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  • watchOS 26 upgrades Apple's Photos watch face with Featured sources and Glass time option
    October 29, 2025, 4:20 PM EDT. Apple's watchOS 26 expands the Photos watch face with two new features: a Featured photo source and a Glass time color option. The Featured setting pulls a broad, curated mix of images, freeing you from picking specific albums like Nature or Cities. The Time Color option adds a new Glass appearance that lets more photos shine, while still offering solid color choices. Apple has long labeled the Photos face as its most popular, and watchOS 26 keeps that momentum by adding enhancements via software updates. The update also builds on prior improvements like ML-driven photo suggestions, reinforcing how the Photos face remains central to customizable Apple Watch watch faces.
  • iOS 26 Hidden Gems: 18 Features You Might Have Missed
    October 29, 2025, 4:16 PM EDT. iOS 26 introduces a raft of subtle improvements hidden in plain sight. This roundup highlights 18 hidden features that may boost daily iPhone use. Highlights include: changing the default alarm snooze duration (now 1-15 minutes, per alarm), creating a custom ringtone directly from a file (no Mac required; stored in Settings > Sounds & Haptics), copying only portions of a message from Messages, and saving or revisiting places in Maps. The guide also shows easier ways to share ringtones and streamline tasks across Voice Memos and other apps. If you crave small, practical tweaks, these iOS 26 gems are worth a closer look.
  • One chart shows Amazon's layoffs dwarfed by pandemic-era hiring spree
    October 29, 2025, 4:12 PM EDT. Amazon has layoffs, but the pace and scale of its pandemic-era hiring dwarfs today's reductions. The chart contrasts peak hiring during the crisis with current, more selective cuts, showing how the company expanded its headcount during demand surges and later trimmed roles as growth cooled. The takeaway: even after layoffs, Amazon's workforce remains well above pre-pandemic levels, signaling the lasting impact of the hiring spree. The piece contextualizes fulfillment center staffing, AWS growth, and the broader tech labor market, highlighting cost discipline without sacrificing core expansion. For investors and workers, the message is clear: reductions are real, yet expansion continues in key lines of business.
  • AWS outage reports spike a week after major incident; AWS says systems restored
    October 29, 2025, 4:10 PM EDT. Amazon Web Services faced a brief wave of outage reports on Wednesday, with most complaints centered in the US-EAST-1 region-the same area hit by last week's issues. Data from DownDetector suggested a spike just after noon ET, though AWS later said operations were normal and the reporting was incorrect. The company noted the AWS Health Dashboard showed no active incidents as of the briefing. The hiccup ran alongside reports of connectivity problems on Microsoft Azure, but both clouds later said networks were back to normal. AWS reassured customers that services were returning to full operation and urged reliance on official status pages for accurate updates.
  • SpaceX launches Starlink 10-37 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
    October 29, 2025, 4:08 PM EDT. SpaceX has launched the Starlink 10-37 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, expanding the company's growing satellite broadband constellation. The mission adds another batch of Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, continuing SpaceX's effort to provide global internet coverage. The launch marks another step in the rapid cadence of Starlink deployments as the company scales the network to improve bandwidth and accessibility for users worldwide.