⌨️Good keyboard and multi-touch trackpad
🔊Solid speakers
🔋6-8hrs of real battery life
🎮 Not great for gaming unless Apple Arcade
🔌 Slow charging (from USB 3/2-speed USB-C ports)
💵 Affordable, starting at $600
Yep, the budget PC/Chromebook market is about to get disrupted
Our MacBook Neo review is live on @gizmodo.com. @kylebarr.bsky.social put the $600 laptop through its paces:
👍Sturdy aluminum design
🌈Fun colors
💻Great Retina display
💪A18 Pro chip performance is decent
☑️No app compatibility probs
🎱8GB RAM is more than sufficient for
browsing/streaming
⚡️All USB-C ports now Thunderbolt 5
🥵 Small design limits sustained performance
🤑So expensive
It's a very in-depth review. Make sure to get comfy before reading gizmodo.com/m5-max-macbo...
The Apple reviews keep on coming @gizmodo.com. @kylebarr.bsky.social reviewed the 14-inch M5 Max MacBook Pro and the performance is just BONKERS
💻Incredible Liquid Retina XDR display
💪M5 Max chip performance is 📈
🎮 Plays games with ray tracing really well
🔊Great speakers
🔋Good battery life
Overall, it's a way better value than the iPhone 16e was
Reviewed the iPhone 17e. For the same $600 as the iPhone 16e when it launched, Apple added everything that was "missing" including:
🧲MagSafe charging
🖼️2x storage (256GB vs. 128GB)
⚡️A19 chip
💪Ceramic Shield 2 for better scratch resistance
📶C1X modem for solid 5G/4G
This is SO INSANE. @grammarly is impersonating me and other tech journalists/editors in its "Expert Review" AI feature
The AI feature basically uses my name and @Gizmodo to appear as if we're offering editing/writing suggestions.
The feature, which launched in August, claims to help you “sharpen your message through the lens of industry-relevant perspectives.” When users select the “expert review” button in the Grammarly sidebar, it analyzes their writing and surfaces AI-generated suggestions “inspired by” related experts. Those “industry-relevant perspectives” include the likes of Stephen King, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Carl Sagan, among many others. The Verge found numerous other tech journalists named in the feature, as well, including former Verge editors Casey Newton and Joanna Stern, former Verge writer Monica Chin, Wired’s Lauren Goode, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Jason Schreier, the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill, The Atlantic’s Kaitlyn Tiffany, PC Gamer’s Wes Fenlon, Gizmodo’s Raymond Wong, Digital Foundry founder Richard Leadbetter, Tom’s Guide editor-in-chief Mark Spoonauer, former Rock Paper Shotgun editor-in-chief Katharine Castle, and former IGN news director Kat Bailey. The descriptions for some experts contain inaccuracies, such as outdated job titles, which could have been accurately updated had Superhuman asked those people for permission to reference their work.
The endpoint of journalism is that an AI startup turns you into a fake "editor" without telling you and against your will www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Grammarly has some fucking balls to include this and think it excuses them. How do we sue these fuckers? What kinda fucktard over there thought this would be a good idea?
Grammarly's disclaimer: "References to experts in Expert Review are for informational purposes only and do not indicate any affiliation with Grammarly or endorsement by those individuals or entities."
It's pure identity theft—scraping my entire career's worth of tech stories and then lying to its users/customers that their writing will sound more authoritative as if I actually edited them
This is SO INSANE. @grammarly is impersonating me and other tech journalists/editors in its "Expert Review" AI feature
The AI feature basically uses my name and @Gizmodo to appear as if we're offering editing/writing suggestions.
Dreamworlds #shotongalaxys26ultra
There it is: iPhone 17e announced. Starts at same $599. Preorder starting today, avail March 11
- MagSafe (up to 15W)
- Double storage starting at 256GB
- A19 chip (4-core GPU instead of 5-core in iPhone 17's A19)
- Notch (no Dynamic Island)
- C1X modem
- Ceramic Shield 2 front glass
Max brightness level on both screens too
Privacy Display on Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra is very cool!
It also washes out blacks and turns them to hazy gray.
This is X with “lights out” setting aka pure black background
Regular S26 (left) vs. S26 Ultra (right)
Um... these Pokemon Waves and Winds starters...
My lil sister just texted me this lmao
Blizzard of 2026 mood
AirTag (2nd Gen) review coming soon. What do you wanna know?
Does anybody actually use Visual Intelligence via camera control on their iPhone?
I’ve only ever accidentally activated it after testing the feature out when it came out
Someone actually fixed the terrible Apple Creator Studio icons
www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comm...
Downloads for icons: macosicons.com#/u/designer_...
I said “hi kitty” to my cat
Siri on my HomePod activated and said “Hmm?”
That’s bad
The subscription bundle launches on 1/28
Apple really trying to become the affordable version of Adobe Creative Cloud
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
Apple just announced Apple Creator Studio. $13/month or $130/year gets you Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage
and "new AI features and premium content in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers."
College pricing is $3/month or $30/year
Got the Teenage Engineering Computer-2 PC case over holidays but now PC parts cost too much. Also is this damaged?
It wasn’t easy but we put together @gizmodo.com’s Best of CES 2026 Awards. Congrats to all the winners!
(Every product was independently chosen by me and my team. No company can buy our awards.)
gizmodo.com/gizmodo-best...
What’s in my CES 2026 bag? Check out @gizmodo.com’s live blog to find out my essential gear for surviving the tech event! gizmodo.com/live-updates...
Captain on this Delta flight to CES just announced the inflight infotainment is not working. How does that even happen?
Everyone on this flight is just gonna raw dog the whole way?
