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Plaud's One earbuds put a 4G radio in the charging case
Plaud's One Explorer Edition earbuds come with a charging case that has 4G LTE and an eSIM. Only 2,000 are being made, at US$249.99.
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Arden Lux
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Arden Lux covers the Tech desk, with 21 stories on phones, gadgets and the companies that make them. That includes the foldables and stands at IFA in Berlin, Amazon's redesigned Kindle and Fire TV Stick 4K, and Qualcomm's 2nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chips. Lux has also covered Apple's new Macs, including the 2nm M6 Mac mini.
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Intel's Nova Lake-S needs the new LGA1954 socket
Intel’s Design-In Tools store listed an ILM kit for LGA1954 NVL-S on 30 August. Nova Lake-S will not drop into today’s LGA1851 boards.
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Apple puts M5 Max and M5 Ultra in the Mac Studio
On 25 August Apple put M5 Max and M5 Ultra in the Mac Studio. Pre-orders are open, and it ships on 22 September. The 512 GB model follows in late October.
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Apple's 2nm M6 lands in the Mac mini, M5 Ultra in the Studio
Apple's first 2-nanometre chip starts at US$899 in the Mac mini, and the M5 Ultra Mac Studio starts at US$5,499. Both ship on 22 September.
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Samsung’s S26 FE is first in the family onto One UI 9
Samsung's Galaxy S26 FE is the first S26 phone on One UI 9 and Android 17. It goes on sale from 4 September, with no price on the newsroom pages.
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Nvidia's Spark keeps 128 GB of model in a 150 mm box
Nvidia's DGX Spark has a GB10 Grace Blackwell chip, 1 petaflop of FP4 and 273 GB/s of memory bandwidth. It launched at US$3,999 and is now US$4,699.