Saturday, November 7, 2026
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Tech / The Next Web ·
Apple expects its gross margin to fall to between 45% and 46% in the holiday quarter, from 47.9%, as memory chip prices rise. Apple gave the forecast on its earnings call on Monday. Its earnings release, the first under chief executive John Ternus, showed record September-quarter revenue of…
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Microsoft is about to launch its new Xbox Nano controller tomorrow, and the tiny device has a little secret. The Nano can connect directly to Xbox Cloud Gaming over Wi-Fi to improve latency. It's a feature Microsoft hasn't officially announced yet, but one I've been anticipating since the Xbox…
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Yvonne Bajela, a former partner at Phoenix Court, has closed Evertrue Capital’s debut fund at $17M. The fund was oversubscribed, meaning investors offered more money than it set out to raise. Evertrue invests at pre-seed, the earliest stage of startup funding, in AI and frontier technology companies…
Tech / Wired ·
Apple finally made ANC standard across the AirPods lineup. But should you still spring for the AirPods Pro 3?
Tech / The Verge ·
Even though I knew Microsoft's new Xbox Nano controller was tiny, I still gasped when I unboxed it a few days ago. The compact controller is small enough to slip into a pocket unnoticed, and it has been designed specifically for younger people, or for anyone with smaller hands. I'm not young, but…
Tech / The Verge ·
Microsoft has been doing a lot of work to improve memory usage and increase performance on Windows 11 PCs over the past year. Last month the company revealed Windows 11 is now "more responsive" and runs better on PCs with 8GB of RAM, and now the company is releasing a new update today that…
Tech / Wired ·
“I did a Latino community event [and said] we have to actually fucking vote to tell these motherfuckers to fuck off,” Nevada secretary of state Cisco Aguilar tells WIRED.
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NBC’s go-to data guru also isn’t quite sure what a subreddit is.
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Ahead of the midterms, WIRED talked to New York City’s mayor about data centers, AI in schools, and the future of the Democratic party.
Tech / The Next Web ·
The European Commission will examine how well the continent’s supermarkets can withstand cyberattacks after cooling systems failed at dozens of stores across at least six EU countries this week, Politico reported. The incidents will be discussed by the Commission’s Security College, agriculture…
Tech / Wired ·
The 3,200-pound satellite is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere later this week with a wide reentry zone covering parts of Africa, Australia, Southeast Asia, and South America.
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Tech / The Next Web ·
Top bankers and fund managers gave clashing views on the risks of the AI boom on Tuesday, at an investment summit in Hong Kong. Some warned that spending and valuations are running ahead of returns. Others said demand is still strong, Bloomberg reported. The remarks came at the Global Financial…
Tech / The Next Web ·
Nvidia has instructed its data centre partners to limit business with Chinese customers, requiring cloud computing providers to sell at least 51% of their services to non-Chinese companies, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. The rule applies to new contracts, leaving existing agreements…
Tech / Wired ·
The 4.1-billion-year-old meteorite is a “Rosetta Stone for Mars,” preserving clues about how the Martian environment has changed since the solar system formed.
Tech / The Verge ·
You're going to need a lot of extra storage space on your console if you're planning to play Grand Theft Auto VI later this month. Rockstar Games confirmed on Tuesday that the pre-load file will require up to 212GB "depending on your device." Rockstar says you can start pre-loading the game on the…
Tech / The Verge ·
Bethesda is officially confirming today that the next Elder Scrolls game will be called The Elder Scrolls VI Sentinel. The confirmation came in a less than 10-minute video celebrating 40 years of Bethesda game studios. It's been more than eight years since Bethesda officially announced the existence…
Tech / Wired ·
On Reddit and Discord, people addicted to opioids say SR-17018 can remove withdrawal symptoms. Despite its potential, the DEA has placed it in the same category as heroin.
Tech / The Next Web ·
Binance has replenished 95% of the crypto stolen in last week’s record hack, co-CEO Richard Teng said at Hong Kong Fintech Week on Tuesday, Reuters reports. The exchange remains in “very strong financial health,” Teng said. Hackers drained about $6.3 billion from Binance wallets on Thursday evening,…
Tech / The Verge ·
Almost 22 years after it was launched, NASA's Swift Observatory is now about to fall back to Earth on Wednesday after attempts to push it back into a higher orbit failed. NASA announced that the aging space telescope is anticipated to re-enter Earth's atmosphere at approximately 3:30AM ET (give or…
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More than 100 B2B product projects have now started from plain-language prompts on kabkin’s platform, the German engineering company said. Its Prompt-to-Product tool went live in early 2026. kabkin said it passed the mark before any broad paid media push or search campaign. Based in Wuppertal,…
Tech / The Verge ·
Peak Design, best known for its backpacks and travel bags packed full of useful features, announced it's expanding its collection of chargers and charging accessories with new devices that focus on pairing premium materials with innovative functionality. "Somewhere along the way, we accepted that…
Tech / The Verge ·
Three years ago, I told you how home 3D printers had evolved for speed, producing parts in minutes that used to take hours or days. Now, the next evolution is here: printers that can swap between materials on the fly, mix different colors to produce nearly the full rainbow, mix soft and hard…
Tech / The Verge ·
The iPad Mini sometimes feels like a trap. It is, in some ways and for some people, the perfect iPad: meaningfully larger than my phone's screen but still small and light enough to use for reading in bed or gaming on the subway. As most of the rest of the iPad line has tilted ever […]