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The AirPods are Tim Cook’s most underrated achievement

Cook and incoming CEO John Ternus made a computer company the most important audio company of the 21st century.

John Higgins
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Framework says new Laptop 13 Pro has more Netflix battery life than an M5 MacBook Pro.

20 hours of 4K Netflix, says CEO Nirav Patel. It’s got a Core Ultra 3 chip, a 22 percent larger and denser battery, a custom 30-120Hz VRR screen and LPCAMM2 compression mounted memory. Full story coming soon.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Stick a 10Gbps port into your Framework Desktop or Laptop.

It’s even bigger than Framework’s existing 2.5Gbps expansion card, and will definitely stick out the side of your machine. But it’s fast! (Framework gave up on foldable Ethernet ports when it turned out their internals were too chunky, BTW.) The company isn’t yet saying how much it’ll cost.

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An ethernet port sticking out of a dongle
The WisdPi 10G, designed by a Hong Kong company, will be sold in Framework’s online shop.
Image: Framework
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
“The industry wants you to own nothing and be happy. We want you to own everything and be free.”

That’s Framework CEO Nirav Patel, with a message that’s sure to resonate with his modular computer company’s fanbase. He briefly joked that Framework would announce “Framework AI” today.

The Mac is in good hands in Apple’s post-Cook era

After promoting Johny Srouji, I expect Apple to continue focusing on what makes its recent Macs so great: the chips.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Wearable health tech might be Tim Cook’s greatest legacy 

Cook once said Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind would be ‘about health.’ If true, he’ll get much of the credit.

Victoria Song
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Watch Framework launch ‘next gen’ modular gadgets right here at 10:30a PT / 1:30p ET.

We’re here at Framework’s Next Gen event in San Francisco, and you can follow along with the livestream. It’s been teasing a lot of Linux: what do you think we’re about to see?

Oppo’s new phone has one camera too many

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The Find X9 Ultra has the best 10x telephoto lens yet, but would be a better phone without it.

Dominic Preston
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
You can now talk to Google Home again without saying “Hey Google” every time.

When Google launched Gemini for Home, it put one key feature behind a paywall. Continued Conversation became available only on Gemini Live, which required Google Home Premium.

Starting today, users in Early Access can once again ask follow-up questions to Google’s voice assistant on their Google Home devices without saying “Hey Google” every time, and without paying. Another bonus is that the feature now works with all supported languages and in all regions.