McDonald’s China and Lenovo just put a wireless mouse on sale that looks exactly like a carton of fries. The Fry Mark carries the familiar red-and-yellow box shape, with a top shell molded into a cluster of golden fries and the golden arches sitting on the base. Over sixty percent of that outer casing comes from plastic recovered from old Happy Meal toys.
Apple introduced the 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M6 chip on October 27, placing a 2-nanometer processor inside the same portable aluminum body that has defined the line for years. The M6 uses a 12-core CPU that includes what Apple calls the world’s fastest CPU core, paired with a 12-core GPU that embeds a Neural Accelerator in every graphics core. A dual 16-core Neural Engine handles the AI work, while unified memory starts at 16GB and can be ordered up to 32GB, with bandwidth reaching 170GB per second on the higher configurations.
Apple invites media to a Los Angeles experience this Wednesday for what reports describe as the long-awaited high-end MacBook Pro refresh. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and other sources point to 14-inch and 16-inch models that finally bring touch support and OLED screens to the Mac lineup. The gathering carries the tagline “Pro and tell,” with a press release expected around 10 a.m. Pacific Time followed by hands-on time for attendees. Shipping could begin as early as November 6.
Laptop stands usually arrive as thick aluminum frames or plastic ramps that claim portability while still demanding a dedicated sleeve in a bag. Less by Design treated that bulk as unnecessary once the basic job of lifting the rear edge became clear. Existing options like the Roost deliver solid height through aluminum and rubber pads yet weigh several ounces and stretch nearly ten inches long. Thin adhesive risers stay light but barely clear the desk surface. Both approaches left room for something that could disappear into a pocket yet still hold a laptop at a useful angle.
Buying a 2004 Dell Axim X50v for eight dollars and expecting usable 3D gaming feels like a long shot from the start. Rayly Retro picked up one of these Pocket PCs anyway, drawn by the Intel 2700G graphics chip that came with dedicated video memory and was meant to push sharper visuals than the usual software rendering of the era. Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition sits on the device, paired with a 624 MHz processor, 64 MB of RAM, and a 3.7-inch VGA screen that once stood out among its peers.
NVIDIA RTX Spark machines reached store shelves yesterday from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and MSI, with the Surface Laptop Ultra and ProArt models among the first available starting at $2,599. These systems pack a single superchip that combines a custom Grace CPU designed with MediaTek and a Blackwell RTX GPU into one package, sharing up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory so both the processor and graphics draw from the same pool without the usual split between system RAM and dedicated video memory.
A second screen can change how a laptop feels during long sessions of writing, spreadsheets, or video calls, and the InnoView 15.6 inch IPS portable monitor, priced at $49.99 (was $60), delivers that change in a package thin enough to slide beside a notebook in most bags. Measuring roughly a quarter-inch thick and weighing a couple of pounds with its included cover, the unit travels without demanding its own separate case or adding noticeable bulk to a daily carry. Once open, the matte IPS panel sits at 1920 by 1080 resolution with 178 degree viewing angles, so text stays readable and colors hold steady even when the screen sits off to one side of a laptop or leans back at an angle on a small table.
Guests at a wedding in Jiangsu province watched the bride guide her new husband through a calculation that looked ordinary on paper. The sum ran 520 times 10 plus 1,314 minus 514 minus 619 plus 666 minus 957 and landed exactly on 5090. In Chinese online shorthand those figures carry familiar meanings: 520 sounds close to the phrase for I love you, 1314 stands for forever, 514 suggests until death, 619 hints at escaping forever, and 666 simply means awesome. Once he arrived at the result, women standing beside the bride brought forward a large bag.
Bidding closed after twenty eight minutes of competition between two collectors when the Hatfield Apple One reached $1.148-million including the buyer premium at Bonhams in New York. That figure established a new world auction record for any commercially sold production Apple One and cleared the pre sale estimate of $500,000 to $800,000 by a wide margin.
Devyn Johnston has spent years chasing smaller and smaller gaming machines, and this latest effort pushes that habit into territory that feels almost stubborn. Inside the ZCOOI Mugitya FE9, an RTX 5090 Founders Edition sits in a chassis that measures only 56 mm thick across the top and 79 mm at the base, all while still packing a full desktop processor and a 1000-watt power supply. The case arrives as a set of thick CNC-machined aluminum pieces, each finished in black or silver anodizing with a few gray-gold accents on the nameplate and front panel, and the whole collection ships inside its own aluminum carrying case.