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Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra Is Official and Starts at $2,599

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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)…

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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…

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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…

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