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  • Where to preorder the new iPhone 17E before it hits stores on March 11th
    by 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 more
    by 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 less
    by 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 chip
    by 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 Neo
    by 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 wars
    by Tina Nguyen on March 4, 2026 at 2:15 pm

    Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes inside Washington’s increasingly existential clashes between tech and politics. If this was forwarded to you, can I interest you in a full-fledged subscription to The Verge for only $40 a year? You’ll get so much more than doomer scenarios. We cover non-existential fun

  • PlayStation is reportedly moving away from PC ports
    by 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 platform
    by 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 web
    by 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 year
    by 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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