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Coinbase is making a serious move into one of the world's fastest-growing crypto markets. The exchange has announced Indian rupee rails, meaning Indian retail traders can now fund accounts and trade directly in local currency. It's a significant step into a three billion dollar market that regulators have kept at arm's length for years, and it signals Coinbase isn't done expanding.
Shifting to the laptop wars, Apple's MacBook Neo has clearly rattled the competition. Dell is out with a redesigned XPS thirteen starting at just five hundred ninety-nine dollars for students, and Microsoft and others are rolling out their own challengers. Wired notes, though, that not everyone is learning the right lessons from what Apple actually got right with the Neo, which is a story as old as the industry itself.
And if you game on a Steam Deck, brace yourself. A memory and storage shortage is pushing prices up more than forty percent on the aging but still popular device. The Register frames it alongside a rough week for Jeff Bezos's rocket program, painting a broader picture of supply chain pain that's quietly creeping back into consumer tech.
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