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Smart Home
iPhone Duo pre-order, price, delivery in India: ₹2,99,900, January 2027
Apple’s iPhone Duo is live for pre-order in India at ₹2,99,900 — and deliveries are already scheduled for January 2027.
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October 2026
1711 stories published this month.
Gaming
Demon's Souls Remake hits 60 fps on PC through KyTyPS5 emulator
A modified PlayStation 5 emulator now runs Bluepoint's Demon's Souls Remake above 60 fps on an RTX 5070, nearing 120 fps when using Nvidia Frame Generation.
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Breaking
Smartphones
iPhone Duo pre-order only: Apple shuts down walk-in purchases on launch day
Apple retail staff have been told to warn customers against visiting stores to buy the iPhone Duo on October 23. There will be no stock available for walk-in purchases. Pre-orders in the U.S. now ship January 25.
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Home Appliances
A Developer Enables Dolby TrueHD Atmos on Apple TV 4K
The new Apple TV 4K (2026) doesn’t support Dolby TrueHD. A developer just made it do so anyway — using Apple’s own spatial audio codec as a bridge.
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Apps & Software
Rugby League World Cup 2026: Fiji vs Cook Islands live stream
Fiji vs Cook Islands, Rugby League World Cup 2026 live stream: where to watch — Sunday, October 18, 4.05pm AEDT, 1.05am ET, 6.05am BST
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Gaming
DLSS on AMD Radeon: Ray Reconstruction, SR 4.5, MFG Now Possible via Mod
NVIDIA’s DLSS Ray Reconstruction now runs on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and other RDNA 3/4 GPUs — not via official support, but through a mod called DLSS-NR-on-AMD v0.8.0, released Friday by developer danielblnc.
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Audio
How to tune Pixel Buds with EQSweep
EQSweep is a free, beta Android app that lets users fine-tune their headphones—including Google Pixel Buds—by listening to real-time frequency sweeps instead of guessing with sliders or presets.
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Breaking
Gadgets
Surface Laptop Ultra is shipping: $2,599, ₹3.29 lakh, and built to run AI agents locally
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra is now shipping — October 16, 2026, in the US and India — as the first Windows laptop powered by an Nvidia chip.
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Tech Business
Anthropic AI Workplace Report Reveals Junior Hiring Cuts and Meeting Spikes
Anthropic revealed that junior technical hiring plummeted from 27 percent to 9 percent as software developers spend their days babysitting Claude instances and sitting through twenty percent more meetings.
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Laptops & PCs
RTX Spark Laptops Arrive in Stores Starting at 2599 Dollars
The first wave of Nvidia RTX Spark laptops has reached store shelves, bringing unified memory and N1X silicon to creator machines starting at $2,599.99 from makers like Microsoft, Asus and Dell.
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Deals
Skullcandy Crusher 720 drops to 140 dollars on Amazon
Skullcandy Crusher 720 headphones dropped to $140 on Amazon on Saturday night, cutting 33 percent off the usual $210 retail price for the 65-hour, bass-heavy over-ear pair.
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Gadgets
Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Lineup Reaches Its Final Android Upgrade
Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 and S9 FE tablets will receive Android 17 as their final operating system upgrade, marking the end of major software cycles for 2023 models.
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Apps & Software
South Africa vs Australia 2nd Test 2026 live stream: where to watch
South Africa vs Australia 2nd Test 2026 live stream: where to watch — October 18, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. SAST / 7:30 a.m. GMT / 3:30 a.m. ET / 1:00 p.m. IST / 5:30 p.m. AEDT at St George’s Park, Gqeberha.
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AI
Claude Code vs VS Code vs local LLM for note-taking
Claude Code isn’t a note-taking app. It’s an AI agent built for code — and yet, in a real-world test across a sprawling Obsidian vault, it outperformed both VS Code and a local LLM at turning fragmented thoughts into linked, filed, context-aware notes.
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Gaming
Xbox Series X controller not the point
Xbox Series X and Series S support nearly 4,000 backward-compatible games — from the original Xbox (2001) through Xbox One (2013) — with visual enhancements and frame-rate improvements where possible. The PlayStation 5 supports 99% of PS4 titles but offers no native compatibility with PS1, PS2, or PS3 games.
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AI
Claude Opus 5.5 downgrades to Opus 4.8 on security prompts — and Anthropic’s own tests show that fallback is significantly more vulnerable
Claude Opus 5.5 quietly downgrades to Opus 4.8 when it detects security-related prompts — and Anthropic’s own testing shows that fallback model is significantly more vulnerable to prompt injection attacks.
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Breaking
Home Appliances
Apple Launches the HomeView with Face Recognition for $299
Apple HomeView launches at $299 — wall-mountable, face-aware, and shipping November 13. The HomePod mini 2 follows on October 30 at $149, with Siri AI delayed to a later software update. And the new Apple TV 4K jumps to $299 — its first hardware refresh in four years — also arriving November 13.
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Apps & Software
Dubois vs Wardley 2 live stream: where to watch, price, time
Daniel Dubois vs Fabio Wardley 2 live stream: where to watch — Saturday, October 17 at 2pm ET / 11am PT / 7pm BST; Sunday, October 18 at 5am AEDT / 8.30am AEST.
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AI
Eight US states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT's harm to children
Eight US states have sued OpenAI under consumer protection laws, alleging ChatGPT harms children through dangerous advice, data collection, and uncontrolled AI agents. They seek court orders, fines, and restrictions on self-improving models.
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Breaking
Home Appliances
Sony Bravia 9 II launches globally: True RGB LED, 4,416 nits, ₹3.29 lakh in India
Sony Bravia 9 II is live globally — $3,599.99 for the 65-inch model in the US, ₹3,29,990 in India, and £3,499.99 in the UK. It’s the first mass-market TV to use True RGB LED — a mini-LED panel with discrete red, green and blue diodes instead of white LEDs with color filters — and it’s built to challenge OLED on contrast and black levels while smashing brightness records.
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Breaking
Smartphones
Pixel 11 Pro gets its first liquid-cooled Qi2 power bank: UGREEN MagFlow Pro, ₹14,990, $149.99
UGREEN’s MagFlow Pro is the first liquid-cooled Qi2 power bank — and it cuts Pixel 11 Pro wireless charging time by up to 25 minutes. ₹14,990 in India, $149.99 in the US. Ships now.
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Breaking
Gaming
Activision calls Modern Warfare 4 and GTA 6 the two biggest games of the year
Activision has declared Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Grand Theft Auto 6 'the two biggest games of the year' — explicitly sidelining The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake in the process.
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Reviews
Xiaomi Poco X8 review: $340, IP69K, six-year updates, no eSIM, no Wi-Fi 7, no night photos
Xiaomi Poco X8 is live: $340, IP69K-rated, Android 16 with six-year security updates — but no eSIM, no Wi-Fi 7, and one camera that struggles in the dark.
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Breaking
Smart Home
Oppo ChatGPT app strategy vs Apple Samsung Europe
Oppo’s new European strategy hinges on AI search behavior: 40% of young buyers use ChatGPT to compare phones, and Oppo’s Find X9 Ultra ranks #1 for ‘best phone for photography’ there — unlike on Google.
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