Table of Contents

• AirPods


• AirTag 2


• iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo


• Mac mini and Mac Studio


• MacBook Air


• Apple Watch Ultra


• iPhone Cases


• More Black Friday Sales

Our Top Picks

• Apple Watch Ultra 3 for $549.00 ($250 off)


• Apple Watch Ultra 3 (Milanese Loop) for $649.00 ($250 off)


• Apple Watch Ultra 4 for $699.99 ($99 off)


• M5 MacBook Air for $1,349.00 ($250 off)


• iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo for up to $1,200 off

Apple Watch Ultra

AirTag 2

Mac Mini and Mac Studio

MacBook Air

AirPods

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo

T-Mobile

• iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max: Up to $1,200 disconnected with eligible trade-in


• iPhone Duo: Up to $1,200 disconnected with eligible trade-in


• Apple Watch SE 3: No outgo (up to $300) erstwhile adding a ticker enactment connected a qualifying plan, oregon get $250 disconnected immoderate Apple Watch erstwhile picking up different Apple Watch

AT&T

• iPhone 18 Pro: No outgo with eligible trade-in


• iPhone 18 Pro Max: Up to $1,200 disconnected with eligible trade-in


• iPhone Duo: Up to $1,200 disconnected with eligible trade-in

• Up to $1,200 disconnected iPhone Duo: requires AT&T Premium 2.0 program oregon higher / trade-in worth of $230 oregon more


• Up to $930 disconnected iPhone Duo: requires AT&T Extra 2.0 program oregon higher / trade-in worth of $130 oregon more


• Up to $500 disconnected iPhone Duo: requires Value 2.0 program / trade-in worth of $130 oregon more


• Up to $350 disconnected iPhone Duo: requires immoderate eligible unlimited program / trade-in worth of $35-$129

Best Buy

• iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max: Up to $1,200 disconnected with qualified activation and trade-in


• iPhone Duo: Up to $1,200 disconnected with qualified activation and trade-in

iPhone Cases

iPhone 18 Pro

• Clear Case - $38.99, down from $49.00


• Silicone Case - $29.33, down from $49.00


• TechWoven Case - $50.00, down from $59.00

iPhone 18 Pro Max

• Clear Case - $37.99, down from $49.00


• Silicone Case - $32.83, down from $49.00


• TechWoven Case - $48.99, down from $59.00

Other Accessories

• Crossbody Strap - $33.04, down from $59.00

iPhone Duo

• Amazon - iPhone Duo cases from Spigen, Speck, ZAGG, and more


• AT&T - Discounts connected iPhone Duo cases and surface protectors from Speck, Spigen, and more


• Best Buy - iPhone Duo cases from Dbrand, OtterBox, Spigen, Kate Spade, and more


• Burton Goods - Save connected leather cases for iPhone Duo


• ESR - iPhone Duo Silicone Leather lawsuit with Flex Stand


• Nomad - Leather Folio cases for iPhone Duo


• OtterBox - Defender cases for iPhone Duo


• Speck - Presidio Cases for iPhone Duo


• Target - iPhone Duo cases from ZAGG, Case-Mate, and Kate Spade


• ZAGG - Save 20% erstwhile you bargain 2 items from ZAGG, including iPhone Duo cases and surface protectors

More Black Friday Sales

• Accessory Sales


• Best Buy


• B&H Photo

Top Stories

Apple Launched Five New Products This Week

• iPad mini with OLED show and A20 Pro chip


• iMac with M6 chip


• 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 chip


• 14-inch MacBook Pro with OLED touchscreen


• 16-inch MacBook Pro with OLED touchscreen

Everything New successful the iOS 27.3 Beta

Apple Alerts Stores to iPhone Duo's Display Cracking Issue

Three New iPads Rumored to Launch successful First Half of 2027

Here's a New Tour of Apple's HomeView Software

Apple's Flash Storage Suppliers Are Finally 'Getting Their Revenge'

MacRumors Newsletter

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Xbox is investigating 2 caller ways to play its unreality games, and 1 of them doesn't necessitate a controller astatine all.

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Anthropic is utilizing AI to physique much almighty AI. And it appears to beryllium moving remarkably well, with the company's models improving astir doubly arsenic rapidly arsenic a twelvemonth ago, with small denotation of slowing down.

That's according to a caller report published Thursday by the AI safety probe organization METR, pursuing an 11-week probe wrong the company, arsenic portion of a study evaluating its AI probe and development. The probe is abstracted from a program offering information researchers "employee-like" entree to systems successful the aftermath of high-profile hacking incidents implicit the summer.

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Well, hello! I americium erstwhile again wearing the Bertie chapeau successful your accustomed host's absence, truthful joyous welcomes to our regular diagnostic successful which we speech astir what we've been playing successful caller times. This week, Marie has been revisiting Zelda - though possibly not the 1 you mightiness expect - portion Dom is rediscovering Vice City of the 80s. Kelsey is playing immoderate precise weird cards, Connor is backmost successful WoW - perchance everlastingly - and I'm arsenic smitten with a antithetic RPG.

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Games

• Marbles Unhinged ($2.99) - Marbles Unhinged is simply a marble maze designed for the Duo. When you fold it, the level turns into a ramp. If you basal the apical fractional up, you tin slope a marble disconnected of it. When you drawback the hinge, the marble launches up.


• Midnight Fridge ($2.99) - Midnight Fridge turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a tiny refrigerator. It's a representation crippled wherever the thought is to look astatine the magnets connected the fridge and past find the items inside.


• Greens: Mini Golf ($2.99) - Greens is simply a mini-golf app made for the ‌iPhone Duo‌, and it's playable successful immoderate orientation. When folded similar a laptop, you tin putt connected the fractional connected the table, with the upright fractional serving arsenic a caddie camera.


• Chirpfold (Free) - Chirpfold is simply a Flappy Bird-style app wherever you fold the telephone to origin your vertebrate to flap its wings.


• Valley Run ($0.99) - Valley Run is simply a neon-themed racing crippled wherever you fold the ‌iPhone Duo‌ to nonstop a marble down a bid of challenging tracks.


• PianoFold ($4.99) - PianoFold is simply a bushed crippled you tin play with the ‌iPhone Duo‌ positioned similar a laptop. Press and clasp connected the keys to lucifer the opus that's playing. It's escaped to download, but the afloat unlock is $4.99.


• Load Bearing ($5.00) - Load Bearing is simply a roguelite Tetris-style crippled that's meant to beryllium played with the Duo fractional open. The controls are connected the bottom, and the blocks autumn astatine the top. It besides has platform gathering elements, truthful you tin enactment unneurotic a acceptable of your preferred artifact pieces to bushed each level.


• Who's astatine the Door? (Free) - Who's astatine the Door? is an app that turns your ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a door. Open it up to spot who is connected the different side, and if it's thing scary, marque definite to slam the Duo unopen rapidly earlier it gets you.


• Fold Match ($2.99) - Fold Match is simply a crippled wherever you're fixed a signifier connected 1 broadside of the Duo and a blank spot wherever the signifier needs to spell connected the different side. The thought is to presumption the signifier to get to that bare space, but you won't cognize however adjacent you were until you adjacent the iPhone.


• Battlefleet Duo (Free) - Battlefleet Duo takes vantage of the Duo's plan for a Battleship-style game. In laptop mode, you tin spot your fleet connected the little surface and the enemy's waters successful beforehand of you.

Simple But Clever

• Duo Aquarium ($1.00) - As the sanction suggests, this app turns your ‌iPhone Duo‌ into an aquarium. When successful structure mode, it serves arsenic a virtual food vessel and clock. You tin take your food and your add-ins, past provender them.


• AltoPaint ($5.99) - AltoPaint is an app that turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a tiny canvas with a overgarment palette. There are watercolor, oil, and gouache paints with mixable colors.


• Post Club ($4.99) - Post Club is simply a cute app wherever you tin prime a typewriter, fold the Duo similar a laptop and benignant up a letter. There are 10 typewriters and 14 insubstantial styles to take from.


• Halfpage ($2.99) - Halfpage is different app that turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a typewriter erstwhile it's utilized successful a MacBook-like orientation. The keys are astatine the bottom, and what you benignant is astatine the top. It has a simpler plan than Post Club.


• Callsign ($1.49+) - Callsign turns your ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a motion that lets radical cognize if you're escaped oregon engaged connected a call. Just acceptable it up, enactment it successful structure mode, and radical tin cognize astatine a glimpse not to fuss you. It's escaped to download, and determination are antithetic ocular packs to unlock with one-off $1.49 purchases.


• AskZine ($1.99) - AskZine is simply a Magic 8 Ball-like app wherever you inquire a question, unfold the screen, and spot your answer.


• Lullabox (Free) - Lullabox turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a euphony container wherever you tin upwind the key, assistance the lid, and ticker a porcelain ballerina rotation portion brushed euphony plays. The euphony gets louder arsenic the ‌iPhone Duo‌ is opened further.


• DuoBook (Free) - DuoBook turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a tiny Mac with a keyboard and trackpad that enactment similar the Mac equivalent. You tin besides usage it to nonstop photos and files to the Mac.

Special Duo Features

• Wakeout ($59.99/year) - Fitness app Wakeout was Apple's App of the Year backmost successful 2020. It offers up workout games you tin bash successful conscionable minutes a day. You tin enactment your Duo successful structure oregon laptop mode to travel on with workout moves, playing games with your body.


• Faro (Free) - Faro is an app that helps you find movies to ticker truthful you don't discarded clip browsing done Netflix without ever making a choice. On ‌iPhone Duo‌, you tin spot 2 films broadside by broadside to take betwixt them, oregon spot your database of picks connected 1 fractional of the show with details connected each movie connected the different half.


• CalibReader (Free) - CalibReader is an EPUB and PDF scholar that turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a book. The outer surface shows the title's cover, and erstwhile you unfastened it, there's a two-page dispersed with page-turning animations.


• Retrocade (Apple Arcade) - Retrocade turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a mini arcade instrumentality and works connected the Duo successful aggregate fold positions.


• Blankie (Free) - Soundscape app Blankie has a dual presumption with Now Playing connected 1 broadside and Sound Mixer connected the other. When folded successful structure mode, it shows a presumption of what's playing.

Camera Apps

• IncrediBooth (Free) - IncrediBooth turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a small photograph booth. Press the reddish fastener to seizure an image, and your photograph portion appears connected the outer display. It's escaped to download, with 5 strips disposable per day.


• VNTG (Free) - VNTG is an instant camera app wherever you adjacent the ‌iPhone Duo‌ to instrumentality a changeable and past unfastened it up to make it. It's escaped to download, with in-app purchases to unlock camera lenses.


• Flipcorder ($4.99) - Flipcorder is simply a video signaling app that turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a retro camcorder. It's designed to beryllium utilized for regular video diaries, and each portion is displayed connected a support successful the app. To film, conscionable unfold the Duo. Recordings person classical VHS-style effects.

Less Fun, More Serious

• Brim ($0.89) - Brim is simply a Safari hold that lets Safari usage the afloat width of the ‌iPhone Duo‌'s outer show for websites. It reclaims the blank abstraction Apple near successful Safari and moves links and buttons retired from nether the broadside controls.


• Widen ($3.99) - Widen is different hold that expands Safari to instrumentality up the width of the outer display. It besides hides cooky banners and works successful Split View. There are aggregate settings, truthful you tin acceptable conscionable pictures to instrumentality up the afloat screen, oregon opt to person pictures and substance expand.


• SPAN (Free) - SPAN is an app that turns the ‌iPhone Duo‌ into a task tracker and timer. It has antithetic views for each ‌iPhone Duo‌ orientation. SPAN is escaped to usage for the existent week, with a $4.99/month pro subscription disposable for unlimited projects and afloat monthly and yearly reports.


• BrainDrain (Free) - BrainDrain is simply a 60-second encephalon dump app that helps you benignant your thoughts. On the ‌iPhone Duo‌, antithetic Duo orientations person antithetic purposes. You tin usage it similar a laptop successful a fractional fold, benignant thoughts with the Duo closed, oregon enactment it successful structure mode to usage dependable capture.

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OpenAI is present valued astatine $1.25 trillion successful a caller circular of backing that has raised different $11 billion, according to Bloomberg. That would marque it 1 of the world's astir invaluable companies, not agelong aft raising $122 cardinal from investors successful March astatine a valuation of $852 billion.

Echoing FT and Wall Street Journal reports from past week, Bloomberg says OpenAI is inactive pursuing further investments that could summation the magnitude to $20 billion, and that it had initially hoped to rise arsenic overmuch arsenic $30 cardinal astatine a higher valuation of $1.4 trillion. That was earlier tech stocks dropped, and the results of the midterms showed however overmuch nationalist o …

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China's quality bureau recruited Megaspeed enforcement Alice Huang to spy connected Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, according to The New York Times. The Ministry of State Security (MSS) enlisted her to glean accusation astir American AI chips and "potentially power the institution to propulsion for its astir precocious chips to beryllium made disposable to China." Megaspeed is simply a lawsuit of Nvidia's, and Alice Huang besides has "relationships with executives astatine the highest levels of the A.I. spot industry," including leaders astatine Gigabyte, the NYT says.

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SpaceX has declared that it’s going to marque Starlink Mobile a “major” mobile carrier. The Elon Musk-owned institution has already deployed thousands of direct-to-cell satellites, but its adjacent large situation is gathering retired its 5G web present connected Earth.

As portion of its plans to rival AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, SpaceX has inked a woody with Qualcomm, which volition deploy its cellular exertion crossed tens of thousands of 5G compartment sites starting successful 2027. SpaceX is besides reportedly in talks to buy Boost Mobile, perchance allowing it to motorboat Starlink Mobile through the service. Another study suggests SpaceX may pat into 80,000 compartment sites crossed the US to physique retired its network.

SpaceX’s large plans person garnered immoderate reactions successful the telecom industry. Tim Höttges, the CEO of T-Mobile’s genitor institution Deutsche Telekom, said helium takes SpaceX’s plans “super serious” but that it could outgo Musk much than $200 cardinal to propulsion off.

Follow on for the latest updates connected Starlink’s large mobile bearer ambitions.

• What volition it instrumentality for SpaceX to motorboat its “major” mobile network?
• SpaceX is moving with Qualcomm to physique its Starlink Mobile 5G network
• SpaceX could bargain Boost Mobile arsenic portion of its large mobile bearer plans
• SpaceX’s mobile bearer propulsion reportedly involves tapping into 80,000 compartment sites
• SpaceX announces program to go a ‘major mobile carrier’
• SpaceX is coming for T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon

Buying the 4K Blu-ray disc mentation of KPop Demon Hunters was already going to beryllium a omniscient thought for immoderate people, particularly those who chiefly support their $26.99 Netflix Premium subscription conscionable to ticker the deed animated flick successful 4K. But astatine conscionable $24.99 from Barnes and Noble and Amazon alternatively of its archetypal $49.95 price, it’s easier than ever to recommend.

KPop Demon Hunters (4K Blu-ray)

Where to Buy:

• $49.95 $24.99 astatine Amazon
• $49.95 $24.99 astatine Barnes & Noble

The Criterion Collection mentation of the movie precocious launched, and comes with a clump of extras successful a gorgeous set. In summation to the 4K integer master, implicit with Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos sound, you besides get 2 modular 1080p Blu-rays, 1 containing the film, and the different packed with peculiar features (a afloat feature-length animatic, a making-of documentary, lyric videos, and more). It includes carnal goodies, too, similar collectible postcards, arsenic good arsenic an effort by Polygon alum Karen Han.

Kpop Demon Hunters was connected my database of carnal movies to buy, and this woody conscionable turned it into a must-buy up of the vacation season.

Update, 4:50PM ET, November 6th: Previously, this woody was disposable for in-store pickup astatine Barnes and Noble, but it’s presently disposable online astatine some Barnes and Noble and Amazon.

1. Open Terminal connected your Mac: it's successful the Applications ➝ Utilities folder, oregon you tin hunt for "Terminal" utilizing Spotlight (Command + Space).


2. Type oregon paste the pursuing command, past property Enter:
   
   sudo defaults constitute com.apple.CoreBrightness LEBacklightMode -int 0
   
3. When prompted, participate your head password and property Enter. (Terminal doesn't amusement the password arsenic you benignant it.)

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Backstory

The Xbox PC app hasn't had the champion way grounds successful caller years, but Microsoft is promising that it's present overmuch faster and easier to usage than before.

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While the Shure Mv7 Plus is fashionable with streamers and podcasters, it’s arsenic bully astatine impressing your friends and coworkers connected meetings and Discord calls. It’s presently marked down to $255 astatine assorted retailers, including Amazon, Guitar Center, and straight from Shure. That’s astir $50 little than its accustomed price, and conscionable a fewer dollars disconnected Amazon’s all-time low. If you don’t already person a stand, some Amazon and Shure are offering a bundle that includes the mic and a desktop basal for $269, and the achromatic exemplary is besides discounted astatine Amazon.

Shure MV7 Plus

Shure’s MV7 Plus is an updated mentation of its fashionable USB microphone. The caller mentation features a USB-C port, a customizable LED airy panel, and respective further features disposable successful the Motiv Mix app.

Where to Buy:

• $299 $255 astatine Amazon
• $299 $255 astatine Shure
• $299 $255 astatine Guitar Center

When our squad shared some of our favourite audio cogwheel successful precocious 2024, we noted that the Mv7 Plus was the mic we nonstop to podcast guests for distant interviews. It’s known for its crisp and cleanable audio quality, with auto-leveling and denoising, truthful you tin usage it without touching an equalizer.

The MV7’s unsocial signifier and sonic illustration is inspired by the Shure SM7B (also discounted), a microphone that’s often utilized successful nonrecreational recording. This mentation is meant arsenic a much budget-friendly variant for contented creators looking for a simpler setup, with some an XLR output and USB-C, letting you ligament into an audio interface oregon straight to a computer.

Best Buy's Black Friday Schedule

• November 6: Early Black Friday deals + Doorbusters


• 11/19 done 11/28: Black Friday sale


• 11/29 done 11/30: Cyber Monday sale


• 12/18 done 12/24: Last-Minute Savings Event

Best Buy's Early Black Friday Sale

Apple

• Apple Watch Ultra 3 - $549.00 ($250 off)


• 13-inch MacBook Air (16GB/1TB) - $1,349.00 ($250 off)


• 15-inch MacBook Air (16GB/1TB) - $1,549.00 ($250 off)


• iPhone Air (256GB Unlocked) - $919.99 ($180 off)


• Apple TV 4K - Double rewards for My Best Buy Plus/Total


• HomeView - Double rewards for My Best Buy Plus/Total


• iPhone Duo - Save up to $1,200 with qualified activation and trade-in

TVs

• 65-inch Insignia LED 4K Fire TV - $299.99 ($150 off)


• 55-inch TCL Mini LED Smart TV - $479.99 ($320 off)


• 48-inch LG OLED 4K Smart TV - $599.99 ($600 off)


• 65-inch Samsung OLED 4K Smart TV - $899.99 ($1,200 off)


• 55-inch Hisense Mini LED Smart TV - $899.99 ($600 off)


• 55-inch LG evo AI 4K Smart TV - $999.99 ($1,000 off)


• 50-inch Sony BRAVIA 7 II 4K Google TV - $1,299.99 ($300 off)


• 65-inch Samsung OLED 4K Glare-Free TV - $1,399.99 ($1,300 off)


• 75-inch Samsung 4K Smart TV - $1,699.99 ($1,100 off)


• 75-inch Samsung The Frame Pro 4K TV - $1,999.99 ($800 off)

Appliances

• GE High-Efficiency Top Load Washer - $579.99 ($185 off)


• Samsung High-Efficiency Smart Top Load Washer - $849.99 ($140 off)


• KitchenAid Dishwasher with ProDry System - $899.99 ($320 off)


• LG High-Efficiency Stackable Smart Front Load Washer - $929.99 ($370 off)


• GE Smart Top Load Washer and Smart Electric Dryer Bundle - $1,099.98 ($790 off)


• Frigidaire Counter-Depth French Door Refrigerator - $1,399.99 ($400 off)


• Samsung 4-Door French Door Smart Refrigerator - $2,199.99 ($860 off)


• GE 4-Door French Door Smart Refrigerator - $3,199.99 ($760 off)


• Bosch French Door Counter-Depth Smart Refrigerator - $3,599.99 ($400 off)

Apple Watch Ultra 4

• What's the deal? Get $99 disconnected Apple Watch Ultra 4


• Where tin I get it? Amazon


• Where tin I find the archetypal deal? Right here

Apple Watch Ultra 3

• What's the deal? Get $250 disconnected Apple Watch Ultra 3


• Where tin I get it? Best Buy


• Where tin I find the archetypal deal? Right here

HomeView

• What's the deal? Get $9 disconnected HomeView pre-orders


• Where tin I get it? Amazon


• Where tin I find the archetypal deal? Right here

B&H Photo

• What's the deal? Shop sitewide savings connected storage, audio, and much accessories


• Where tin I get it? B&H Photo


• Where tin I find the archetypal deal? Right here

Mac Mini and Mac Studio

• What's the deal? Get grounds debased prices connected Mac mini and Mac Studio


• Where tin I get it? Amazon


• Where tin I find the archetypal deal? Right here

Every year, Bloodborne fans commune for the commencement of different crippled acceptable successful FromSoftware's Lovecraftian world. Every year, we're nary person to a Bloodborne 2 oregon adjacent a Bloodborne Remastered. But why? PlayStation's erstwhile caput honcho, Shawn Layden, blames it connected the tricky concern of rights ownership.

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World of Warcraft: Forever has received its archetypal large hotfix patch, which among different things has enactment an extremity to an particularly almighty bug that made PvP battlegrounds similar Warsong Gulch favoured to the Horde's advantage.

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The Expanse: Osiris Reborn looks similar it's carrying the champion bits of Mass Effect forward, and successful an encouraging move, the developers person been collaborating with David Gaider.

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Apple's iPhone Duo has been officially connected merchantability for 2 weeks, and the institution said contiguous that the App Store present has implicit 100,000 apps that are built for the foldable.

"It's been fantastic to spot however rapidly developers person embraced iPhone Duo, and we're grateful for their creativity and innovation," Susan Prescott, Apple's VP of Worldwide Developer Relations, says successful a statement. "Today determination are good implicit 100,000 apps built for iPhone Duo already unrecorded connected the App Store, and thousands of optimized apps are being added to the store each day." Prescott adds that "the enthusiasm has been incredible, and we're excited to spot the gait of updates …

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When Irene moved to San Francisco past year, she started utilizing dating apps arsenic a mode to conscionable caller people, get to cognize her caller city, and link with others who attraction astir the things she does. After the 25-year-old expert downloaded Hinge and started swiping, she noticed a trend.

"Hinge has a punctual wherever you tin say, 'We'll get on if''," she recalls. "Sometimes radical volition beryllium like, 'Fuck AI.'"

Usually, the radical who see this benignant of worth connection connected their illustration enactment successful the arts, nursing, possibly graphic design. Within the span of a fewer minutes of sitting down and swiping, Irene shows maine a 2nd illustration wherever this happened erstwhile mo …

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If you’re funny astir virtual reality, Meta’s Quest 3S is simply a bully entry-level headset for dipping your toes in, particularly present it’s connected merchantability successful refurbished information for $255.99 straight from Meta’s eBay storefront done November 8th erstwhile you usage coupon codification SAVE20TECH. For comparison, the headset precocious dropped to $300 successful caller information arsenic portion of Amazon’s autumn Prime Day event, and presently retails for $349.99.

According to eBay, the certified refurbished headset is successful “like-new” information and has undergone nonrecreational inspection and cleaning by the manufacturer. More importantly, it comes with either archetypal oregon caller accessories — including a powerfulness adapter, a glasses spacer, wrist straps, etc. — alongside a two-year Allstate warranty.

Meta Quest 3S

Where to Buy:

• $349.99 $255.99 astatine eBay (refurbished)

The Quest 3S strikes a mediate crushed betwixt the Quest 3 and Quest 2. Like the pricier Quest 3, it runs connected the speedy Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 spot and supports the aforesaid room of games. It besides comes with the aforesaid cameras for full-color passthrough, letting you interact with the satellite astir you portion wearing the headset. It comes with Meta’s Touch Plus controllers, though you tin besides usage your hands to navigate menus and interact with immoderate apps. And due to the fact that it’s a standalone headset, you don’t request a PC oregon console to play games.

However, its show solution and optics prime are person to the Quest 2’s, which, portion good, means visuals are narrower and little sharp. Still, arsenic we noted successful our review, those trade-offs are casual to place fixed the price, particularly if you’re caller to VR.

Read our afloat Meta Quest 3S review.

Three much deals worthy a look

• Philips Hue’s 80-inch Gradient Lightstrip is connected merchantability for $83.16 ($115 off) erstwhile you bargain it straight from Philips’ online storefront with codification OUTLET58. The two-meter lightstrip tin widen up to 10 meters and show aggregate colors simultaneously, portion delivering up to 1,800 lumens of brightness with customizable lighting effects. You tin besides power it via Alexa and Google Assistant, oregon utilizing either Bluetooth oregon a Philips Hue Bridge.
• Anker’s caller Desktop USB-C Hub is presently disposable from some Amazon and Anker (with codification WSPDV2ONVYED) for $79.99 ($20 off), which is $5 shy of its lowest terms to date. The 10-in-1 hub features a built-in surface that not lone displays charging speeds, but besides doubles arsenic a integer photograph framework and customizable timer. It besides sports an HDMI port, a DisplayPort connection, 4 USB ports, an ethernet jack, and SD and microSD paper slots, letting you link aggregate accessories and outer displays.
• Speaking of gadgets with personality, Orico’s adorable PixCharge Plus is connected merchantability astatine Amazon successful respective colors for $29.99 ($50 off), its champion terms to date. The small, 10,000mAh powerfulness slope has a customizable 16-by-16 pixel surface that displays animations, scrolling text, and pixel creation utilizing a companion app; it besides supports up to 22.5W fast-charging and comes with a built-in USB-C cablegram that conveniently doubles arsenic a strap.

On Tuesday, millions of American voters went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly for Democrats and against AI. The combat against Big Tech is astir to come roaring back, and the combat implicit information centers is looking adjacent harder for the folks trying to physique them.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, Nilay and David sermon what the 2026 midterms mean for the tech manufacture going forward. They excavation into the self-quarantining echo enclosure that is X, the congressional energy apt to beryllium pointed astatine tech CEOs and AI regulation, and whether thing is really apt to get done successful the adjacent 2 years.

After that, the hosts crook to AI. Specifically, …

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inMusic, the genitor institution of Akai, Moog, Native Instruments, and more, has decided to clasp the modding community. In an interrogation with The Verge, inMusic CEO Jack O'Donnell said, "We're going to supply a toolbox to the community, we're going to supply the interior workings of, say, an MPC oregon Sample truthful that radical tin bash what they want." That "toolbox" includes making the codification for devices similar the precocious teased MPC Sample Key unfastened source, but besides offering developers an SDK to marque modifications easier and lessen the hazard of bricking your beloved sampler.

While Akai is anxious to spot what the modding assemblage cooks up, and has started s …

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A monolithic permitting measure that could assistance vigor projects travel online overmuch quicker and perchance little inferior bills for Americans is advancing with bipartisan support. And portion it could beryllium a catalyst for tons of cleanable energy, it could besides velocity up polluting projects and bounds oversight of caller information centers.

With information centers demanding much energy for AI, biology advocates fearfulness that developers could instrumentality vantage of the reforms to evade nationalist scrutiny and trust much heavy connected fossil fuels. The measure sacrifices caution for speed, limiting biology reviews and preventing communities from stopping a task from moving forw …

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Meta volition present let you to physique customized, app-like experiences wrong its Muse AI assistant. The new feature, called "spaces," allows Muse to physique things similar a buying hub, schoolhouse dashboard, euphony tracker, trivia game, and more, which you tin interact with straight successful the app.

If you link your abstraction to a applicable app, Muse volition update pricing, dates, and different accusation successful the background. Meta says you tin make a caller abstraction by describing it, and proceed to tweak it by asking Muse. You tin besides interact with your spaces by checking things off, adding notes, and making edits.

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Following the Melania documentary movie that premiered earlier this year, Amazon is present readying to merchandise a two-part Prime Video bid focusing connected the archetypal lady. The show, Melania: The Series, is acceptable to debut connected November 20th.

"MELANIA, The Series reveals never-before-told stories, offering unprecedented penetration into Melania Trump's life, including the bonzer days instantly pursuing the 47th Presidential Inauguration," according to a statement successful a property release.

Here's what Amazon says the 2 episodes volition beryllium about:

I. Family & Trust:

Melania Trump sets priorities arsenic she prepares to go America's First Lady. B …

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Someone astatine the White House appears to beryllium moving bundle that could alteration outsiders to rent entree connected the statesmanlike web for conscionable "a fewer dollars," as reported by Krebs connected Security and The Register. That's according to findings from the information firms Layer3 Intel and Synthient, which discovered residential proxy enactment connected the White House network.

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Kobo is launching a new monthly subscription work called Stack that lets you upload your ain ebooks and documents to the company's servers wherever they'll beryllium synced crossed aggregate devices and apps, including your speechmaking progress, highlights, and annotations. Kobo Stack is akin to Amazon's Send to Kindle feature that allows users to upload a wide assortment of files to their Kindle libraries for free, but Kobo's mentation volition outgo a fewer dollars each month.

Kobo Stack is being introduced arsenic portion of a major 6.0 update to the company's e-reader software, which is disposable successful beta present arsenic an optional upgrade up of a wider authoritative release. …

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