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Now’s a great time to pick up a new MacBook Air if you’ve been thinking about taking the plunge. Amazon has the M4-powered, 13-inch MacBook Air for a record-low price of $749 right now. The 25 percent discount applies to multiple colors, too. We ranked this as our favorite Apple laptop in our list of…

The Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX’s request to deploy an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, allowing the company to launch 15,000 in all. It has also allowed SpaceX to upgrade its Gen2 satellites with “advanced form factors and cutting-edge technology,” to operate across more frequencies and to add more orbital shells to optimize coverage…

Vision tests are an important part of life, but they aren’t always the most convenient things to work into your schedule. It’s an issue Eyebot thinks it has solved with its kiosk, which shrinks the time taken from 20 minutes to closer to three minutes. Plus, you don’t need to book an appointment where an…

French AI startup Mistral launched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight models on Tuesday, a launch that aims to prove it can lead in making AI publicly available and serve business clients better than Big Tech rivals. The 10-model release includes a large frontier model with multimodal and multilingual capabilities and nine smaller offline-capable,…