This week, Marques, Andrew, and David talk about a new standalone gadget for Thanksgiving, Instagram launching long form videos, and Google taking AI (and Google Search?) out of schools. Then, Marques tells a quick story about how he had everyone in The Studio going crazy for two hours. It's a fun one!

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MKBHD: Macbook PROLED

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On this week's spooky episode Marques, Andrew, and David talk about the death of Arc Browser, Apple's new OLED Macbook Pro with a silly name, and the new craze of rooting your TVs.

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In this episode we've got the team's final thoughts on the iPhone Duo after living with it for a week, we finally get to cover the Tesla Roadster event, and we briefly go over the Porsche Mission S.

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Gadgets, gadgets and more gadgets. TECHtober is heating up and we have Marques, Andrew and David talking about the Apple Homeview and other smart home products, the Microsoft Surface Ultra, and the Fitbit Edge.

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This week the news is a little slow, so we decided to take this time to get some discussion in before we have to choose the winners of the 2026 MKBHD Smartphone Awards. We debate some phones in some highly contested categories and ask you who you think should win. We also wrap it up with a discussion on MMOs.

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Today's bonus episode we invited Alex Goldman on to dive into his journey in the podcast space. From hosting one of the most popular podcasts online, to starting new with his current project Hyperfixed. How he got into podcasting in the first place, what it's like starting from scratch, and what he thinks about putting his podcast on YouTube.

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Wake me up, when Techtember ends. As we wrap up September the crew talks about taking pictures with a toothbrush, Tesla Roadster being delayed, new Nothing Headphone Pros, Meta Connect, and OpenAI Dev day!

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As Techtember continues the news doesn't stop. This week's episode Marques, Andrew, and David talk about the Googlebook releases, some more interesting Apple products we could see this year, possibly the phone of the year that isn't even coming to the US, and wrap it up with an absolute crash out about YouTubes new features.

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We are officially in Techtember! First, it's a quick viewflation update from Andrew before Marques and David talk about their experiences using the iPhone 18 Pro. Then it turns to speculation about the upcoming Googlebook event before talking about the Steam Frame and Tesla Roadster event. It's going to be a jam-packed few weeks and the new iPhones are just the beginning.

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Right after the iPhone event, Andrew and Ellis hit the streets to ask anyone that happened to be walking by how they felt about the newest iPhones from Apple!

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New iPhones are officially here! Marques, Andrew, and David talk about the new iPhone 18 Pro phones and the newest foldable on the block, the iPhone Duo. There were also some interesting updates to the new AirPods 5 and Apple Watch Series 12/Apple Watch Ultra 4, so they spend some time discussing all of the updates as well. Of course, we wrap it all up with trivia. Enjoy!

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