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Perplexity today said it is updating Perplexity Computer to run fully locally on Mac. The local version runs on Qwen 3.6 or PPLX Pro (a post-trained version of Qwen) in the Perplexity app for Mac on supported Apple silicon Macs.

It comes with a letter from Steve Jobs asking if the owner wants to upgrade to an Apple II.

A retired hobbyist in the UK who identifies himself only as Mike has hung an 8-bit computer built from 460 recycled vacuum tubes on a brick wall in his home, and over the past ten days, it has seen widespread press coverage.

Way back in June of this year, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel revealed the company’s Specs — a pair of AR glasses that he described as the beginning of a “new era of computing.”

The 19th European Conference on Computer Vision arrives in Malmö, Sweden this Monday, carrying a program that may define the shape of AI research for years to come. When ECCV 2026 opens at Malmö Arena on September 8, it will bring together five days of workshops, tutorials, keynotes, paper presentations, and live demos organized around…

A piece of Apple history is headed to auction… again. The “Hatfield” Apple I computer, which sold for $671,400 in 2013, will be back on the block this fall. This time, auction house Bonhams expects it to sell for between $500,000 and $800,000 — just slightly higher than its original retail price of $666.66.

While computer use isn’t new for Claude on the desktop, running it in the background is a nice upgrade.