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Apple may be about to give the MacBook Pro one of its biggest upgrades in years, but the MacBook Air apparently has to wait a little longer for its turn. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to refresh the MacBook Air in early 2027. The upcoming model is expected to stick with a non-OLED display, even as Apple prepares to move its higher-end MacBook Pro lineup to OLED and touch support. Shikhar Mehrotra / Digital Trends The current MacBook Air is still pretty fresh Apple last updated the MacBook Air in March, moving the lineup to its M5…
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 18, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire From dishes to diapers: Seattle home-help startup Rosie raises $7M, eyes Austin and S.F. in 2027 Rosie, founded by two Amazon veterans, sells monthly memberships that families use to book vetted caregivers for childcare and household work. The company says it reached seven-figure annual recurring revenue within…
Flipping over this mouse reveals one of the more atypical design decisions being made: the lack of a bottom shell. Instead of an entire underside, there is a thin frame around the circumference of the mouse that holds six feet in place. Between them is a chasm that reveals the entire PCB and battery.Photograph: Henri RobbinsOf particular note is the PCB’s function inside the mouse: Instead of simply sitting inside of the shell, the PCB works as a primary structural component. Similar techniques have been used in designing supercars and sport bikes, with the Ferrari F50 using the engine block…
On the first day of its war against Iran, the United States killed 123 children when it targeted and struck an elementary school.The strikes, ultimately approved by humans, were facilitated by the US’s Maven Smart System, an AI-enabled software platform developed by Palantir Technologies that allows the military to aggregate, organize, and process battlefield data. Operators fed Maven intelligence classifying the elementary school as an Iranian military facility, and the system, in turn, marked it as one of the priority targets for day one of the war. Though the site was formerly part of a naval military base, it had…
Moonshot AI today introduced Kim K3.1 Pro, a large language model that can perform some tasks better than Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. The LLM is a post-trained, or upgraded, version of an algorithm that the Chinese artificial intelligence company released in July. The latter model, Kimi K3, comprises 896 individual neural networks with 3 trillion parameters. It only activates 16 of those neural networks at any given time to minimize inference costs. Moonshot AI also optimizes its models’ hardware footprint in other ways. Kim K3 features Kimi Delta Attention, a custom implementation of a memory-saving technology called Gated…
Still moving data by spreadsheet? Find out what data integration software can fix- and what to check before adding another tool to your stack. TL;DR Data integration software connects information across databases, business applications, and analytics platforms. But getting records from one system to another doesn’t automatically make them accurate, consistent, or ready to use. The right platform depends on the work you need it to support. Updating a reporting warehouse is different from synchronizing orders across business applications. Each comes with its own requirements for speed, transformation, security, and recovery. Start with a specific business process. Then evaluate the…
There’s a way to convert wired CarPlay to wireless, but you need to choose the right adapter first. Harry Howitt/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. CarPlay is compatible with hundreds of vehicles, but many of them require you to plug in your iPhone with a cable. While wired CarPlay offers greater stability, going wireless gives you more freedom to place your phone anywhere. The good news is that you don’t need a new car or an infotainment system upgrade to get wireless CarPlay. In most cases, a relatively cheap adapter does…
Vivo could have played it safe with the X500 series. Give the phones a slightly faster processor, slap on a new coat of paint, throw around a few AI buzzwords, and call it a day. Nobody would have been particularly surprised. Thankfully, Vivo seems to have had other ideas. The new X500 lineup consists of three phones: the X500, X500 Pro, and X500 Pro Max. But don’t let the names fool you into thinking these are simply three sizes of the same phone. Each model has its own identity, with differences in display size, processing power, and camera hardware. The…
Scholarship from across SHASS and beyond Over the symposium’s two days, research presentations, panel discussions, and performances offered attendees opportunities to engage with the role of SHASS in exploring today’s biggest societal questions.“We gather not so much to look back over the past 75 years, but to showcase where we are now, and share what we urgently aim to tackle together in the years ahead,” said David Kaiser, Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and professor of physics at MIT, who also served as chair of the symposium planning committee.The first day included a session on teaching and learning innovations. Faculty presented on…
It might seem obvious, but try not to sit on your iPhone Duo when you leave it open. That lesson comes a day after Apple’s foldable iPhone hit stores with lines of people queued up to buy the new device. Tech reviewer Zach Nelson dropped an iPhone Duo video on his YouTube channel, JerryRigEverything, testing the scratch resistance and bendability of the new $2,000 phone. Let’s just say that Nelson’s measured, soothing voice didn’t keep me calm as he meticulously destroyed the Duo. He subjected it to numerous scratch tests on both its cover and inner screens. Nelson praised Apple…