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Apple will keep non-touchscreen MacBook Pro models on sale alongside its new model
Apple unveiled a MacBook Pro with a touchscreen and PROLED XDR display, arriving November 6 with a $400 premium, according to the outlet. The new device uses the same chips as the current line, though it adds a redesigned thermal system, a thinner and lighter design, slimmer bezels, a revamped audio system, Dynamic Island and the return of the glowing logo. Apple also decided to keep the non-touchscreen M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro on sale.
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YouTuber tears down the $499 Trump T1 and finds parts identical to a 2024 HTC phone
Zack Nelson, a YouTuber known for device teardowns, published a review of the Trump T1, the $499 phone unveiled by Donald Trump in June 2025. According to the video, the device matches the 2024 HTC U24 Pro in size, buttons, ports, a 6.78-inch 120 Hz display and internal components, and even booted up after the motherboards of both models were swapped. Nelson also noted that the U.S. flag printed on the phone has 11 stripes instead of 13.
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Apple defends new iPad mini display despite lacking 120Hz
The new iPad mini has an OLED display but does not support ProMotion, so its refresh rate is limited to 60Hz instead of 120Hz. David Pakula, Apple's vice president of hardware design, told Christopher Lawley in an interview that OLED has a much faster pixel response time than the LCD in the previous model, reducing motion blur. Apple cites a maximum brightness of 600 nits and up to 1,200 nits for HDR, with a 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio. It can be pre-ordered from $699 in the U.S. and launches on Friday, November 6.
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As search traffic dries up, Reddit says it will shift to a primarily logged-in experience
Reddit announced on its third-quarter earnings call that it will move to a primarily "logged-in experience," aimed at protecting its data from AI scraping and securing licensing deals with model providers. The company reported 130.3 million global daily active users, flat quarter-over-quarter, and a decline in U.S. daily users from 53.2 million to 50.7 million. Revenue rose 53% year-over-year to $895 million and net income climbed 74% to $283 million.
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iOS 27.2 brings Multiview to iPhone: up to four sports streams at once
iOS 27.2 arrived this week with an Apple TV app update that adds Multiview, a feature that lets users watch up to four live sports streams simultaneously. It was previously available only on Apple TV, iPad and Vision Pro. It is activated with a button in the player when starting a sports event and supports custom setups, such as driver cameras and track maps in Formula 1. The app carries F1, MLS and MLB, and Apple TV costs $14.99 per month.
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Google Home and Nest speakers get seven firmware updates, including Bluetooth and audio quality fixes
Google detailed the changes in the new firmware for its Home and Nest speakers, alongside updates for Chromecast with Google TV and Nest Wifi Pro. Google Home, Google Home Mini and Nest Audio get enhanced streaming performance for smoother audio playback, and the Google Home app gains faster and more reliable local device discovery. The update also fixes issues with speaker pair volume, Bluetooth streaming, visibility of speaker groups and stereo pairs, connecting to Wi-Fi 7 access points with WPA3, and ending Google Meet calls by voice.
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Gemini now lets users generate and edit Google Docs files inside the chat
Google Gemini can now generate, preview and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files and code directly in the chat window. The feature is available starting today for all Gemini users: PDF preview and editing works on both web and mobile, while all other formats are only in the web version for now. Users can expand documents to full-screen mode and highlight text to ask questions or prompt changes, such as turning a table into a graph.
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Google details new firmware for Chromecast and Nest Wifi Pro
Google Home release notes dated October 29, 2026 detail the firmware changes for the Chromecast with Google TV and the Nest Wifi Pro. The Chromecast with Google TV (4K) adds connectivity, media streaming and display performance improvements, along with the August 2026 Android Security Patch Level and general bug fixes. The HD model is also receiving the update, though the new build has not been posted yet. The Nest Wifi Pro gets three updates, including automatic failover to ISP DNS.
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Sura invests COP 15 billion in an AI platform to bring insurance to more Colombians
Seguros Sura invested 15 billion pesos in Escala CRM, a platform developed with technology company Escala that brings together policy information previously scattered across Excel files, emails and WhatsApp, and which uses artificial intelligence to automate repetitive tasks. The tool is already used by 1,400 advisors out of a network of about 4,600, and records 145,000 quotes and more than 230,000 integrated policies. It includes Otto, an assistant that anticipates renewals and sends notifications by email and WhatsApp.
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Report: Trump allegedly ignored intelligence on suspected Chinese spying on Jensen Huang to protect Nvidia's stock
According to The New York Times, Donald Trump was briefed about a year ago that Beijing was receiving reports from someone with direct access to Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO. That person would be Alice Huang (Huang Le), a former executive at Singapore-based cloud company Megaspeed who is not related to Jensen Huang. Sources cited by the newspaper say Trump chose not to act on the information, partly out of fear of hurting Nvidia's chip sales or the trade truce with China. Nvidia denies she had access to trade secrets.
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Report: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have been targeted by suspected Chinese spy
According to a New York Times report cited by Fox Business, U.S. officials concluded that a former cloud executive based in Singapore, Alice Huang or Huang Le, suspected of gathering intelligence for the Chinese government, met multiple times with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. The former executive worked at Megaspeed, a company that bought chips from Nvidia to build data centers and rent out computing power. Beijing rejected the allegations and Nvidia said such customer meetings are not unusual.
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Samsung launches the Galaxy W27, a China-exclusive foldable based on the Z Fold 8 Ultra
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy W27, a China-exclusive variant of its book-style foldable based on the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra with the same specifications: an 8-inch inner display, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 and a 200 MP main camera. It stands out for its golden accents, two colors (dark red and dark blue), 16 GB of RAM across all versions and optimization for Tiantong satellite communications. It starts at CNY 18,999 (about $2,800) and the 1 TB version reaches CNY 21,999 (about $3,300).
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Bogotá's C4 guided the capture of an alleged thief in TransMilenio using video surveillance
Bogotá's District Secretariat of Security reported a case in which operators of the Command, Control, Communications and Computing Center (C4) tracked a man accused of theft fleeing along Calle 26 via video surveillance, while a TransMilenio officer pursued him on the ground. Using the 291 cameras in the Teusaquillo district, the teams kept the suspect in view and coordinated the police response, which ended with his interception at a TransMilenio station and the recovery of the allegedly stolen items.
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Alphabet discloses USD 98.5 billion in contingent commitments tied to its AI expansion
Alphabet reported about USD 98.5 billion in contingent commitments it could assume under certain conditions, roughly USD 23 billion more than the previous quarter, according to its quarterly filing. They include guarantees for data center leases, backing for partners' purchases of electrical equipment and a possible buyback of up to USD 6.6 billion in AI chip systems. Google Cloud's backlog rose to USD 560.8 billion at the end of September, from USD 513.9 billion three months earlier.
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Google updates Chromecast, Nest WiFi and Home speakers with security patches and performance improvements
Google released updates this week for its Google Home products, from the app and Gemini for Home to the hardware it still supports. Chromecast with Google TV (4K and HD) gets the August Android security patch, bug fixes and improvements to connectivity, streaming and display. Nest WiFi and Nest WiFi Pro improve mesh network resilience and add Google Home Platform updates with security enhancements. Nest and Google Home speakers improve playback and fix Bluetooth and Wi-Fi 7 compatibility issues.
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San Nicolás school in Pereira to be rebuilt with seismic isolator
The San Nicolás educational institution in Pereira will be rebuilt with anti-seismic technology after the damage caused by the earthquake, with an investment of between COP 22,000 million and COP 23,000 million, according to Daniel Perea, vice president of Terpel. The project will include a seismic isolator to reduce the transmission of energy from earth movements and allow the school to serve as a shelter. The works would take between 18 and 24 months, during which students will have alternating and virtual education.
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AI is moving faster than the physical infrastructure that sustains it
An analysis argues that artificial intelligence is making the physical nature of the "cloud" visible: electricity, cooling, computing capacity, buildings, land and networks. The text cites the "AI factories" concept that Nvidia brought back into the spotlight this week with an announcement that exposes a paradox: that infrastructure could be installed in fourteen days if the site is ready, but securing land, power and infrastructure can take years. The author compares the situation to electrification after Edison's Pearl Street station in 1882.
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Mistral Says Its AI Model "Le Chonk" Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race
French AI lab Mistral claims its latest release, called "Le Chonk", matches or outperforms the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity, according to WIRED. With that claim, the company argues it has overtaken China in the race for open-weight AI models.
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UAO in Cali opens a lab that simulates a supermarket to study consumer behavior
The Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (UAO), in Cali, set up an academic and research laboratory that simulates a real supermarket to analyze how consumers make purchasing decisions and to strengthen training for workers in the retail sector. The initiative, identified as Rita LAAB and backed by the UAO's MediaLab, studies the impact of visual and sensory stimuli: in front of a shelf, according to the cited data, the brain can receive up to 66,000 stimuli per second. The project aims to expand into hardware stores and health.
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Apple prepares a touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED display and M5 Pro and M5 Max chips
Apple is preparing a MacBook Pro that brings touch control to this line for the first time, aimed at creative and professional tasks such as drawing, editing video or manipulating content without relying on the keyboard and trackpad. It will come in 14 and 16 inches with a tandem OLED panel, Dynamic Island, peak brightness of 2,000 nits and up to 120 Hz. It will include M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, Apple Intelligence, the new Siri AI and macOS 27 Golden Gate, with an announced 24-hour battery life.
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