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Apple has entered the foldables market with the iPhone Duo, adopting a shorter, wider form factor similar to Samsung's Galaxy Fold 8 and Google's Pixel Fold rather than taller folding designs. CNET's hands-on coverage notes the device is priced near $2,000 and offers Apple's typical build quality, though it lacks the camera and battery upgrades found in the iPhone 18 Pro Max.
ASML reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $13.06 billion, up 55% year-over-year, with a record gross margin of 57.5% and operating income of $5.79 billion. The company sold 121 lithography systems in the quarter, with EUV and DUV tools split roughly evenly in revenue, and said it now expects customer demand to exceed its production capacity in 2027 and 2028.
United has released a tracker letting passengers enter their flight number and travel date to see whether their aircraft has Starlink satellite Wi-Fi, including real-time updates if planes are swapped. The airline says 635 of its mainline and United Express planes now carry Starlink, covering nearly half of daily departures, with installations continuing at 20 planes per week toward completion by end of 2027.
Bee, the wearable AI startup Amazon acquired over a year ago, has released two new AI devices along with a Pro subscription tier and software updates. The flagship, the Bee Frontier, replaces the original Pioneer with a smaller, lighter design, more color options, IP67 water and dust resistance, and dual noise-filtering microphones. It retains the same 7-day battery life and USB-C charging as its predecessor, and still lets users record and summarize conversations via a single button press.
Adobe VP Deepa Subramaniam said the company has rearchitected Photoshop, Premiere and Substance 3D Painter to run on NVIDIA's new RTX Spark system-on-chip, which brings local AI processing to Windows laptops and small desktops aimed at creatives. Subramaniam claims the optimized apps run twice as fast on AI-driven tasks and general editing workflows, with improvements including real-time previews in Photoshop, faster rendering and color-grading in Premiere, and quicker texturing and file handling in Substance 3D Painter.
Bee, the AI wearable company Amazon acquired last year, launched its first new products since the acquisition: the Bee Frontier, a wrist or clip-on device priced at $74.99, and the Bee Eclipse, a $99.99 card-sized attachment for smartphones. Both devices record and summarize conversations into notes, to-dos, and calendar entries, with free basic features and an $11.99 monthly Pro tier for deeper integrations.
Canonical has released Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed Stonking Stingray, built on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base. The update adds Rust-based coreutils, post-quantum-ready package signing, TPM-backed full-disk encryption, Linux kernel 7.3, GNOME 51, RISC-V desktop images, and a new opt-in local speech-to-text feature called Myna. Companion flavors including Kubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu are also launching today, each with nine months of maintenance support.
Apple has launched a marketing push urging Chrome users to switch to Safari, claiming up to five additional hours of video streaming battery life on a Mac and page loads up to 35% faster. The faster-loading claim is based on tests of 12 popular websites run on 15-inch MacBook Air laptops with M5 chips and 16GB of memory under simulated network conditions. Chrome currently holds about 66% of browser market share versus Safari's roughly 18%, according to StatCounter.
Newegg has launched a new three-item PC component bundle combining AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB of G.Skill Trident Z5 NeoX DDR5-6000 RAM, and an MSI X870E Tomahawk MAX Wifi motherboard for $1,094, a $249 discount off buying the parts separately. The bundle also throws in a free Cooler Master Elite Liquid 240mm AIO cooler, valued at $79, to cool the 120W processor.
President Trump announced that the scheduled firing squad execution of former Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan, convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting that killed 13 people, will no longer be livestreamed as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had previously proposed. Trump said the execution will proceed as planned but without public broadcast, though victims' families will still be permitted to view it.
Ukrainian officials say Starlink/Starshield terminals moving above 100 mph stopped working this week, disrupting efforts to track and intercept Russian drones during intensified attacks on Kyiv. Elon Musk said any restrictions stem from the U.S. government, which he says owns and controls Starshield, pointing to the Pentagon and President Trump as the decision-makers rather than SpaceX.
A Washington Post list shows six major tech firms — Apple, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta — contributed a combined $92 million toward construction of a White House ballroom. Apple and Nvidia each gave $25 million, Google gave $22 million, Microsoft and Palantir each gave $10 million, and Amazon and Meta gave $5 million apiece. Overall, tech and crypto industry donors reportedly provided more than $150 million to the project.