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- Where to preorder the new iPhone 17E before it hits stores on March 11thby Sheena Vasani on March 4, 2026 at 2:29 pm
Apple’s week of product announcements kicked off with the iPhone 17E, a phone designed for those who don’t want to spend north of $700 on their next upgrade. The iPhone 16E follow-up won’t officially launch until March 11th; however, preorders are now open at Best Buy and Apple’s online storefront, as well as carriers like
- All the news about Apple’s MacBook Neo, iPhone 17E, and moreby The Verge on March 4, 2026 at 2:24 pm
Apple is kicking off March with a flurry of product announcements ahead of a “special Apple experience” on March 4th in New York City, London, and Shanghai. Apple started on March 2nd by announcing the iPhone 17E. The new $599 phone has a lot of welcome additions over the iPhone 16E, like support for MagSafe
- iPhone 17e hands-on: nothing more, nothing lessby Nilay Patel on March 4, 2026 at 2:23 pm
Apple announced the $599 iPhone 17e earlier this week, and we just got a chance to play with one for a few minutes at the company’s “experience” for media in New York City. The 17e is more or less exactly what you’d expect – a cheaper, simpler riff on the iPhone 17 that replaces the
- Apple launches $599 MacBook Neo powered by an iPhone chipby Stevie Bonifield on March 4, 2026 at 2:19 pm
Apple just announced a new entry-level MacBook that runs on the same A18 Pro chip that launched two years ago in its iPhone 16 lineup and starts at $599. The MacBook Neo features a 13-inch (2408 x 1506) display, 8GB of RAM, 256GB or 512GB of storage, a Magic Keyboard, multi-touch trackpad, 1080p camera, two
- Our first hands-on look at Apple’s MacBook Neoby Antonio G. Di Benedetto on March 4, 2026 at 2:15 pm
Here is the MacBook Neo, Apple’s new entry-level Mac laptop. Its colorful chassis options easily set it apart from current MacBook Air and Pro models. But the biggest difference is that inside the Neo is an A18 Pro iPhone chip instead of an M-series processor Apple typically uses in its laptops and recent desktops. The
- AI is now part of the culture wars — and real warsby Tina Nguyen on March 4, 2026 at 2:15 pm
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- PlayStation is reportedly moving away from PC portsby Andrew Webster on March 4, 2026 at 2:03 pm
It sounds like PlayStation is putting its focus back on console exclusives. According to a report in Bloomberg, Sony’s gaming division is moving away from porting PS5 games to PC, which reportedly includes cancelling plans for a PC port of Ghost of Yōtei. It’s a big change from a few years ago, when Sony said
- Raycast’s Glaze is an all-in-one vibe coding app platformby David Pierce on March 4, 2026 at 1:08 pm
AI tools like Claude Code have made it possible for users to build software with no coding knowledge whatsoever. That’s not to say the process is easy, though: You may not need to write code directly, but you need to understand how your computer’s terminal works, how to deploy and maintain software, and deal with
- How a prize-winning cartoonist brings hand-drawn comics to the webby Kristen Radtke on March 4, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Jailed during the 2021 coup in Myanmar, American journalist Danny Fenster spent six months as a political prisoner. For much of his incarceration he battled boredom and fear, subsisting on meditation and podcasts on an SD card smuggled in by mail, sent by his girlfriend, Juliana. Now, nearly five years after his release, he collaborated
- I’m not ashamed to admit the Kobo Remote is the best gadget I’ve bought this yearby Andrew Liszewski on March 4, 2026 at 11:30 am
Does anyone really need a remote for a device you’re already either holding or using at arm’s length? E-readers have saved us from the risk of paper cuts and the burden of physically turning pages, but Kobo is making it even easier by releasing a wireless page-turning remote. The Kobo Remote might be indulgent and
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- Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusionby Rebecca Bellan on March 4, 2026 at 2:58 pm
A father is suing Google and Alphabet, alleging its Gemini chatbot reinforced his son’s delusional belief it was his AI wife and coached him toward suicide and a planned airport attack.
- Meet the MacBook Neo, Apple’s colorful answer to the Chromebook, starting at $599by Amanda Silberling on March 4, 2026 at 2:57 pm
Apple is offering the MacBook Neo at a more affordable price point by using an A18 Pro chip, which is used in the iPhone 16 Pro.
- One startup’s pitch to provide more reliable AI answers: crowdsource the chatbotsby Rebecca Szkutak on March 4, 2026 at 2:00 pm
CollectivIQ looks to give users more accurate answers to their AI queries by showing them responses that pull information from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok — and up to 10 other models — all at the same time.
- Who needs data centers in space when they can float offshore?by Tim De Chant on March 4, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Offshore wind developer Aikido will deploy a small data center beneath a floating offshore wind turbine later this year.
- Eight Sleep raises $50M at $1.5B valuationby Ivan Mehta on March 4, 2026 at 11:00 am
Eight Sleep said it was free-cash-flow positive in 2025, and plans to use the new funding for new products, global expansions, and clinical validation.
- Why AI startups are selling the same equity at two different pricesby Marina Temkin on March 4, 2026 at 12:31 am
Some AI founders are using a novel valuation mechanism to manufacture unicorn status.
- A suite of government hacking tools targeting iPhones is now being used by cybercriminalsby Zack Whittaker on March 3, 2026 at 11:27 pm
Security researchers say exploits used by governments to hack into iPhones have been found to be used by cybercriminals. They warned of an emerging market for “secondhand” exploits.
- Alibaba’s Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI pushby Jagmeet Singh on March 3, 2026 at 11:16 pm
Reactions rippled through Alibaba’s Qwen team after tech lead Junyang Lin stepped down following a major model launch.
- Just three companies dominated the $189B in VC investments last monthby Dominic-Madori Davis on March 3, 2026 at 10:38 pm
Crunchbase data shows a record $189 billion of global venture capital flowed to startups last month, with AI startups nabbing 90% of the capital.
- TikTok down for some in US, thanks to second Oracle outage since saleby Amanda Silberling on March 3, 2026 at 10:33 pm
TikTok experienced a similar outage just days after ByteDance divested the app’s U.S. operations.
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- Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?by Martha Muir, Financial Times on March 4, 2026 at 2:54 pm
Data center operators to sign pledge to supply their own power instead of relying on grid.
- The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple’s long-awaited colorful, lower-cost MacBookby Andrew Cunningham on March 4, 2026 at 2:18 pm
Cute, colorful laptop takes the place of the old $599 M1 MacBook Air.
- No fooling: NASA targets April 1 for Artemis II launch to the Moonby Stephen Clark on March 3, 2026 at 10:54 pm
“Engineers are assessing what allowed the seal to become dislodged to prevent the issue from recurring.”
- Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B dealby Scharon Harding on March 3, 2026 at 10:20 pm
Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
- FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger “a lot cleaner” than defunct Netflix dealby Jon Brodkin on March 3, 2026 at 10:05 pm
FCC to review foreign debt, but Carr indicates it will be a formality.
- What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipesby Jennifer Ouellette on March 3, 2026 at 8:23 pm
Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals.
- There are plenty of great choices if you want to spend less than $15K on an EVby Jonathan M. Gitlin on March 3, 2026 at 7:58 pm
There’s a lot of good Hyundai and Kia EVs in this price bracket, plus the Bolt and i3.
- M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Siliconby Andrew Cunningham on March 3, 2026 at 6:41 pm
Apple is using more chiplets and three types of CPU cores to make the M5 family.
- New MacBook Airs come with M5, double the storage, and higher starting pricesby Andrew Cunningham on March 3, 2026 at 3:58 pm
New Airs leave more room underneath for the rumored low-cost MacBook.
- Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in yearsby Andrew Cunningham on March 3, 2026 at 3:19 pm
New laptops come with more storage but also higher starting prices.


















