Jay Peters
The Apple archives.
The Wall Street Journal got to see a bunch of prototypes of Apple products and talk with CEO Tim Cook about them. The prototypes are so dang cool. I wish I could go see them for myself!
Tech Archive
Archives for April 2026
Andrew Liszewski
This watch straps a playable version of Mega Man 2 to your wrist.
The latest addition to My Play Watch’s collection of gaming wearables is a $79.99 Mega Man version, available for preorder soon, with themed watch faces, sounds, and matching straps. Instead of distracting you with notifications it includes a custom version of the NES’ Mega Man 2 playable on the watch’s small touchscreen.
If your laptop is stranded on Windows 10, the solution isn’t a new laptop. It’s a new operating system.
Stevie Bonifield
Digital health screeners weren’t a thing until the Apple Watch. It’s shaped how we think about wearables ever since.
Victoria Song
Allison Johnson
David Pierce
Andrew Liszewski
8BitDo celebrates Apple’s 50th anniversary with a 5-pound keyboard.
The company has given the all-aluminum NES 40th edition of its Retro 68 Keyboard an Apple II-inspired makeover. The new AP50th Limited Edition features a shell, keycaps, and buttons all made from aluminum alloy, and for $499.99 it will ship in June 2026 with a pair of matching wireless programmable buttons.
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Elizabeth Lopatto
“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
The abrupt closure of a tuition-free private school founded by Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg’s wife, will dump extra students into a local school district, increasing expected enrollment by 20 percent.
Now there’s a $70 million bond measure up for votes to help deal with the influx. The text of the measure says the closure created “an immediate crisis” for the school district.
Zuckerberg-funded school to close, creating ‘crisis’ for Bay Area district
[San Francisco Chronicle]
Jay Peters
Meta may not fund the Oversight Board after 2028.
The company has already reduced funding to the Oversight Board this year and “has signaled that it will do so again in 2027 and 2028,” according to Platformer’s Casey Newton. The two sides are still in talks.
Jay Peters
Sheena Vasani and Brandon Widder