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Which Android is the closest counterpart to the iPhone 18 Pro Max?
The iPhone 18 Pro Max is a brilliant phone, but not everyone wants to live in Apple's walled garden. This is the closest competitor Android can offer.
MacBook Pro battery life in 2011 vs 2026: how much has it really improved in 15 years?
Apple's 2026 MacBook Pro is light-years ahead of its 2011 model in terms of performance. But is longer battery life one of those improvements?
HomePod Mini 2 first look: Three things I love and one disappointment
Apple’s second-generation HomePod Mini is a nice upgrade, but the biggest improvement hasn’t arrived yet. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge When I first heard about the new $149 HomePod Mini 2 at Apple's Welcome Home event last month, I was disappointed. It's been six years since Apple launched its entry-level smart speaker, and all it got in the second gen was a chip bump, some color glowy stuff, and…
Weekend Apple deals: Apple Watch Ultra 4, AirTag 2, MacBooks, AirPods, more
The early Black Friday Doorbusters have officially arrived for week 1 of the biggest deal season of the year alongside the ongoing pre-order price drop on the next-gen Apple TV 4K and $17.50 a pop, and nearly $100 off the new Apple Watch Ultra 4 . Moving over to the Mac, the latest M6 Mac mini is $150 off, the M5 MacBook Air has returned to the lowest prices in months at $200 off , and we have pre-order offers on…
Should you repair your phone or replace it? We did the math
The new Apple iPhone Duo has done much more than give fire to the conversation around foldable phones. It has also stirred up the conversation around repair costs — with its display replacement costing as much as a new iPhone 18 Pro — and how far we can reasonably take them, with ever-increasing smartphone prices. There is a threshold up until which repairing your phone makes sense, but beyond a point, it’s wiser to…
Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon
Nace AI has released Drex Max v1 as open weights . Drex Max is its most capable decision model, and it now runs on your own hardware. The release ships bf16 weights, a Q8_0 GGUF , an affine Q4 checkpoint and forks of llama.cpp and Ollama . For developers, Drex Max open weights mean routing, classification and policy checks can stay on a local machine. TL;DR Size: Dense 27B parameters, 262,144-token window (16,384 by…
Why your Apple AirPods' battery drains so fast and how to make it last longer
It's annoying when your Apple AirPods run out of juice, but the culprit might not be what you think. Here's what's going on and what you can do about it.
Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’
Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.
Why your Apple AirPods won't connect to your iPhone and how can you fix it
When your AirPods refuse to show up on your iPhone, the cause is usually simpler than you'd think. Here's where to look first and what to try next.
Everything Coming to Apple TV in November
Apple TV is continuing its commitment to original programming this month with a slate of star-studded new shows and movies. November will kick off with the return of Owen Wilson's feel-good golf series and end with a new Chris Pratt movie. You can check out what's premiering on the service in November below, or jump ahead to the full release schedule by day for more details. New on Apple TV in November Stick Season…
Here’s how the new MacBook Pro and macOS 27 are optimized for touch
Apple just unveiled the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR , its first MacBook with a touch display. While Apple already added a handful of touch optimizations to macOS 27 Golden Gate earlier this year, there’s also a number of new optimizations that were unveiled alongside the new MacBook Pro. Here’s what Apple worked on. more…
The Best Deals Today: Apple Watch Ultra 4, Ocarina of Time Remake, Pikmin 4, and More
A new weekend has arrived, and today, you can save big on Apple Watch Ultra 4, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Persona 3 Reload, Pikmin 4, The Adventures of Elliot, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Star Wars Zero Company, and more. Check out our top picks for Saturday, October 31, below. Save $100 Off Apple Watch Ultra 4 Amazon has the Apple Watch Ultra 4 smartwatch on sale for $799.99 this weekend. This saves you $100 off MSRP…
Indie App Spotlight: ‘Pumpkin Lights’ adds a fun jack-o-lantern to your Mac’s menu bar
Welcome to Indie App Spotlight . This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app world. If you’re a developer and would like your app featured, get in contact . Pumpkin Lights is a nifty little menu bar app for Mac that lets you quickly toggle between light mode and dark mode with a ray-traced jack-o-lantern that drops down from the top of your screen. It’s completely free, and…
PSA: Today’s the last day to purchase discounted cushion kits for Beats 360
Apple introduced the new Beats 360 headphones about a month and a half ago. I reviewed them , and really appreciated their customizable design, the fact that they offer automatic device switching, as well as their comfort. At the time, Beats offered launch pricing on additional sets of cushions, bringing them down from $50 to just $10. After today, that steep discount will be ending. more…
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR looks awesome, but I’m not rushing to upgrade
After five years, Apple released its first major MacBook Pro overhaul since the M1 Pro/M1 Max models, and well… it was a little bit underwhelming from a design perspective. The product is incredible on many merits, but after seeing it, I’m not left feeling like I need to buy one – at least not yet. more…
Apple Maps begins blurring NASA, Space Force, and Air Force bases
You’re not a real space or aviation nerd unless you’ve taken to a map service and zoomed on the historic NASA launch pads or your local Air Force Bases, just for fun, you know? However, a recent change to Apple Maps now has some of those locations blurred from view, blocking anyone from seeing fighters on tarmacs or rockets on launch pads. more…
Apple @ Work: Next to a growing token bill, Macs might start looking like a bargain
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Best Buy is bundling a $100 gift card with touchscreen MacBook Pro preorders
We got a chance to touch Apple’s latest MacBook at the “Pro and Tell” event. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge While the new touch-enabled MacBook Pro with the PROLED XDR screen is available for preorder across a few major retailers, Best Buy is sweetening the deal by including a $100 gift card. The gift card will be automatically added to your cart when you preorder one of Apple’s highest-end laptops…
9to5Mac Overtime 088: Finally, a touchscreen MacBook
Jeff and Fernando discuss everything from Apple’s big week of new hardware releases, including the M6 MacBook Pro, iPad mini 8 with OLED, and, of course, Apple’s new MacBook Pro w/ PROLED XDR Display. Is finally having a touchscreen Mac resonating with the Overtime crew? Tune in for a spirited discussion about it and the rest of Apple’s final new hardware releases for 2026. Sponsored by Rokform : Get your iPhone 18…
I took two iPhones on vacation. The Duo won me over.
The iPhone Duo has its frustrations, but it’s also fun and engaging enough that I didn’t want to switch back to my Pro Max.
Firm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs — Darkbloom network sees earnings drop to $1.23 a day as Anthropic tokens fall 77%
Darkbloom, a decentralized AI inference network that aggregates and sells spare compute capacity from Macs, told its members to expect revenues to fall as token prices continue to drop. According to The Register , the price per million tokens for Anthropic dropped by 77% in under five months, falling to $0.62 in October 2026 from $2.65 in May. Go deeper with TH Premium: AI shortages (Image credit: Nvidia) AI data…
Here's how much the iPhone Pro cost in 2019 vs. 2026
The iPhone Pro has changed plenty since it was released in 2019, but how do the 2026 iPhone Pro prices fare in comparison with its original price?
Mario Kart World Already Runs at Full Speed on PC via Switch 2 Emulator Eglantine, Just Over a Week After the Jailbreak
Just over a week ago, the Nintendo Switch 2 was finally hacked, roughly sixteen and a half months after its June 2025 debut on the market. This initial jailbreak opened the gates to the modding, emulation, and homebrew scenes. A few days ago, someone already showed the Switch 2 exclusive game Mario Kart World running on macOS and even on an iPhone 18 Pro; now, though, the first proper PC emulator has arrived. Modder…
Meet Factory Droid 1.0: A Model-Independent Coding Agent Harness Built on Script Mode
Factory has released Droid 1.0 , the largest update yet to the Factory Droid agent harness. The main change is programmatic tool calling, now on by default. The model writes a program that runs its tools. One model request can now drive hundreds of tool calls. TL;DR Size: Base prompt is 13,055 input tokens, down 37% from 20,887. Only 2 tool definitions ship up front, down from 11. Runs on: macOS and Windows desktop…