Joining and select configs back at the holiday pricing, today’s deals are headlined by just about every configuration of the going rate and $400 under the price they fetched before Apple upgraded to 16GB of RAM – pricing . We also have open-box models at up to to deliver some of the lowest prices all-time low alongside nearly in the game, , and much more in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break .

At CES 2025, announced a vast array of new products, including new Thunderbolt 5 docking stations, and a new 6-port 500W desktop charging hub. All of these products will be available in the coming months.

new Revodok Max 2131 docking station supports Thunderbolt 5, which the new can take advantage of. It offers 3 Thunderbolt 5 ports with 80Gbps of bi-directional bandwidth, and up to 120Gbps for display outputs when necessary. This allows

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Apple occasionally updates the App Store’s layout to make it easier to navigate, or emphasize one content section or another. But new changes recently rolled out that are especially prominent, and make new app discovery easier than ever on iPhone and more.

Apple recently rolled out changes to three of its App Store tabs:

All three have gained prominent app category buttons at or near the top of the page.

Category buttons themselves aren’t new, but they used to be placed much further down on a page.

Now

What do ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini all have in common? Dedicated apps on iPhone. Meanwhile, Grok has been shoehorned into the social media app before now. Starting today, the standalone Grok AI app is available on the iPhone and iPad for US users for the first time. More regions will be added as the rollout scales.

Grok is a generative AI tool similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It supports conversational input and output as well as image generation and text summarization.

Somewhat confusingly, Grok is a product

This spring, Apple is planning to launch a major iPhone SE 4 upgrade, and that new model will introduce a glaring problem for the iPhone lineup. Apple will likely sell two iPhones—15 and 14—at higher prices than the new SE, despite them being worse products in almost every way.

From 4GB storage to 1024GB, the iPhone has had an incredible run that isn’t slowing down, and it all started on this day in 2007. Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone to the world for the first time 18 years ago today.

Apple also opened pre-orders for the original Apple TV after Jobs revealed what was originally called iTV in September 2006. See both keynotes and press releases below:

Watch the original keynote here:

And here’s

Apple CEO Tim Cook has described the Los Angeles wildfires as “heartbreaking,” and said that the company will be making a donation to assist the recovery effort.

Multiple fires across parts of LA have so far led to at least five deaths, and forced more than 130,000 people to abandon their homes, and it’s feared there is more to come …

reports that the fires remain out of control.

Despite the efforts of firefighters, the biggest blazes remain totally uncontained – with weather conditions

I’m a great fan of robot cleaners , and they’ve grown more capable over the years. They started with vacuuming, then added mopping, then auto-emptying.

But this year’s CES announcements go further, and I can’t help feeling like companies are now just adding capabilities purely to have something to talk about …

Dreame kicked off the contest , whose claim to fame is that it can climb stairs. Don’t get me wrong – that could be a very useful feature, solving