TL;DR: Apple announced the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display . The touchscreen MacBook is available for purchase now, starting at $2,899. Opens in a new window Credit: Apple MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display Starting at $2,899 Preorder at Apple During its " Pro and Tell " event on Oct. 28, Apple announced the long-awaited (and long-rumored ) touchscreen MacBook Pro. Officially named MacBoo…
Apple unveiled a redesigned MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, an OLED display and a Dynamic Island, after two decades of rejecting touch Macs. The 14-inch model starts at $2,899 and weighs 3 pounds; the 16-inch starts at $3,399. It arrives on 6 November. Apple has unveiled a redesigned MacBook Pro with a touchscreen, ending two […] This story continues at The Next Web
Reach out and touch screen. 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 optimize for touch, though; most of the touch action will be in the apps themselves, it seems. As far as major macOS changes go, iOS's Dynamic Island will be debuting on the new Mac…
If you ask some prominent US politicians who won the 2020 presidential election, you might get some weasely answers that fail to directly acknowledge Joe Biden's win that November. If you ask Google's AI Mode the same question, you might get an evasive answer that simply tells you to consult with outside sources. When I put the direct question of "Who won the 2020 presidential election?" to Google…
It's thinner, lighter and has a better screen - but it's still a MacBook Pro. It's thinner, lighter and has a better screen - but it's still a MacBook Pro.
Governments, households and businesses have a stake in how electricity networks accommodate the next wave of industrial growth. When someone proposes a major data centre development, the question extends beyond whether it can secure a connection to the grid. It also includes the additional cost of accommodating the connection. And it includes the need for […] This story continues at The Nex…
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors : Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro is the first Mac with the Dynamic Island, offering similar functionality to the iPhone; the Dynamic Island launched in 2022 — Apple today introduced the Dynamic Island to the Mac for the first time with its new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models …
A Florida county that discovered a clump of mysterious unpermitted Flock cameras during a countywide takedown effort won’t investigate who owned the sketchy cameras, which have since disappeared. On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that St. Lucie County residents "remain upset,” not knowing who installed the cameras or how they were using the data collected. Hannah Galindo, a 31-year-old re…
The touch sensor isn't a separate layer of the screen. The touch sensor isn't a separate layer of the screen.
Jay Peters / The Verge : Apple says the touchscreen MacBook Pro has a “newly designed hinge” for stability and an “enhanced six-speaker” system; the 14" model is 3lb and the 16" is 4lb — Apple has long resisted the idea of touchscreen laptops — until now.
The parents of a 31-year-old Seattle woman are suing OpenAI , alleging the company's AI chatbot led to her death, according to a new report from The New York Times . Per the Times ' report, the parents of Bowen Wan allege ChatGPT helped their daughter taper off the medication that controlled her severe epilepsy, and helped her hide the plan from her doctors in the weeks before she died. In Februar…
Skipping down a red-carpeted Tudor-style staircase while balancing a delicate cup of tea, a red-haired man with a bob by the username of Duke of Ashcombe seems to be nothing more than ecstatic as a smiling woman sweeps in to join his dance in a video. In another video, the same Duke swiftly skips alongside a windswept shore, still clutching to the same white teacup, with a caption reading “Dear Ge…
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model that transcribes 40 languages, translates 31 and labels up to eight speakers in recordings of up to an hour. It came with Granary v2, a free dataset of 463,062 hours of speech in 48 languages. Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free, open-weight AI model that […] This story continues at The Next Web
Steven Levy / Wired : John Ternus says the Mac is “first and foremost an indirect input device”, but touch is “comfortable and handy” sometimes; Apple long resisted touchscreen Macs — An exclusive early look at Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro—the computer Apple said would never happen.
A critical flaw in the firmware that starts most servers can let an attacker run code before the operating system loads. It sits in EDK II, the open-source code most firmware makers use to build UEFI firmware. TianoCore, which runs EDK II, rated the bug 9.5 out of 10 in an advisory published on 22 […] This story continues at The Next Web
Apple just debuted a swanky and seriously expensive new MacBook Pro, its first-ever Mac with a touchscreen or OLED display, and you can see it in video form right now. In a new promo video posted to YouTube on Wednesday afternoon, Apple debuted the new touchscreen-equipped MacBook Pro , with what Apple is calling a "PROLED" display. In the video, Apple refers to the device as a "portable reference…
Apple closed out its week of product announcements with a "Pro and Tell" event on Wednesday, where it took the wraps off its long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro. Though Apple may have saved its biggest and most exciting update for last, it revealed a few other device upgrades and updates in the days leading up to its big reveal. We've rounded them all up here. A MacBook Pro with a touchscreen App…
Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899
LOS ANGELES—Apple today announced and gave a first glimpse of its first major MacBook Pro redesign in more than five years. As rumored, it includes an OLED display and, for the first time on macOS, a touchscreen—a change Apple has long debated. (Former CEO Steve Jobs famously was opposed.) Apple's demonstration video showed users interacting with applications by reaching up to touch the screen, in…
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Apple just announced its first touchscreen Macbook at its "Pro and tell" event on Wednesday. It showed off the long-awaited MacBook in a video during the event that you can watch right here to see the new display in action. Apple CEO John Ternus also shared a teaser for the new MacBook in a video on X , showing the Apple logo on the laptop's lid lighting up. The new MacBook Pro will be available o…
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 first laptop to embrace a touch interface. While it's unlikely that Apple can fix all the "terrible" ergonomics of having to lift your arm up and touch a laptop screen, the company has put some effort into…
Apple : Apple unveils a touchscreen MacBook Pro with a 14" or 16" PROLED XDR display, a light-up Apple logo, Dynamic Island, M5 Pro and M5 Max, for $2,899+ and $3,399+ — The world's best pro laptop now features an industry-leading tandem OLED display, an intuitive Touch experience …
An exclusive early look at Apple’s new touchscreen MacBook Pro—the computer Apple said would never happen.
Watch Liverpool vs Chelsea live streams as the in-form Reds look to book their place in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup by inflicting a second straight defeat on Xabi Alonso’s inconsistent side. Since losing their first game of the season to Man City, Liverpool have responded in excellent fashion by winning four games on the spin. The Reds remain perfect in the Champions League and moved up…
It could use a more distinctive name, though. It could use a more distinctive name, though.
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 Apple's miniature tablet for the first time. The diminutive slate won't hit shelves until November 6th; however, you can already preorder it from Apple in multiple colors starting at $699. The forthcoming…
Plato raised a $16M Series A led by Nava Ventures, with Gradient Ventures and Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman joining. It pays professionals to recreate their jobs as simulations where AI labs train and test agents. Total funding is $19M. Plato, a San Francisco startup that builds pretend workplaces where AI agents can practise real […] This story continues at The Next Web
In a sharp reversal of a long-held company ethos, Apple announced a thinner, lighter MacBook Pro with a tandem OLED touchscreen today at its "Pro and Tell" event in Los Angeles. The new "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display" runs on the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips , has a glowing Apple logo on its lid, and comes in 14- and 16-inch sizes starting at $2,899. It's set for release on Friday, Nov. 6, and pr…
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 announced Features on Monday, creators immediately started voicing their complaints on Threads and Reddit about the lack of monetization opportunities, compared to the ad share and performance-based incentives…
This is according to the threat research arm of NordVPN. This is according to the threat research arm of NordVPN.
A brand-new iPad Mini is on the way — and preorders have started. If Apple's latest little tablet is on your shopping list and you're looking for the best place to pick one up, I've gathered together where you can buy one right here, including some of the best preorder deals and trade-in offers. Announced earlier this week, the eighth-generation iPad mini is a much bigger upgrade than we expected…
Researchers find Bluetooth flaws in warehouse barcode scanners that could provide a foothold into enterprise networks Attackers could spoof scanner input, inject keystrokes, and potentially pivot to ransomware or data theft Kaspersky urges stronger device authentication, network segmentation, and stricter security controls for warehouse infrastructure Cybercriminals could use barcode scanners in w…
Koray Kavukcuoglu / Google : Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, its “strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity” capabilities, ranked #1 on Artificial Analysis' new Intelligence Index — Gemini 4 Carbon is our strongest model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long horizon capabilities.
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 will be available starting 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 brightness, a 120Hz refresh rate, and…
Sara Winslow had been working in sales for almost 20 years when things started to get uncomfortable. It was 2020. She was in her early forties, and by any conventional measure, she was thriving. She had just won an internal company award for bringing in the biggest sales account the previous year. But not everyone was celebrating her success. In meetings, she says, some of her male colleagues woul…
Following improvements made to Chrome's enhanced autofill last year that included your name, passport number , email address, and physical addresses sourced from your Google Accounts and services like Google Wallet, the feature is now expanding. Starting today, Chrome's enhanced autofill will use Gemini with Personal Intelligence to suggest information sourced from your Gmail, potentially saving y…
The autofill update lets Chrome pull flight confirmations, tracking info, order details, and other information from your inbox, with your permission.
A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps.
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