Apple today unveiled the new MacBook Neo, which starts at an impressive $599. I’m in New York City for Apple’s corresponding press “experience,” and just spent some time checking out the MacBook Neo in person.

You know the drill: new devices, new wallpapers. If you liked the MacBook Neo’s new default wallpaper, you can download it right here.

Apple just announced the new MacBook Neo, its most affordable Mac laptop by a lot. To achieve the $599 starting price, the new MacBook Neo makes a few compromises along the way. These are some you should be aware of when considering the MacBook Neo.

Apple’s new MacBook Neo is official, with pre-orders open now. One noteworthy feature that may be overlooked is that MacBook Neo sets a new record for recycled content in an Apple product.

Apple has just unveiled its new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo. And you can pre-order the new model now, starting at $599.

Apple’s has opened up pre-orders for the newest member of the iPhone 17 lineup. The iPhone 17e is now available to purchase after first being announced on Monday. Apple will officially release the latest iPhone on Wednesday, March 11.

Apple’s new MacBook Neo is now official. After already announcing six new products this week, Apple just unveiled the all-new MacBook Neo at its special “experience” in New York City. MacBook Neo is Apple’s first laptop powered by a chip that first appeared in an iPhone: the A18 Pro.

The Apple Store app and website has just gone down with the ‘Be right back’ message Apple uses ahead of major new product announcements.

We’re of course expecting the imminent announcement of the new entry-level MacBook, which may be branded as the MacBook Neo …

TikTok is setting itself apart from most other online platforms that offer messaging by stating that it won’t be introducing end-to-end encryption to ensure the privacy of direct messages.

This means that the company will be able to read messages sent between users, which is likely to cause concerns even after its US operations were separated from its Chinese owner …

We noted that the brand new M5 Pro and M5 Max versions of the MacBook Pro have a significantly different chip architecture to their predecessors.

While the M4 Pro and M4 Max models had a mix of efficiency and performance cores to balance battery life against power, the new models ditch the efficiency cores …

Prior to yesterday’s launch of the new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, Apple Silicon chips had two types of core: efficiency and performance.

The M5 chips now have three types of core, with a complication caused by the renaming of one of them. Here’s what’s going on …

Later this year, Google will release major updates for its Chrome browser on all platforms every two weeks to “get features [out] faster.”

As it usually happens when new Apple products are about to hit the shelves, early Geekbench benchmark results are already making the rounds. Here’s how two results credited to the M4 iPad Air turned out.

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group and security company iVerify have shared details about Coruna, an exploit kit that chains multiple vulnerabilities to target iPhones running older iOS versions. Here are the details.

The new VSCO Galleries app was designed to tackle the friction of shared folders in collaborative photography projects. Here are the details.

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As we previously reported, Google Maps is now rolling out a new gradient icon on Android and iOS.

Update, 6:39 p.m. ET: It looks like the issue has been resolved, as outage reports on X and Downdetector are now trending downward. The original post follows below.

As multiple users report that Facebook is currently down, Downdetector data suggests the outage may also be affecting other platforms owned by the company. Here are the details.

While Apple isn’t holding a traditional event for this week’s announcements, it’s releasing its usual product ads and promo videos. Here’s what’s been posted so far.

iOS 26 brought two brand new apps to the iPhone’s Home Screen, here’s how I’m using one of them: the Preview app.

Apple has launched a lot of new products this week, but as often happens, those introductions also mean discontinuations of existing products. Here are seven Apple products that have been discontinued this week.

Update: Oracle says the issue was resolved on March 4 at 4:18 a.m. ET. The original post follows below.

As spotted by The Verge, US TikTok is experiencing renewed service issues after a second Oracle outage in just over a month, with users facing delays and lag while posting content. Here are the details.

Vibe coding is becoming voice coding with Anthropic’s latest Claude Code feature rollout.

Apple is attending this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in an official capacity with three presentations on the calendar for March 11.