August 2026

• John Ternus Becomes Apple CEO Tomorrow With Nine Days Until the iPhone Event
• Phil Schiller Leaving Apple, Handing Off the App Store on Tim Cook’s Last Day
• Hugging Face’s $399 Microduck Ships With Its Training Code on GitHub
• Xbox Says Project Helix Is a ‘Family of Devices.’ The Rest Is Still a Guess.
• Apple Reportedly Built an Apple Pencil for the Foldable iPhone, Then Backed Away
• The US Is Reportedly Drafting a Rule to Stop China Renting the AI Chips It Can’t Buy
• Apple TV Now Costs $14.99 a Month, and the Annual Plan Took the Bigger Hit
• GTA 6 Is Making You Work for Stolen Cars
• VW’s first electric California camper skips the kitchen and the pop-top
• DLSS 5 Leaked Out of NBA 2K27, and Modders Already Have It Running in Control
• Spatial Audio in CarPlay Reaches the Volvo EX90, With a 25-Speaker Catch
• Chip Tariffs Could Reach Laptops and Game Consoles
• The Galaxy S26 FE Costs $50 More, and Only the Chip Really Changed
• Meta Closes the Ray-Ban Glasses Trick for Hiding the Recording Light
• Anthropic said no to the Pentagon. A judge just ruled the punishment illegal.
• Cerebras Built a Chip the Size of a Dinner Plate Because Memory Is the Wall
• The Translucent Green Xbox Series X25 Is $899, and Pre-Orders Open Thursday Morning
• Legato Just Hid an AI Hearing Aid Inside a Normal Pair of Glasses
• OpenAI Built Its Own AI Chip, Jalapeño, and It’s Beating Nvidia on Power
• Samsung Put a Processor Inside Your Phone’s RAM
• Amazon Is Killing Mechanical Turk, the Human Engine That Helped Train AI
• The Govee TV Backlight 3 is the Smartest TV Upgrade You Can Make
• The New Mac mini Starts at $899, and That Price Is the Real Story
• Instagram and Facebook Are About to Lock Teens Out at Midnight
• Apple’s Fall Event Is Set for September 9, and It’s John Ternus’s First One
• Tim Cook Has One Week Left, and Ternus Inherits an Apple Mid-Pivot
• Apple’s Magic Keyboards Finally Match the MacBook’s Keycaps
• Xpeng Raised $900 Million to Build Humanoid Robots on a Car Assembly Line
• Apple Cut the Price of the Polishing Cloth in Half
• The M5 Ultra Fuses Four Chips Into One, a First for Apple Silicon
• The Echo Dot Is $79.99 Now, and AI Data Centers Are the Reason
• Nvidia’s Groq Chip Is in Full Production, and It Exists to Fix One Annoying Thing
• The New M5 Ultra Mac Studio is an AI Beast That Holds Up to 512GB of Memory
• Garmin’s Fenix 9 Pro Gets a Titanium Case and a Satellite Lifeline
• Apple’s M6 Is Its First 2nm Chip. Here’s What That Actually Changes
• AliExpress Was Playing Silent Audio in Your Browser to Track You
• Apple’s New M6 Mac mini Wants to Be the AI Box That Lives on Your Desk
• The Ceramic Apple Watch Might Be Coming Back
• The Translucent Green Xbox Series X25 Will Be the Most Expensive Console Microsoft Has Ever Sold
• You Don’t Own What You Bought. Here’s the Proof. (Video)
• Nvidia Just Paid $6 Billion for a Startup It Didn’t Buy
• Walmart Starts Taking Apple Pay Today, After Eleven Years of Saying No
• A Headless Robot Just Ran Faster Than Usain Bolt, Then Drove Straight Into a Wall
• Rockstar Is Putting the Next GTA 6 Reveal Behind a Netflix Login for Six Hours
• The iPhone 18 Pro Might Start at $1,399, and Even the Optimists Are Giving Up
• Apple Just Raised Trade-In Values, and It’s Taking Android Phones Now
• OpenAI’s First Gadget Is a $300 Donut with Moving Arms You Carry Around
• Bose’s New QuietComfort Headphones Borrow the Ultra’s Best Trick for $359
• ChatGPT’s New Slider Lets You Decide How Hard It Thinks
• Dolby Vision 2 Is Real Now, and Hisense Owners Get It First
• Airtable Was Worth $11 Billion. It Just Sold to Bending Spoons for $1.28 Billion.
• I Built the Most Unreasonable Mac Desk Setup! (Video)
• The Budget Xbox Series S Now Costs 499 Euros, and That’s the Good News
• Fitbit Data Can Finally Write to Apple Health, Twelve Years Late
• Maingear’s New Gaming PCs Hide Every Cable, and the Top One Costs $6,499
• The Friend AI Necklace That Texted You Now Talks Back, and Costs $150 More
• Chatbots in Europe Now Have to Tell You They’re Chatbots
• Expensive Gas Just Did What EV Subsidies Couldn’t