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Apple announced an all-new MacBook Pro laptop with an OLED touchscreen at its "Pro and tell" event on Wednesday. It starts at $2,899 for the 14-inch model, or $3,399 for the 16-inch version, and it's available to preorder today ahead of its release on November 6th. The new MacBook Pro has what Apple calls a "PROLED XDR" display, which is a tandem OLED screen. It offers up to 2,000 nits of peak SDR brightness, up to a 120Hz refresh rate, and a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio. It's equipped with M5 Pro or M5 Max chips - not the M6 chip on the other MacBook Pros announced this week. There's a Dynamic Island on the screen that can show you things … Read the full story at The Verge.

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On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States, starting with a single model in 2027. They also announced a "long-term goal" of pushing the computer industry to create "a fully domestic supply chain." Even a single Made-in-USA laptop would be a surprise, because no major US computer company builds its laptops here - not Apple, not Dell, not HP, not Microsoft. We're not aware of any company that does. But we are aware of companies that have briefly and strategically assembled computers here seemingly to appease President Donald Trump. We're also aware of … Read the full story at The Verge.

That’s a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud

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The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.

Microsoft just posted the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $92.3 billion in revenue and a net income of $33.6 billion during Q1. Revenue is up 19 percent, and net income has increased by 32 percent. It's a new financial year for Microsoft, so the company is changing up how it reports its finances by splitting its businesses into two segments for the first time. Gone are the previous segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. It's now just Agents and Infra, and Devices and Consumer. Agents and Infra, which includes businesses like Azure, Microsoft … Read the full story at The Verge.

US agency has sued 10 states for trying to stop gambling on prediction markets.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the agency will vote on November 19th on rules that would allow prisons to use signal jamming. Radiofrequency jammers are generally banned under Section 333 and the Communications Act of 1934, with few exceptions, and Carr has noted they've been permitted for use at some federal facilities already. Carr claims in a statement that jammers are needed because "For years, thousands upon thousands of contraband cellphones have been pouring into prisons, and some of the worst possible offenders have been using them to order hits, coordinate violent gang activity, and aid criminal enterprises." When the FCC appr … Read the full story at The Verge.

Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's Copilot, the company is ending support for the AI assistant's functionality on all TVs this year, according to a report by Windows Central. The news comes not from an official announcement from LG, Samsung, or Microsoft, but from an on-screen notification that appeared on Windows Central's Zac Bowden's webOS-powered LG TV earlier today. "Microsoft has recently decided to end support for Copilot functionality on all TVs, including the Copilot-enabled feature available on our LG TVs. As a result, the Copilot-enabled feat … Read the full story at The Verge.

Apple finally showed off its 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops that have the PROLED XDR display at the October 2026 "Pro and Tell" event. The long-awaited laptops feature a Tandem OLED display with full touch capabilities, while also cutting some weight, and bringing back the glowing Apple logo. While a little less exciting, there's also an updated 14-inch MacBook Pro that includes Apple's M6 CPU, along with improved wireless connectivity. Like the generation before it, this is a small, somewhat iterative update, without substantial new features beyond performance gains. Alongside the MacBook updates, Apple also took the opportunity to up … Read the full story at The Verge.

The OLED display is the main draw, but the price is a lot to reckon with.

Xreal Aura will start at $1,279 and will have multiple XR specific launch apps at launch

The For You feed combines posts from communities users have joined with recommendations tailored to their interests.

Constellation Energy will get $5 billion in government loans to modernize nuclear reactors. Most of the new capacity is already committed to Google, Amazon, and Meta.

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The MacBook Neo now starts at $649 on Apple's Education Store, up $150 from its initial $499 education starting price. As reported earlier by MacRumors, the student discount for the Neo received a $50 price bump in recent days, following a $100 price bump back in June. Apple's budget MacBook is now just $50 off its regular $699 starting price for students, rather than the usual $100 discount. The now-$649 starting configuration includes 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM, and doesn't include Touch ID. The MacBook Neo's starting price was its biggest selling point when it launched in March, but that perk has been steadily eroding, largely du … Read the full story at The Verge.

xAI’s Southaven, Mississippi data center. | Photo by Brandon Dill / AFP via Getty Images A subsidiary of Elon Musk's xAI is offering to buy up homes in a Mississippi neighborhood, as long as residents don't join a lawsuit targeting the company's nearby data center and power plant, according to a report from The Guardian. A realtor going door-to-door in the Southaven neighborhood reportedly told one resident that xAI plans to purchase 418 homes, adding that 18 homeowners already have plans to sell. People who rent homes in the area report they're already being forced out, with 60 days' notice after their landlords agreed to sell. A recent report from the Mississippi Free Press includes a letter received by several households rec … Read the full story at The Verge.

Free Fire India was originally set to launch in September 2023, but Garena postponed its release.

The deal with DTL Transport puts it on a path to become an an asset-light tech supplier, rather than owner and operator.

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As Meta was feeling public pressure over teen mental health, and facing an impending onslaught of kids safety trials, the company considered a campaign to discredit a key critic: social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. Newly filed court documents show that in March 2023, Meta discussed a "Whisper strategy" to "turn academics against Haidt," a thought leader who blamed social media for rising adolescent depression and anxiety. Haidt hadn't yet published his bestselling book, The Anxious Generation, but he testified about his conclusions before Congress in 2022, and in February 2023, he began posting more of his theories and research to Substack. … Read the full story at The Verge.

US-owned trans-Pacific cables face growing risks from sabotage and China.

A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search engines and chatbots and vibe-coded apps and websites. The complex is simultaneously massive and squat, dwarfed by the mountains that surround it, and it is endless. I drive past one building, and then another, and then the ground opens up where construction crews have dug up the earth so a third building can rise. There is a parking lot, and then another, and then another. There is an empty lot on the other side of the street, full of cars and the occasional food truck to feed the thousands of laborers who are busy transforming this expanse of desert into an industrial park. There is dust, so much of it, choking the air. I stand before the savior of Arizona’s economy. Like all great deities, it demands sacrifice. In the desert, nothing is more precious than water, and water is what must be given — nearly 5 million gallons a day, every day, sourced from Phoenix’s municipal supply. The offering has been well worth it. All of this is the fruit of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s leading producer of …

Once more, with feeling: 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you'

Because, sigh, AI

This Vulcan launch will be the first to utilize a full complement of six solid rocket boosters.

Europe's Pan-Arctic Cable will bypass US to link Canada, Japan, and South Korea.

The MPC Sample Key looks like the MPC Sample just with keys instead of pads. | Image: Akai The MPC Sample Key isn't even formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is cooking up through vibe coding. Akai has decided to embrace the explosion of hackers and custom firmware developers by giving them early access to the device, which will have open-source firmware. It will likely run some version of the same software found on the MPC Sample, but with tweaks to accommodate the traditional keyboard, pitch, and mod wheels. Unlike the higher-end MPC Key 37, however, the Sample Key doesn't have pads. Instead, you play back samples with the keys. View this post on Instagram I … Read the full story at The Verge.