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Apple Brings Touch to MacBook Pro at a Premium

Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook Pro pairs a tandem OLED display with the familiar keyboard and trackpad. Touch is reserved for the higher-priced models, leaving software support to prove whether the new input earns its premium.

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Google’s TPUs Move Beyond Google Cloud

Oracle will offer Google’s AI accelerators through OCI from 2027, while Bloomberg reports OpenAI intends to buy them. The moves could expand Google’s chip business, but the OpenAI purchase remains unconfirmed.

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A Supercomputer Is Headed for the Moon

HPE's next Spaceborne Computer will ride Astrolab's FLIP rover to the lunar south pole, testing GPU computing and AI where a network round trip is never trivial.

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PC Shipments Drop 20% in a Market Reset

Worldwide PC shipments fell by roughly one-fifth in the third quarter as early inventory buying faded and higher component costs reached customers.

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The First Nuclear Clocks Start Ticking

Two independent teams have closed the feedback loop on thorium-229, turning a long-promised nuclear timekeeper into an operating clock.

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Sony Brings AI Upscaling to the Standard PS5

QSSR arrives in Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei without requiring a PS5 Pro. Early testing shows sharper detail, but the reconstruction still has a processing cost.

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Alibaba’s AI Chip Bets on a 20-Gigawatt Cloud

Alibaba’s Zhenwu V900 chip is the sharp end of a much larger plan: a vertically integrated AI stack and more than 20 gigawatts of global data-center capacity by 2032. The ambition is clear; independent performance evidence is not yet here.

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Oura’s $2.2B IPO Leaves $6M for Growth

Oura and its shareholders may sell up to $2.2 billion of stock, but the smart-ring maker expects only about $6.2 million of its net proceeds to remain for ordinary corporate work after equity-award taxes.

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Googlebook’s Real Problem Is the App Shelf

Google’s first five Googlebooks are available to preorder from $899, turning its Android-and-ChromeOS desktop experiment into a real platform launch. The hardware looks ready; the much smaller catalog of desktop-ready Android apps is the test that matters.

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China’s New DRAM Process Still Has to Prove Itself

China’s CXMT says its fifth-generation DRAM platform is in mass production with 50% more gross dies per wafer. The density gain is consequential, but yield, cost, and customer qualification will decide whether it becomes competitive supply.

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Intel Stopped Paying Bug Hunters

Intel’s paid vulnerability program is suspended, and its replacement offers no bounties. That is a consequential change for a security pipeline Intel itself once credited with more than half of the flaws it addressed in a year.

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AI Chips Are Getting Too Big for the Old Sandwich

The next AI-chip bottleneck is not only transistor size. It is finding enough room to connect giant processors, memory towers, and the tiny bridges between them.

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The iPhone Finally Learned How to Open Like a Book

Apple’s first foldable iPhone uses matching inner and outer proportions, two batteries, and a vapor chamber. Now the hinge gets to meet real pockets.

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Your Lawn Mower Wants a Job Description

The latest smart-home pitch is refreshingly practical: fewer programs, fewer decisions, and a robot that knows the difference between grass and trouble.

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