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These are the daily Tech Headlines for Wednesday, September 10th, 2025. I'm Tom Merritt. Apple unveiled their new product slate at a live event Tuesday. While it was streamed live recorded. The iPhone 17 has a 6.3 inch display, has a new A19 chipset. That one has a 6 core CPU and a 5 core GPU all day battery life which means at least 8 hours including 8 more hours of video playback than the iPhone 16 and dual fusion cameras including a 48 megapixel fusion ultra wide camera. Base model is 256 GB now for everything. It starts at $799. There's also the iPhone 17 Pro. That one's available in 6.3 and a 6.9 inch max model. New unibody design antenna and Pro camera system. Runs on a new A19 Pro chip and has a vapor chamber with deionized water for cooling. Base model of The Pro with 256 gigs of storage starts at $1,099 and the Pro Max the bigger screen $1,199. The star of the show though was the new iPhone Air. It is now the thinnest iPhone at 5.6 millimeters thick that is 0.2 millimeters thinner than the Samsung Galaxy S25 edge. The iPhone Air has a 6.5 inch display, uses the A19 Pro 6 core chip, 5 core GPU has an adaptive power mode for managing that battery life because you don't have as much room for a battery in a phone that thin. No physical SIM slot, just ESIM a 256 gigabyte iPhone Air starts at $999. Pre orders for all these phones start Friday, September 12th and then they begin shipping on September 19th. There are a few other accessories and a couple of watches here. The Apple AirPods Pro 3 promise a better fit. They have a smaller design and now five ear tip foam designs, IP57 rating improved active noise canceling and bass heart rate sensing in the ears so during your workout you can track your heart rate and also the ability to live translation using a chip in the earbuds. AirPods Pro 3 are $249. Then you get the Apple Watch 11. That one adds blood pressure monitoring just not to give you scores you know, but to tell you if you have a problem and the sleep functions now have a new sleep score. Battery life 24 hours for $399. The Watch Ultra 3 has battery life of 42 hours or 72 in low power mode and you get 5G modems in these. The Apple Watch Ultra also has satellite connectivity and starts at 7 and they updated the entry level. Apple Watch SE3 has an 18 hour battery life $249. Pre orders are now open for the watches and the AirPods Pro 3 and they will also start shipping on September 19th. Final thing from Apple was the setting the date for the release of the operating systems iOS 26, iPadOS 26, WatchOS 26 and Mac OS 26 come to whatever devices support them whether they're new or not starting September 15th. On to the non Apple headlines. On Wednesday, Meta and TikTok won a legal challenge in Europe's second highest court over fees related to the Digital Services Act. Meta and TikTok initially sued the European Commission over the imposition of a supervisory fee of 0.05% of annual worldwide net income that was meant to cover the cost of monitoring DSA compliance. The cost was initially calculated based on the number of average monthly active users and a company's profit or losses. In a previous financial quarter, Meta and TikTok argued that methodology was flawed and created disproportionate fees. So the judges are Giving EU regulators 12 months to redevelop the methodology, but do not have to refund the collected 2023 fees at this time. I guess they'll be credited to whatever the fee ends up being. Spotify now making Lossless audio available to premium subscribers as long foretold, Spotify Vice President Gustav Gillenhammer said in a statement. The wait is finally over. Premium subscribers will be notified as soon as lossless is available to them to turn on. Australia, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, the UK and the US all begin getting lossless now, with 50 other markets around the globe gaining access slowly through October, Nikon announced a video focused red camera with the 24.5 megapixel full frame partially stacked lens in there. That's the same one that you'll find in the Z6 III. It supports the R3D RAW video codec and is the first in the industry with 32 bit float audio recording. The Nikon ZR sells for $2,199 starting October 20th. Wednesday, Google eliminated data transfer fees for organizations that are processing workloads in parallel across two or more cloud platforms in the EU and Britain. The this is ahead of the EU Data act coming into effect on Friday. The Data act has a provision that lets cloud providers pass through costs, like how Microsoft introduced at cost transfer fees in the EU back in August. And AWS has on its website that EU customers can request reduced data transfer rates for eligible cases. So Google's on the case there. Smartphone sales are back, Counterpoint says. Premium smartphone sales. So this is not your mid range, this is your top level. IPhone Pro, Samsung, Galaxy S25, etc. Premium smartphone sales rose 8% year over year in the first half of 2025. That's the highest point for the first half of the year since Counterpoint began keeping track of the category. Apple dominates when you talk about Premium. They have 62% of sales. They rose their sales 3%, but the market share fell from 65% in the first half of 2024. Samsung held steady at 20%, so they didn't claw it back. Huawei inched up from 7 to 8%. So that's some of it. The big taker of that share is Google. Google rose 105% in its market share to creep into the top five just behind Xiaomi. Finally, real estate marketplace Zillow is launching an AI powered virtual staging tool enabling viewers to empty furniture or change the design style of a room virtually. The tool offers some pre selected styles like modern luxury, farmhouse and well, Scandinavian. It is ikea. The virtual staging tool is currently limited to premium showcase listings and only on select featured room photos. Verge's Robert Hart notes all the current examples have rooms with plain white walls, at least for now. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to dailytechnewshow.com youm can find show notes and links to all the headlines there as well. Thanks for listening everybody. We'll talk to you next time.