple's home hardware ...

Published 13 October 2026 Photo: An Apple iMac G4 from 2002. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the long-rumoured HomeView smart-home hub could borrow its lamp-like design. File photo, not the new product. Credit: Maxime Bober, CC BY, via Wikimedia Commons. Apple finally shipped its smart-home hub today, and the cleverest thing about it is the pricing trick hiding in plain sight. The wall-mounted version of the new $299 HomeView costs exactly the same as the tabletop model — except it comes with weaker speakers, fewer colour options, and no mount in the box. As MacRumors put it in its event coverage, customers choosing the wall version are "paying more for less hardware." That verdict landed at the end of a strange event: a private, invite-only "experience" in Tribeca, New York, at 9am ET on Tuesday, with no livestream and no keynote. Instead, Apple pushed out Newsroom press releases for three products — the HomeView hub, the HomePod mini 2, and a new Apple TV...

Apple's long-rumored smart home hub — a six-inch touchscreen on a speaker base — is expected to headline Tuesday's "Welcome home" event. Image: TechPulse USA WELCOME HOME: Apple October 13 Event 2026 — Hub, ADT Deal Apple's first product launch under new CEO John Ternus is an all-in bet on the smart home — a $350 Siri AI hub, a HomePod mini refresh, a faster Apple TV 4K, and a rumored ADT deal that would put professional installers in your living room. Published October 11, 2026 · By Daniel Rao, TechPulse USA On Tuesday, October 13, Apple walks into a house party it has skipped for a decade. The "Welcome home" event in Tribeca, New York, at 9:00 a.m. ET — an online video plus press hands-on sessions, not a traditional keynote — is the first product launch of the John Ternus era, and it is aimed squarely at your living room: a long-rumored smart home hub , the first HomePod mini refresh since 2020 , and the first new Apple TV 4K since 2022 , all b...

An Apple iMac G4 from 2002 — Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says the rumored HomePad smart-home hub could borrow its lamp-like design. File photo, not the rumored product. Photo: Maxime Bober, CC BY, via Wikimedia Commons. Apple sent out the most literal invitation in its history this week. "Welcome home." That's it. No poetry, no perfume-ad wordplay — just a doormat quote and a date: Tuesday, October 13, in New York City. Invitations went out Thursday, October 8, for what Apple is calling an "Apple Experience" in Tribeca, starting at 9 a.m. ET. Greg Joswiak, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, posted a teaser on X showing hands embroidering an Apple logo in thread, with the words: "Welcome home. October 13." The smart-home reboot Apple has been promising — and delaying — for years may finally be walking through the front door. The invitation Apple doesn't do many New York events. This one isn't at Apple Park; it...

Your smart home is about to get a lot less loyal. Google announced on Wednesday that Google Home now supports the Model Context Protocol — the open standard for connecting AI agents to tools — which means third-party AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT can now see, understand and control your connected home. The new Home MCP connector is rolling out in early preview starting this week, with availability expanding over the coming weeks. In Google's words, "any AI agent" that supports MCP can now "securely work with your smart home devices and event history." That is a sentence with enormous implications: the assistant that runs your house no longer has to be Google's. For years, the smart home has been a walled garden. Alexa ran Amazon's house, Google Assistant ran Google's, and never the twain would meet. What Google just did is crack that wall open — betting that the future of the smart home belongs not to whichever company makes the best spea...