Apple released the new 13.6-inch MacBook Air with an M5 chip in March of this year, and its impact is being noticed by users whose mobile lifestyles rely on capable hardware and portability. People who are constantly on the move, such as video content providers, or students who carry their gadgets across campus on a daily basis, benefit from this combination. The aluminum shell weighs 2.7 pounds but is only 0.44 inches thick.

The 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display supports screen resolutions of up to 2560 by 1664 pixels. Brightness is up to 500 nits, and it supports one billion colors and a wide gamut, making what you see in images and videos much more lifelike. The text remains incredibly fine at 224 pixels per inch, allowing you to work late into the night editing documents or spreadsheets without suffering from eye strain headaches. Plus, the True Tone technology is sophisticated enough to automatically alter the white balance to fit the lighting in the room, which is quite useful while staring at a computer for long periods of time.

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Under the hood is the M5 chip, a 10-core CPU with four performance cores and six efficiency cores for maximum efficiency. You start with an 8-core GPU and can upgrade to a 10-core GPU if you desire. A 16-core neural engine handles heavy tasks in real time, and memory bandwidth is 153 gigabytes per second.

The battery life lasts for even the longest of days, according to Apple, and the 18 hour mixed use rating includes video conversations, document editing, as well as streaming, so you don’t have to constantly run to the outlet. When you use the included adapter, it charges quickly and returns to full speed in about an hour.

On the left side, you’ll find two Thunderbolt 4 ports that can handle charging connections, external drives, and displays. The other edge features a headphone connector for connecting wired audio. Wireless connectivity is also excellent; Wi-Fi 7 keeps you connected even in congested places, and Bluetooth 6 provides crystal-clear links to your headphones or other peripherals. If you want to expand your workspace, the laptop allows you to connect two monitors at the same time when the lid is closed.

Typing feels completely natural on the illuminated keyboard, as the keys have just enough travel to provide feedback without all the unpleasant clacking. The trackpad responds quickly to your gestures, and the big area gives you an excellent idea of where your fingers are. Furthermore, Touch ID makes it extremely simple and quick to log in, eliminating the need to fumble for passwords or other credentials. The 12-megapixel camera in the bezel above the screen keeps your face crisp during video conversations, while the four speakers fill the room with sound for movies or music, including spatial audio.

I’ve never been a fan of Apple’s MacBook, but I have to admit that the platform is getting a lot of things right. Living with Windows has been a hassle recently, and Apple has been inching ahead for all the right reasons. While I still rely on Windows, familiarity alone isn’t the whole game anymore.

In 2026, there are some macOS conveniences that feel less like luxury perks and more like basic computing features Microsoft should have figured out by now. And the annoying part is that Apple’s advantage is not always raw power or flashy AI. A lot of the frustration comes from smaller, more practical things. These are the sort of features that quietly save time, make things feel super smooth, and make a computer feel like it belongs in the same world as the phone in your pocket.

Sharing Wi-Fi passwords should not still feel this good on a Mac

This is the one that always gets me. Apple lets you share Wi-Fi passwords from an iPhone, iPad, or Mac to another nearby Apple device almost instantly, as long as the devices are nearby and the accounts are properly set up. I’ve seen people around me use this feature for years, and it feels like I’m locked out of it.

You can even share Wi-Fi passwords from a Mac to another Mac, iPhone, or iPad. It is such a small thing, but it feels magical in the exact way modern computing should. Meanwhile, Windows still makes something this basic feel manual. You’re still stuck relying on good old memory. But in 2026, this is just embarrassing.

Universal Clipboard is still one of Apple’s most unfair advantages

Seamless is the thing you come to expect from the Apple ecosystem, and nothing showcases this more than the Universal Clipboard feature. Copy something on your iPhone, paste it on your Mac. Copy an image on your Mac, drop it into a message on your iPad. Apple’s Universal Clipboard sounds boring until you actually use it, and it becomes the kind of feature you start to miss immediately when you go back to a less-connected setup.

Apple officially supports this across iPhone, iPad, and Mac as a part of its Continuity stack. And this is what puts macOS ahead. It makes the ecosystem with multiple devices feel like extensions of one workspace. To be fair, Windows has gotten a lot better about linking to phones, but Apple still makes the handoff feel more invisible and more natural.

Unlocking your Mac with an Apple Watch is exactly the kind of laziness I respect

This may be the most Apple thing on the list, but I mean that as praise. If you are wearing an unlocked Apple Watch, your Mac can automatically unlock when you wake it, and the watch can also approve password prompts and admin requests. Apple supports this officially as Auto Unlock, and the convenience is obvious.

Is it life-changing? Probably not. Is it the exact sort of effortless quality-of-life feature that makes a platform feel more premium and more thoughtful? Absolutely.

Honorary Mention: Continuity Camera

Apple letting an iPhone become a Mac webcam is one of those features that sounds like a gimmick right until you realize how useful it is. Continuity Camera lets a Mac use the iPhone’s vastly better camera system wirelessly or over USB, and Apple also supports some nifty tricks like Center Stage, Portrait mode, Studio Light, and even Desk View.

You can also use the same Continuity feature to scan documents or snap photos straight into Mac apps like Notes, Finder, and others. Windows has caught up with native smartphone camera support with Phone Link, but it isn’t as feature-packed as Apple’s solution.

My problem with macOS is that it keeps getting the little things right

So my jealousy just comes down to Apple constantly solving everyday annoyances before Microsoft does, and once those solutions exist, it becomes harder to go back. Sharing Wi-Fi passwords, copying across devices, and unlocking your computer with a watch aren’t enough individually to make me abandon Windows overnight. But together, they create a kind of convenience stack that feels annoyingly mature.

I know we’re all excited for the upcoming iPhone Fold, but be wary of fake leaks — like the supposed unboxing video that’s been making the rounds online.

Upcoming phones will always be the subject of rumors and leaks, and no device is more hyped than the foldable that Apple has purportedly been working on for years. Lots of that early info points toward a release later this year during the usual September iPhone release window, which makes the lead-up fertile territory for falsified leaks like the aforementioned video. 

Unfortunately, with the advance of generative AI tools that fabricate videos based on text prompts and other inputs, it’s easier than ever to fake your way to internet fame. Nowadays, videos churned out by gen AI tools have the correct number of fingers on hands, better lighting and far fewer indicators that they’re inauthentic. 

But there are still some tells that you’re not seeing the real deal — both in the video and when it’s released.

First, let’s dissect the video. A person in a gray long-sleeved shirt or sweatshirt rotates a box labeled “iPhone Fold” and pulls it open. On the first watch, a lot of signature Apple elements are present. The product is tucked inside snug packaging and presented screen-side-out to the opener, and there’s both a charging cord and supplementary materials tucked underneath. It all looks authentic enough — at least believably not generated by AI. 

But AI or not, there are a few details that are strong evidence that this isn’t an actual Apple device. When opening the package, there’s a peel-off protector for the inner screen, not the outer. The multicolored insert claims the device is IP68 dust- and water-resistant, which is rare for foldables. Only the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold and Honor Magic V6, among a handful of others, have water-resistant ratings.

The device itself is suspect, and if not AI-generated, it’s likely 3D-printed. The cream-colored back makes an odd sound when scratched (unlike what glass or ceramic sounds like), and the device’s halves don’t fold neatly against each other — another thing that the design-obsessed Apple likely wouldn’t allow. What’s more, when it’s fully unfolded, the back of the supposed foldable has a big gap between both halves over the hinge, which other phone makers have solved in their flexible-screen devices.

There’s skepticism around its design, too. Yes, Apple’s patents point toward a wider style of foldables similar to the first Google Pixel Fold, but the supposed iPhone Fold in the video is so squat in its dimensions that its internal screen would make for bizarre dimensions that aren’t tall enough to fit the aspect ratio of, say, an iPad. 

iPhone Fold may or may not be the final name of the device, as rumors have disagreed for years on its product designation, with the most recent suggesting it could be deemed the iPhone Ultra. 

Since we don’t see it turn on, there’s no indication of how its software is laid out — which form of iOS or even iPadOS it might use. That makes this short, squat design even more suspect.

And then there are the factors outside of the video. Apple leaks happen, but we’ve only had a few pre-release leaks like CAD files, official renders or cases that agree on a design — and yet, this is supposedly the iPhone Fold’s final form, which looks somewhat but not completely like a recent CAD render. 

To the video’s credit, taking this many words to suspect and disprove its authenticity is a credit to its plausibility. There’s a lot of commitment to Apple staples, from product packaging to theorizing the final design of the foldable itself. If nothing else, it’s a functional guess at what the supposed iPhone Fold might look like, and how it might look coming out of the box. 

We’ll know in September at the earliest if Apple chooses to release its foldable in that window — and I’m sure we’ll see plenty of other leaks and rumors on the device before then.

After achieving an 8.5 out of 10 repairability score, the Pixel 10a is one of the most serviceable mid-range smartphones currently on the market.

Following a teardown of the handset, PBKreviews awarded the Pixel 10a maximum marks in three of five repairability categories: finding replacement parts, replacing the screen, and replacing the battery.

This strong repairability result is a big win for the Pixel 10a, especially when considering its £/$499 RRP, as many rivals in the same price range score significantly lower. With this in mind, consumers could be more likely to opt for a Pixel 10a and seek out repair options, rather than buying replacements.

A rubberised mesh gasket protects the speaker from water ingress, a design detail that contributes to the phone’s IP68 water resistance credentials while keeping the internal layout accessible enough to avoid significantly complicating disassembly during repair procedures.

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The teardown process also requires a hair dryer or heat gun to loosen the adhesive securing the back plate which although is a common approach among mid-range smartphones, this does add a step that less experienced users may find challenging without the right tools.

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However, the Pixel 10a does lose ground in one area, with the USB port soldered directly onto the mainboard proving the trickiest fix in the entire teardown. This is an issue because soldered ports typically require mainboard-level replacement rather than a straightforward component swap, a limitation that offsets some of the accessibility gains elsewhere in the internal layout.

The internal organisation and time required for repairs sit in a middle ground, with the overall layout considered enough to avoid major disassembly headaches but not streamlined enough to match the simplicity of the battery and screen replacement processes.

The Pixel 10a officially launched in March, with an RRP of £/$499 for the 128GB model and £/$599 for the 256GB variant, both with 8GB of RAM.

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Dyson just announced its first-ever handheld fan, the HushJet Mini Cool. As the name suggests, it uses the company’s proprietary HushJet air projection system. This tech first showed up on an air purifier that .

Dyson promises the fan can deliver focused airflow of up to 25m/s, which works out to 55mph. The brushless motor spins up to 65,000 RPM. This thing looks like a legitimate cooling system, despite its size. It also weighs just 7.5 ounces.

It offers five speeds and a boost mode, which should be useful during that next heat wave. It charges via USB-C and ships with a charging stand. The fan can also stand on its own, making it a decent choice for a desk. The rechargeable battery can get up to six hours of use per charge.

The HushJet Mini Cool costs $100, which is cheap for a Dyson product but expensive for a handheld fan. It’s available in a trio of colorways. The gray model is available tomorrow. The red version goes on sale this May and the blue one will be available for purchase in June.

from the law-is-the-law,-losers dept

The courts keep pounding the nails home. What this government is engaged in is illegal, on multiple levels. If you subtract the pro-MAGA Fifth Circuit and 6/9ths of the Supreme Court, you have a judicial quorum that says rights are still rights, despite this administration’s claims otherwise.

DHS has issued memos claiming (without facts or law in evidence) that officers can arrest people and enter homes without signed judicial warrants. This has always been false. And it’s not edging any closer to the truth no matter what this administration might say in Truth Social posts and/or court filings.

The administration is losing repeatedly in its bigoted war on non-whites. But it never accepts obvious defeat. It always heads back to court, full of steam and bullshit. And, in most cases, its losses are even more obvious the second time around.

A federal judge in California found on Wednesday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials had violated a previous order regarding warrantless arrests, and ordered agents operating in her judicial district to fully document their reasons for making any future stops.

The judge, Jennifer L. Thurston of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of California, had previously found that immigration operations in Kern County, Calif., appeared to have been based on racial profiling, with agents making arrests when people they stopped could not produce proof of citizenship on the spot. Last year, she restricted the agency from continuing to carry out random immigration sweeps in the region, citing a “pattern and practice of agents performing detentive stops without reasonable suspicion.”

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On Wednesday, Judge Thurston found that border agents appeared to have violated that order when they carried out an immigration sweep last year in a Home Depot parking lot in Sacramento.

The opinion [PDF] doesn’t cut corners or grant Trump’s DOJ more respect than it has earned. (It’s running in the red at the moment.) Multiple people who were arrested following a “targeted” operation, that saws mostly involved federal officers waiting in a Home Depot parking lot in hopes of rounding up day laborers, sued the government. The government has already lost once. This order clearly explains why the government is losing twice. Pretending conjecture is the same thing as established facts does nothing more than inform the court that you suck at your job.

The surveillance two days earlier somewhat contributes to understanding the statistical relationship, revealing that on one prior occasion, two out of a group of 20 individuals gathered in that location were noncitizens (roughly 10%). Yet, that statistic, which leaves the remaining 90% of the group unclassified, does little to dispel the concern that seeking work as a day laborer may be “[a] characteristic common to both legal and illegal immigrants.” See Manzo-Jurado, 457 F.3d at 937. Nor does it demonstrate that the Home Depot parking lot is used “predominantly” by noncitizens seeking day labor work.33 See id. at 936. Rather, the present record reveals little more than that the Home Depot parking lot is “a location . . . frequented by illegal immigrants, but also by many legal residents, [which] is not significantly probative to an assessment of reasonable suspicion.”

Yep. Fuck your “Kavanaugh stops.” Probable cause has never been “wow, they look kinda Mexican.” Hanging around places where you have a [checks government’s claims in support of its actions] 10% chance of catching illegal immigrants isn’t “probable.” It’s an inadvertent admission that you might be wrong 90% of the time.

The upshot of the ruling is this: The government needs to provide individualized reasonable suspicion, if not actual probable cause, to arrest migrants in California. The court does grant some concessions this DOJ definitely hasn’t earned, but at least it adds some guardrails:

The Court declines to preclude Defendants from using “boilerplate” when documenting stops and/or arrests pursuant to the PI Order and this clarification. However, Defendants are cautioned that copy and paste language may give rise to an inference that an individualized assessment was not made.

In short, if the government wants to claim its anti-migrant arrests are supported by reasonable suspicion and/or probable cause, it needs to show its work. And if the only work it can show has been cribbed from other cases, it should expect its overtures to be rejected by the court.

While this may not seem like much, it is at least worth the paper it’s printed on. The Trump administration seems incapable of flooding the zone at this point. It ran out of energy (and personnel) barely over a year into its unexpected resurrection. The DOJ no longer has enough lawyers to do everything the administration demands of it, much less press the dubious “but I’m a king tho” assertions Trump seems to feel it should be doing day in and day out.

Running a fast-break offense and a bet-you-miss defense only works until it doesn’t. The courts are delivering a counter-flood and the DOJ doesn’t have enough loyalists left to overpower the full-court press. The administration is headed towards an institutional collapse because whatever can be considered the “center” of this whirlpool of bigoted fuckwits will never hold. We’ll take every win we can get until we can finally celebrate the demise of a president who seems to think he’s the King George incarnation that makes his voter base so erect it will vote against its own interests.

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