Apple ‘Pro and Tell’ event: everything announced this week

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...

In this economy, how often does a product get less expensive before its debut? That just happened with the Google / Xreal Aura, the lightweight 95-gram glasses with a tethered Android XR compute...

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...

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Touchscreen laptops are nothing new in the Windows world, but Apple has only just announced its first MacBook with a touchscreen. Apple isn't rushing to change a bunch of things in macOS to...

Apple just announced its first touchscreen MacBook at its "Pro and tell" event on Wednesday. It showed off the long-awaited touchscreen in a video of the new MacBook Pro during the event that you...

Steve Jobs famously called touchscreen laptops "ergonomically terrible," and for over a decade, Apple stridently refused to make one. Today that all changes with the MacBook Pro - the company's...

Apple's smallest tablet is getting a bigger screen. Earlier this week, the company announced the eighth-generation iPad Mini alongside several new MacBook Pro models, bringing OLED technology to...

Instagram is testing long-form videos (again) to lure in creatives from YouTube, but the platform hasn't figured out how (or if) it'll actually pay them. After Instagram head Adam Mosseri...

Apple has already had a busy week. On Monday, it announced a new iPad Mini with an upgraded OLED display, and on Tuesday, we got M6 chip upgrades for the MacBook Pro and iMac. The Macs are the...

Apple’s “Pro and tell” event kicks off at 1PM ET / 10AM PT on October 28th. The event comes just a couple of weeks after Apple debuted the HomeView, its first smart display, and a little over a...

Meta says it may push the implementation of its new business terms past November 20th as it faces backlash from publishers over concerns about AI training. In a post on X, Meta communications head...

Reddit is switching up its homepage feeds. The company announced today that it's going to start offering a "new feed experience" that includes both a Following feed to show you posts from...

Halloween isn’t even here yet, but it’s never too early to start thinking about holiday decorations, especially when there are already deals on smart, programmable lights. If you want your house,...

Sony announced a new Prism Collection line of PlayStation 5 accessories today that revisits "the iconic see-through trend of the late '90s in a fresh, modern way" for its DualSense wireless...

It's hard to make an Xbox controller that stands out these days, especially one that's expensive, due to a wealth of great semi-affordable options. Still, 8BitDo's $150 Ultimate 3E is a bold...

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...

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,...

Virgin Galactic's new spaceship is here, dubbed "Apeiron" by popular vote from a public poll. Apeiron is the first of the company's new Delta-class spacecraft, but it isn't slated to launch for...

After Elon Musk warned that "advertisers who post ads that are ugly, shrill, strident or overstate claims about their product will be barred from advertising" on X earlier this month, the platform...