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Apple weekend deals: AirPods Pro 3 25% off, MacBook Neo, Apple gift cards, iPhone Air, Apple TV, more

This weekend’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break has arrived with one of the best deals yet on AirPods Pro 3 at 25% off, $100 off AirPods Pro Max, and some notable offers courtesy of the Apple Certified Refurbished Store. We are also hosting the tail end of this weekend’s 500 price drop on M5 MacBook Pro. Some rare Apple gift card discounts you can use towards the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro launch also join Apple Watch Ultra 3 deals, and brand new, unlocked iPhone Air models at $150+ off the list prices. All tha

Aug 8, 2026 ·9to5Mac

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My favorite feel-good show is back

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 139, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, barbecue sauce, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Johnny Knoxville and Google Zero and the history of the bicycle, @all-ing everyone in all my WhatsApp chats just because I can now, rereading There Will Come Soft Rains because this week is when it happens, seeing if Sabbath can help fix my screen

Aug 8, 2026 ·The Verge

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Is this $450 laptop from an unknown brand too good to be true?

Cute name, especially if it were a wookiee. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That's what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance starting at $599. Windows laptops couldn't touch it. Even though it's gone up to $699, it's still the laptop to beat. So when little-known Chinese brand Chuwi

Aug 8, 2026 ·The Verge

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Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet

The Nitecore NB10000 Gen 4 power bank is a great option for endurance athletes and backpackers. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge There's two things you should know about me, your intrepid reviewer: I hate the feature creep associated with modern power banks, and I love shaving grams off the gear I carry when backpacking, bikepacking, and trail running. So imagine my delight when Nitecore released a new generation of its ultralight NB10000 battery. After a few weeks with it I can confidently

Aug 8, 2026 ·The Verge

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The gaming site sponsored by Walmart lays off its editorial staff

Restart, a games media website launched in late 2024 that was sponsored by Walmart, has laid off its "entire editorial team," according to a Friday post from Brandy Berthelson, the site's former editor-in-chief. Other staffers have also posted about being laid off. Restart is operated by Moonrock, a content marketing agency, though its editorial mission page says it's "powered" by Walmart. That page outlines how Walmart is (or was) involved: When we mention a game, we'll provide purchase links t

Aug 7, 2026 ·The Verge

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Four AI agents coordinating in real time outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 on enterprise coding tasks

As enterprise codebases grow, AI agents tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and tool calls. Dividing the work among a team of agents seems like the obvious fix, but it introduces a fatal flaw: most multi-agent systems are not designed for agents to coordinate among themselves mid-task and in real time. To solve this, researchers at Coral AI Labs and multiple universities introduced AgentRadio, an asynchronous message-p

Aug 7, 2026 ·VentureBeat

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