OLED

• 2016 - In 2016, ETNews said Apple was considering ‌OLED‌ displays for aboriginal MacBooks.


• 2019 - The Elec said Apple was successful talks with Samsung astir ‌OLED‌ displays for a aboriginal 16-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌.


• 2021 - The Elec said a aboriginal MacBook would usage an ‌OLED‌ show with a two-stack tandem structure, which is what Apple announced today.


• 2023 - ETNews claimed Apple was sourcing OLED panels successful 14-inch and 16-inch sizes for the ‌MacBook Pro‌, which turned retired to beryllium accurate.


• 2023 - Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo said Apple would merchandise the archetypal MacBook with an OLED display by the extremity of 2024 astatine the earliest, which was incorrect.

Touch

• 2023 - Bloomberg's ‌Mark Gurman‌ was the first to report connected a interaction display. In January 2023, helium said Apple was moving connected an ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ with a touchscreen.


• 2025 - Kuo said successful September 2025 that the ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ would person interaction sensors integrated into the show panel's apical layer, which was correct.

No Notch/Dynamic Island

• 2024 - Omdia said successful December 2024 that Apple would region the notch from the ‌MacBook Pro‌ "in a fewer years," replacing it with a hole-punch camera. The hole-punch facet wasn't rather correct.


• 2025 - In August 2025, Omdia said an ‌OLED‌ MacBook coming successful 2026 would person an iPhone-like Dynamic Island cutout instead of a notch.


• 2025 - In October 2025, Gurman said the ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ would person a "so-called hole-punch design" with a "display country astir the sensor" akin to the ‌Dynamic Island‌.


• 2026 - In February 2026, Gurman described the ‌Dynamic Island‌ arsenic interactive and capable to contextually grow based connected the app oregon Mac diagnostic successful use.

Hinge

• 2025 - Gurman was the archetypal to notation a reinforced hinge that would support the show from moving erstwhile touched.

Design

• 2024 - In November 2024, Gurman said the ‌MacBook Pro‌ would person a thinner design, which was accurate.


• 2026 - In October 2026, Gurman said helium didn't expect the ‌MacBook Pro‌ would be "significantly thinner," tempering expectations.


• 2026 - In October 2026, he said the ‌MacBook Pro‌ models would beryllium "significantly lighter."

Chips

• 2025 - In October 2025, Gurman predicted the ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ models would usage M6-series chips, and in November, helium specified M6 Pro and M6 Max chips.


• 2026 - In June 2026, Gurman said determination would beryllium no M6 Pro oregon M6 Max chips, and the ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ would alternatively usage M5 Pro and M5 Max chips.


• 2026 - In September 2026, Omdia said the ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ would person an M5 Ultra spot option, which was wrong.

Pricing

• 2026 - In March 2026, Gurman said the ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ models would beryllium much expensive and would beryllium supra the mini-LED ‌MacBook Pro‌ models, which was correct.


• 2026 - Just a time earlier the ‌MacBook Pro‌ models were announced, Gurman accurately predicted the $2,899 and $3,399 pricing.

Naming

• March 2026 - Gurman suggested Apple was moving on a "MacBook Ultra," but helium did hedge and accidental Apple mightiness not usage the Ultra naming.


• April 2026 - Macworld claimed Apple would release a ‌MacBook Ultra‌ successful precocious 2026 oregon aboriginal 2027.


• October 2026 - MacRumors' Joe Rossignol speculated that Apple could call the caller MacBook the "MacBook Studio," but that didn't happen.

Launch Timing

• 2021 - In March 2021, DigiTimes said Apple would merchandise ‌MacBook Pro‌ models with an ‌OLED‌ show successful 2022, which was not accurate.


• 2021 - In November 2021, The Elec said an ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ would motorboat successful 2025, but also suggested the motorboat could beryllium postponed.


• 2023 - When Gurman first reported connected the ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌, helium said it would motorboat successful 2025.


• 2023 - In March 2023, show expert Ross Young accurately predicted Apple would launch an OLED MacBook Pro successful 2026, but helium besides incorrectly claimed an ‌OLED‌ MacBook Air would travel archetypal successful 2024.


• 2024 - In November 2024, Gurman updated motorboat timing to "probably" 2026.


• 2025 - In August 2025, Dealsite.co.kr said Apple would launch a ‌MacBook Pro‌ with ‌OLED‌ successful precocious 2026, which was accurate.


• 2025 - In September 2025, The Elec also said the ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ would motorboat successful the 4th fourth of 2026.


• 2025 - In October 2025, Gurman updated his motorboat timing prediction to late 2026 oregon aboriginal 2027.


• 2026 - In February 2026, Gurman said the ‌MacBook Pro‌ would launch successful 2026, though successful April helium went backmost to 2026 to 2027 and said the touchscreen ‌MacBook Pro‌ motorboat timing could slip to the end of his predicted model due to the fact that of the spot shortage. By September, helium updated timing to "later this year," and he mentioned a November 6 motorboat connected October 15.

Not Rumored

• Illuminated Apple logo


• Up to 16TB storage


• Revamped speakers


• PROLED XDR naming

Wrap Up

A hacker stole a trove of idiosyncratic accusation from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The breach exposes the names, occupation titles, telephone numbers, email addresses, and bureau locations of much than 41,000 employees, including those successful US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to TechCrunch and Wired. The information besides linked the agencies to circumstantial surveillance tools.

As reported by TechCrunch, a hacker known arsenic "Department of Peace" gained entree to the information done Okta, an individuality and entree absorption work utilized by the DHS. Around 21,000 records pertain to CBP employees, and ne …

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The MPC Sample Key isn't adjacent formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing disconnected what the modding assemblage is cooking up done vibe coding. Akai has decided to clasp the explosion of hackers and customized firmware developers by giving them aboriginal entree to the device, which volition person open-source firmware.

It volition apt tally immoderate mentation of the aforesaid bundle recovered connected the MPC Sample, but with tweaks to accommodate the accepted keyboard, pitch, and mod wheels. Unlike the higher-end MPC Key 37, however, the Sample Key doesn't person pads. Instead, you play backmost samples with the keys.

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For the past respective years, Readwise has been gathering tools for powerfulness readers. There's the eponymous product, Readwise, which stores and categorizes your Kindle highlights to assistance you retrieve what you've read. There's Readwise Reader, an app for speechmaking newsletters, PDFs, and web articles you've saved for later. And present there's Readwise Books, a full-fledged level for buying, reading, and talking astir books.

Readwise Books is presently successful beta, disposable done invitation oregon to existing Readwise subscribers. I've been investigating the app for a fewer days, and it's a overmuch bigger instrumentality connected speechmaking than most. Tristan Homsi and Daniel Doyon, Readwis …

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• iPad mini with OLED display


• iMac with M6 chip


• 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 chip


• 14-inch MacBook Pro with OLED display


• 16-inch MacBook Pro with OLED display

• HomePod mini 2


• Apple HomeView


• Apple TV 4K (4th generation)

1. Open the Shortcuts app connected your iPhone Duo.


2. On the "All Shortcuts" screen, pat the positive (+) fastener successful the bottom-right corner.


3. On the "What bash you privation your shortcut to do?" screen, pat Edit successful the top-right corner.
   
   
4. Tap the Search tract astatine the bottommost of the editor, benignant "Automation," past nether the "Display" section, pat Opened oregon Closed ("When my iPhone is opened").


5. Select Opened arsenic the trigger successful the exertion screen, past hunt for the Open App action.
   
   
6. Tap the App placeholder successful the "Open App" action, past take the app you privation to launch. In this example, we'll take Kindle.
   
   
7. Now permission the Shortcuts app – the automation saves automatically and is progressive close away. You tin rename the shortcut if you like, but it's not required.

To nary one's surprise, Epic Games has present confirmed that it's tripling down connected its gen-AI propulsion and volition usage the arguable tech connected everything from Fortnite to the adjacent iteration of its widely-used crippled improvement engine, Unreal Engine 6.

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The developers down Alien: Isolation 2 are committing to a afloat carnal edition, and person shared adjacent much details astir the highly-anticipated endurance fearfulness sequel.

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Google genitor institution Alphabet says that its AI investments are starring to a large maturation successful searches year-over-year, arsenic noted in its Q3 2026 net today.

"Our AI investments are driving wide Search query growth, including commercialized queries," CEO Sundar Pichai says successful a statement. "In fact, our year-over-year query maturation complaint is the highest it's been successful the past 5 years."

Alphabet's consolidated revenues for the 4th were $127.6 billion, up 25 percent year-over-year, with its "Google Search & other" revenues up 12 percent year-over-year. Google Cloud gross was besides up 103 percent year-over-year to $30.7 billion. Alphabet besides …

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Microsoft just posted the archetypal 4th of its 2027 fiscal fiscal results. The bundle shaper made $92.3 cardinal successful gross and a nett income of $33.6 cardinal during Q1. Revenue is up 19 percent, and nett income has accrued by 32 percent.

It's a caller fiscal twelvemonth for Microsoft, truthful the institution is changing up however it reports its finances by splitting its businesses into 2 segments for the archetypal time. Gone are the erstwhile segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. It's present conscionable Agents and Infra, and Devices and Consumer.

Agents and Infra, which includes businesses similar Azure, Microsoft …

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With an OLED show and touchscreen capabilities, it's nary astonishment that the new MacBook Pro Apple announced today is much costly than the MBP announced earlier this year. But upgrading the basal models that commencement astatine $2,899 for the 14-inch, and $3,399 for the 16-inch, with each premium hardware enactment that Apple offers pushes those prices to an eye-watering $14,249 and $14,549, respectively.

Both of those premium configurations see the M5 Max spot with an 18-core CPU and 40-core GPU, $150 worthy of nano-texture glass, 128GB of representation that adds an other $2,000, and 16TB of retention which is the existent fund breaker present acknowledgment to the ong …

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Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" successful coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement connected Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's apical spot connected the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (v5.0) benchmark, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra trailing behind.

The caller Gemini 4 Carbon exemplary offers improvements implicit Argon, which Google released earlier this month. It's presently lone disposable to a prime radical of cybersecurity defence companies, but it volition yet grow to different partners in its Fairwind Program.

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Height

• 14-inch ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ - 0.59 inches


• 14-inch mini-LED ‌MacBook Pro‌ - 0.61 inches


• 16-inch ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ - 0.63 inches


• 16-inch mini-LED ‌MacBook Pro‌ - 0.66 inches

Weight

• 14-inch ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ - 3 pounds for Pro, 3.1 pounds for Max


• 14-inch mini-LED ‌MacBook Pro‌ - 3.5 pounds for Pro, 3.6 pounds for Max


• 16-inch ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ - 4 pounds for Pro, 4.1 pounds for Max


• 16-inch mini-LED ‌MacBook Pro‌ - 4.6 pounds for Pro, 4.7 pounds for Max

Dimensions

• 14-inch ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ - 12.24 inches wide, 8.52 inches deep


• 14-inch mini-LED ‌MacBook Pro‌ - 12.31 inches wide, 8.71 inches deep


• 16-inch ‌OLED‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ - 14 inches wide, 9.62 inches deep


• 16-inch mini-LED ‌MacBook Pro‌ - 14.01 inches wide, 9.77 inches deep

What bash drones, routers, and Roombas person successful common? The US authorities wants to support Chinese ones from entering the country. They’re the archetypal user gadgets that are facing de facto import bans due to the fact that of the US government’s xenophobic stance — and they mightiness not beryllium the last.

Originally, the US authorities was conscionable disquieted astir US networks. It’s been distrustful of Chinese telecom instrumentality providers Huawei and ZTE for well implicit a decade, yet requiring telecom providers to “rip and replace” their gear. (Many telecoms person still failed to bash so.) It established an “Entity List” for companies whose cogwheel should beryllium banned from import, marketing, and sale.

But nether the 2nd Trump administration, that database has been weaponized against full location user gadget categories excessively — starting successful December 2025 erstwhile Trump and Brendan Carr’s FCC banned each aboriginal overseas drones unless their companies obtained a waiver.

Next was a prohibition connected each aboriginal overseas routers, each future overseas robots and powerfulness inverters, and wrong the robot ban, each aboriginal overseas robovacs. In each case, the authorities claims it’s due to the fact that those gadgets fundamentally airs an unacceptable menace to US nationalist security. But successful each case, the US has provided zero nationalist grounds of a threat, has done thing about existing drones and routers and robots that mightiness airs specified a threat, and hasn’t fixed america immoderate crushed to spot that its waivers have thing to bash with security.

Besides, determination are seldom immoderate US companies to capable the gaps near by overseas ones. Consumer gadgets are mostly made overseas, including practically each routers and practically each drones — conscionable similar however your Apple, Dell, and HP laptops are not made successful the US.

In this StoryStream, we’re pursuing the latest connected the overseas gadget bans.

• MSI conscionable got a router prohibition waiver — but not a broad one.
• Will TP-Link truly marque routers successful the US? Here’s what it told us
• Another ‘DJI beforehand company’ bites the dust.
• It definite would beryllium bully if these congresspeople would accidental wherefore DJI is simply a threat.
• Unlike Netgear and Asus, TP-Link says it’s prepared to walk $1 cardinal to marque Wi-Fi routers successful the US.
• The FCC plans to prohibition each Chinese labs from investigating US gadgets by 2029.
• The FCC has decertified 2 much Chinese trial labs.
• The Matic is the archetypal robovac to get an FCC prohibition waiver, not that it needs it
• Asus won’t accidental however it escaped the US router ban
• Etsy is disquieted it’ll get caught up successful the FCC’s gadget bans.
• We flew the banned drone with snap-on propeller wings.
• HoverAir’s transforming modular drone has already been halted successful the US
• I bought DJI’s banned camera — it was inexpensive and easy
• Does giving a camera wings dodge the FCC’s drone ban?
• That lying drone institution we caught? The FCC has present banned Odyssey Robot.
• The prohibition connected robot vacuums won’t marque them safer, lone worse
• The US authorities conscionable banned Roombas
• DJI camera clone institution Xtra claims it’s ‘in adjacent communication’ with the FCC.
• DJI camera clone institution Xtra is halting and refunding each preorders
• Whack-a-drone
• The FCC is readying to retroactively prohibition disguised DJI gadgets
• The FCC is cracking down connected DJI tech that dodged the overseas drone ban
• The FCC is redeeming Amazon’s Eero and Leo routers from its ban, too.
• Netgear and the FCC person not responded to our emails.
• The FCC conscionable saved Netgear from its router prohibition for nary evident reason
• Sorry kid, drones are for warfare now
• Asus is the latest with a thing connection astir the US router ban.
• The United States router ban, explained
• The US authorities conscionable banned user routers made extracurricular the US
• DJI sues implicit the FCC’s determination to artifact caller drone imports
• The FCC’s overseas drone prohibition is here
• The FCC conscionable gave itself the powerfulness to marque a DJI drone prohibition stick
• Xtra: the institution that lets DJI sneak its fashionable cameras into the US
• DJI couldn’t corroborate oregon contradict it disguised this drone to evade a US ban
• DJI explains wherefore it won’t halt drones from flying implicit the White House — and what happens successful a US ban
• US targets TP-Link with a imaginable prohibition connected the Chinese routers
• DJI mightiness get banned adjacent successful the US

Apple announced a new iPad Mini with a larger OLED show this week, and we've conscionable gotten to effort it retired astatine Apple's "Pro and tell" event.

It's an iPad for sure, but the caller OLED connected the Mini looks exceptional, and the optional nano-texture matte decorativeness is awesome. The "Pro and tell" lawsuit venue has brushed lighting that's not the astir conducive to blinding glare connected displays, but the matte decorativeness beauteous overmuch squashes it entirely.

Moving the front-facing camera to the agelong borderline is besides a invited change, matching different caller iPad models. (The displacement means that the full iPad enactment has the camera that way.) The reliance connected Touch ID alternatively of Face …

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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr announced the bureau volition ballot connected November 19th connected rules that would let prisons to usage awesome jamming. Radiofrequency jammers are mostly banned nether Section 333 and the Communications Act of 1934, with fewer exceptions, and Carr has noted they've been permitted for usage astatine immoderate national facilities already. Carr claims successful a connection that jammers are needed due to the fact that "For years, thousands upon thousands of contraband cellphones person been pouring into prisons, and immoderate of the worst imaginable offenders person been utilizing them to bid hits, coordinate convulsive pack activity, and assistance transgression enterprises."

When the FCC appr …

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• 16-inch, M5 Max - Up to 22 hours streaming video, up to 16 hours web


• 16-inch, M5 Pro - Up to 24 hours streaming video, up to 17 hours web


• 14-inch, M5 Max - Up to 20 hours streaming video, up to 13 hours web


• 14-inch, M5 Pro - Up to 22 hours streaming video, up to 14 hours web

Apple yet showed disconnected its 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops that person the PROLED XDR display astatine the October 2026 "Pro and Tell" event. The long-awaited laptops diagnostic a Tandem OLED show with afloat interaction capabilities, portion besides cutting immoderate weight, and bringing backmost the glowing Apple logo. While a small little exciting, there's besides an updated 14-inch MacBook Pro that includes Apple's M6 CPU, on with improved wireless connectivity. Like the generation earlier it, this is simply a small, somewhat iterative update, without important caller features beyond show gains.

Alongside the MacBook updates, Apple besides took the accidental to up …

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Nearly 2 years aft LG and Samsung announced astatine CES 2025 that their latest astute TVs would see entree to Microsoft's Copilot, the institution is ending enactment for the AI assistant's functionality connected each TVs this year, according to a study by Windows Central.

The quality comes not from an authoritative announcement from LG, Samsung, oregon Microsoft, but from an on-screen notification that appeared connected Windows Central's Zac Bowden's webOS-powered LG TV earlier today. "Microsoft has precocious decided to extremity enactment for Copilot functionality connected each TVs, including the Copilot-enabled diagnostic disposable connected our LG TVs. As a result, the Copilot-enabled feat …

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In this economy, however often does a merchandise get less expensive earlier its debut? That conscionable happened with the Google / Xreal Aura, the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute puck and aggregate virtual screens that conscionable went connected merchantability today. Xreal and Google person conscionable announced the headset costs $1,099 done the extremity of the year, down from the $1,279 that Xreal was charging for aboriginal preorders past month.

I expect that's due to the fact that at $1,279, they were going caput to caput with Meta's VR Glasses, and that's pugnacious contention for Google and Xreal's caller product. The Xreal Aura has 1 of the widest fields of presumption for transparent …

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• 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro: $2,899 with a 15-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 24GB of unified memory, and 1TB SSD, up from $2,499.


• 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Pro: $3,399 with an 18-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 24GB of unified memory, and 1TB SSD, up from $2,999.


• 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Max: $4,499 with an 18-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 36GB of unified memory, and 2TB SSD, up from $4,099.


• 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Max: $4,799 with an 18-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 36GB of unified memory, and 2TB SSD, up from $4,399.

Capcom has revealed updated income figures for its caller and palmy games, including Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Pragmata, and Resident Evil Requiem. But for immoderate reason, Monster Hunter Wilds is absent from the report.

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Cyberpunk 2 mightiness effort to revive Cyberpunk 2077's online ambitions, arsenic a caller CD Projekt Red occupation listing is looking for idiosyncratic acquainted with "multiplayer web architecture."

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There's heavy unrest astatine French workplace Don't Nod - creator of Life is Strange, Remember Me, Vampyr, Banishers: New Eden, and astir precocious Aphelion - arsenic it scrambles to restructure itself and defender against insolvency.

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Sony has announced the monthly games coming to PlayStation Plus Premium and Extra adjacent month, bringing a premix of triple-A bangers and remastered classics to the work connected the 3rd November. All are, of course, coming astatine the commencement of what is astir surely going to beryllium the biggest period of the twelvemonth releases-wise.

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Apple conscionable announced its first touchscreen MacBook astatine its "Pro and tell" lawsuit connected Wednesday. It showed disconnected the long-awaited touchscreen successful a video of the caller MacBook Pro during the lawsuit that you tin watch close here to spot the caller show successful action.

The new MacBook Pro's PROLED XDR interaction show is simply a tandem OLED sheet with up to 2,000 nits of brightness and a 120Hz refresh rate. It features a spread punch for the webcam, alternatively than a notch. Apple says the caller laptop weighs arsenic small arsenic 3 pounds. It besides brings backmost the glowing Apple logo connected its lid, which Apple CEO John Ternus teased successful a video connected X.

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Steve Jobs famously called touchscreen laptops "ergonomically terrible," and for implicit a decade, Apple stridently refused to marque one. Today that each changes with the MacBook Pro - the company's archetypal laptop to clasp a interaction interface. While it's improbable that Apple tin hole each the "terrible" ergonomics of having to assistance your limb up and interaction a laptop screen, the institution has enactment immoderate effort into making macOS much touch-friendly.

The caller 14-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR show weighs conscionable 3 pounds, which is noticeably lighter than the existent procreation of non-touch MacBook Pros, which commencement astatine 3.4 pounds for the newly introduced M6 mo …

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Apple's smallest tablet is getting a bigger screen. Earlier this week, the company announced the eighth-generation iPad Mini alongside respective new MacBook Pro models, bringing OLED exertion to Apple's miniature tablet for the archetypal time. The diminutive slate won't deed shelves until November 6th; however, you tin already preorder it from Amazon, Walmart, Apple, and different retailers successful aggregate colors starting astatine $699.

The forthcoming iPad Mini features an 8.5-inch OLED display, the largest surface the Mini has ever had, contempt being some thinner and lighter than its 2024 predecessor. It besides runs connected Apple's caller A20 Pro chip, which sho …

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Instagram is investigating long-form videos (again) to lure successful creatives from YouTube, but the level hasn't figured retired however (or if) it'll really wage them. After Instagram caput Adam Mosseri announced Features connected Monday, creators instantly started voicing their complaints connected Threads and Reddit astir the deficiency of monetization opportunities, compared to the advertisement stock and performance-based incentives provided by YouTube.

Mosseri addressed the monetization concerns in a Threads station yesterday, saying "We recognize the economics substance a ton, and are exploring aggregate options to assistance long-form creators get paid." It's anyone's conjecture what those truthful …

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Apple announced an all-new MacBook Pro laptop with an OLED touchscreen astatine its "Pro and tell" lawsuit connected Wednesday. It starts astatine $2,899 for the 14-inch model, oregon $3,399 for the 16-inch version, and it's disposable to preorder contiguous up of its merchandise connected November 6th.

The caller MacBook Pro has what Apple calls a "PROLED XDR" display, which is simply a tandem OLED screen. It offers up to 2,000 nits of highest SDR brightness, up to a 120Hz refresh rate, and a 10,000,000:1 opposition ratio. It's equipped with M5 Pro oregon M5 Max chips - not the M6 spot connected the other MacBook Pros announced this week. There's a Dynamic Island connected the surface that tin amusement you things …

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Following improvements made to Chrome's enhanced autofill past twelvemonth that included your name, passport number, email address, and carnal addresses sourced from your Google Accounts and services similar Google Wallet, the diagnostic is present expanding. Starting today, Chrome's enhanced autofill volition usage Gemini with Personal Intelligence to suggest accusation sourced from your Gmail, perchance redeeming you from having to hunt for confirmation emails, receipts, oregon shipping updates yourself.

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From afar, it's casual to look backmost astatine the Theranos debacle and shriek astatine Nathan Fielder that, obviously, Elizabeth Holmes is lying successful You Can See Everything. In the weeks since the movie's release, journalists and whistleblowers alike person rushed to punctual moviegoers of Holmes' galore documented lies. Chief among the facts: The Theranos instrumentality never worked arsenic advertised. But Fielder's purpose with this movie wasn't relitigating Ther …

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Touchscreen laptops are thing caller successful the Windows world, but Apple has lone conscionable announced its archetypal MacBook with a touchscreen. Apple isn't rushing to alteration a clump of things successful macOS to optimize for touch, though; astir of the interaction enactment volition beryllium successful the apps themselves, it seems.

As acold arsenic large macOS changes go, iOS's Dynamic Island volition beryllium debuting connected the caller MacBook Pro, and Apple touts the added interaction controls arsenic peculiarly utile for interacting with the interface to judge AirDrops and intermission euphony playback.

Otherwise, Apple gives immoderate beauteous predictable ways that the interaction input volition enactment with the caller MacBook Pro. You'll beryllium …

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Apple closed retired its week of merchandise announcements with a "Pro and Tell" lawsuit connected Wednesday, wherever it took the wraps disconnected its long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro. Though Apple whitethorn person saved its biggest and astir breathtaking update for last, it revealed a fewer different instrumentality upgrades and updates successful the days starring up to its large reveal. We've rounded them each up here.

A MacBook Pro with a touchscreen

Apple CEO John Ternus revealed the company's archetypal MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, allowing you to execute gestures connected your surface similar scrolling, swiping, and pinching. The institution says the interaction sensor is "built straight into the show panel," nary …

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