Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

It can be resized to one tile, three tiles, six tiles, or a total of 9, and can control devices like lights directly, but cameras and thermostats launch the Home app.

Correction: The widget is still only available in Public Preview, not for everyone, and it has up to 9 tiles.

Reduce Interruptions uses the company’s new AI to review notifications and only show those that “might need immediate attention” — like a message telling you to pick your child up.

As someone who is inundated with nuisance notifications and has failed to make Apple’s non-smart Focus Modes work for me, I’m looking forward to this one.

That Apple put something it doesn’t entirely trust on its devices feels like a huge move for the company. Although, it’s clearly keeping its options open — Craig Federighi teased that Google could be a partner, too.

A $1,500 robot-powered induction cooktop, it automatically adds all the ingredients at the correct time, uses a robot arm to stir them, and a camera to watch over the process. But you still have to do the washing up.

Reviews say the Combustion is very good at its job and makes guessing when the turkey will be done or overcooking a steak a problem of the past.

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This means it will still work when the power is out, but the company plans to make more appliances with batteries to eventually form a “fractionalized home battery backup system.”

The Impulse Cooktop costs $6,000 and should ship later this year.