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Itโs been a while since weโve seen a good discount on the Apple AirPods Pro 3, but like the latest iPad Mini and the M5 MacBook Airs, a great one is happening now for October Prime Day. You can snag a pair of the noise-canceling earbuds that include five ear tip sizes, live translation, and fantastic sound for $179 at Amazon (originally $249). I expect other retailers to offer a similar price in the coming days.
This is the first time the price has gone below $190 since Prime Day in June. Since then, Apple launched the AirPods 5, and the most feature-complete version with a wireless charging case costs $149.99. Those are great if you prefer earbuds that donโt form a seal in your ears, but for everyone else, the AirPods Pro 3 are a much better value at just $30 more right now.
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Amazonโs October Prime Day has effectively chopped off Appleโs June price increases. Usually $1,299, the 13-inch MacBook Air with the M5 chip and 512GB of storage is on sale for $1,099 at Amazon. Thatโs a more palatable price for a machine thatโs significantly faster than Appleโs $699 MacBook Neo.
The 15-inch version, also with 512GB of storage, is $1,299 at Amazon (was $1,499). In addition to the larger screen, it has two additional speakers, for a total of six, and two additional GPU cores for better overall graphical performance.
The latest update to Appleโs midrange laptop includes a noticeable improvement to the speed of both the processor and storage. Even without flashy new features compared to the last-gen model, itโs still one of our favorite laptops, thanks to its long battery life, bright screen, and excellent speakers.
Apple bumped up prices on several of its devices in June, and we havenโt seen a good discount on the iPad Mini since. Just ahead of Amazonโs October Prime Big Deals Days, however, both Wi-Fi only and cellular-connected models are $100 off. The Wi-Fi version with 128GB of storage is currently $499, the 256GB model is $599, and the cellular model with 128GB of storage is $649.
This base configuration of this tablet often sold for around $400 throughout 2025, so we get it if $500 for a tablet from late 2024 is still too much. But itโs the best price since late June, and if thereโs a new version coming out later this year, it might be significantly more expensive.
We reviewed this version of the iPad Mini when it launched in 2024, and while we appreciated the processor upgrade and Apple Intelligence features, it felt lacking in some of the quality-of-life improvements found in the larger iPads that launched around the same time.
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Google didn't even call the first Chromebook a "Chromebook." The Cr-48 had no interesting design and no bright logos - it wasn't even designed to be a product you could buy. Instead, it was a portal to a big new idea about computers.
In this week's episode of Version History, The Verge's Nilay Patel and MKBHD's Marques Brownlee join David Pierce to help explain the history of ChromeOS and Chromebooks, and discuss whether Google's approach to computer hardware was the right one.
This has been an exciting season of Version History, as we've been exploring the most iconic school tech. Last week's episode explored Nicholas Negroponte โฆ
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We are spoiled for choice, musically. Most of us walk around with access to hundreds of millions of songs in our pockets. But it wasn't until 1998 that portable digital music was even a thing. Before that we lugged booklets full of CDs on the bus or stashed a handful of cassettes in our backpacks. With the advent of the MP3 player in โฆ
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This week, I'm wishing I could do Walmart potato drone delivery in Portland, watching Mike Tomlin explain his incredible Minecraft city, pondering if the Gears of War pizza cutter is awesome or terrible, exploring Craig Mod's walks, nodding along with MKBHD's video about YouTube's A/B video testing feature, hoping that more concerts ban phones, and celebrating soup season. It's here!
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If one form of energy becomes the cheapest, most secure, and cleanest, youโd probably adjust your economy to use more of it, right?
Thatโs one of the ideas underpinning a report the International Energy Agency issued last week about the global move toward electrification. Fatih Birol, head of the IEA, discussed some of the concepts from the report the following day at the United Nations.
โMany, many years in the energy world, we had three choices in front of us. Shall I choose the most secure energy option? Shall I choose the most economic energy option? Or shall I choose the cleanest energy option?โ he asked. โWe have to make choices, we have to make trade-offs but when we look at the world today, for the first time in years, all of these three objectives are getting aligned.โ
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