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The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday cleared a new hypertension detection tool for the Apple Watch. The health feature was one of the highlights at Apple’s September iPhone event and will alert Apple Watch owners of potential signs of high blood pressure, a dangerous condition that can lead to heart attack or stroke and goes undiagnosed in millions of people. In addition …

Pre-order sales of Apple’s new iPhone 17 series have got off to a robust start in China, shattering previous records despite delays in the shipment of the iPhone Air. In the first minute after pre-orders began at 8pm Friday local time, sales on JD.com – one of China’s largest online shopping platforms – surpassed the first-day pre-order volume of last …

If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days — with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out of your phone — you will never notice a difference between Spotify’s high-quality 320Kbps streams and its lossless audio. But, if you usually listen with wired headphones while working at …

It’s been a long wait for Borderlands 4 — the last mainline Borderlands game came out six years ago in 2019, after all — but thankfully, it’s finally over, and players across Xbox Series X|S, Windows PC, and PS5 can officially jump into Gearbox Software’s latest chaotic co-op looter shooter now (with Switch 2 getting a port on October 3). …

Apple’s September event happened earlier this week. But now that preorders for new iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods models have all started, it’s time to look ahead to the next batch of new products, all of which very much seem like they could merit an October event. Apple’s history of October events and launches September is typically the biggest launch …

I’d heard about Spotify‘s new Lossless feature but wasn’t sure what it actually did. After years of users begging for higher quality audio, Spotify has finally delivered one of its most requested features. The upgrade makes a genuinely noticeable difference to music quality, with songs revealing details that weren’t audible before through standard streaming. Lossless has been one of the …

Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube834k Nintendo’s latest Direct broadcast was filled with all sorts of surprises, but one thing you might not have expected was DLC for Donkey Kong Bananza. Yes, just months after the game’s initial release on the Switch 2, DK’s latest outing has now been bolstered with some smashing new content, and it’s …

Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave is the next game in Nintendo’s long-running fantasy RPG franchise, and it’ll be coming to Switch 2 in 2026. The trailer for the latest entry in the turn-based tactics series invokes ancient Rome and its famous coliseum, with a cast of characters all choosing to participate in the arena’s battles for their own personal reasons. A …

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya that resembles the notorious Petya/NotPetya malware, while also incorporating the ability to bypass the Secure Boot mechanism in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems using a now-patched vulnerability disclosed earlier this year. Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET said the samples were uploaded to the VirusTotal platform in February 2025. “HybridPetya encrypts …

Update [Sat 13th Sep 2025, 6am]: Following the news that the final entry in the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy will not be a PS5 exclusive, director Naoki Hamaguchi has released a statement, saying he’s “truly grateful that more people will have the opportunity to experience the world we’ve poured our hearts into”. He added: “We’re committed to making sure …