Month: June 2026

Keith Richards, 82, celebrates incredible baby news

Keith Richards, 82, celebrates incredible baby news

Published by Daniella Wilson

The Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards has a brand-new title to add to his long list of achievements: great-grandfather. The 82-year-old rock icon is celebrating a joyful family milestone after his granddaughter Ella Richards announced the birth of her first child, a baby girl named Luna. Ella, who turned 30 over the weekend, shared the happy news with fans on Instagram, posting a tender photograph of herself lying beside her newborn daughter on a blanket. “30!! best birthday yet with our baby girl Luna,” she captioned the sweet image. © InstagramElla’s sweet baby news! The arrival of baby Luna marks a new chapter for one of rock music’s most famous families and officially makes Keith a great-grandfather for the first time. Luna is the first child for model Ella and her long-term boyfriend Sascha von Bismarck, 31, a photographer from one of Europe’s most distinguished aristocratic families. The couple’s happy announcement was met with an outpouring of love from friends and family, including several well-known names from society and fashion circles. © InstagramElla is Keith’s grand-daughter …

Dell’s new XPS 13 is a MacBook Neo rival that costs 9 and retains premium features

Dell’s new XPS 13 is a MacBook Neo rival that costs $599 and retains premium features

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Dell Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Dell’s new XPS 13 costs $599 for students and $699 for everyone else.  It’s an open challenge to the MacBook Neo with a bigger display, lighter body, and better I/O.  It features Intel’s new “Wildcat Lake” Series 3 CPU, designed for budget PCs.  When Dell’s COO Jeff Clarke announced the new XPS 13 ahead of Computex 2026, he made no attempt to avoid its inevitable comparison to the MacBook Neo. Oh no, he addressed it straight on. “We didn’t change a single feature when the Neo was launched. We stayed true to the XPS’ identity … And I think we’ve achieved it with the $599 price point.” Also: MacBook Neo vs. Surface: Why spiraling RAM prices are bruising Microsoft’s PC business but not Apple’s It’s a bold claim — refreshingly so — and the first time a PC maker has so openly positioned a flagship product in opposition to Apple’s wildly successful budget laptop that’s disrupted the PC market. The XPS 13 will cost …

Clarkson’s Farm season 5 review: Jeremy Clarkson is unwell at Diddly Squat

Clarkson’s Farm season 5 review: Jeremy Clarkson is unwell at Diddly Squat

Published by Daniella Wilson

A star rating of 4 out of 5. Jeremy Clarkson is unwell. His jolly reality doc, set on his Diddly Squat farm in Oxfordshire, returns for season 5 with the presenter/landowner in hospital, barely surviving several blockages around his heart – when he does put his waxed jacket and wellies back on, he’s under strict doctor’s orders to take it easy. No booze, no red meat and no stress or manual labour allowed. He’s definitely not supposed to argue with right-hand man Kaleb Cooper about the correct shape of a bonfire, help a vet launch a dead sheep into the back of a Range Rover or become apoplectic at Rachel Reeves’s budget hitting farmers with extra tax. Clarkson’s Farm, however, has always been about its host doing things he’s not supposed to do, so, of course, he quickly steams into all of the above, and we’re back into the show’s normal rhythm: pratfalling ineptitude punctuated by genuine concern over the plight of the British agricultural industry. Meanwhile at the newest Clarkson venture, his gastropub the …

Dell’s new budget XPS 13 puts the MacBook Neo on notice

Dell’s new budget XPS 13 puts the MacBook Neo on notice

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Dell finally announced its new XPS 13 laptop at Computex 2026 in Taiwan on Monday, almost five months after teasing it at CES. With a premium CNC aluminum build and a launch price of just $599 for students, the device is poised to aggressively compete with Apple’s budget bombshell, the MacBook Neo. On that battlefront, Dell is coming out swinging. “I’ll give [Apple] credit, it’s a good product…The difference is, we built something better,” Dell COO Jeff Clarke told reporters during a briefing ahead of Computex. Dell XPS 13 specs The XPS 13 will come in sky and storm finishes (left and right, respectively). Credit: Dell The XPS 13 will be the thinnest and lightest XPS laptop Dell has ever made. It’s just as slim as the Neo but half a pound lighter, weighing in at just 2.2 pounds. It will come equipped with a 2.5K touchscreen, keyboard backlighting, and WiFi 7, three features the Neo lacks. The XPS 13’s display will offer up to 500 nits of brightness and full DCI-P3 color coverage, so …

Everyone Has Their Targets Set on the MacBook Neo

Everyone Has Their Targets Set on the MacBook Neo

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Yet it’s only $699 (or $599 for students). The XPS 13 makes similar trade-offs as the MacBook Neo. First, it starts with only 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage. It also starts with a slower Intel Core 5 processor (note: not Intel Core Ultra). I’ll be interested to find how the performance and battery life stack up against the MacBook Neo, but Dell is clearly taking notes from Apple, which used a slower iPhone chip in the Neo instead of an M-series laptop-grade processor. What’s nice about the Dell XPS 13, though, is that you can scale it up appropriately. The MacBook Neo is capped in both storage and memory, but the XPS 13 can be configured up to 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. I’ve been testing a lot of $500 to $600 laptops recently from companies like Acer, Lenovo, and HP, many of which take a more conventional Windows approach to rivaling the MacBook Neo by offering better specs at lower prices. They all have 16 GB …