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No tweaks. No tricks. Just faster Start, snappier apps, and 3GB less RAM used at idle—Windows 11 26H2 is the rare update that delivers without taking anything away.
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No tweaks. No tricks. Just faster Start, snappier apps, and 3GB less RAM used at idle—Windows 11 26H2 is the rare update that delivers without taking anything away.

Pikmin 4 is $39.88 on Walmart — $20 off — ahead of its November 12 Switch 2 Edition launch. The $10 upgrade unlocks voice commands, Dandori Academy, and visual polish.

Apple HomeView price, specs, and launch date confirmed: $299, 7-inch display, November 13

macOS 27 Golden Gate removes Rosetta 2 by default. Silent failures in Intel-only menu bar utilities are already confirmed in testing. macOS 28 will drop Rosetta support entirely.

Digital Camera World's camera phone guide crowns the iPhone 18 Pro Max for video and the Pixel 10 Pro for stills, citing a new variable aperture on Apple's phone and AI-driven zoom and editing tools on Google's.

Apple’s official iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max cases are on sale at Amazon — starting at $33 — as of Thursday morning.

The Fitbit Air is IP68- and 5 ATM–rated—so it’s fine for swimming, but not for showers, saunas or soap. Google says so outright.

9to5Mac's weekend roundup lists the first markdown on the new Apple TV 4K, a cheaper Siri Remote, discounted AirPods Pro 3, Mac mini and MacBook deals, and a $1,200 iPhone Duo trade-in offer at Best Buy.

The Pixel 11 is out: faster than the Pixel 10, with marginally better cameras and quicker charging. But its headline feature — a new HiLight notification LED — has drawn muted reactions.

SanDisk’s 512GB GamePlay microSD Express card is $98 at Walmart — the first confirmed, licensed, and shipping storage option for the Nintendo Switch 2.
Sonos Arc Ultra leads our roundup of the soundbars that 5 review outlets recommend, with what each says and who each suits.

OpenCode Go launches at $10/month — half the price of Claude Code’s entry tier — with metered access to 24 coding models, including Gemini 4 Argon and Claude Haiku 5.5.

The Samsung Galaxy I7500 — launched in April 2009 — had 8 GB of internal storage. Roughly 7.6 GB was user-accessible after Android 1.5 took its cut. Today, that space wouldn’t hold Genshin Impact (31 GB) or Fortnite (40 GB).

Tap, Tap brings back-tap gestures to any Android 7.0+ device — with double- and triple-tap support, conditional triggers, and Tasker integration. It’s free, open source, and available now on GitHub.

Apple has opened preorders for the iPhone Duo—the company’s first foldable—starting at $1,999 in the US and ₹1,99,999 in India. It ships October 23, but online delivery estimates already stretch into late January 2027 across all configurations on Apple’s website.

Gemini for Home now stops listening the instant you say “stop”—no reply, no delay, no extra audio. Google confirmed the change in its October 14 release notes, and The Ambient reported it live at 7:30 a.m. ET on October 17.

Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra may feature thicker display bezels (1.28mm vs S26 Ultra’s 1.15mm) and a taller rear camera bump (4.69mm vs 4.5mm), according to a leak from tipster Ice Universe — but no Indian price, launch date, or confirmed specs have been shared.

Samsung has set a mid-October deadline for Qualcomm to resolve overheating in Galaxy S27 Ultra test devices using the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip — or risk switching to its own Exynos 2700 processor ahead of mass production.

A Chinese-language retailer has listed a physical GTA 6 PS5 disc — but it’s not playable. The listing, shared on social media and spotted by Notebookcheck, shows what appears to be an Ultimate Edition box with a PS5 disc inside...

Windows 11 26H2 is live globally, but the left-aligned taskbar is rolling out gradually — not with the update itself. Mikhail Parakhin, ex-CEO of Microsoft Advertising, confirmed he doesn’t have it yet, calling the experience 'not usable yet'.

Tom's Guide ran a half marathon wearing the Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 together, comparing GPS distance, heart rate and elevation data from the $799 and $699 rugged watches.

The iPhone Air launched in September 2025. Twelve months later, there’s no successor — and no Android phone left that meaningfully competes with it.

Capcom released native Nintendo Switch 2 versions of Resident Evil 2 Deluxe Edition, Resident Evil 3 and Resident Evil 4 Gold Edition on October 16, replacing the cloud-only originals with downloads that run locally, discounted until November 7.

Amulya Vishwanath, ex-NVIDIA robotics product marketing lead, says robotics is in a 'Lego era' — basic hardware, software, and safety standards are still being rebuilt. Her new VC fund, Techable, is backing physical AI in robotics, materials science, and life sciences — not chatbots.