Apple is copying Amazon's Alexa with a major change to Siri, a respected leaker claims. According to Apple tipster Mark Gurman, Siri users will soon only need to say'Siri' instead of'Hey Siri' when activating the personal assistant. The change would match Alexa, the virtual assistant from rival Amazon, which requires to users to simply say'Alexa' without the word'hey' first. It could be implemented across multiple Apple operating systems, including iOS for iPhones, as well as iPadOS, watchOS, macOS and more. Gurman has already revealed Apple is planning to unveil its mixed reality headset in less than two months.

This year's iPhone could do away with the "notch", swapping it for a small hole for the camera and putting Face ID under the screen, according to a new report. The design would be the first major change to the front of the iPhone in years, as well as requiring technology not yet seen in any iPhone. In recent iPhones, all of the hardware required for facial recognition and the front-facing camera are nestled in a notch at the top of the display. The screen wraps around the side of that notch, but the black components are visible at the top. The new report suggests that the more premium versions of this year's iPhone 14 would instead take some of those components and put them under the display.

Google is planning to release its own smartwatch to take on the Apple Watch soon, according to leaks. The company will make two of its own watches, according to new leaks. They're expected to be released at the beginning of 2017. The leak follows Google's launch of the Pixel and Pixel XL phones. Those are the first that Google made itself – and as such bake in an artificially intelligent assistant that isn't available to any other Android users.