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You can't read much into Mac sales shipment data, but IDC keeps trying

You can't read much into Mac sales shipment data, but IDC keeps trying

In a comparison between 2024 and 2025, IDC claims that Apple's Mac had the least sales growth of all PC vendors. While that may be true, the report lacks context. 14-inch MacBook Pro Market research firm IDC has now been running for over 60 years, yet at times its reports are more like guesswork . In all fairness, they practically have to be since it's now just over seven years since Apple reported sales volumes by unit. Prior to that, Apple reported actual sales while most firms revealed the number of devices shipped to stores and inventory. Apple figures were dead-on, but now IDC has to use its sampling methodology for all of its research. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Latin American VC funding rose 14.3% YoY in 2025 to $4.1B, with early-stage investment up 31.9% YoY to nearly $2B and late-stage/growth deals reaching $1.63B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Latin American VC funding rose 14.3% YoY in 2025 to $4.1B, with early-stage investment up 31.9% YoY to nearly $2B and late-stage/growth deals reaching $1.63B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News : Latin American VC funding rose 14.3% YoY in 2025 to $4.1B, with early-stage investment up 31.9% YoY to nearly $2B and late-stage/growth deals reaching $1.63B —  Latin American startup investment climbed by 14.3% in 2025, driven by a boost in both early- and late-stage funding, Crunchbase data shows.

Save $661 on HP’s high-end RTX 5070 laptop with Ultra 9 CPU today

Save $661 on HP’s high-end RTX 5070 laptop with Ultra 9 CPU today

Have you ever seen a laptop with a discount over $600? That’s huge . I mean, that’s more than the cost of some decent laptops on the market! So when a machine gets slashed down in price by that much, you have to take notice. Right now, the HP Omen Slim 16 is down to $1,449 at B&H with a glorious $661 discount. That’s right: you can snag this high-end $2.1k laptop for just $1.5k today if you’re quick. View this B&H deal As expected in this price range, the HP Omen Slim 16 is an absolute beast of a machine. It runs on an Intel Core Ultra 9 285H CPU with 16 cores alongside an amazing 32GB of speedy DDR5 RAM—a combo that’ll breeze through every task you throw at it, juggle numerous apps and browser tabs smoothly, and handle Windows 11 without choking. And did I mention a jaw-dropping 2TB of SSD storage? That’s cavernous, providing more than enough space for all your photos, videos, games, documents, and more, plus fast transfer speeds between drives. The cherry on top is the HP Omen Slim 16’s onboard GPU: the Nvidia RTX 5070. This upper-tier graphics card from the newest generation is an efficient way to future-proof your setup, as it will easily handle any gaming, video editing, streaming, and other resource-intensive creative tasks you throw at it. It’ll look good on the 16-inch IPS display with a crisp 2560×1600 resolution and a blazing-fast 240Hz refresh rate that’s more than capable of keeping up with your games. Frankly, this laptop is an absolute gem and you should take advantage of this massive discount! Score the HP Omen Slim 16 for $1,449 at B&H while you still can. If you’re looking for something a little different though, check out our picks for the best overall laptops . Save a whopping $661 on the HP Omen Slim 16 while you can Buy now at B&H

Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $130M Series C led by AVP at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $215M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $130M Series C led by AVP at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $215M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $130M Series C led by AVP at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $215M —  Usage of voice AI in sales, marketing, customer support, and consumer applications has shot up in the last few years.

Tesla launches a seven-seat version of the 2026 Model Y

Tesla launches a seven-seat version of the 2026 Model Y

Tesla's 2026 Model Y is now available on the company's site and it comes with a new (and old) option: a seven-seat version via a third row. The extra seating costs $2,500 and is only available if you order the Premium All-Wheel-Drive Long Range model. Tesla first teased the option last year via an email to prospective buyers with the promise of "seating for up to seven and enough room for everyone's gear," Electrek reported at the time. The new seats appear to be designed mainly for children as they don't offer much legroom, according to images on Tesla's configurator. Tesla notes that the seven-seat interior "features fold-flat second-row and third-row seats," though it's not clear if those seats fold down electrically like the second row. Tesla Tesla is facing increased competition , especially in the crossover/SUV category, and saw another sales decline last quarter. The company previously sold a seven-seat version of the Model Y in the US for a short time before it was refreshed early last year. Since then, though, it has only been available with five seats. Tesla launched a six-seat "Model YL" version in China in August 2025 with a six-inch wheelbase extension that the US model lacks. Elon Musk said that model would come to the US market in late 2026 or maybe "never." Otherwise, changes to the Model Y lineup are minor and confined to the Premium version. Those include a 20-inch dark-grey "Helix" "wheel option, a new black headliner, a bigger, higher-resolution 16-inch display and darker rear badging. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/tesla-launches-a-seven-seat-version-of-the-2026-model-y-130039385.html?src=rss

Drowning in tabs? OpenWorkspace’s two-zone desktop app offers a radical solution

Drowning in tabs? OpenWorkspace’s two-zone desktop app offers a radical solution

PC users have a hoarding problem. A tab-hoarding problem, to be more specific. Our browsers are filled to the brim with dozens, if not hundreds of tabs, lingering remnants of our web travels that we refuse to let go of in fear of never being able to find them again — even though sifting through endless browser tabs cripples productivity. OpenWorkspace , a new piece of Windows and MacOS software that was revealed at CES 2026, has an elegant solution to the tab-hoarding dilemma — and it does so by tossing the PC’s traditional application-focused approach out the window in favor of something that I personally find so much more compelling. In fact, I’ve tried kludging my way to similar workflows using a mish-mash of various tools in the past and OpenWorkspace does it so much more elegantly. I didn’t expect to stumble across software that could completely revolutionize the way I use my PC while wandering around the CES 2026 show floor, but hey, I guess I should expect the unexpected in Las Vegas. How OpenWorkspace reimagines desktop productivity OpenWorkspace’s press release calls it “a desktop automation platform that saves and automatically restores complete desktop layouts,” and while that’s technically true, if anything, it undersells the program’s usefulness a bit. Let’s walk through this step by step, starting with how the software actually handles before we get into the tab management bit. OpenWorkspace Designed for large monitors or multi-monitor setups, OpenWorkspace completely takes over your primary desktop with its dual-region “FocalContextual” interface. You’re able to define a section in the middle of the screen where one or more tabs — the core information about the project you’re currently working on — sit front and center. Supplementary tabs can be staged in a secondary holding section around the edges of the display, where they’re still available at a glance, but don’t dominate your central focus, ready to be summoned at a moment’s notice. Think of it like doing manual work on a physical desk; your immediate work sits in front of you, with supporting papers spread around the periphery. This is one of the two secret sauces baked into OpenWorkspace, and the concept that flips traditional computing concepts on its head. Windows 11’s current tiling system offers nothing like it. Opening the OpenWorkspaces interface summons it atop the current workspace for easy switching. Willis Lai / Foundry Think about it: Ever since the PC’s graphical user interface debuted in Xerox PARC in the 1970s, it has been focused on applications , not your actual workflow focus. That’s why tab hoarding happens; you keep all those sites open in a singular browser window. It’s no way to live. OpenWorkspace makes your focus your focus instead of the overall application itself. Founder David Adler told me it was inspired by his work in the high-frequency trading industry, where every second of delay can cost you real money. Setups like this are must-use in that field, Adler told me, but there’s nothing like it in the consumer space — OpenWorkspace is his solution. How OpenWorkspace kills tab hoarding dead But the FocalContextual interface is just part of OpenWorkspace’s secret sauce. The other part is how quickly it can save and cycle through premade tab layouts — a serious time-saver that helps keep you laser-focused on the task at hand. Creating a new workspace takes mere minutes, aided by keyboard shortcuts and visual cues built into the app that makes arranging windows fast and easy. Once you’ve arranged a workspace — ideally around a specific focus theme, like “the Johnson project” or “my Nebraska 2026 trip” — you can save it, and then summon it instantly to pick up where you left off. It’s stunningly fast. Flick your fingers over a keyboard shortcut and BOOM! You’re back to the last project. Do it again and BOOM! Another workspace appears instantly, with primary and secondary windows arranged just like you left them. Adios, endlessly hunting for tabs buried deep inside Chrome. “Research shows that manually restoring the 6 to 12 windows and documents required for a typical task takes 70 to140 seconds, while OpenWorkspace restores the same environments in 2 to 3 seconds for an approximately 40× reduction in time-to-task,” the company’s announcement says. “By capturing complete desktop states as workspaces, OpenWorkspace frees the user from this manual overhead and places that responsibility on the system.” I believe it — OpenWorkspace’s task switching is that fast. It’s because the software saves the layout, window, and setting arrangement as a proprietary file format (locally — your data never touches the cloud). Activating a workspace summonses the whole configuration immediately. The setup has additional benefits as well. OpenWorkspace runs on both Windows PCs and Macs, with Linux support envisioned in the future. Since OpenWorkspace saves entire workspace layouts, it’s easy to share them with others as well — adios, complex documents full of stodgy links. As PCWorld’s manager, I could immediately picture sharing workspaces to make, say, employee onboarding and project management so much easier in my organization. Pricing and availability OpenWorkspace is expected to launch in February for $180 as an annual license, with major feature updates aimed at a quarterly basis. Think speech support, the ability to use Workspace beyond browser tabs, and so on. OpenWorkspace That’s a steep fee for consumer software, which makes sense given its business-centric utility. That said, after using the app at CES 2026, I could absolutely see myself paying up for OpenWorkspace, especially if it adds the ability to manage other programs like Word, Excel, and Discord. You see, I’m already a believer in focused, contextual workspaces. I paid for Stardock’s Groupy 2 app long ago , so I can bundle open programs together like browser tabs. When I work on a project, I create a Groupy window with the Word doc I’m working in, any reference materials, my Excel spreadsheet data, and so forth. I do the same for gaming apps, swapping between the “work and play” contexts using Windows 11’s virtual desktops feature. My janky little setup works, and helps me stay focused, but it’s nevertheless a major kludge — and it’s still centralized around the long-held idea of manually managing individual windows and clicking through tabs. (Ugh.) Using OpenWorkspace feels infinitely better and faster. It still has a few wrinkles to iron out, but I cannot wait to get my hands on OpenWorkspace with my own system. I could get so much more done so much faster.