AirPods

MacBook Air

Apple Watch SE 3

M4 iPad Air

11-inch M4 iPad Air

• 128GB Wi-Fi - $649.00 ($100 off)


• 256GB Wi-Fi - $749.00 ($100 off)


• 512GB Wi-Fi - $949.00 ($100 off)


• 256GB Cellular - $899.00 ($100 off)


• 1TB Cellular - $1,399.00 ($100 off)

13-inch M4 iPad Air

• 128GB Wi-Fi - $849.00 ($100 off)


• 256GB Wi-Fi - $949.00 ($100 off)


• 1TB Wi-Fi - $1,449.00 ($100 off)

iPad Mini 7

Long-time mod makers are not blessed astir the latest inclination to instrumentality implicit their country of the net - the "bullshit 'trend'" of AI-generated, oregon "vibe-coded", mods.

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New Jersey's lieutenant politician Dale Caldwell was forced to resign connected September 25th aft an investigation recovered helium had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated morals rules. The now-former Lt. politician has been making the media rounds trying to wide his name. But helium took a peculiarly unusual maneuver during an interrogation connected NJ PBS.

Caldwell claims he's being unfairly targeted, and aggregate AI agents backmost that up. He told big Rob Nelson that helium "AIed" the study connected the probe "from aggregate AI platforms." "I enactment it done AI," helium said, "and it said 59 times, it [sic] said, 'What would your findings be?' There was nary insta …

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StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against 1 another, arsenic good arsenic against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were fundamentally tied arsenic the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't apical Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot.

On Friday, GPT was facing disconnected against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku, it couldn't rather get an edge. So it resorted to a maneuver that is becoming alarmingly communal for modern AI models - it broke the rules. GPT-6 Astra went and downloaded Stardust, and started moving that alternatively of its ain bot.

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This toolless modular lever-action wallet is the coolest I've stuck to my phone.

Remember erstwhile I tested the ultra-thin and convenient OhSnap Snap Grip Stand and liked it truthful overmuch I bought my own? Now, OhSnap has a magnetic lever-action paper wallet that tin stack with that stand. It's the coolest wallet I've ever stuck to my phone.

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It’s been a portion since we’ve seen a bully discount connected the Apple AirPods Pro 3, but similar the latest iPad Mini and the M5 MacBook Airs, a large 1 is happening present for October Prime Day. You tin snag a brace of the noise-canceling earbuds that see 5 receptor extremity sizes, unrecorded translation, and fantastic dependable for $179 astatine Amazon (originally $249). I expect different retailers to connection a akin terms successful the coming days.

This is the archetypal clip the terms has gone beneath $190 since Prime Day successful June. Since then, Apple launched the AirPods 5, and the astir feature-complete mentation with a wireless charging lawsuit costs $149.99. Those are large if you similar earbuds that don’t signifier a seal successful your ears, but for everyone else, the AirPods Pro 3 are a overmuch amended worth astatine conscionable $30 much close now.

AirPods Pro 3

The AirPods Pro 3 person a caller plan that improves their fit, superior sound cancellation, amended bass, and reasonably close bosom complaint sensors. Read our review.

Where to Buy:

• $249 $179 astatine Amazon

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PlatinumGames president Atsushi Inaba has hinted he'd similar to grow the quality of Bayonetta and broaden her world.

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Jagex is offering long-time, lapsed, and caller RuneScape players a cleanable slate with RuneScape Reignited.

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Amazon’s October Prime Day has efficaciously chopped disconnected Apple’s June terms increases. Usually $1,299, the 13-inch MacBook Air with the M5 spot and 512GB of retention is connected merchantability for $1,099 astatine Amazon. That’s a much palatable terms for a instrumentality that’s importantly faster than Apple’s $699 MacBook Neo.

The 15-inch version, besides with 512GB of storage, is $1,299 astatine Amazon (was $1,499). In summation to the larger screen, it has 2 further speakers, for a full of six, and 2 further GPU cores for amended wide graphical performance.

Apple MacBook Air (M5)

Apple’s 2026 MacBook Air has an M5 spot and starts with 512GB of retention that’s importantly faster than erstwhile generations. It’s inactive arsenic fantabulous arsenic ever contempt a higher basal price. Read our review.

Where to Buy:

• $1299 $1099 astatine Amazon (13-inch, 512GB)
• $1499 $1299 astatine Amazon (15-inch, 512GB)

The latest update to Apple’s midrange laptop includes a noticeable betterment to the velocity of some the processor and storage. Even without flashy caller features compared to the last-gen model, it’s inactive 1 of our favourite laptops, acknowledgment to its agelong artillery life, agleam screen, and fantabulous speakers.

Read our Apple MacBook Air (2026, M5) review.

Apple bumped up prices connected respective of its devices successful June, and we haven’t seen a bully discount connected the iPad Mini since. Just up of Amazon’s October Prime Big Deals Days, however, some Wi-Fi lone and cellular-connected models are $100 off. The Wi-Fi mentation with 128GB of storage is presently $499, the 256GB model is $599, and the cellular exemplary with 128GB of storage is $649.

This basal configuration of this tablet often sold for astir $400 passim 2025, truthful we get it if $500 for a tablet from precocious 2024 is inactive excessively much. But it’s the champion terms since precocious June, and if there’s a caller mentation coming retired aboriginal this year, it mightiness beryllium importantly much expensive.

iPad Mini (2024)

The seventh-gen iPad Mini comes with Apple’s A17 Pro spot and enactment for Apple Intelligence. It’s besides compatible with the Apple Pencil Pro and offers faster Wi-Fi and USB-C speeds. Read our review.

Where to Buy:

• $599 $499 astatine Amazon (128GB, Wi-Fi)
• $699 $599 astatine Amazon (256GB, Wi-Fi)
• $899 $799 astatine Amazon (512GB, Wi-Fi)

We reviewed this mentation of the iPad Mini erstwhile it launched successful 2024, and portion we appreciated the processor upgrade and Apple Intelligence features, it felt lacking successful immoderate of the quality-of-life improvements recovered successful the larger iPads that launched astir the aforesaid time.

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We are spoiled for choice, musically. Most of america locomotion astir with entree to hundreds of millions of songs successful our pockets. But it wasn't until 1998 that portable integer euphony was adjacent a thing. Before that we lugged booklets afloat of CDs connected the autobus oregon stashed a fistful of cassettes successful our backpacks. With the advent of the MP3 subordinate successful …

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Google didn't adjacent telephone the archetypal Chromebook a "Chromebook." The Cr-48 had nary absorbing plan and nary agleam logos - it wasn't adjacent designed to beryllium a merchandise you could buy. Instead, it was a portal to a large caller thought astir computers.

In this week's occurrence of Version History, The Verge's Nilay Patel and MKBHD's Marques Brownlee articulation David Pierce to assistance explicate the past of ChromeOS and Chromebooks, and sermon whether Google's attack to machine hardware was the close one.

This has been an breathtaking play of Version History, arsenic we've been exploring the astir iconic schoolhouse tech. Last week's occurrence explored Nicholas Negroponte …

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Jagex has announced a 4th MMO successful the RuneScape series.

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As I propulsion unfastened the windows connected my archetypal time successful Nivalis, breathing successful the city's neon-streaked aerial and watching the smog roil crossed the blackened sky, my government-mandated AI automata informs maine the territory is successful lockdown and a serial killer's connected the loose. Five hours later, I've go embroiled successful a kid trafficking crippled (the bully kind, apparently, seeing arsenic I'm helping them get out); I've stumbled crossed an lipid rig and befriended its metropolis separatists; I've inadvertently struck up a romance with a CorpSec cause who's trying to unopen down my noodle bar; and I've met a pistillate who writes caller childhoods for condemned criminals, successful the city's anticipation that implanting them volition benignant 'em out. All this and I've lone grown a azygous onion. Nivalis Nights, it's just to say, it's not your mean farm-life sim.

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation manager Naoki Hamaguchi has responded to fans asking for a afloat disc mentation of the game, saying helium "did [his] best" to propulsion for carnal media arsenic the manufacture edges towards an all-digital future.

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Sony is reportedly successful talks to get a big-screen adaptation of Electronic Arts' Battlefield, with Christopher McQuarrie attached to write, nonstop and produce, and Michael B. Jordan connected committee to produce.

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Capcom's Pragmata mightiness beryllium each astir the horrors of AI, but successful signifier the workplace doesn't look truthful down connected the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi Ishida gave a presentation with the mouthful of a title: "The Outlook and Future of the REX Project, Further Evolving the RE Engine for the Next Generation." During the speech helium laid retired the challenges facing studios producing games astatine the standard of Resident Evil, which tin marque adjacent elemental tasks highly clip consuming. The solution Ishida said is "successfully integrating AI exertion into improvement workflows."

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Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the illustration level countless producers trust connected for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the work person recovered their mode into monolithic hits similar Lisa's "Money" and "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter. (The archetypal samples are here and here, for the curious.)

Before that, Kakul held enforcement roles astatine Flickr, Yahoo, GitHub, and Adobe. Throughout her career, Kakul has recovered herself astatine the intersection of Silicon Valley and creatives. That's been particularly existent astatine Splice, wherever she's not conscionable expanded the platform's footprint by acquiring Spitfire Audio, but besides overseen its forays into the wor …

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Capcom wants to alteration its in-house RE Engine into what it's calling an "AI-generation crippled engine".

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David Robinson utilized to constitute the information reports that accompanied each large exemplary merchandise astatine OpenAI. This week, helium resigned from his presumption and is present speaking retired successful an editorial successful The Atlantic.

It's understandable if you're feeling a spot cynical astir everyone abruptly coming retired of the woodwork to pass astir however unsafe the happening they helped physique is. They did, aft all, marque this mess. But that doesn't mean we should discount their warnings.

Robinson says that the civilization successful manufacture is fundamentally broken. That this is simply a deeper contented than simply slapping a fewer caller rules oregon regulations connected however we grip grooming models. Silicon …

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