
Apple's New OLED Touchscreen MacBook Pro Arrives This Wednesday
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports the 14-inch and 16-inch laptops will keep last March's M5 Pro and M5 Max chips but could cost up to $500 more than today's models.
Archive
1666 stories published this month.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports the 14-inch and 16-inch laptops will keep last March's M5 Pro and M5 Max chips but could cost up to $500 more than today's models.
Digit Test Labs pitted the Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold against the Vivo X Fold 6, two foldables priced close to Rs 2 lakh in India, and found neither one wins everything: Google takes displays, Vivo takes performance.

Microsoft's October 2026 cumulative update, KB5127648, quietly fixes Bluetooth audio crashes, fingerprint sign-in after cold boot, mouse stuttering in games, and VPN errors, while cutting off support for Windows 11 24H2.

Actress Manni L. Perez, rumored for years to play Lucia in GTA 6, went viral after calmly dodging a swarm of fan comments during a 12-minute Instagram livestream about her everyday life.

XDA Developers ran Minecraft and a 125B-parameter local AI model at the same time on an HP OmniBook Ultra 16 with Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, reporting roughly 120 FPS throughout the session.
Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition for Nintendo Switch 2 dropped to $30 with free shipping for Prime members, undercutting the eShop's $36 listing, though the game-key card still demands a full download.

A hands-on comparison by XDA Developers pitted Claude Code against OpenAI Codex and Google Antigravity on building a finance dashboard app, with Claude Code coming out ahead on design polish and typography.

Google Messages is now the default texting app on nearly every Android phone, including Samsung's. Here's where to find the settings that limit tracking, quiet notifications and rein in Gemini.

An Android Police reviewer trained for and finished a marathon using the Pixel Watch 5's Health Coach AI, which adapted workouts around sleep, heart rate variability and recovery rather than following a fixed plan.

Wired's refreshed folding phone guide names the $1,900 Galaxy Z Fold8 and Apple's debut $1,999 iPhone Duo as top picks, with Motorola's Razr Ultra leading flip phones on battery and design.

Best Buy has cut the 55-inch LG B6 OLED TV to $699, a 42% discount that matches its October Prime Day price. Tom's Guide also found deals on TCL, Hisense, Samsung and Roku sets ahead of Black Friday.

A side-by-side test of Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X and AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 found the Spark finishing local AI jobs in roughly half the time, though a memory ceiling kept it from running the largest open models at all.

Days before the $180 Fitbit Edge reaches store shelves, a comparison from Android Authority weighs it against the Pixel Watch 5, Galaxy Fit 3, Oura Ring 5, Fitbit Air and Fitbit Charge 6 on price and features.

El Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid kicks off at 8pm GMT on Sunday, 25 October. Here's where to watch it in the US, UK, Australia and Brazil, plus the one free stream available.

A Tom's Guide review pits the JBL Bar 1300X MK2 against Samsung's Q990H soundbar across three movies, finding the JBL's Dolby Atmos imaging narrowly superior despite the Samsung's lower discounted price.

Google's Fitbit Edge sits between the screenless Fitbit Air and the Pixel Watch 5, but a detailed comparison shows the Air matches it on most health tracking for $80 less.

Google Messages' rigid spam filter is pushing some Android users toward QUIK, a free, open-source SMS app that lets people build their own block lists with regex and third-party caller-ID tools.

An amateur wildlife photographer in Lincolnshire used a Sony A9 and 400mm GM lens at 1/8,000 sec to freeze a kingfisher emerging from water with a fish, earning a breakdown in Digital Camera World's Rate My Photo series.

SoundGuys compared the Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen) against the standard QuietComfort Headphones (2nd Gen) and found the cheaper model gives up little in sound quality or noise cancellation for $90 less.

Months after One UI 9 arrived on Galaxy phones, Samsung's AI features like Now Brief and Now Nudge are still missing the mark compared to Google's Pixel software, according to an extended hands-on account from Android Authority.

Tom's Guide's review of Amazon's new Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, a $499 Android slate replacing the Fire tablet line, calls out its aluminum build, 12-inch display and Alexa+ features, though Android's reliability draws a caveat.

Oppo has brought the Find X10 and Find X10 Pro Max to India and Europe, a month after their China launch. GSMArena's review calls the Pro Max pricey, with a cut-down battery and charging speed on European units compared with China and India.

Leaked benchmark figures attributed to Samsung's own testing claim the Exynos 2700 beats the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 by up to 20 percent in Geekbench, with bigger gaps against the standard Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6.

A Reddit user built ScreenPlink, an open-source laser dry-fire shooting game, with Anthropic's Claude Code over roughly two weeks. A webcam watches the monitor, tracks laser hits and drops the target.