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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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XREAL’s Aura Finally Has a Price. It’s $1,279, and You Can’t Buy One Yet.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Google,
XREAL has been taking deposits on the Aura without telling anyone what it would cost. Today the company filled in the blank. The Android XR glasses start at $1,279, and the larger configuration is $1,499.
If that sounds like phone money, it is. The catch is that you probably can't spend it yet. Preorders opened only to people who already put down a reservation deposit. Everybody else waits for what XREAL calls "the coming weeks," which is not a date.
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Leaked Photos Show LG’s Apple Home Cameras. Code in iOS 27.2 Names Schneider Electric Too.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smart Home, Rumors,
Two leakers moved the Apple and LG home story along today, and Apple had nothing to do with it. Mark Gurman reported yesterday that Apple co-developed a line of home accessories with LG that will ship under LG's name. Today an X account called @ringo_tech posted images of four of them, and the leaker pdfu found code in iOS 27.2 that labels two Schneider Electric products the same way Apple's code labels the LG gear.
The photos will get the attention. The Schneider line in the code is the part I keep rereading. "Second-party" is Apple's own label inside its HomeKit database, and right now only the LG accessories and those two Schneider products carry it. The label reportedly means those accessories get special treatment from the operating system, which would put them in a tier between Apple's own hardware and the HomeKit gear anyone can build.
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Windows Search Is Becoming a Chatbot, a Year After Microsoft Promised Less Copilot
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Microsoft, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Type a file name into Windows search and you get web results. Type an app name and you wait. Microsoft knows, and the fix it showed today is to turn the Search Menu into something you talk to.
Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft's executive vice president of Windows and Devices, demoed the rebuilt Search Menu on stage in San Francisco. It's a chatbot-style box that takes short typed commands and then does things: toggling settings, pulling up apps and files, or holding a conversation with the Copilot app without you opening Copilot at all. It arrives this fall.
GPT-6 Reaches Every ChatGPT Tier This Week. It Can Answer You With a Bill Splitter.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Announcements, Software, Artificial Intelligence,
Ask ChatGPT to split a dinner bill four ways and you get a paragraph of arithmetic back. Starting this week it can hand you a bill splitter instead, a small tool with fields you type into, sitting inside the conversation.
That capability is called Intelligent UI, and OpenAI announced it on Wednesday alongside the rollout of GPT-6 to every ChatGPT tier. GPT-6 Sol starts reaching Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise accounts on October 7 in the Chat tab, with GPT-6 Luna arriving for Free and Go users on the 8th. Paid customers got the first GPT-6 models last month. This is everyone else's turn.
Jaguar’s Type 01 Is Real. Nobody Agrees on What It Costs in the US.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Design, Transportation,
Jaguar spent nearly two years as a car company you could argue about but not buy a car from. That ended at a world premiere in New York on October 7, where the Type 01 turned up as a finished production car with a factory, a build date, and prices in at least two currencies. It is a four-door electric grand tourer, and it is the first Jaguar you will be able to order since the company tore its own brand down and started again.
The hardware is serious. Three motors make a combined 758 kW and 1,365 Nm of torque, which other outlets have converted to roughly 1,015 hp, and the reported 0 to 62 mph time is about 3.2 seconds. Jaguar also built the car around its own 850-volt architecture, so it takes up to 350 kW on a DC charger. The company says that puts about 320 km of range back in 13 minutes. On a long drive, that is the difference between a coffee stop and a meal.
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A Used PS5 Pro at GameStop Costs $500 More Than a New One. GameStop Hasn’t Said Why.
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Video Games,
GameStop is selling used PS5 Pro consoles for $1,399.99. A new one has an MSRP of $899.99, which puts the secondhand unit $500 over the sealed one. Pre-owned special editions are listed at $1,499.99.
That gap would be easier to shrug off if you could buy the cheaper option. GameStop has no new Pros in stock online, so the used listing is the only PS5 Pro the retailer will actually sell you today. Nobody at the company has explained the math.
Apple’s Smart Home Push Reportedly Comes With LG’s Name on the Box
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Smart Home, Rumors,
Apple's smart home plan is reportedly bigger than one hub, and a good chunk of it says LG on the box. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple worked with LG on a set of home accessories (a video doorbell, a deadbolt lock, a thermostat, indoor and outdoor cameras and a floodlight cam) that LG will sell under its own brand. The trail runs through LG's own regulatory paperwork, filed with the FCC and UL Solutions. Apple has confirmed none of it.
Seven accessories at once is a catalog. Apple spends years on one hub while a partner fills in the liability-heavy parts of a smart home: the thing bolted to your front door, the camera on your porch, the box wired into your furnace. If you have been waiting for Apple to care about your house beyond a speaker and a TV stick, this is roughly what that would look like.
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Nearly Every Surface Laptop Ultra Spec Just Leaked
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Microsoft, PC / Laptop, Rumors,
Microsoft goes on stage tomorrow for a laptop whose spec sheet is already sitting on the internet. Most of it, anyway. The one number that decides whether any of it matters, the price, is still missing.
Windows Central's Zac Bowden has published what he describes as nearly all the remaining details on the Surface Laptop Ultra, sourced from people familiar with Microsoft's plans. Every figure below comes from that reporting, not from Microsoft. What Microsoft has actually confirmed is the event: October 7, in San Francisco, livestreamed, with Windows, Surface and Nvidia's RTX Spark on the agenda. It has not put its name to a single core count, memory tier or brightness number.
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Xbox Elite Series 3 Controller Specs Leaked Out of Microsoft’s Own Design Lab
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Accessories, Microsoft, Rumors, Video Games,
Microsoft has not announced an Xbox Elite Series 3. Its own Design Lab appears to have described one anyway, down to the thumbstick options.
A Reddit user says they got into the backend of Spectrum Customizer, the configuration system that powers Xbox Design Lab, and pulled out configuration records and 3D component models for a controller carried internally under the codename Edessa. Digital Foundry reported the find. The files are no longer reachable, and Microsoft has confirmed none of what follows.