ICYMI: the week's 7 biggest tech stories from Apple's M4 Mac launch to Marvel's 2025 TV lineup on Disney Plus

This week we announced nan TechRadar Choice Awards 2024 winners, Apple launched a slew of M4 Macs, and Marvel outlined its MCU TV line-up (and boy are we excited).

To drawback up connected each this and much we've rounded up nan apical 7 tech news stories from nan week below, pinch links to nan original articles if you want to find retired more.

When you're done catching up why not browse our picks for nan 7 caller movies and TV shows to watercourse play (November 1)?

7. TechRadar Choice Awards 2024

The TechRadar Choice awards returned for 2024, and we've crowned our winners crossed complete 100 categories.

Taking nan Reader's Choice grant (which is 100% chosen by our readers) was nan Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, pinch nan Samsung S95D being crowned nan champion OLED TV, nan Apple Watch Series 10 being declared champion smart watch, Nvidia winning computing marque of nan year, and Balatro winning crippled of nan year.

• Check retired nan afloat database of TechRadar Choice Awards 2024 winners

6. TechRadar's Halloween week spooked us

Halloween fell connected a Thursday this year, meaning you’d beryllium forgiven for throwing a statement astatine nan opening of November. We’re encouraging it, successful fact, acknowledgment to TechRadar’s Halloween Week. Experts from each crossed nan tract person contributed streaming recommendations, recipes, gaming thoughts, AI tips and more, to thief you bask nan spookiest clip of twelvemonth to nan fullest.

Don’t interest if you’re not a immense scary fan, because there’s plentifulness of animation, comedies, aliases wide seasonal contented if you’d alternatively person a much relaxed celebration. Halloween is for everyone and truthful is our guide, truthful make judge you cheque that retired complete nan weekend.

• Read more: Welcome to TechRadar’s Halloween Week 2024

5. Apple Intelligence yet landed pinch iOS 18.1

With iOS 18.1 we yet sewage our hands connected nan first activity of Apple Intelligence features including Writing Tools for proofreading and rewriting, Smart Replies to reply to messages quickly, Notification Summaries, Cleaning Photos, and a redesign of Siri. You'll besides get these experiences connected an iPad aliases Mac courtesy of iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1, which besides began rolling retired this week.

Unfortunately, Apple Intelligence devices specified arsenic Genmoji, Image Playground, and ChatGPT-integration for Siri, and nan iPhone 16’s Visual Intelligence won’t get until iOS 18.2 later this year.

To usage Apple Intelligence connected iPhone, you request an iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max, 16, 16 Plus, 16 Pro, aliases 16 Pro Max, and make judge your instrumentality is group to US English. On a Mac, you'll request an M-Series spot and connected iPad you'll request either nan A17 Pro, M1, M2, aliases M4 chips to get Apple Intelligence (with nan aforesaid connection regularisation arsenic iPhone).

• Read more: Apple Intelligence disposable now successful iOS 18.1 – here’s what’s new

4. The Sonos Arc Ultra arrived – and came early for immoderate people

Sonos’ latest high-end soundbar is nan Sonos Arc Ultra, and it’s now officially on-sale – but immoderate fortunate buyers received it earlier nan thoroughfare date, and took to nan net to stock their experience. And it’s bully news for Sonos hopefuls, pinch 1 early tester who upgraded from nan Arc to Arc Ultra saying “I hoped that nan Ultra [would] beryllium amended than nan Arc but it is importantly amended successful each regard.”

The prima is nan bass, driven by an innovative caller Sound Motion speaker – it’s measurement beyond what nan erstwhile exemplary is tin of, and really is beyond what almost immoderate different sub-less soundbar tin do. We’re successful nan mediate of testing nan Arc Ultra for our review, and tin opportunity this portion is simply a large for Sonos, for sure.

People don’t look to beryllium having immoderate problems pinch mounting it up successful nan Sonos app either, which is simply a bully motion fixed what a reliable fewer months nan company’s had erstwhile it comes to software.

• Read more: Some group sewage Sonos Arc Ultra early, here's what they think

3. Marvel teased a monolithic 2025 for nan MCU

Every week is simply a engaged week for Marvel, but nan past 7 days person been peculiarly packed for nan comic book elephantine – and not conscionable because Agatha All Along’s two-part finale spooked america each connected Disney Plus (read much astir it successful our Agatha All Along ending explained article).

Indeed, whether it was nan charismatic announcement that Spider-Man 4 is not only successful development, but besides has a confirmed merchandise date, aliases Marvel revealing its afloat TV line-up for precocious 2024 and beyond, nan Disney subsidiary has sewage plentifulness much contented to show america complete nan adjacent 14 months. So overmuch for releasing less movies and shows post-Infinity Saga, eh, Marvel?

• Read more: Marvel reveals nan first footage for its 2025 TV line-up

2. Apple dropped a trio of M4 Macs

It’s been a bumper week for Apple, pinch a slew of caller M4 Mac merchandise reveals that kicked disconnected pinch nan caller M4 iMac connected Monday. The caller iMac has an updated processor, caller colour options, and a little starting value than nan M3 type – each bully things.

The 2nd (and possibly best) uncover was nan caller Mac mini pinch M4 and M4 Pro – a powerhouse machine crammed into an perfectly mini five-by-five-inch chassis. The redesign didn’t conscionable make nan Mac mini smaller and faster, it besides brought audio and USB-C ports to nan beforehand of nan chassis, a much-needed addition.

We besides saw caller versions of nan 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro featuring nan M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips, positive updated Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad peripherals for Mac users. Finally, 16GB is now nan modular guidelines configuration for each Mac products – convey heavens – which retroactively includes nan M2 and M3 MacBook Air.

• Read more: Apple launches caller iMac pinch M4 chips

1. ChatGPT hunt went live

OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot has taken nan world by storm, introducing millions of group to AI for nan first time, but now it’s striking retired beyond its chatbot origins and competing straight pinch Google successful search.

Searching nan web successful ChatGPT isn’t for illustration utilizing Google. Instead of pages of web links successful consequence to a query, you get a nicely considered bid of AI matter responses, pinch nan action to click done to a web page if you like.

ChatGPT hunt is awesome for asking questions, but it tin besides present answers to section searches for illustration “What is nan champion pizza edifice adjacent me?“, and tin show results connected a map. From our first testing it looks for illustration ChatGPT hunt is simply a very businesslike measurement to hunt nan web.

• Read more: ChatGPT hunt is now live