The Oscars has seen its fair share of celebrity couples come and go over the years.
While all eyes may just be on the likes of Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalametalmost as closely as they’ll be on his Best Actor nomination, the reality star and Marty Supreme actor are only the newest in a long line of beloved couples to attend the Academy Awards.
For the zillennials, there was Vanessa Hudgensand Zac Efron, who attended the Oscars in 2009 coming off the 2008 release of High School Musical 3: Senior Year.
For the occasion, the then-couple donned matching black and white ensembles, attending the event together just one year before they would decide they better go their own way.
And heading deeper into the memories of millennials are once-couples such as Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Philippe, Sarah Jessica Parker and Robert Downey Jr. as well as Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, all of whom once graced the Academy Awards as items in years past.
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We finally made it. We’re less than 24 hours away from one of the best hours on the sports calendar: finding out the 68 teams playing in the men’s 2026 NCAA tournament.
Who’s in? Who’s out? Who are the 1-seeds? All will be answered before Selection Sunday ends. And then, of course, comes the fun part: filling out brackets.
But first, let’s get inside the minds of the 12 members on the NCAA selection committee, chaired by Keith Gill. While most of the field is already selected and bracketed, there are still 12 burning questions that will be discussed ad nauseam in the committee room in Indianapolis. Let’s run through each.
1. Are the four 1-seeds set in stone?
For a few hours on Saturday, there was a legitimate debate. Florida was comfortably headed toward the final 1-seed entering Champ Week. The Gators won 11 straight games to end the regular season, while UConn lost at a sub-.500 Marquette in the regular-season finale and Houston lost three in a row late in February. Then Todd Golden’s team was throttled by Vanderbilt in the SEC semifinals, trailing by as many as 25 before falling by 17.
The door was open for UConn or Houston to make a case by winning a conference tournament championship, but both the Huskies and Cougars lost to 1-seeds in their respective title games. As a result, all logic points to Florida joining Duke, Michigan and Arizona on the top line.
With Duke holding off Virginia in the ACC title game, the Blue Devils are on track for the top overall seed despite recent injuries to Caleb Foster and Patrick Ngongba II. Duke is No. 1 in the NET, in the BPI, at KenPom and BartTorvik. And the team ranked No. 1 in the other three metrics is Michigan, which Duke beat on a neutral court in Washington, D.C., just a few weeks ago.
The Blue Devils have 10 Quad 1A wins (tied for most in the country), 17 Quad 1 wins (most in the country) and 23 Quad 1 and 2 wins (tied for the most in the country). Their only two losses came in the final seconds against Texas Tech and North Carolina.
A loss to Virginia could have made it a debate, and the Cavaliers made it interesting, but it’s hard to imagine anyone jumping Duke.
3. Does Miami (Ohio) get in? Is it bound for the First Four?
Miami’s perfect record came to an end in the quarterfinals of the Mid-American Conference tournament, falling to UMass for its first loss in 32 games. The RedHawks finished the regular season at 31-0, and the consensus seems to be that the committee won’t leave out a team that went unbeaten in the regular season. And to be fair, their résumé metrics are impressive, with a top-40 Wins Above Bubble mark and a top-30 Strength of Record. Yet, there’s reason to believe they could end up in Dayton.
Travis Steele’s team does not have a typical at-large résumé. The RedHawks’ strength of schedule is No. 340; their nonconference strength of schedule is No. 363; they have more Quad 3 losses (one) than Quad 1 wins (zero); and their best wins are over Wright State and Akron. Their predictive metrics are also by far the lowest of any at-large contender, plus their KenPom ranking would be the lowest or second lowest in at-large history. The committee sending them to Dayton to duke it out with a middling power-conference team is a potential compromise.
4. Does Auburn have a chance at a record-breaking at-large bid?
The short answer would appear to be no. The committee has never selected an at-large team with 16 losses, nor has it ever selected an at-large team that is just one game above .500. Auburn checks both boxes.
Yes, the Tigers’ metrics are very good. They have the second-best strength of schedule in the country. The average of their résumé metrics hovers in front of most of the final at-large teams, while the average of their predictive metrics is in the mid-30s. They beat St. John’s and Florida away from home. But they’re also 4-13 in Quad 1 games, 7-15 in Quad 1 and 2 games and have a Quad 3 loss. One more win might have done it for Steven Pearl’s team, but it seems like a stretch for the committee.
With the bubble carnage earlier in the week and VCU advancing to Sunday’s Atlantic 10 championship against Dayton (1 p.m. ET), the Rams would appear to be in a good spot entering Selection Sunday. But will the committee give the A-10 three bids if VCU does lose in the title game? The Rams’ résumé metrics are more solid than their predictive metrics, and they have zero losses outside of Quads 1 and 2. Their issue is a lack of good wins. They played a good nonconference schedule but lost to tournament teams Vanderbilt, NC State and Utah State, then were swept by Saint Louis during the A-10 campaign. Their best wins are over South Florida and Virginia Tech.
6. Who are bubble teams rooting against on Sunday?
There’s only one potential bid-stealer left on the docket, with Ole Miss’ run in the SEC tournament ending on Saturday against Arkansas. That team is Dayton, which stunned Saint Louis in the final seconds of the Atlantic 10 semifinals and now sits one win away from the NCAA tournament. The Flyers will face VCU, which might have punched its ticket with its blowout win over Saint Joseph’s in the A-10 semis. But the question remains whether the committee will award the A-10 three bids if Dayton knocks off VCU.
7. Did San Diego State need to win for the Mountain West to get more than one bid?
Friday night’s Mountain West semifinal between San Diego State and New Mexico was essentially a bubble elimination game — but it didn’t necessarily mean the winner was getting a bid. San Diego State advanced, then fell short against Utah State in the title game. Are the Aztecs going to get a bid?
They’re 9-10 against Quadrants 1 and 2, with a Quadrant 3 loss. They have only one win against the projected tournament field, and that came at home against Utah State. Their metrics aren’t great, either. It doesn’t seem like their résumé can beat that of Texas or SMU, but the question remains: Will the Mountain West really be a one-bid conference for the first time since 2017?
8. Will any injuries impact seeding or inclusion?
Unfortunately for the sport, most of the more noteworthy injuries from the past few weeks have definitive timetables, with Texas Tech’s JT Toppin, BYU’s Richie Saunders and Michigan’s L.J. Cason all suffering season-ending injuries. All three teams have responded well without their key contributors, meaning none is likely to suffer a precipitous drop on Selection Sunday.
That said, there are a few more open-ending injuries that make things difficult for the committee.
SMU’s B.J. Edwards missed the last five games of the season with an ankle injury, but the Mustangs say he will return for the NCAA tournament. Could that impact their at-large hopes? Louisville’s Mikel Brown Jr. missed the final four games with a back injury after missing eight games earlier this season. He’s also hopeful to be back for the NCAA tournament. UCLA’s Tyler Bilodeau suffered a right leg injury in UCLA’s quarterfinal win over Michigan State and teammate Donovan Dent suffered a calf injury in the semifinal loss to Purdue, but both appear set to return for the Big Dance.
Gonzaga’s Braden Huff has been out since January, and his timeline is very much up in the air. Then there are the injuries to Foster and Ngongba. Foster appears unlikely to return soon, but there is more optimism for Ngongba.
One more potential injury emerged on Saturday night, with UConn’s Silas Demary Jr. going to the locker room late in the Big East title game loss to St. John’s.
9. How high can Vanderbilt or Arkansas rise with an SEC tournament title?
At the start of the SEC tournament, ESPN’s bracketologist Joe Lunardi had Arkansas as the first 5-seed and Vanderbilt as the second. After Saturday’s semifinals wins, Lunardi now has Vandy as the second 4-seed and Arkansas as the first 5-seed. Could either jump to a 3-seed with an SEC tournament championship on Sunday (1 p.m. ET, ESPN)? They would likely have to surpass Nebraska for that spot. Vanderbilt has one more Quad 1 win than Nebraska, and two more Quad 1 and 2 wins, with slightly superior metrics. Arkansas has two fewer Quad 1 wins and the same number of Quad 1 and 2 wins, but the Razorbacks don’t have the metrics edge.
There’s also the question of whether the committee will even want to shuffle the bracket — or prepare a contingency — for a Sunday afternoon game between two teams that could already be among the top-four seeds.
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10. Where will St. John’s land after sweeping the Big East titles?
The selection committee has often rewarded power-conference teams that win both the regular-season and conference tournament championships, which St. John’s just did for the second season in a row. But will the committee value the Big East in such a way that moves the Red Storm significantly up the bracket? The league is clearly the worst of the five power conferences this season, poised to land just three bids in the NCAA tournament.
Despite the regular-season title, St. John’s opened Champ Week as the third 5-seed in ESPN’s Bracketology due to a lack of nonconference heft on its résumé. The Red Storm went 7-4 in nonconference play, with their best win coming against Baylor. Their only wins against the field are against UConn (twice) and Villanova (twice). As a result, a 4-seed is likely their ceiling.
11. Which data points does the committee value the most this year?
The committee added two more metrics prior to last year, putting Bart Torvik’s rankings and Wins Above Bubble onto the team sheet. WAB has risen in importance since its arrival, with NCAA vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt saying at February’s mock Selection Sunday exercise that the committee tends to lean toward résumé metrics in selecting the field, specifically highlighting the growing importance of WAB. It helped North Carolina last March, as the Tar Heels received an at-large bid despite going 1-12 in Quad 1 games, but had a WAB ranking of No. 43. This March, a WAB focus could help Miami (Ohio) compared to another bubble team like, say, Texas.
Will another data point be the difference-maker this year?
This seems nailed-on to happen. The South regional takes place in Houston, but Rice replaced Houston in September as the host institution — meaning Houston is allowed to play in Houston for the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight if the Cougars advance. And that will still be the case even if Houston isn’t the 1-seed in the region. Florida is likely the 1-seed in the South but could have to face the Cougars in what amounts to a home game.
ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024.
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Three years ago, Japan toppled the United States to win the World Baseball Classic thanks to Shohei Ohtani‘s two-way exploits, punctuated by his strikeout of Mike Trout to seal the victory. Ohtani was the star of the show, but he wasn’t the only star. Several of his teammates, household names in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball, used the stage to introduce themselves to American baseball fans while making major contributions to that championship run. And most of them have since made the jump to Major League Baseball.
Outfielder and designated hitter Masataka Yoshida went 9-for-22 with two home runs and 13 RBIs weeks before beginning his first season with the Boston Red Sox. Third baseman Munetaka Murakami, who signed with the Chicago White Sox in December, delivered the walk-off double in the semifinals against Mexico.
On the mound, Yoshinobu Yamamoto tossed 2⅔ scoreless innings in his one outing less than a year before signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers and receiving the largest free agent contract given to a pitcher. He delivered a Herculean postseason performance in L.A.’s second consecutive World Series run in October.
Roki Sasaki, a wunderkind on the 2023 WBC team, is also a Dodger. Shota Imanaga, who pitched in three games and started one, made the National League All-Star team as a 30-year-old rookie for the Chicago Cubs in 2024. Even left-handed reliever Yuki Matsui, who pitched just one inning in the 2023 WBC, signed a five-year contract with the San Diego Padres before the 2024 season.
Though Japan’s NPB talent in this WBC doesn’t match the 2023 team’s level, several NPB stars could emerge in the knockout stage — and eventually leave for MLB.
Here’s a look at those players and which current big leaguers they compare to, starting with those expected to become MLB free agents the earliest.
Next offseason
RHP Hiromi Itoh
Age: 28 NPB team: Nippon Ham Fighters MLB comp:Sonny Gray
Itoh is expected to become the next Japanese star pitcher to make the jump to the majors, and clubs are preparing for him to be among the free agent mix next offseason. Last season, the 5-foot-9 right-hander won the Sawamura Award — Japan’s equivalent to the Cy Young Award — by going 14-8 with a 2.52 ERA and leading the league with 195 strikeouts and 196⅔ innings.
He throws seven pitches, but mostly relies on a plus fastball that touches 96 mph, a sweeper and a splitter. Itoh piggybacked with Los Angeles Angels left-hander Yusei Kikuchi in Japan’s 8-6 win over Korea in pool play, allowing two runs on one hit (a home run) with six strikeouts and no walks over three innings.
An American League talent evaluator said he expects Itoh to be a “high-end” free agent with plenty of suitors.
“Smallish but proven track record of durability,” the talent evaluator said. “He should continue to strike out MLB hitters while allowing very few walks.”
Similar to Itoh, MLB teams are preparing for Sato to leave for MLB next offseason, and he should generate plenty of interest. Sato, who clubbed a home run off Blake Snell in an exhibition game against the Dodgers last year, was the best hitter in an extremely pitcher-friendly NPB in 2025. He belted 40 homers — eight more than runner-up and former big leaguer Franmil Reyes and 17 more than the third-highest total. He posted a .924 OPS — 63 points higher than Reyes’ second-place output.
“He has huge power, and he has gradually improved at the plate the last few years,” a National League scout said. “Sato has spoken often about coming. He is intriguing.”
Sato started just one game in pool play in Tokyo — Japan’s 9-0 win over Czechia — in right field. He entered the other three games as a pinch hitter and has also played third base. He’s 2-for-6 with two doubles, a walk and an RBI.
Miyagi is just 5-7, but he has become a premier pitcher in NPB who has proven capable of handling a large workload. The left-hander posted a 2.39 ERA over 150⅓ innings last season. He has logged at least 141⅔ innings in each of the past five seasons with a 2.48 career ERA. Miyagi has a fastball in the low 90s and doesn’t miss many bats, instead relying on his command and pitch mix to limit damage.
“He is a little guy but really competes,” the scout said. “He pitches like he is 6-3.”
Though Itoh won the Sawamura Award last season, Takahashi might just be the best NPB pitcher who hasn’t joined MLB yet. Bigger than Itoh and Miyagi but still listed at just 6-0, the right-hander’s fastball sits in the mid-90s, but it’s straight and doesn’t produce many whiffs. His splitter and cutter, however, miss bats at an elite rate for NPB.
Takahashi dominated an overwhelmed Czechia’s lineup to conclude pool play, giving up two hits in 4⅔ innings with five strikeouts. He’s eligible to pitch again in the semifinals if Japan advances that far.
“Takahashi has the biggest ceiling, but we are all waiting for him to make that next big jump,” the scout said.
Another left-hander well under 6 feet — he’s listed at 5-9 — Sumida recorded a 2.65 ERA in 159⅔ innings last season. He came out of the bullpen against Australia and was dominant, yielding an unearned run in three innings with seven strikeouts to zero walks.
RHP Atsuki Taneichi
Age: 27 NPB team: Chiba Lotte Marines MLB comp:Cristian Javier
A starter for the Marines with a 2.64 ERA in 24 starts last season, Taneichi has been used as a reliever in the WBC. The 6-foot right-hander logged two scoreless innings with five strikeouts and no walks in pool play.
Age: 28 NPB team: Yokohama DeNA BayStars MLB comp:Zack Gelof
We’ll group Morishita and Maki because they’re position players with unclear motivation to jump to MLB.
Morshita established himself as one of the elite hitters in the power-deprived NPB last season. His 23 home runs were tied for third while he was one of just five players with an OPS of at least .800. He made his only start of the WBC in left field against Czechia and is 1-for-6 with a walk in the tournament.
Maki, Japan’s starting second baseman, was one of those five NPB hitters with at least an .800 OPS last season (he finished at .800). He hit 16 home runs despite being limited to 93 games after undergoing thumb surgery in August.
“They both can hit and have some pop,” the scout said. “That said, they are likely more bench guys. Not much defensive value.”
Kondoh, one of the most accomplished hitters in NPB, could’ve jumped to MLB years ago but stayed in Japan. And chances are he’ll finish his career in NPB as he enters his age-32 season after signing a seven-year contract with SoftBank in December 2022. Kondoh underwent back surgery last April and was subsequently limited to 77 games in 2025. He produced when he was on the field, batting .301 with a .903 OPS and 10 home runs.
Kondoh has batted second or third in his three WBC starts, all in right field, and is 2-for-12 in the tournament after hitting .346 with a 1.115 OPS in Japan’s 2023 WBC championship run.
“He is similar to Yoshida,” the scout said. “I really feel when he saw Yoshida’s struggle to stand out, it gave him pause. There isn’t much defense, and there isn’t much power. He can really hit, but he took the NPB payday, and the move to the best franchise, instead.”
Not much has changed in the new MacBook Air for 2026: It now has the M5 chip, Wi-Fi 7, and faster storage starting at 512GB instead of 256GB. It’s just as outstanding a computer as last year’s model, even if it’s a shame it’s $100 more expensive.
The bigger change has happened to the Air. The MacBook Neo now exists, and it’s an awesome little computer for $500 less than the base 13-inch Air. The Neo’s existence doesn’t invalidate the Air or make it pointless, and I doubt the Neo will cannibalize too much of the Air’s sales. The Air is a more capable, faster, and sleeker machine. Having the Neo sit beneath it does paint it in a new light, though. It’s now the step-up upgrade from the Neo that still cedes plenty of room to the beefier MacBook Pros above it.
But is the Air now an awkward middle child or the perfect middle ground? I have good news on that front.
$1299
The Good
A little more speed never hurts
Starts with more storage that’s twice as fast
Still one of the best laptops around
Great battery life and speakers
The Bad
Starting price is $100 more than M4 generation (though you get more storage for it)
The MacBook Neo now exists and costs less than half
Everything from my review of the 13- and 15-inch M4 MacBook Airs rings true in the new M5 model. (This time I only have the 15-inch, but the changes are the same across both sizes.) The screen is bright, colorful, and accurate enough for some color-sensitive work. The keyboard is solid. The 12-megapixel Center Stage camera is the best built-in webcam around. The battery easily lasts a full work / school day and much more. (I easily got 13 to 14 hours on a full charge while web browsing, messaging, and streaming a bit of music and video with minimal sleeping and brightness between 50 to 100 percent.) And the six-speaker setup on the 15-inch model still gets loud as hell for such a thin laptop.
Screen: B
Webcam: A
Keyboard: B
Trackpad: A
Port selection: C
Speakers: A
Number of ugly stickers to remove: 0
The biggest changes for the new MacBook Air are all about speed, taking an already well-performing laptop and making it just a bit faster. The new M5 chip with a 10-core CPU and 10-core GPU is similar to the one I tested last year in the updated 14-inch MacBook Pro. As you can see below in our benchmark tests, the new 15-inch M5 Air scores just slightly lower across the board than the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M5, which is expected since the Pro has a fan for a thermal advantage. The M5 Air is a bit faster than last year’s M4 Air, with the biggest gains in GPU performance and some multicore tests (like 3D rendering in Cinebench).
Microsoft Surface Laptop 13-inch / Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100 / 16GB / 512GB
CPU cores
10
10
8
8
8
6
10
8
8
GPU
M5 (10 cores)
M4 (10 cores)
M3 (10 cores)
M2 (10 cores)
M1 (8 cores)
A18 Pro (5 GPU cores)
M5 (10 cores)
Radeon 860M (8 cores)
Adreno X1-45
Geekbench 6 CPU Single
4175
3790
3124
2606
2409
3402
4208
2899
2437
Geekbench 6 CPU Multi
16567
14831
12056
10055
8754
8508
17948
13568
11427
Geekbench 6 GPU (OpenCL)
47661
35914
Not tested
27795
21512
19798
49059
24981
9391
Geekbench 6 GPU (Metal)
76035
55368
46266
45607
34592
31026
77595
N/A
N/A
Cinebench 2026 Single
727
Not tested
Not tested
Not tested
439
518
736
Not tested
Not tested
Cinebench 2026 Multi
3413
Not tested
Not tested
Not tested
1924
1466
4486
Not tested
Not tested
PugetBench for Photoshop
11513
10275
9349
Not tested
Not tested
Not tested
12354
8805
4773
PugetBench for Premiere Pro (2.0.0+)
61861
Not tested
Not tested
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Not tested
71122
Not tested
Not tested
PugetBench for DaVinci Resolve (2.0.0+)
45378
Not tested
Not tested
Not tested
Not tested
Not tested
50882
Not tested
Not tested
Blender classroom test (seconds, lower is better)
46
66
129
Not tested
254
Not tested
44
Not tested
486
Premiere 4K Export (lower is better)
2 minutes, 53 seconds
Not tested
Not tested
Not tested
6 minutes, 39 seconds
Not tested
2 minutes, 47 seconds
Not tested
Not tested
Sustained SSD reads (MB/s)
7049.45
3465.32
3504.1
Not tested
3422.1
1735.91
7049.45
5279.21
3840.78
Sustained SSD writes (MB/s)
7480.55
3626.23
3190.9
Not tested
3274.88
1684.05
7317.6
4967.27
3476.62
Price as tested
$1,499
$1,399
$1,699
$1,699
$1,249
$599
$1,949
$1,781
$999.99
But the M5 Air’s largest gains are in its storage speeds. According to our Amorphous Disk Mark tests, read and write speeds are a little more than twice as fast as the M4 Air, just as Apple claimed. It brings the Air on par with the M5 MacBook Pro and pretty close to the astronomically expensive M4 Max 16-inch MacBook Pro I tested in 2024 (though the new M5 Max has since blown the doors off everything with double-fast read and write speeds of its own).
These faster speeds make transferring and copying files snappier, and they help keep the Air going when you really push it and hit swap memory. As a little torture test, I simultaneously imported over 1,000 50-megapixel RAW images into Lightroom Classic while exporting a 4K video in Premiere and also downloading a game on Steam with 17 Chrome tabs left open. The Air instantly maxed out its RAM and went nearly 20GB into swap. It slowed to a crawl and heated up, but it didn’t crash. (Of course, if you actually do all that stuff at the same time… you need a MacBook Pro.)
If you bought one of last year’s M4 MacBook Airs, there’s little reason to consider an upgrade or even be envious — you’re still set for a long while with an excellent laptop. Yes, the new M5 Air is one generation further along, and its bumped chip, faster storage, and Wi-Fi 7 support make it even a little more futureproof. But I wouldn’t bother upgrading unless you’re on an M1 or older Mac — maybe an M2 Air, and that’s only if you’re pushing it so hard it’s getting slow and frustrating.
And that brings me to the MacBook Neo. If you’re a first-time Mac buyer or on an Intel MacBook with no more OS updates, the MacBook Neo at $600 or $700 might be all you need. If you’re the type to dabble in creative work like Adobe apps, then the Air is worth the extra money. And if you live day to day in content creation, then you have to decide once again to reach even higher for some version of MacBook Pro.
This is the blessing and the curse of Apple’s upgrade funnel. There’s something for everyone, and always an upgrade to tempt you up the chain: a larger screen, more storage, more RAM, a more powerful processor, etc. No matter your needs, Apple likely has a nice aluminum-clad computer that’s just right for parting you with your money.
The MacBook Air used to be the default choice if you were willing to spend around $1,000 — not an insignificant amount of money, of course, but typically the level at which laptops get really good. Now there’s a great option at $600 with the Neo for lighter users. And the Pros are still meant for the actual pros out there (and tech nerds who just want something even better, if we’re being honest with ourselves).
1/6The citrus Neo vs the sky blue 15-inch Air. Colors!
The MacBook Air now sits comfortably in the middle. It’s super thin and travel-friendly. It’s a well-balanced performer for all but heavy content creation and graphics-intensive work. It’s even got conveniences like speedy Thunderbolt 4 ports, fast MagSafe charging, a generously large haptic trackpad, and a backlit keyboard. Those are all reasons why just this week I steered a close friend to nabbing a deal on a refurb 13-inch M4 Air instead of buying the Neo. I knew his needs called for more power, and he valued more futureproofing.
With the MacBook Neo around now, I see the MacBook Air as the jack-of-all-trades computer. It’s still one of the best laptops around, getting the latest M-series chips to ensure that any time you jump on this train it’s for a long haul — potentially up to seven or maybe even 10 years. Even if the Air is now the middle child between the Neo and the Pro, for many people it’s still Apple’s “just right” Goldilocks laptop.
2026 Apple MacBook Air M5 15 specs (as reviewed)
Display: 15.3-inch (2880 x 1864) 60Hz IPS, 500 nits
Processor: Apple M5 (10-core CPU / 10-core GPU)
Unified memory: 16GB
Storage: 1TB SSD
Webcam: 12-megapixel Center Stage camera with Desk View
Connectivity: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6
Ports: 2x USB 4 (Type-C) / Thunderbolt 4, MagSafe 3 charging, 3.5mm combo audio jack
Weight: 3.3 pounds / 1.51kg
Dimensions: 13.4 x 9.35 x 0.45 inches / 340.4 x 237.5 x 11.4mm
Battery: 66.5Wh
Price: $1,499
Photography by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge
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“My favorite flavor is the Grape Rush. It’s a really, really good grape flavor,” she shares. “I think CELSIUS drinks are the perfect drinks for a festival.”
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Conference USA and the Sun Belt both included Louisiana Tech on their 2026 football schedules, announced this week, as the school and C-USA wrangle over the Bulldogs’ exit date.
Conference USA included Louisiana Tech on its 2026 schedule announced Thursday. The Sun Belt then announced its 2026 schedule Friday and also included Louisiana Tech — giving the Bulldogs 20 scheduled games.
Louisiana Tech also sent out a news release Friday announcing its 2026 schedule as a member of the Sun Belt.
The school accepted an invitation to join the Sun Belt on July 14, 2025, and a news release announcing the move said Louisiana Tech would join the conference “no later than July 1, 2027.”
School officials told Conference USA that they planned to depart July 1, 2026, but the sides could not agree to a departure date or settlement fee.
So earlier this month, the University of Louisiana System, on behalf of Louisiana Tech, sued Conference USA to be able to exit the conference July 1. In a statement released after filing the lawsuit, the school said the proposed 2026 football schedule drafted by Conference USA left them no choice but to sue.
The price increase comes two years after Amazon switched all users on Prime Video — which comes as a perk with a standard Amazon Prime subscription — to an ad-supported plan and began charging extra for commercial-free streams. Now, the streamer is calling its ad-free tier Prime Video “Ultra,” and is adding support for up to five simultaneous streams (up from three), up to 100 downloads (up from 25), and Dolby Atmos.
In a post announcing the change, Amazon says putting premium features in ad-free streaming “requires significant investment,” adding that the structure “aligns with other major streaming services.” Prime Video notes that members on the ad-supported tier can continue to access HD/HDR streams, Dolby Vision, and an array of live sports streams.
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