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Dell is making good on its tease from CES and finally announcing a new XPS 13. The XPS 13 returns as a budget-friendly option, launching in July at a promotional student price of $599 — though that introductory deal only runs until September for back-to-school shopping; it’ll start at $699 for everyone else. The $599 promo exactly matches up with the MacBook Neo’s starting price, but students can actually get Apple’s budget laptop for $100 less. That means Dell has its work cut out proving that the XPS 13 is worth the extra money.This will be Dell’s thinnest and lightest…

Apple isn’t just looking to take on Meta in the smart glasses market; it’s looking to upend eyewear as a whole, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. When the Apple Watch launched, it wasn’t simply competing against the Pebbles and the Motorolas of the world. The company also had Swatch, Fossil, and Seiko in its crosshairs. Similarly, Apple’s smart glasses will be positioned not just against Meta and Samsung, but against Oakley, Ray-Ban, and Warby Parker in the $200-$500 range.Apple Watch generates an estimated $17 billion annually, but eyewear is a potentially even bigger prize. Where the watch market is worth…

NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang is set to take the stage for his GTC Taipei keynote at 8PM PT / 11PM ET. You can watch all the announcements here and embedded below. Rumors have been flying about what to expect from today’s presentation, but the big one is the possibility of a partnership with Microsoft and a renewed Windows on ARM push. Microsoft has been teasing a “new era of PC” for its Surface lineup, and expectations are that new ARM processors from NVIDIA, dubbed the N1 and N1X, will be powering these yet-to-be-announced computers.Microsoft actually tapped NVIDIA’s Tegra ARM CPUs…

My eyes have seen the PC gaming promised land, and it’s a beautifully bright world without a shred of blurriness. It’s warm, it looks lovely, and it’s impeccably sharp. Also, it’s expensive as hell.I’ve dipped my toe in this world by testing a pre-production version of the upcoming Asus ROG Strix Scar 18, which was recently announced ahead of Computex 2026. It’s a gigantic 18-inch gaming laptop that comes with a top-of-the-line 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX CPU and can be fully kitted out with an RTX 5090 Laptop GPU and 128GB of RAM. Asus sent me a model…

United flight 236 from Newark to Palma de Mallorca on Saturday night was forced to turn around just an hour after takeoff due to security concerns around a Bluetooth signal. Multiple Redditors claimed to be on the flight and reported that the crew repeatedly requested passengers to turn off their Bluetooth. According to one poster, the crew issued a one-minute warning, saying that two devices were still active.One Redditor reported flight attendants making comments like, “This little joke is ruining it for everyone.”An archived recording from Air Traffic Control (embedded below) confirms that the root of the issue was the…

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about gadgets and smartphones, follow Dominic Preston. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here.In 2023, the European Union agreed on two landmark pieces of legislation mandating how portable tech products with batteries must be designed, aiming to improve longevity, repairability, and recyclability. Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1670 came into force last year and applies specifically to smartphones and tablets, while Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 takes effect next year and covers almost every other piece…

Despite headwinds from the current administration, automakers continue to release well-equipped EVs with bigger battery packs and increasingly faster charging speeds. For those who want to travel further between plugging in, the future is still bright, just slightly tinted.But there haven’t been many sedans starting around or below $50,000, as crossover SUVs have largely taken up this territory. Now, Mercedes-Benz has released its CLA compact sedan which ticks every box above for the 2026 and 2027 model year, and throws in pleasant interior amenities and fun driving character for good measure.The CLA with EQ Technology (Mercedes’ term for “EV”) is…

Windows-based gaming handhelds have really started to mature recently. Microsoft is partly to thank for putting some much-needed work in on the software side, while hardware makers like Asus, Lenovo and MSI have had multiple device generations to discover what works – and what doesn’t. That puts a bit of pressure on Acer, who is still relatively new to the party in the West, to impress. The Predator Atlas 8 looks like a particularly good start. Having just tried one at the firm’s Computex showcase, it has features I’ve yet to encounter on a mainstream handheld. It was also my first…

Qualcomm needs Snapdragon C to be a hit. The firm’s first foray into truly affordable laptop territory comes while the cost of memory and storage are still intergalactic (denting at least some of the appeal of its higher-end Snapdragon X2 silicon) and as Apple is turning heads with the budget-minded MacBook Neo. While HP and Lenovo have confirmed they have Snapdragon C laptops in the works, Acer’s Aspire Go 15 was my first chance to try one out in person. I walked away from a brief hands-on session ahead of this year’s Computex tech show thinking the foundations of a…

With a better-than-4K resolution and all-new panel hardware, the AW3926QW might have just raised the bar for Alienware’s mainstream gaming monitor line-up. Announced ahead of Taiwan’s Computex show, the firm’s new flagship screen is also its first to use an RGB stripe OLED, which aims to address some of the issues with existing OLED tech. Tandem OLED is already doing the rounds on (among other gadgets) the latest Apple iPad Pros. It uses two layers of blue and independent layers of red and green sub-pixels, arranged in a three-subpixel RGB layout, to give a much sharper and better defined picture.…

I haven’t seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time — that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a joke. SpaceX is a threat. And if Musk and his bankers have their way, you are going to be their bagholder.Lots of the top-line details leaked long before the S-1 filing itself became public. There’s the rumored valuation of more than $1 trillion. That’s despite the nearly $5 billion in losses last year. The total addressable market (TAM) for SpaceX — the amount of revenue SpaceX thinks it could make…

Craig Campbell walked away from the river of investor money flowing into AI to create, of all things, a website.Sure, Campbell probably could have started an AI company. He’s a former engineer at Meta and an experienced tech founder who in 2022 sold his last venture — an e-commerce tool for businesses that use Shopify — right as the AI boom was booming. “I had my prior VC investors breathing down my neck, going ‘start something else. We’ll write you a blank check.’” He had other ideas.People generally aren’t rushing to get into the website business, what with the Google…