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Apple has never been known for making affordable products. So when the company launched the MacBook Neo at $599, it caught everyone off guard, including its biggest rivals. With the education pricing of $499, the MacBook Neo is an even more enticing product for students.  As reported by PCMag, Asus co-CEO S.Y. Hsu didn’t mince words on a recent earnings call, calling it a “shock to the entire industry.” He believes that the entire Windows PC ecosystem, including Microsoft, Intel, and AMD, is actively discussing how to respond. That’s quite the statement. The PC industry is already feeling the heat…

The next OnePlus flagship is already shaping up to be a big upgrade over its predecessor, the OnePlus 15. A new leak has revealed more information regarding the OnePlus 16, hinting at a powerful Qualcomm Snapdragon flagship chipset along with a big upgrade to zoom photography. While the phone is still months away from an official release, the leak points to a device with improved hardware. A bigger 200MP zoom camera According to a Weibo tipster, one of the most notable rumored changes involves the OnePlus 16’s telephoto camera. The next-gen flagship is expected to use a 200MP periscope telephoto…

We’ve been there. You spend twenty minutes crafting the perfect prompt, an AI spits out a gorgeous Instagram graphic — and then you realize the font is slightly off and the background color clashes with your brand. Now what? Re-prompt and pray? That’s essentially been the state of AI-generated design: beautiful outputs, zero editability. Canva is calling that out directly with Magic Layers, a new feature now live in beta across the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia. How does Magic Layers work? Here’s how it works: drop in any flat PNG or JPG, and the tool reverse-engineers it — pulling out…

At the 2026 Game Developer Conference, Microsoft finally unraveled the mysteries of its next-gen gaming console, the Xbox “Project Helix.” The company is continuing its partnership with AMD to develop the upcoming Xbox console, and has also revealed when the kit will land in the lap of developers. What’s inside the Xbox Project Helix? “Project Helix is powered by a custom AMD SoC and co-designed for the next generation of DirectX and FSR to unlock what comes next,” says the company. Microsoft says the console’s custom AMD chip will support the next-gen iteration of DirectX and big improvements in ray-tracing.…

Your Android phone could soon feel faster without any new chip or hardware upgrade. Google has introduced a new optimization technique called AutoFDO, which squeezes more performance out of Android devices by improving how the operating system’s core code is compiled. AutoFDO targets the core part of Android, the kernel, that sits between your apps and the phone’s hardware. It handles tasks like memory management, scheduling apps, and talking to hardware, which ends up consuming 40% of CPU time on Android devices. This is why optimizing the kernel can make the device run faster with smoother scrolling, quicker app launches,…

At its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference — held inside a former church in San Francisco’s North Beach — Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, a cloud-based AI agent designed to function as a persistent digital worker. Always on. Never takes a lunch break. More than can be said for most employees. Announcing Personal Computer.Personal Computer is an always on, local merge with Perplexity Computer that works for you 24/7.It’s personal, secure, and works across your files, apps, and sessions through a continuously running Mac mini. pic.twitter.com/EpvilVX6XZ— Perplexity (@perplexity_ai) March 11, 2026 So what Perplexity’s Personal Computer actually is? Personal Computer is…

NASA is preparing to conduct its first spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) in nearly a year, ending an unusually long break for the activity. Truth be told, NASA had a spacewalk planned for early January but called it off after one of the two participating astronauts experienced a serious health issue that ultimately forced the early return to Earth of a SpaceX crew. The space agency is currently targeting March 18 for a spacewalk involving NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams. Coincidentally, the spacewalk is scheduled for the 61st anniversary of the first-ever spacewalk. The milestone was…

Thick As Thieves is my most anticipated game of the year, but surprisingly, I know very little about it. Though it’s been in development for years, the asymmetrical stealth multiplayer project has remained shrouded in mystery since its announcement. I even sat down for an intimate behind-closed-doors demonstration at Summer Game Fest and still have a limited understanding of the project thanks to a campus-wide internet issue that complicated our short session. The universe works in mysterious ways – apt for a stealth game steeped in peculiar magic.Despite the poor showing, my excitement and curiosity remain unwaning. OtherSide Entertainment is…

Apple’s foldable iPhone is eyeing a Fall season debut, and it seems the device will make a splash with a refined software that will make the best of its wide inner flexible screen. According to Bloomberg, the purported “iPhone Fold” will run iOS, but apps will dynamically go from a condensed page-after-page layout on the small outer screen to a side panel format when they run on the bigger foldable screen. What’s the big change? “Apple is developing new iOS app layouts and revamping its core iPhone programs to add sidebars along the left edge of the screen, similar to…

In February of this year, New York Attorney General (NYAG) Letitia James sued Valve over the loot boxes present in games like Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2. In a report from Reuters, James said that the mystery boxes were “promoting illegal gambling and threatening to addict children” and referred to them as “quintessential gambling” in violation of New York gambling laws.Today, Valve posted a statement on steampowered.com sharing its thoughts on the lawsuit. The blog post was not attributed to anyone specific, but in it Valve writes about mystery boxes being perceived as gambling. “We don’t believe…