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Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra Is Official and Starts at $2,599
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Microsoft, PC / Laptop,
Yesterday the Surface Laptop Ultra was a spec sheet Microsoft had confirmed nothing about. Today Microsoft put the machine on a stage in San Francisco and confirmed nearly all of it, along with the one number the leak never had. The entry configuration costs $2,599.
Microsoft calls this its first "builder class" PC, built for developers and AI researchers rather than for people who want a nice Windows laptop. At $2,599 to start, it sits well outside normal Surface territory. You do not buy this one because your old laptop got slow.
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The Foldable iPhone is Here: Our First Impressions of the iPhone Duo
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Features, Videos,
Apple has finally made an iPhone that folds. I just spent a lot of time getting hands-on with the iPhone Duo at the Apple launch, and the excitement start right when you open it up. It introduces a completely new way to use iOS.
Let's dive into what this $1,999 device actually does!
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Meta’s $1,299 VR Glasses Weigh 100 Grams Because the Computer Rides in Your Pocket
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Displays, Video Games,
Every VR headset asks you to strap a computer, a battery, and two screens to your face. Meta's new VR Glasses take the computer and the battery off. The glasses weigh about 100 grams, roughly a deck of cards, and everything heavy lives in a phone-sized puck that clips to your pocket and runs a cable up to your temple. They cost $1,299.99 and go on sale in spring 2027.
Mark Zuckerberg spent a big chunk of tonight's Connect keynote on them. Meta had been focusing less on the metaverse unless there was a breakthrough, he said, and then: "This is a breakthrough." He called it the result of more than a decade of work. It's Meta's first new VR hardware in about two years, since Quest 3S in fall 2024, and the pitch on stage came in three words: "Cinema. Computer. Console."
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3 Adds Aviators, an Action Button, and $70 to the Price
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables,
Meta's third-generation Ray-Bans are slimmer, last an hour longer, and come as Aviators. They also cost $449, which is $70 more than Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) cost when it launched a year ago, and on the same night Meta put a pair of its own glasses on sale for $249.
Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 3) was announced at Connect on Wednesday night and is available today. Meta calls the line the world's best-selling AI glasses, and Gen 3 changes the parts you touch and hear more than the parts you shoot with. Tom's Guide's live blog greeted it with "Does it need to be, though?" For anyone already wearing Gen 2, I think the answer is no.
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This Meta Muse Invite Code Gives You 1 Billion Free Tokens (CC2P24)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Hot Deals, Internet, Artificial Intelligence,
Meta launched Muse on September 8. It's the company's personal AI agent, and the pitch is that it does the task instead of telling you how to do it. Meta has now switched on invite codes, and mine gets you 1 billion free Muse tokens. I get the same, so read this as a referral post that also tells you what you're signing up for.
The steps, in order. Sign up at muse.ai/join or in the app. You need a Meta account, not a Facebook or Instagram login, and on the web you sign in with your phone number. Once you're in, open Settings and enter CC2P24 as your invite code. Do that within 48 hours of creating the account, because the window closes after that. When it goes through, you get 1 billion tokens and so do I.
Muse lives at muse.ai and in iOS and Android apps, with a WhatsApp option and support for Meta's AI glasses promised for later. You hand it a job (send this email, book that flight, fill out this form, turn this recipe into a shopping list) and it works in a browser on your behalf, keeps going after you close the app, and comes back when it needs your sign-off. It runs on Muse Spark, which Meta calls its most capable model to date, and it's US only for now.
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iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max Review: THIS is What We’ve Been Waiting For! (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Features, Product Reviews, Videos,
Better battery life. When I polled my YouTube community on the one upgrade they wanted most from a new phone, that answer beat everything else by a mile, and the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are the first iPhones where I think Apple has delivered it. After a week with the 18 Pro Max, on days when I didn't top it up, I was ending the night in the high 20s to low 30s. That's while hammering it nonstop to prepare this review.
I Tested the iPhone 18 Pro Max: Here’s What You Need to Know (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Videos,
A few days before Apple's event I polled my channel on what would get you to upgrade your phone, and 45 percent of you said a big jump in battery life. Then Apple got on stage at Apple Park and said the iPhone 18 Pro Max has the best battery life of any iPhone it has ever shipped. So this one deserves your attention, even in a week when the folding iPhone Duo is soaking up most of it. After a day with the 18 Pro and Pro Max, the feature I most wanted to understand is a set of six tiny blades inside the main camera.
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iPhone Duo Hands-On: Apple’s Foldable is Finally Here! (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Videos,
Apple finally made an iPhone that folds, and after spending a good chunk of the day with the iPhone Duo at Apple Park, the part I keep coming back to is what happens when you open it. You can run two apps side by side, take a selfie with the rear camera while watching the shot on the outer screen, or set the phone down half-folded and let it take the group photo for you. It's the most interesting iPhone I've used in years. It also costs $1,999, so it raises some expensive questions.
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Apple’s iPhone Duo Foldable Costs $1,999, and the Leaks Called Nearly All of It
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones,
Apple let everyone else spend six years working out folding phones in public. Today it showed its own. The iPhone Duo is a 5.4-inch phone that opens into a 7.6-inch one, it starts at $1,999 for 256GB, pre-orders begin October 16, and it goes on sale October 23.
The leakers earned a victory lap. They had the name, they had the roughly $2,000 price, they had the 256GB floor and the 2TB ceiling. They oversold one thing. Apple Pencil support over USB-C is coming later in 2026, not in the box on launch day.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Hits Switch 2 on November 5, and You Can Hum the Songs
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The highest-rated game on Metacritic is getting rebuilt from the textures up, and Nintendo finally put a date on it. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time arrives on Switch 2 on November 5, worldwide, as a Switch 2 exclusive. Today's Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct brought the cinematic trailer you see above plus roughly 15 minutes of gameplay, which is a lot more than the teaser we got back in June.
I've played this game more times than I'd admit to a doctor, and the detail I keep thinking about from today is the microphone. You can hum a song into the Switch 2 and Link's ocarina plays it back. A 28-year-old game found a new party trick.