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SK Hynix profit jumps 632% as it says memory shortage will last to 2030
SK Hynix reported record third-quarter results on Wednesday, 28 October. Operating profit rose 632% from a year earlier to 83.3 trillion won (about $62bn). Revenue rose 328% to 10…
Surprise: The Google Xreal glasses debut at a Meta-beating $1,099
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 And…
Here’s where to preorder the latest MacBook Pros
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 Tand…
Anthropic gives US governments 40% off Claude in new GSA deal
Anthropic will give US government buyers a 40% discount on Claude under an expanded deal with the General Services Administration (GSA). The company announced it in a blog post on…
Volt Typhoon Used Covert Silent Train Network in Four Zero-Day Exploitation Campaigns
The China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Volt Typhoon has been attributed to a now-disrupted covert access network dubbed Silent Train that has been put to use for zero-day …
Anthropic manager drops coding interviews because Claude is better at them
Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg has dropped the coding interview from his team’s hiring. He explained the change in a blog post on Tuesday, 27 October, titled “Hunge…
Amazon turns its most capable smart speaker into a smart camera, too
The Echo Studio with Home Camera can "see and understand what's in front of the camera."
You can see every red flag in Theranos 2.0
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change y…
Cadillac Escalade IQ review: Huge battery, huge range, huge SUV
With more than 200 kWh, this luxury three-row can go 460 miles on a charge.
Apple launches its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, from $2,899
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…
Here’s how macOS is changing for touchscreens
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 i…
Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections
But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.
Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro feels both familiar and radically improved
It's thinner, lighter and has a better screen - but it's still a MacBook Pro.
Europe should make AI prove its value before giving it priority on the grid
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 developme…
Florida county won’t investigate sketchy Flock cameras removed by mystery owners
Florida county claims it lacks resources to find owners of unpermitted Flock cameras.
Here's how the touchscreen on the MacBook Pro with PROLED display works
The touch sensor isn't a separate layer of the screen.
Nvidia releases an open speech model that transcribes 40 languages
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 …
Critical UEFI firmware flaw leaks early, leaving servers waiting for a fix
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 make…
Apple ‘Pro and Tell’ event: everything announced this week
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…
Apple launches its new touchscreen MacBook Pro
Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899
Apple announces touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED display
The OLED display is the main draw, but the price is a lot to reckon with.
Watch Apple’s reveal video for the touchscreen MacBook Pro
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 th…
Hands-on with Apple’s touchscreen MacBook Pro
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 -…
Apple's redesigned MacBook Pro has an OLED touchscreen, weighs just three pounds
It could use a more distinctive name, though.