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Apple unveils $799 Apple Watch Ultra 2, with an S9 chip, a second-gen UWB chip, up to 3,000 nits brightness, 36-hour battery, and a new Modular Ultra watch face (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Apple unveils $799 Apple Watch Ultra 2, with an S9 chip, a second-gen UWB chip, up to 3,000 nits brightness, 36-hour battery, and a new Modular Ultra watch face  —  Apple has announced Apple Watch Ultra 2, replacing the top-end model first introduced a year ago.

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Apple announces iPhone 15, with Dynamic Island, up to 2,000 nits brightness, or twice as bright as iPhone 14, a new 48MP main camera, and more, in five colors (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Apple announces iPhone 15, with Dynamic Island, up to 2,000 nits brightness, or twice as bright as iPhone 14, a new 48MP main camera, and more, in five colors  —  Apple has just announced the iPhone 15 and 15 Plus, and the big news is a USB-C port.  Finally!

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Apple announces a new FineWoven material for Apple Watch bands, made of 68% post-consumer content, and will no longer use leather for new Apple accessories (Mitchel Broussard/MacRumors)

Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: Apple announces a new FineWoven material for Apple Watch bands, made of 68% post-consumer content, and will no longer use leather for new Apple accessories  —  Apple has announced a new textile it’s calling “FineWoven,” which is made of 68 percent post-consumer content and is overall …

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Apple’s iPhone 15 features USB-C, the A16 chip from the iPhone 14 Pro, and a second-gen UWB chip; the 6.1″ iPhone 15 starts at $799 and 6.7″ 15 Plus at $899 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Apple’s iPhone 15 features USB-C, the A16 chip from the iPhone 14 Pro, and a second-gen UWB chip; the 6.1″ iPhone 15 starts at $799 and 6.7″ 15 Plus at $899  —  The iPhone 15 has arrived.  As anticipated Apple’s 17th generation handset took centerstage at today’s “Wonderlust” event in Cupertino.

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Bio: before buying Twitter, Elon Musk promised Jack Dorsey that, if Dorsey ever needed money, Musk would buy Dorsey’s stock at the $54.20/share takeover price (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios: Bio: before buying Twitter, Elon Musk promised Jack Dorsey that, if Dorsey ever needed money, Musk would buy Dorsey’s stock at the $54.20/share takeover price  —  Jack Dorsey had second thoughts about supporting Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, so Musk made Dorsey a secret offer he couldn’t refuse …

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As some supposedly “leaked” Harry Styles songs are being sold on Discord, fans and AI-analysis companies struggle to determine if the clips are AI-generated (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: As some supposedly “leaked” Harry Styles songs are being sold on Discord, fans and AI-analysis companies struggle to determine if the clips are AI-generated  —  Dozens of unreleased Harry Styles songs have leaked on underground Discords in the last month.  The fandom can’t decide if they’re real or AI-generated.

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Book8088 Slows Down to Join the Demoscene

As obsolete as the original IBM Model 5150 PC may appear, it’s pretty much the proverbial giant’s shoulders upon which we all stand today. That makes the machine worth celebrating, so much so that we now have machines like the Book8088, a diminutive clamshell-style machine made from period-correct PC chips; sort of a “netbook that

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