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Quarterbacks get most of the attention in the NFL. That's why they always win the MVP awards.

There are passing props on just about every starting NFL quarterback at BetMGM. Our Yahoo Sportsbook team takes a look at our favorite overs and unders for passing yardage and touchdowns:

MARK DRUMHELLER: Unders on QB props (passing yards and TDs) hit at a 74% clip last season per Betsperts Connor Allen. There isnt a QB in the league in a worse position than Justin Fields. Chicago has the worst OL in the NFL and the second-worst set of receivers. Fields under 3,299.5 yards are as good as gold.

NICK BROMBERG: Patrick Mahomes has thrown for over 4,700 in each of the three full seasons hes played the NFL. His only season as a starter with fewer than 4,700 yards came when he missed time because of a knee injury in 2019. Thats why I really like Mahomes to throw for over 4,649.5 yards this year.

Patrick Mahomes is looking for another big season with the Kansas City Chiefs. (AP Foto/David Banks)

PETER TRUSZKOWSKI: Justin Herbert to go over 4,699.5 passing yards. He eclipsed 5,000 last season and I expect him to be near the top of the league again. The Chargers will need to throw the ball to keep up in games against their loaded division. My only concern would be injury, but thats a concern with anyone.

GREG BRAINOS: Kirk Cousins over 31.5 passing touchdowns. Hes cleared this in each of his seasons with Justin Jefferson, and that was in Mike Zimmers vanilla offense. I see Cousins tossing 40+ scores under Kevin OConnell this season, which is why Im also putting a taste on him to lead the league in passing touchdowns at 18-to-1.

SCOTT PIANOWSKI: Baker Mayfield cruises over 3,600 yards (-115) if he simply stays healthy. Christian McCaffrey and DJ Moore can drag him there. And dont be spooked by 2021 Mayfield; he wasnt healthy for most of the year and the Browns set him up to fail. All is forgiven.

FRANK SCHWAB: Id rather bet unders than overs, because more can go wrong in an NFL season than can go right. Theres a trio I like: Jameis Winston under 3,749.5 (he wasnt a high-volume passer last season and is an injury risk now), Mac Jones under 3,949.5 (another low-volume passing offense) and Matt Ryan under 3,899.5 as my best bet. The Colts threw for 3,588 yards last season, not that much has changed around the quarterback position and I expect them to be good and protecting a lot of leads. Ryan will be efficient but not a 3,900-yard passer.

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NFL betting preview: Mahomes, Herbert and the rest of our favorite passing props - Yahoo Sports

NBA fans will get an early look at the potential top two picks in the 2023 draft next month.

European star Victor Wembanyama, the projected No. 1 pick in next years draft, will travel with the Metropolitans 92 from Paris to Las Vegas for a pair of exhibition games on Oct. 4 and 6, according to ESPNs Jonathan Givony.

Wembanyamas team will take on the G League Ignite, which will match him up against projected No. 2 pick Scoot Henderson.

The games, which are set to be broadcast on an ESPN network, are sure to draw plenty of scouts and attention.

Wembanyama is one of the most anticipated players out of Europe in recent memory. The 18-year-old stands 7-foot-4 barefoot and has an 8-foot wingspan, and he was named the French LNB Pro A Best Young Player for two straight years.

Yahoo Sports Krysten Peek described him as Rudy Gobert mixed with Kevin Durant and Anthony Davis. Or more simply, hes a larger Giannis Antetokounmpo without any weaknesses. Wembanyama is easily the most talked-about prospect since LeBron James.

Henderson is entering his second season with the Ignite this fall, and is one of three players on the team projected to go in the first round of next years draft. The 6-foot-3 guard averaged 14 points, five rebounds and 3.6 assists last season, and hes been turning heads for years.

"I think what separates me from the rest of the players in my draft class is I just played an entire season in the G League," Henderson told Yahoo Sports. "I'm basically a pro. I've been around pro settings and pro development and that's really helped prepare me for next year."

The Ignite will open their season officially on Nov. 4, and the team will play a full 50-game schedule for the first time. Metropolitan 92s season will start later this month, and theyll have three games before they travel to Nevada.

Victor Wembanyamas Metropolitans 92 and Scoot Hendersons G League Ignite will play a pair of exhibitions in Henderson, Nevada, next month. (Oscar Gonzalez/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

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Projected top picks Victor Wembanyama, Scoot Henderson to square off in exhibitions in Las Vegas - Yahoo Sports

One more sleep. The NFL season is finally upon us. Many have spent the past few weeks preparing for the upcoming season and have just recently started diving into the betting market. However, BetMGM first released its betting lines for Week 1 of the NFL season all the way back in April. These lines have been molded by transactions, injuries, hype, sharp money and a collection of other factors, and the result is what we see now.

How has the betting market changed over the fast few months? Only three games currently have the same spread as when the market opened, and two of those games saw the line moved earlier in the summer before moving back. Let's take a look at the bigger line moves that we saw this NFL offseason.

As you're getting ready to start your NFL betting season, you're probably starting with the season opener on Thursday night in Los Angeles. Currently, the Rams are 2.5-point home underdogs against the Buffalo Bills. However, when this line opened, the Rams were actually 1-point favorites.

There's plenty of hype surrounding the Bills. They are the Super Bowl favorites. They have the highest win total in the league. Josh Allen is the preseason betting favorite to win MVP. It's no surprise that bettors have sided with Buffalo in the season opener. At BetMGM, 74% of bets and 90% of the money is backing the Bills to cover as 2.5-point favorites.

Josh Allen and the Bills open the NFL season as favorites over the Rams. (Timothy T Ludwig/Getty Images)

There are some questions surrounding the Rams. The biggest question is the health of Matthew Stafford's elbow. The Rams say there's no limitations, but there's also concern it could impact him all season long. On top of the health of their quarterback, this team is missing some key pieces from last year's Super Bowl winning team. Von Miller, Odell Beckham Jr, Robert Woods, Andrew Whitworth, Austin Corbett, Sebastian Joseph-Day and Darious Williams are gone. They've been replaced by Allen Robinson, Joseph Noteboom, Brian Allen, Bobby Wagner and Troy Hill.

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The Rams should still be very good. They have the fourth-best Super Bowl odds. However, bettors and the market just like the Bills more, and it has been reflected in the line movement throughout the summer.

A year ago at this time, many felt the Cleveland Browns finally had a franchise quarterback in Baker Mayfield. However, Mayfield attempted to gut through injuries last season and had a putrid year. The Browns acquired Deshaun Watson in March, signaling the end of the Mayfield era in Cleveland. Now as we get ready for Week 1, Mayfield is a member of the Carolina Panthers and preparing to face his old team in Week 1. Meanwhile, Deshaun Watson is suspended and the Browns are going to start Jacoby Brissett in his place.

When the market opened, the Browns were 4.5-point favorites. Baked into that line was the chance Watson would avoid suspension, or Mayfield might stick around and suit up for Cleveland. However, with everything shaking out how it has, the Browns are now 1.5-point underdogs in Carolina.

Mayfield is an upgrade for the Panthers over Sam Darnold, while Brissett is a below average starting quarterback in the league. There's also no denying that the majority of the football world outside of Cleveland is rooting for Baker Mayfield on Sunday. At BetMGM, 87% of bets and 91% of the money is backing the Panthers to cover the 1.5-point spread.

The six-point line movement is the largest we've seen in any Week 1 game this offseason. It looks like bettors are expecting Baker to stick it to his old team. No matter how it goes, it's must watch.

The Kansas City Chiefs opened as 3-point road favorites against the Arizona Cardinals. Rather quickly, that line moved to 3.5 points. However, it was stuck there almost all summer until just this week.

Over the past few days, the line has ballooned up to 6 points. Overall, 76% of bets and 89% of the money is on Kansas City. The Chiefs have been a popular bet throughout the offseason, so the sudden and massive line movement is rather surprising.

The Cardinals were the best team in the league through the first half of last season. However, things fell apart in the second half of the season. Kyler Murray missed some time, as did DeAndre Hopkins. They laid a complete egg in the playoffs against the Rams. Arizona is one of the harder teams to read entering the season, but it feels like bettors are deciding to fade them to start the season.

Kansas City isn't without questions themselves. They traded Tyreek Hill to Miami in the offseason. It'll be interesting to see what this offense looks like now that Patrick Mahomes no longer has his most explosive weapon. Bettors think the Chiefs will do just fine and beat the Cardinals comfortably on the road.

The Ravens opened as 4.5-point favorites against the Jets. However, an influx of Ravens bets (93% of money) and a Zach Wilson injury has the Ravens currently favored by 7 points on the road.

New Orleans is now a 5.5-point favorite against the Falcons after opening at -4. At BetMGM, 81% of bets are on the Saints.

The line movement in the Dolphins-Patriots game has been interesting. The Dolphins opened as 3-point favorites. However, for most of the offseason, the line was Miami -2.5 as early support favored New England. Now as we approach kickoff, the line has moved the other way and the Dolphins are 3.5-point favorites.

San Francisco opened as a 6.5-point favorite against Chicago on the road. That line is now up to 7.

The Eagles are 4-point road favorites in Detroit currently. The market opened with Philadelphia as a 3.5-point favorite. At BetMGM, 76% of the money is backing the Lions to cover as an underdog.

There's been movement through a key number in the Jacksonville-Washington game. The Commanders opened as 3.5-point favorites, but now Washington is just a 2.5-point favorite.

Denver opened as just a 3.5-point road favorite against Seattle in Russell Wilson's return. However, the Seahawks are planning to start Geno Smith and the betting market isn't a fan of that. The Broncos are currently 6.5-point favorites.

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NFL odds movement: Bills weren't always favored to beat the Rams - Yahoo Sports

Last week, the Los Angeles Dodgers went to New York for a midweek series that was imbued with extra-special stakes for its potential as a postseason preview: a chance to find out how the top two winningest teams in the National League would fare against each other. The Mets took two of three to walk away feeling more triumphant than Timmy Trumpet pantomime riding his namesake instrument.

The games were great, hard fought and close, and the results speak to the possibility that the Mets will make a deep postseason run come October. But they do not upend the existing hierarchy or dislodge from the top spot the Dodgers, who can add their one win in Flushing to 92 others, plus a whole backlog from recent seasons.

The top of their lineup boasts rings from three other clubs: Mookie Betts, who won in 2018 with the Boston Red Sox; Trea Turner, who won in 2019 with the Washington Nationals; and Freddie Freeman, who won last season with the Atlanta Braves.

They know how it feels to play on a championship-caliber team, so what makes the Dodgers different?

I think that was a little bit more of a cultural thing, Turner said about the Nationals team that went from 19-31 to wild card to World Series winners.

We all liked each other and hung out with each other and we were really close. So I think talent, plus how much we enjoy one another was the success there. Here, we definitely enjoy each other and I think we've come together a lot in the last few months, which is really important and cool but I just think we would have won regardless, whether we liked each other or not. Just cause of the talent and everything.

The Los Angeles Dodgers' Max Muncy gestures as he heads to third after hitting a solo home run during the sixth inning against the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Insofar as the Dodgers have a secret sauce, this explanation does little to illuminate it. Which makes sense. Their secret part is how theyre able to turn 31-year-old below-average pitcher Andrew Heaney into a sub-3.00 middle-of-the-rotation regular on a staff with the best ERA in baseball. Acquiring guys like Turner practically an afterthought of the Max Scherzer deal that brought him to L.A. last summer thats the fun part of being a behemoth.

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The answer has stuck with me ever since anyway. Not because it says anything especially revelatory about the inner workings of a specific organization, but because it reflects a funny sort of paradigm in the sport. To win a World Series you need a mercurial magic thats hard to define and impossible to predict. Sustained excellence is something much simpler. Not easier, just simpler.

MLBs postseason is one month away. Down the stretch, teams will jockey for a berth that erases the previous six months. In October anything can happen. And in the end well crown a deserving champion that every baseball season requires the last team standing to both run a marathon and then survive a sprint is a feature, not a bug. But since were to the part of the year where the superlatives start to really mean something, it just feels worth mentioning that we already know the best team in each league. Its been the same two for the past five years.

The Dodgers got a head start. Including 2022 (and I feel pretty good about doing so), theyll have finished first in the NL West nine out of 10 seasons. The one year they didnt, they matched a franchise-high with 106 wins and came up just short in a division race that deserves to have a book or maybe an epic poem written about it. So just keep that in mind for your own sense of awe the Dodgers have been doing this for nearly twice as long as we tighten the time frame to include the ALs best: the Houston Astros.

Since the start of 2017, the Dodgers have won 544 games, the most in MLB. The Astros are second with 522. Only one other team clears 500, the Yankees with exactly that many.

(Their continued success in the years since does not excuse the Astros sign-stealing, but it provides a compelling, if complicated, case that they would have been good without it. Three years after the sanctions, theyre on pace for 104 wins. Youd have to think they stole 22 wins to undermine this argument.)

This is no fluke: Houston has scored the most runs in that span; L.A. is second. L.A. has given up the fewest runs in that span; Houston is second. They have the highest two team wRC+ in that time and the lowest two ERAs. Defense is harder to distill into a universally accepted metric, but they also have the lowest two opposing BABIP in that time, a testament to the ineffectiveness of putting the ball in play against them.

Both their championships come with caveats, shall we say, and each would likely need another to entertain dynastic consideration. But even the rings they have are notable: The other three winningest teams in that five-year span Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays and Cleveland Guardians have all failed to win a World Series. Consistently dominating the regular season and peaking in the postseason is a tier of two.

Well, we werent good for a lot of years, obviously, Lance McCullers Jr. said recently of the Astros run of success. And thats certainly part of it. They did this on purpose, and being bad was part of that plan. But the cyclical sacrifice required to tank is precisely why sustainability is considered the ultimate achievement. And including 2017, neither the Dodgers nor Astros have selected higher than 15th in the draft since.

The Houston Astros' Jose Altuve (27) celebrates his solo home run with Yordan Alvarez during the third inning against the Texas Rangers on Tuesday in Houston. (AP Photo/Eric Christian Smith)

McCullers drew the connection between the Astros front office and disgraced former general manager Jeff Luhnows career start with the St. Louis Cardinals, a club that has managed to stay similarly relevant if not quite as fruitful with a smaller payroll and for far longer. St. Louis has had only one losing season this millennium, reliably turning middle-of-the-pack draft slots into homegrown talent that learns to win together in the lower levels, expertly complemented by a select few high-profile acquisitions.

And to that blueprint, the Astros added early adoption of advanced analytics.

It's not only here's the information, it's here's the information and here's how you should try and apply it, Astros third baseman Alex Bregman said recently.

McCullers said the Astros have always used data to simplify players processes, rather than complicate them. Bench coach Joe Espada, who coached for the Miami Marlins and Yankees, added: Its just part of our DNA, its who we are and it's part of our process. It's actually the best I've seen on the teams that I've been with.

Of course all good teams rely on data. Beyond that, Turner distills the Dodgers particular strengths down to depth and matchups.

Well, that and relatively unmatched financial might.

They do a really good job putting people in a position to have success here, he said. So not only do they have the depth from development, spending the money and all that, but then also I feel like the matchups and the way they use people is really efficient.

This is all a pretty long-winded way of saying look at the cumulative standings. And a pretty cursory look at the machinations behind the scene that make them possible. But since the whole point is to determine the top teams, its worth considering that at a certain scale, the answer and the evidence is incontrovertible. There will be plenty of good stories in October this year, mostly premised on long droughts and skin-of-their-teeth finishes. Plus two teams with the best cases to be there and that can be fun, too.

Just ask Trey Mancini, whose career with the Baltimore Orioles involved a lot of losing in service of what is hopefully an Astros-esque future before getting traded to Houston at the deadline. Recently, he provided a compelling assessment of the vibes inside a clubhouse thats used to winning.

It's great, he said. "I mean, it's awesome.

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Making sense of the Dodgers' and Astros' sustained success is rather simple - Yahoo Sports

The start of the college football season is a mixed bag. The excitement is palpable as everybody is ready to have their Saturdays filled with college football again. However, most of the games are non-conference games. While there are some intriguing non-conference matchups every week, there are also a lot of one-sided matchups on the schedule. Some teams use the first few weeks as a preseason and don't want to take the risk of an early season loss ruining their season.

As a result of the scheduling, the first few weeks are littered with large spreads. For every marquee Notre Dame vs. Ohio State matchup, there are two or three Alabama-Utah State matchups. Large spreads scare off a lot of bettors as it's hard to judge how willing a team will be to run up the score. There's also the possibility of backups playing a lot of the game. Some bettors don't want to mess around with that stuff. If you're one of those bettors, you might want to rethink your stance as you left some money on the table in Week 1.

In Week 1, FBS teams that were favored by at least four touchdowns against other FBS teams went 8-0 against the spread. Those results included:

Alabama 55 - Utah State 0 (Alabama -42)

USC 66 - Rice 14 (USC -32.5)

Michigan 51 - Colorado State 7 (Michigan -30.5)

Texas 52 - UL Monroe 10 (Texas -37)

Oklahoma 45 - UTEP 13 (Oklahoma -31)

Tennessee 59 - Ball State 10 (Tennessee -37)

Minnesota 38 - New Mexico State 0 (Minnesota -36)

Tulane 42 - UMass 10 (Tulane -28.5)

A lot of people are cautious when it comes to big spreads. Some try and get cute and bet first-half lines or first-quarter lines to avoid any late-game shenanigans. Others avoid the game all together. However, at least in Week 1, it was as simple as just laying the massive number with the favorite for the whole game.

There's no denying there's a wide gap in talent between teams at the college level. These spreads are massive for a reason. The lesser teams have little chance of keeping up. Most of these teams have backups better than the other team's starters.

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Jim Harbaugh and Michigan covered as massive favorites in Week 1. Can they do it again in Week 2 of the college football season? (Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

However, the narrative becomes different when you look at FBS teams going up against FCS teams. In those scenarios, the FBS team was just 11-11 against the spread when laying at least four touchdowns. Maybe those teams are lesser known and harder to gameplan for. Maybe teams have a harder time getting up for games against little-known FCS schools.

Will the trend of FBS teams covering large spreads against other FBS schools continue in Week 2? Here's a list of games that meet the criteria in Week 2:

Ohio State's offense looked a bit lethargic in their opener against Notre Dame, though you have to give some credit to the Fighting Irish defense. Jaxon Smith-Njigba didn't play much in the opener, and he's expected to miss 1-2 weeks with a hamstring injury.

Arkansas State is coming off a 55-3 win in their opener against Grambling State. It's hard to take much out of that game, but former Florida State quarterback James Blackman was efficient, going 15-of-20 for 210 yards and two touchdowns for the Red Wolves.

Ohio State is a 44-point favorite on Saturday.

Western Michigan was within a score of Michigan State in the third quarter, but two fourth-quarter touchdowns from the Spartans got their backers a rather undeserved cover as 21.5-point favorites. On the other side, Akron needed overtime to knock off St. Francis PA in their opener. Michigan State is a 34.5-point favorite on Saturday.

Brent Venables' coaching debut went rather well, as Oklahoma covered as 31-point favorites against UTEP. UCF transfer Dillon Gabriel was efficient, averaging over 10 yards per attempt and throwing two touchdowns. The Sooners averaged nearly 7 yards per carry on the ground. They are back in the massive favorite role this week, as Oklahoma is a 33.5-point favorite against Kent State. The Golden Flashes failed to cover as 23-point underdogs in a 45-20 loss to Washington in Week 1.

Michigan rolled in its opener, winning 51-7 as a 30.5-point favorite against Colorado State. However, there are still question marks surrounding Michigan. J.J. McCarthy will take the first snap for the Wolverines this week as he and Cade McNamara continue to split quarterback duties. McNamara started last week and was far from impressive. He went 9-for-18 for 136 yards, 61 of which came on a bubble screen to Roman Wilson. Despite the quarterback questions, the defense was dominant and Michigan pounded the ball on the ground.

Michigan is a 51.5-point favorite against Hawaii this weekend. Hawaii has been putrid to start the season, getting outscored 112-27 combined by Vanderbilt and Western Kentucky. The defense hasn't stopped anyone and the offense isn't doing much either. It feels like Michigan will be able to pick its score here, and we know Jim Harbaugh has no issue with bullying lesser teams.

Toledo beat Long Island University by a score of 37-0 in their opener, but failed to cover as a 47.5-point favorite. UMass projects to be one of the worst FBS teams again, as it failed to cover as a 28.5-point underdog against Tulane in Week 1. Toledo is a 28-point favorite this week.

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College football betting: Don't be afraid to lay the points on big spreads - Yahoo Sports

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 3M (NYSE: MMM) announced today the final proration factor of 7.346065 percent in its split-off exchange offer to 3M stockholders in connection with the separation of 3M's food safety business and merger of Garden SpinCo Corporation ("SpinCo"), the 3M subsidiary holding the food safety business, with a subsidiary of Neogen Corporation.

A total of approximately 203,610,687 shares of 3M common stock were validly tendered and not properly withdrawn in the exchange offer, including approximately 1,114,015 shares tendered by odd-lot stockholders not subject to proration. All tenders by odd-lot shareholders were fully accepted in the offer. The remaining validly tendered shares of 3M common stock were accepted in the exchange on a pro rata basis using the final proration factor of 7.346065 percent. Shares of 3M common stock that were validly tendered but not accepted for exchange are expected to be returned to tendering stockholders on or around September 8, 2022.

Under the terms of the exchange offer, 108,269,946 shares of SpinCo common stock were available in exchange for shares of 3M common stock accepted in the exchange offer. The final exchange ratio for the exchange offer was set at 6.7713shares of SpinCo common stock for each share of 3M common stock validly tendered and not properly withdrawn. In the merger, each share of SpinCo common stock automatically converted into the right to receive one share of Neogen common stock. Accordingly, 3M stockholders who tendered shares of 3M common stock in the exchange offer will receive approximately 6.7713shares of Neogen common stock (subject to the receipt of cash in lieu of fractional shares) for each share of 3M common stock tendered and accepted for exchange. 3M accepted approximately 15,989,536 shares of 3M common stock for exchange in the exchange offer.

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It's Apple event day, which means new hardware galore. New iPhones! New Apple Watches! New AirPods! Didn't have time to tune in live? Don't sweat it we've summed up the most important parts for easy skimming.

Apple came out swingin' with not one, not two, but four new iPhones: iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max.

The iPhone 14 will have a 6.1" display, while the iPhone 14 Plus display will come in at 6.7". Both will run the A15 Bionic chip first seen in last year's iPhone 13 Pro. There's a 12MP rear camera (which Apple now refers to as the "main" camera) with a larger sensor on the back, while the 12MP front facing camera is getting a fancy new auto-focus system for better/faster selfies.

iPhone 14 will start at $799, while the iPhone 14 Plus starts at $899. Pre-orders start September 9th; the iPhone 14 will ship starting September 16th, while the iPhone 14 Plus will ship starting October 7th.

Notably, both models will drop the physical SIM tray in the US they'll be eSIM only, preventing your SIM card from beingpopped into a different phone if it's lost or stolen.

Like those models, the iPhone Pro and iPhone Pro Max will come in at 6.1" and 6.7" respectively. So what's different?

Both Pro models will run on an all new chip, the aptly named A16 Bionic.

Apple has shifted the front-facing camera notch away from the edge and into the display itself with a design it calls the "dynamic island", which is meant to let the pill-shaped camera cutout sort of blend into darker elements of the interface like so:

For the first time in an iPhone, the Pro models will have always-on displays.

2000 nit outdoor brightness for greatly improved outdoor visibility.

The rear side of the phone has 3 lenses: a 48 megapixel main camera, a 12MP telephoto lens, and a 12MP ultra-wide lens that Apple says is capable of much sharper shots than before.

iPhone 14 Pro will start at $999, while iPhone 14 Pro Max will start at $1099. Both go up for pre-order on September 9th and start shipping on September 16th.

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As for the reason behind the "Far Out"/space theming of the event: iPhones are getting emergency satellite connectivity. Should you end up in danger in a spot with no wifi/cell connectivity, these new iPhones will be able to connect to satellites to send compressed emergency messages and alerts. Apple says the satellite service will be included for free for two years, but hasn't yet mentioned cost after that.

At a glance, the Apple Watch Series 8 looks a whole lot like the Series 7 that came before it. Under the hood, though, it's got a few new tricks:

A pair of temperature sensors can track changes to your body temperature over time. This can, for example, help wearers more accurately track ovulation cycles.

More capable sensor suite that can detect if you're in a car crash and begin the process of contacting emergency services.

Apple Watch Series 8 will start at $399 for the GPS model, or $499 for the GPS + Cellular model. It'll ship starting September 16th.

For the last few weeks, rumors have suggested Apple was working on a more rugged Watch tuned for athletes. Sure enough, today they announced Apple Watch Ultra. Here's what's different:

A dedicated "action button" that lets you do things like instantly start your workout, or mark the next segment of a race.

A larger digital crown meant to be usable while wearing gloves

It's louder, thanks to a second speaker and its got a built in 86db siren mode for situations where you need someone to be able to find you, fast.

Improved compass functionality to keep you heading in the right direction, allowing you to track direction/distance to custom-set waypoints.

A quick-toggle "night mode" that shifts the screen to red to limit how much your eyes need to constantly readjust in a dark environment.

36 hours of battery life (or 60 hours of battery life on a "new battery optimization setting coming this fall")

It's certified for "recreational scuba", allowing you to take it down to 130 ft underwater

New sports-focused bands, like a woven "Alpine" loop for climbers and an "Ocean" loop meant to fit over a wet suit.

Apple Watch Ultra will start at $799; shipping begins on September 23rd.

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Three years after the launch of AirPods Pro, version two is here. So what's new?

A new, low distortion audio driver and amplifier for improved sound

If you've got an iPhone with a true-depth camera, you'll be able to use it to make a "personalized spatial audio profile" based on the shape of your ear.

Touch-based controls on the stem, instead of the squeeze-based controls of V1.

Noise cancellation which is now, according to Apple, twice as effective.

Up to 6 hours of listening time per charge, with up to 30 hours of additional charge in the carrying case.

There's a speaker built-in to the bottom of the case that can be triggered to help you find it when it slips into your couch

The charging case can now be charged with an Apple Watch charger, in addition to a lightning cable.

The new AirPods Pro Series 2 will sell for $249 starting on September 23rd.

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