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Today, Apple announced its new budget MacBook. At $599, it looks seriously impressive. While I haven’t tested its performance, battery life, or display just yet, it may end up being hard to beat at that price based on some of the specs alone.But that doesn’t mean the competition isn’t there. I want to recommend a couple of Windows laptops deals that offer various advantages over the MacBook Neo, showing where the Neo has both strengths and weaknesses.First, check out this Asus Vivobook 14, a laptop I’ve been happy to recommend as a budget computer for the past year. In many…

Getty Images UFC is back in a big way on Saturday when the promotion returns to Las Vegas for its third numbered event of 2026. UFC 326 goes down from the T-Mobile arena with a ceremonial title fight in the main event. “BMF” titleholder Max Holloway takes on former lightweight king Charles Oliveira. Holloway is a former featherweight champion and one of the greatest fighters in the history of that division. Holloway won the featherweight title when he unified the interim title with the undisputed title, then held by Jose Aldo, in June 2017. He made three successful defenses of the…

Today the White House announced that several major players in tech and AI have agreed to steps that will keep electricity costs from rising due to data centers. Under this Ratepayer Protection Pledge, companies are agreeing to practices that are intended to protect residents from seeing higher electricity costs as more and more businesses create power-hungry data centers. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle and xAI have all apparently signed on. A few of the participants — Amazon, Google and Meta — had conveniently timed press releases patting themselves on the back for their participation and touting whatever other policies…

I am not a powders person. Protein powders, smoothie additives, workout supplements—hard pass. I might drink some electrolytes if I’ve run 13 miles, but in most items I drink, I like a clean-looking ingredient label that contains items I can readily identify as food. But when I was sampling mushroom coffees and coffee alternatives, many of which arrive in an instant powdered form, I got a bag of Clevr Blends Sleeptime Latte. The bag is a blend of magnesium glycinate, adaptogens like ashwagandha and reishi, and an herbal mix of passionflower, valerian root, and hops. Not to go full wellness…

ArdAzAei founder Bahareh Ardakani has been quietly doing ready-to-wear for several seasons now. This PFW, however, she made it more official, staging a presentation in her couture atelier on the Rue Saint-Florentin.“It’s all about making versatile pieces that can be layered and styled in different ways, and that reflect the movement in couture,” Ardakani explained during a walkthrough. Echoing July’s couture outing, called The Folded Sea, a tightly edited knitwear lineup had intricately engineered gills, called fleurs-de-mer after sea anemones, that could be tugged this way and that to spiral around the body.Innovative knitwear is Ardakani’s latest obsession—not surprising, given…

Epic Games and Google are burying the hatchet, but documents released today reveal that they aren’t only aligned on how Google is shaking things up for app stores. The two companies have also agreed to terms about a new class of apps that they’re calling “metaverse browsers,” according to a heavily redacted section of a revised binding term sheet.While the term “metaverse” has largely fallen out of favor — Mark Zuckerberg, for example, is now much more interested in AI — Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has been talking for years about the metaverse and how it might work in the…

Mike ReissMar 4, 2026, 03:40 PM ETCloseMike Reiss is an NFL reporter at ESPN and covers the New England Patriots. Reiss has covered the Patriots since 1997 and joined ESPN in 2009. In 2019, he was named Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association.Multiple AuthorsFOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots informed veteran wide receiver Stefon Diggs that he will be released at the start of the 2026 league year next week, according to a league source.Diggs’ salary cap charge was set to rise from $10.5 million to $26.5 million, which was the catalyst for the…

To be in the Apps Experience Program, apps titles must meet the following requirements. These requirements will be updated on a regular cadence with reasonable developer notice.a. Developers must publish titles on all required form factors with exemplary quality (as defined by the requirements below). Required formfactors will vary based on the app’s category, which will be published as part of the program requirements, where the form factor’s constraints would meaningfully degrade a quality experience on that form factor (e.g., video playback on a watch), and except on particular devices where there is not a viable technical solution to provide…

Broadcom reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue and issued a strong forecast for the current period, as the chipmaker continues to benefit from the artificial intelligence boom. The stock rose about 3% in extended trading on Wednesday.”We have line of sight to achieve AI revenue from chips, just chips, in excess of $100 billion in 2027,” Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said on a conference call with analysts. “we have also secured the supply chain required to achieve this.”Here’s how the company performed in comparison with LSEG consensus:Earnings per share: $2.05 adjusted vs. $2.03 estimatedRevenue: $19.31 billion vs. $19.18 billion estimatedRevenue jumped…

Apple Music is changing the way that record labels and distributors can flag AI-generated or AI-assisted content when they upload it to the platform. According to Music Business Worldwide, Apple sent a newsletter to industry partners on Wednesday to explain how it will roll out a new set of metadata to promote transparency around how and when AI is used in music. Metadata typically refers to fields like the song title, album title, genre, artist name, and other information that helps keep files organized. Now Apple Music will add the option to include metadata tags that distributors can use to…