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The New M5 Ultra Mac Studio is an AI Beast That Holds Up to 512GB of Memory
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple announced the machine this morning alongside the new M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini. Pre-orders are open now, shipping starts September 22, and the 512GB configuration doesn't arrive until late October. The M5 Max model starts at $2,499.
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Apple’s New M6 Mac mini Wants to Be the AI Box That Lives on Your Desk
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, PC / Laptop, Artificial Intelligence,
The headline is the chip. M6 is Apple's first 2nm processor, and it landed in the cheapest desktop Apple sells. Pre-orders opened today, machines arrive September 22, and the M6 model starts at $899 with 16GB of unified memory. There's also an M5 Pro version at $1,699 for people who need real render horsepower in a box the size of a sandwich.
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The Translucent Green Xbox Series X25 Will Be the Most Expensive Console Microsoft Has Ever Sold
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Microsoft, Rumors, Video Games,
The Xbox Series X25 is the best-looking console Microsoft has made in years. Translucent OG Green shell, green-lit power button, a straight callback to the 2001 Xbox that started all of this. When it was revealed at June's Xbox Games Showcase, the reaction was close to universally warm.
Then the price leaked. If the numbers hold, the 25th anniversary Xbox will be the most expensive home console Microsoft has ever sold, and it is not faster than the one below it.
Lego’s New Pokemon Sets Battle Each Other, and the Loser Actually Faints
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Toys, Video Games,
Leave one of Lego's new Pokemon alone on your desk for long enough and it falls asleep. Snoring included.
That detail tells you most of what's different about the Lego Pokemon Smart Play line, which goes on sale August 1 with sets running from $15 up to $120. Lego's Smart Brick tech showed up earlier this year in a Star Wars collection, and that line was fun in a specific way: you built a scene and acted it out, more director than participant. The Pokemon version does something else entirely. It borrows from the video games.
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How Xbox Destroyed Game Pass - The Best Deal in Gaming (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Microsoft, Video Games, Videos,
Microsoft spent more than $80 billion buying video game studios, and the Xbox division now runs at roughly a 3% profit margin. Park that money in a high yield savings account and you would have done better. That is the punchline everybody reaches for, and the conclusion they draw from it is that Game Pass was the mistake. I think they have it backwards.
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Apple Just Won AI (and It’s Not Even Close) (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Videos, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple may have just won consumer AI by being last, and here is the twist that makes it interesting: it did it without having the smartest model. ChatGPT is more powerful. Claude is better at complex reasoning. Apple even leaned on the tech behind Google's Gemini to help train its own models, and after promising a revolutionary Siri back in 2024 and then failing to ship most of it, Apple had every reason to be the company nobody trusted with AI. But while everyone was writing them off, they quietly rebuilt the Siri that had been broken for 15 years, and after spending time with the beta, I think that changes the whole equation.
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You Won’t Look At Apple’s Siri AI The Same Way After Watching This (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Google, Software, Videos, Artificial Intelligence,
Here's the story you probably heard: Apple fell behind on AI, panicked, and quietly handed Siri over to Google. So when a much smarter Siri showed up at WWDC, the case seemed closed. Siri was just Gemini wearing an Apple logo. It was a tidy narrative, repeated everywhere, and it turns out to be wrong.
During WWDC, I was invited to a closed-door media briefing with Craig Federighi and his team. Craig took the Google question head-on, first walking us through how a typical chatbot app like ChatGPT or Gemini works, then explaining what Apple built instead. His conclusion was blunt: "The amount of Google Assistant we use is none." No Gemini client code in iOS, none of the models Google deploys to its own customers, and not even Google Search as the foundation of Siri's world knowledge.
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Apple’s visionOS 27 Update is Actually Insane (Video)
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Wearables, Software, Videos,
You can probably recite the joke by now: Vision Pro is a very expensive iPad strapped to your face. I've heard it for two years. However, after going hands-on with the visionOS 27 developer beta, I think that joke is finally running out of road.
Start with Siri, because Apple basically started over. On visionOS 27, the assistant lives in your room as a small 3D orb you can park anywhere - next to your monitor, above the couch, wherever - and it stays anchored there. There's no wake word anymore, either. A new interaction called Look and Speak means you just glance at the orb and start talking. That sounds small. In practice, it removes the most awkward thing about talking to a headset.
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Apple’s Long-Promised New Siri Is Finally Here, If You’re Willing to Beta Test iOS 27
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smartphones, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Apple has been promising a smarter, more personal Siri for so long that it started to feel like a running joke. The assistant that was supposed to understand your life, dig through your apps, and actually get things done kept slipping - announced, delayed, quietly pushed to “next year.” Well, next year is here. The new Siri just made its public debut in the iOS 27 beta, and for the first time you can actually try the thing Apple has been talking about for what feels like forever.
There’s a catch, though. A few of them, actually. This isn’t a switch that flips on your iPhone tomorrow. You have to opt into a public beta, join a waitlist, own a fairly recent iPhone, and live in the right part of the world. The upside, though, is that once you get in, the new Siri is...actually really good. For Apple, that would be a first.
Why the ASUS ProArt PX13 GoPro Is the Ultimate Field Laptop for Creators
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Features, PC / Laptop, Product Reviews,
Imagine a 13-inch laptop that costs $3,000 and doesn't even have a dedicated graphics card. Sounds like a tough sell. But somehow, this machine manages to trade blows with an RTX 4060.
This is the ASUS ProArt PX13 GoPro Edition. It goes way deeper than a simple brand collaboration. ASUS actually baked real software and hardware integration into this device. It is easily one of the most purpose-built machines for creators on the market today. Let's dive into what makes it special.
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