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Archives for October 2026

Touchscreen MacBook live blog: On the ground at Apple’s launch event

It’s time to see how Apple rethinks the Mac for touch support, years after criticizing touchscreen laptops.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The GitHub Copilot app is getting a big update.

Along with support for projects, which lets you assign Copilot a task across multiple repos, the GitHub Copilot app now allows you to pick up your work where you left off when you switch to other devices. You can now create reusable AI automations within the GitHub Copilot app as well.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Would you put Amazon’s smart alarm clock in your bedroom?

The Echo Time is cute, has great clock faces, and is designed for the bedroom — no cameras allowed. I’m hoping it will fill the Echo Dot-with-clock-shaped hole in my life, and its design is a fun throwback to the 2017 OG spot.

But $200?? Here’s my hands-on video and first impressions:

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Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Moog is making amps for its synths now.

The world has plenty of guitar amps, but amps designed for synths are much rarer. Moog’s new Model 210 ($999) and Model 112 ($799) are full-range, flat-response (FRFR) cabs designed especially for synths, keyboards, drum machines, and other electronic music instruments. There are no tubes here, but they do have a fully analog signal path.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
It’s dangerous to sleep in! Take this.

I love the idea of waking up to a The Legend of Zelda themed alarm clock, but I’m less in love with the idea of silencing an alarm by handling a tiny pointed replica of the Master Sword when I’m still half asleep. The alarm clock, and a collection of other Zelda-themed items, will be available as part of an upcoming Banpresto merch lottery in Japan.

<em>The Master Sword alarm clock will slowly drain your health hearts until you extract the sword.</em>
<em>You can physically smash the Clay Pot Piggy Bank to retrieve your money, and every time you insert a coin it plays a rupee sound effect.</em>
<em>A quick nap on the Fairy Spring Pillow should replenish your energy.</em>
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The Master Sword alarm clock will slowly drain your health hearts until you extract the sword.
Image: Banpresto
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Here are my three favorite things about the new Echo Show 16.

And one thing I really don’t like.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
McDonald’s and Lenovo made a french fries-shaped mouse from recycled Happy Meal toys.

The mouse features a rechargeable battery, three DPI presets, Bluetooth or 2.4Ghz wireless connectivity, a carrying case that unzips into a mouse pad, and its housing is made from 60 percent recycled plastic sourced from returned Happy Meal toys. Unfortunately just 4,000 of them were made and only sold in China last week. To the eBay!

1/2Image: McDonald’s China