Europe should make AI prove its value before giving it priority on the grid
Europe should make AI prove its value before giving it priority on the grid

Governments, households and businesses have a stake in how electricity networks accommodate the next wave of industrial growth. When someone proposes a major data centre development, the question extends beyond whether it can secure a connection to the…

The new OLED MacBook Pro brings back Apple’s iconic glowing logo after a decade

Apple has just released its touchscreen MacBook Pro, and there’s plenty to get excited about. It’s the first MacBook with an OLED display, powered by the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, and even gets the Dynamic Island from the iPhone. We’ve heard plenty abou…

The Best Lego GWP Set Of 2026 Is Here, But Not For Long

The most impressive Lego gift-with-purchase (GWP) set of the year is finally available in-store and online – but it’s gone after November 8.

PS5 Prism Collection Is A Nice Nod To PlayStation’s Classic DualShock

A set of radically transparent peripherals are headed to PlayStation 5, and they’re a complete blast from the PS1 past.

Google’s Next Mixed Reality Headset, Xreal Aura, Coming Mid-November at $1,099 to Start

A bit like VR, a bit like smart glasses, a bit like a tiny face computer.

Nvidia releases an open speech model that transcribes 40 languages
Nvidia releases an open speech model that transcribes 40 languages

Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model that transcribes 40 languages, translates 31 and labels up to eight speakers in recordings of up to an hour. It came with Granary v2, a free dataset of 463,062 hours of speech in 48 language…

The MacBook Pro finally gets a touchscreen with M5 Pro muscle and an eye-watering price

After years of rumors and anticipation, Apple finally unveiled the touchscreen MacBook Pro, or as it likes to call it, the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR display.  There’s no new chip, so the focus is entirely on the touchscreen. Apple has used tandem OLE…

Critical UEFI firmware flaw leaks early, leaving servers waiting for a fix
Critical UEFI firmware flaw leaks early, leaving servers waiting for a fix

A critical flaw in the firmware that starts most servers can let an attacker run code before the operating system loads. It sits in EDK II, the open-source code most firmware makers use to build UEFI firmware. TianoCore, which runs EDK II, rated the bu…

Apple ‘Pro and Tell’ event: everything announced this week
Apple ‘Pro and Tell’ event: everything announced this week

Apple closed out its week of product announcements with a “Pro and Tell” event on Wednesday, where it took the wraps off its long-rumored touchscreen MacBook Pro. Though Apple may have saved its biggest and most exciting update for last, it revealed a few other device upgrades and updates in the days leading up to […]

Apple launches its new touchscreen MacBook Pro

Apple’s new touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899