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Apple iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Besides new colors, on the outside, the iPhone 18 Pro Max looks mostly unchanged from its predecessor. But record-breaking battery life, jaw-dropping A20 Pro speed, and professional-grade camera upgrades make it the best Apple phone you can buy this year.

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Chinese scientists achieve 10 billion writing cycles in major future memory endurance breakthrough that improves…

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Sources: a group of 10 banks is providing a $22B loan to Blackstone and Alphabet's venture Crux AI, which provides compute for AI labs, to fund TPU purchases

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Our 24 Favorite Gifts Under $300 in 2026

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