SAVE $150: The Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M4, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) is on sale at Amazon in all colorways for $849, down from the list price of $999. That’s a 15% discount that matches the lowest we’ve ever seen.
While we enjoy leftover potato salad and watermelon post 4th of July, it’s time to consider what’ll be on your Prime Day shopping list. If you’re one to shop early, there are hundreds of deals already included in the Amazon Prime Day sale, and there’s a particular Apple discount we can’t stop recommending.
As of July 5, the Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M4, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) is on sale for $849 in all colorways at Amazon, marked down from the standard price of $999. That puts you in line for a savings of $150 from a 15% discount. It also matches the record-low price for this Apple laptop that just debuted in March.
Buying a new laptop can be a scary decision. It’s possible you’ll use the machine everyday and for important tasks like your dissertation or a major project at work. That spells high stakes for choosing the right model. Pair that with laptop jargon and you might be dreading the purchase. But Prime Day is here to save the day because there’s a great deal on a great MacBook.
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The M4 MacBook Air impresses in performance. Mashable Senior Editor Stan Schroeder wrote in his review, “The new MacBook Air is great. It’s powerful, silent, and comes with a couple of much-needed upgrades. It’s also cheaper than before, making it the best-buy Apple laptop, period.”
Some of the much-needed upgrades Schroeder is referring to include the zippy M4 chip and the significantly improved 16GB RAM. Plus, the new Sky Blue colorway is included in today’s deal. Schroeder also commends the laptop’s silent operation and the ability to use support two external monitors.
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If the 13-inch display doesn’t seem like enough for your liking, the 15-inch version is also on sale for $150 off. This early Prime Day sale brings the 15-inch M4 MacBook Air down to $1,049 instead of the usual price of $1,199.
While the Prime Day sale doesn’t start until Tuesday, if you snag these deals over the weekend, the items could very well be on your doorstep by Tuesday. That includes this record-low price on the Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M4, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) which is down to $849. Snag this model today and leave Tuesday open for browsing the rest of sale.
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SAVE 14%: As of July 5, you can get the 11-inch Apple iPad (128GB) for just $299 at Amazon, down from $349. That’s a $50 savings (14% off) and the lowest price we’ve seen on this model since May.
Amazon Prime Day officially kicks off on Tuesday, July 8, but this weekend is a sweet spot for shoppers. Tons of retailers extended their Fourth of July sales into the weekend, and those discounts are now overlapping with the first wave of early Prime Day deals. We’re covering the best discounts as they pop up, and so far, we’ve seen major price cuts on Amazon devices, robot vacuums, and select Apple products.
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As of July 5, you can get the 11-inch Apple iPad (128GB) for just $299 at Amazon, down from $349. That’s a $50 savings (14% off) and the lowest price we’ve seen on this model since May. For a 2025 tablet with an 11-inch liquid retina display, 2360-by-1640-pixel resolution at 264 (ppi), and an A16 chip, this is one of the best iPad deals you’ll find on the web right now, and it’s available for all four colors of the device: blue, pink, yellow, and silver. (Best Buy is also matching this price.)
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The 11-inch Apple iPad has an all-day battery life, supports WiFi 6, and has a 12MP wide back camera, which makes it a great device for taking on the go. One of the coolest features (pun intended) of this iPad is that its True Tone technology adjusts the display to the color temperature of the room, so you can read, browse, scroll, etc., in just about any lighting.
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Even though the Fourth of July has come and gone, there are plenty of lingering deals today, with discounts available across all manner of things. From everyday essentials to must-have tech, you can still save on it all. A prime example is this current discount on some of the best wireless headphones around: Apple’s updated AirPods Max with USB-C.
Right now, you can get $69 off every color, slashing the price to just $480.. While that’s still a sizable price tag, there’s no denying that the quality on offer here makes the price worth it. And did we mention they come in cool colors? Best Buy is matching the same $480 price but you also get three months of Apple Music thrown in if you go this route.
These headphones’ features are essentially identical to the previous AirPods Max, albeit with a USB-C port in lieu of the previous Lightning port. The switch means that the same charging cable can be used across all of Apple’s latest hardware releases, including iPads, Macs, iPhones and their accessories.
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You can expect strong active noise cancellation performance as well as instant device pairing and switching thanks to Apple’s H1 chip. Support for personalized spatial audio and the excellent transparency mode are also included.
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While this isn’t quite as low as we’ve seen the AirPods Max go — that was $450 back in January — deals aren’t super common on Apple’s top-tier headphones. That means that this deal is worth taking advantage of while it’s still available.
Nottingham Forest is delighted to confirm the signing of Igor Jesus from Botafogo. The 24-year-old striker has signed a four-year deal having just returned from the FIFA Club World Cup. Along the way to Botafogo qualifying for the knockout stages, the Brazilian scored twice in the tournament, including the winner against PSG, and was named Player of the Match in the team’s opening two fixtures. The Brazilian started his career at Coritiba where he made his first team debut at the age of 18. In 2020, Igor joined UAE side Shabab Al Ahli, where he scored 43 times and registered 20 assists in 88 appearances. Returning to his homeland in July 2024, Igor’s domestic form earned him his first international call-up as he was selected for Brazil’s World Cup Qualification games in October and November. A memorable start to his international career saw the striker score on his debut against Chile and provide an assist against Peru. The versatile forward, who can operate as a central striker or from the wing, led the line for Botafogo as they lifted the Serie A and Copa Libertadores titles last season. Everyone at Nottingham Forest welcomes Igor, who will join his new teammates in pre-season ahead of the new campaign. Upon signing, Igor Jesus, said: “I’m really happy to be a part of this new story, especially at a club like Nottingham Forest. “I didn’t have to think twice about the offer, I embraced it. I embraced the project that they sent me. I am delighted to be coming here and hope to do some great work. “I will do my very best to achieve great results and bring joy to all the Forest family.” Ross Wilson, Chief Football Officer, said: “We have tracked Igor over a long period of time now and we are pleased he has now joined the Club. Igor joins a strong and united squad we are sure that he will settle in well to our group. “The club continues to grow and develop all the time and we know Igor shares such ambition as he moves to Nottingham and the exciting challenge for him in the Premier League.”
Rescue teams pulled more bodies from the rubble of a five-storey building collapse in Karachi overnight, taking the toll on Saturday to 16 as the recovery operation continued for a second day,
The five-storey building on Fida Husain Shaikha Road in Lea Market had already been declared uninhabitable by authorities due to its dilapidated structure, which was further weakened by recent rains, said Deputy Inspector General (DIG) South Syed Asad Raza.
According to data from the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Institute Of Trauma (SMBBIT) at Civil Hospital Karachi, seen by Dawn.com, 15 bodies were brought to the hospital while one person died during treatment.
Police surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed said there were nine wounded people since yesterday, out of whom six had been discharged and one had serious injuries.
“Rescue operation is still underway in Baghdadi, Lyari where the building had collapsed on Friday,” DIG Raza told Dawn.com.
Roof and building collapses are common across Pakistan, mainly because of poor safety standards and the use of shoddy construction materials.
Karachi, home to more than 20 million, is especially notorious for poor construction, illegal extensions, ageing infrastructure, overcrowding and lax enforcement of building regulations.
There were conflicting reports of the death toll, with Rescue 1122 stating it as 16 and DIG Raza saying that a 17th body was recovered from the rubble.
“On one side, debris has been removed up to the ground floor, while on the other side, the rescue team has removed debris up to the third floor,” the police officer added.
The deceased included nine men, six women and a child, according to a statement by Rescue 1122. Their bodies had been taken to the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK).
“My daughter is under the rubble,” 54-year-old Dev Raj told AFP at the scene.
“She was my beloved daughter. She was so sensitive but is under the burden of debris. She got married just six months ago.”
Rescue teams worked throughout the night, and families said that at least eight people were still believed to be trapped as temperatures climbed to 33 degrees Celsius in the morning.
Abid Jalaluddin Shaikh, leading the Rescue 1122 efforts at the scene, told AFP that the operation continued through the night “without interruption”. “It may take eight to 12 hours more to complete,” he said earlier today.
Up to 100 people had been living in the building, senior police officer Arif Aziz told AFP.
The incident came days after a portion of a building collapsed in the city’s Kharadar area. However, no casualties or injuries were reported.
The Public Account Committee of the Sindh Assembly had directed the provincial government in December to take urgent steps to evacuate over 570 buildings declared “dangerous” by authorities across Karachi.
The Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) said it had declared the plot as dangerous through its Technical Committee for Dangerous Buildings after a thorough inspection conducted in October 2022.
The authority said it had issued three ejectment notices to the residents since then, as well as asked K-Electric, Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) and Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) to disconnect utility services.
But Imran Khaskheli, an owner and resident watching the rescue operation on Saturday, denied receiving notices.
“Do you think we are out of our senses to stay in an unsafe building with our families?” he said, speaking to AFP. He said he had seen cracks in the pillars of the building early on Friday morning.
“I knocked on all the doors and asked families to leave immediately,” Khaskheli said, adding that around 40 families lived in the building but that many did not heed his warning.
More than 50 buildings in the district have been declared unsafe, with six evacuated since yesterday, Karachi (South) Deputy Commissioner Javed Nabi Khoso told AFP.
‘Hinderances’ in rescue efforts
Rescue 1122 spokesperson Hassaanul Haseeb Khan said the incident had reportedly occurred between 9am and 9:30am. However, they said they received the information late due to the suspension of communication networks, he added.
Mobile services are usually suspended in certain areas due to security concerns during Muharram.
Sindh Rescue 1122 Director General (DG) Abid Jalaluddin Shaikh, in a statement, said yesterday there were hindrances during the rescue operation due to the “unruly crowd, various road blockades and mobile network [issues]”.
Heavy machinery faced difficulty in reaching the site amid the narrow alleys of Lyari, a low-income neighbourhood.
Police even had to baton-charge a crowd that had gathered around the site to make way for machinery, officials added.
Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah sought a report on the collapse and details of dilapidated buildings from the SBCA.
Sindh Local Government Minister Saeed Ghani said a high-level committee has been formed that will submit a report on the incident by Monday. He lamented that residents did not evacuate the building despite being served notices previously.
The minister also ordered the suspension of the related officials at the SBCA.
‘Sindh government answerable for last 17 years’
Sindh Assembly opposition leader and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan MPA Ali Khurshidi blamed the Sindh government for Karachi’s administrative collapse and the Lyari building tragedy.
“Call the tanker mafia and you’ll get water in 30 minutes,” he said during a press conference, pointing out rampant corruption and institutional failure across civic bodies.
Khurshidi said if the provincial administration was to blame and held responsible if it had not passed laws in 17 years to make this a criminal offence.
“Instead of saying ‘this should be done,’ you should be admitting, ‘we should’ve done this, but we failed to.’”
Addressing President Asif Ali Zardari and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, he said: “This is a question of your and your party’s credibility.”
He said the suspensions of officials would not work, insisting that termination and legal consequences were necessary. He condemned the “harassment” of Karachiites through traffic police extortion, pleading for urgent administrative reform, saying the public was fed up.
“This isn’t about point-scoring politics,” Khurshidi said. “We’re doing politics so we can solve genuine issues faced by people.” He concluded by calling on President Zardari and Bilawal to stop issuing mere condemnations and to instead fix the broken system under their party’s governance.
Previous deadly building collapses
In April, a 10-year-old girl died when a three-storey building in Bhains Colony suddenly collapsed, while a man and a woman were pulled alive from the debris.
In October 2023, five people were killed and four others injured when an under-construction building collapsed in Shah Faisal Colony.
The city witnessed two such incidents within 72 hours in September 2020, claiming the lives of at least three people and injuring over a dozen.
Lyari also faced a similar incident in June 2020, when 22 people were killed after a five-storey residential building housing about 40 apartments collapsed.
A building collapse in Karachi’s Gulbahar area in March 2020 killed 27 people. A similar 2011 incident in Lyari’s Musa Lane neighbourhood took 33 lives.
Amber is one of the coolest-looking mutations in Grow a Garden, introduced with the Prehistoric update. To unlock it, players can either use the Raptor dinosaur pet or the new gear item called the Amber Mutation Spray. If you are aiming to guarantee this powerful mutation on your fruit, you will first need to craft the spray. In this guide, learn how to get the Amber Mutation spray in Grow a Garden and how it works.
Ingredients You Need to Craft Amber Mutation Spray
The Amber Mutation Spray is a special craftable item in Grow a Garden. You will need to collect a few key ingredients before you start crafting. Here are the items you need to make this spray:
How to Craft Amber Mutation Spray in Grow a Garden
Once you have collected all the ingredients, you can craft the spray at the Prehistoric crafting station in the center of the map. Follow these steps to craft the Amber Mutation Spray in Grow a Garden:
Head to the gear crafting station beside the Blaire NPC and press E to interact.
In the crafting menu, select the Amber Mutation Spray from the recipe list.
Click the Craft button and submit all the required materials by pressing E again.
Now, wait 60 minutes or use 39 Robux to skip the crafting timer.
Once the timer ends, press E to collect your spray, and it’ll be added to your backpack.
If you complete the Prehistoric quests, you can also collect the Mutation Spray Amber. This can be a regular quest reward or included in the weekly prize.
What Are the Uses of Amber Mutation Spray?
Mutation Spray Amber
Value
Effects
Instantly gives Amber mutation to a crop
Uses
1 use per crop
To use the Amber Mutation Spray, open your inventory, equip the spray, and click on the crop you want to mutate. If the crop is eligible, it will instantly apply the Amber mutation. If not, the game will prompt you to select a different target. Keep in mind that the spray only has one charge, so once it’s used, you will need to craft a new one.
Should You Get Amber Mutation Spray?
Once you apply the Amber mutation, it gives a 10x sell value multiplier to the fruit. This results in a huge profit boost, especially if the plant already has other high-value Grow a Garden mutations. The Amber mutation also becomes Ancientamber or Oldamber mutation with time, which makes the spray even more important.
Moreover, the only alternative way to get the Amber mutation is the Raptor pet, which has a very low chance of applying it. That is why you will need to craft this spray. And, given that the Prehistoric event quests require crafting gears in Grow a Garden, it will benefit you to complete that weekly prize meter. This means your chances of claiming the Bone Blossom increase while crafting this spray. Just do it when crafting the Amber Mutation Spray is in your quests.
That’s it. You now have the Amber Mutation Spray in Grow a Garden, ready to use. Make sure to check out other Grow a Garden crafting recipes and see what else you can make in the game.
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Updated July 5 with more details and commentary on the expected battery size increase for the iPhone 17 Pro Max.
A new leak suggests that this fall’s Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max (expected in September, read this for exactly when) will have a bigger-capacity battery than any iPhone has ever seen. More details have now emerged as to what this will mean.
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A new post has appeared from a Weibo user called Instant Digital, whose track record isn’t perfect but has leaked some accurate information in the past, so is worth listening to.
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According to the leak, the iPhone 17 Pro Max battery could be as big as around 5,000mAh, which is bigger than the current biggest iPhone battery, in the iPhone 16 Pro Max, which measures 4,676mAh.
It’s long been rumored that the iPhone 17 Pro Max will be thicker than before, and it’s been hoped that some of this extra space would be used to increase the battery size, and this new post corroborates that.
The iPhone 16 Pro Max is 8.25mm thick, and it’s thought its successor will be 8.725mm thick. That’s less than half a millimeter more, so let’s hope it stays comfortable in the hand, but even such a slender increase could have a noticeable effect on the iPhone’s battery life.
Of course, each new iPhone has new features, all of which could affect battery life. On the other hand, the expected new processor for the Pro Max could combine with greater efficiencies in software which could expand battery life.
But the surest way to make a device last longer is a bigger battery, and it seems that could be on the way.
Even though users love new features, battery life stubbornly remains as about the top request. After all, even if your phone can do extraordinary new things, it’s not much use if it’s collapsed by lunchtime each day.
According to 9to5Mac, “Depending on how close to 5,000 the final number ends up being, we could be looking at almost a 10% increase in capacity. It’s important to note, however, that a battery’s capacity doesn’t have a 1:1 correlation with battery life improvements,” it says.
Meanwhile, MacRumors suggests what it might mean. “The battery life of the iPhone 16 Pro Max is 33 hours, according to Apple. This is up from 29 hours on the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and 28 hours on the iPhone 13 Pro Max. The iPhone 12 Pro Max had a battery life of just 20 hours. With an extra 300mAh of battery capacity, the iPhone 17 Pro Max could be on course to offer around 35 hours of battery life, or perhaps even more,” it reports.
William Gallagher at Apple Insider has a different take on the battery change. The brand estimates that the new battery will have about 324mAh more than the iPhone 16 Pro Max.
“However, even if the new figure and the earlier physical size rumors are correct, it does not follow that the iPhone 17 Pro Max will have longer battery life. That’s because it depends on the rest of the iPhone 17 Pro Max design. The new model is expected to add new technology that will not impact the battery — such as vapor chamber cooling — but there may be other new features that do,” the report says.
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