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November 11, 2026, 2 min read
Tech, AI and apps
Consumer technology, AI models and the software people use every day.
News
Apple's first touchscreen Macs are on sale, starting at $2,899
The OLED MacBook Pro adds touch for a $400 premium. A smart home hub and a new Apple TV follow on Friday.
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The Justice Department now has a task force for AI misuse
News
Two releases move AI agents closer to where the work happens
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What a context window is, and why your chatbot forgets
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On-device AI versus cloud AI: what runs where, and why it matters
Health and wellness tech
Wearables, sensors and health software, and what their numbers mean.
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Heart rate variability: what your watch is measuring
HRV is the tiny variation in timing between heartbeats. Wearables use it as a signal of recovery and stress. Here is how to read the number.
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How continuous glucose monitors work
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How smartwatch blood oxygen readings work, and where they fall short
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VO2 max on your watch: how it is estimated
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What a sleep score measures, and what it guesses
Markets and trading
Stocks, prediction markets and the mechanics of trading.
News
Prediction markets called the midterms. Now they face the winners
Kalshi and Polymarket priced in Democratic gains early. Politico reports the result may bring closer oversight of both platforms.
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How prediction market prices work
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How an order book works: bids, asks and the spread
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Position sizing: the math of risking 1%
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Prop firm evaluations explained: targets, drawdowns and the fine print
How it works
Short explainers for the terms that keep coming up. No jargon left unexplained.
- What a context window is, and why your chatbot forgets
- Heart rate variability: what your watch is measuring
- How continuous glucose monitors work
- How prediction market prices work
- On-device AI versus cloud AI: what runs where, and why it matters
- How an order book works: bids, asks and the spread
- Passkeys explained: how signing in without a password works
- Position sizing: the math of risking 1%
- Prop firm evaluations explained: targets, drawdowns and the fine print
The last 18 months
The stories that set up today's news, filed under the month they happened. Each one was written in November 2026 and says so.
- October 2026October 2026: the Fed holds after its first rate increase in three years
- September 2026September 2026: Apple's first foldable, the $1,999 iPhone Duo
- August 2026August 2026: the first smart ring cleared to flag sleep apnea risk
- July 2026July 2026: campaign staffers kept trying to bet on their own races
- June 2026WWDC 2026: Siri rebuilt on Google's Gemini, and Tim Cook's goodbye
- June 2026Oura Ring 5: a thinner ring and a step toward the clinic
- May 2026May 2026: a $99 Fitbit with an AI coach, and Whoop adds doctors
- April 2026April 2026: the Fed's most divided vote since 1992
- March 2026March 2026: the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros
- February 2026Super Bowl LX was the day prediction markets became a sports business
- January 2026What the FDA's 2026 wellness rules let your wearable tell you
- December 2025December 2025: the Fed's third cut, and a split that did not heal
- November 2025The Cloudflare outage of November 2025: one oversized file
- October 2025The NYSE's owner put up to $2 billion into Polymarket
- September 2025Apple Watch hypertension alerts: what the FDA cleared in 2025
- August 2025GPT-5 arrived in August 2025 with a question attached
- July 2025The FDA's warning to Whoop over blood pressure estimates
- June 2025Circle's IPO: the day a stablecoin company rose 168%
- May 2025When OpenAI bought Jony Ive's hardware startup for $6.5 billion
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