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Xiaomi’s Xring O3 chip just beat Qualcomm’s latest flagship tablet SoC — but you can’t buy the device yet.
Xbox Series X price soars to $1,600 in parts of Europe as stock vanishes — and Microsoft’s exclusive game push hits a wall.
Rambler, the Pixel 11’s AI-powered voice-to-text feature that edits speech on the fly, is now available on non-Pixel Android devices via a sideloadable Gboard mod called PixelBoard.
Apple’s Diwali sale in India offers Rs 7,000 instant cashback on the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max until 11 November — the first discount on the new models since launch. A limited-edition rangoli-engraved AirPods 5 is also available exclusively in India.
Mycopunk lands in the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog on October 20 — the first confirmed title for Sony’s October 2026 lineup. It arrives alongside its full PS5 release, exiting Early Access after more than a year of PC development that began on July 10, 2025.
LineageOS 24 brings Android 17, security patches, a new Canvas image editor, and support for 24 more phones and tablets, while the project continues to strip Google services from devices that run it.
OpenWork launches as a free, open-source desktop alternative to Claude Cowork. It supports local models via Ollama and LM Studio, works with Anthropic and OpenAI keys, and imports Claude’s SKILL.md skills — but automations only run while the app is open, and there’s no mobile app yet.
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro leans on its A20 Pro chip and 12GB of RAM to run iOS 27 Siri tools, from onscreen context reading to natural-language Shortcuts.
Greentoe cut the 65-inch Sony Bravia 8 II OLED TV to $2,149, undercutting a competing Amazon deal by $349 while providing QD-OLED contrast and acoustic screen audio.
Apple has tested microphones built directly into the next Apple TV 4K alongside a Siri Remote with an onboard speaker, ahead of an expected October event.
Apple's iPhone 18 Pro raises the US entry price to $1,199, swapping fixed optics for a physical variable aperture alongside 2nm silicon and fresh Burgundy and Black finishes.
Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip 8 commands a higher starting price than its predecessor, delivering a slimmer frame and regional silicon upgrades alongside familiar screen and camera hardware.
LG C6 leads our roundup of the TVs that 4 review outlets recommend, with what each says and who each suits.
Photographer Jack Boskett won the Christmas Parties and Seasonal Events category at the 12th Event Photography Awards with a low-light shot of a steam locomotive.
Acer's Nitro V16 dropped to $1,349.99 on Newegg, cutting 10 percent off standard pricing while packing an RTX 5060 GPU, 32GB of RAM, and a 180Hz panel.
Sony's 65-inch Bravia 8 II QD-OLED television was listed at $2,149 on Greentoe on Sunday, dropping well below Amazon's $2,498 pricing for buyers seeking refined picture processing.
OpenAI has retired GPT-4o and rolled out new safety updates across its latest models — GPT-5, GPT-5.2, and GPT-5.6 Sol — to sharply reduce sycophantic behavior in ChatGPT.
Claude Code CLI now reads full Home Assistant configurations — not just snippets, but the entire YAML tree: configuration.yaml, automations/, scripts/, templates/, packages/ and all cross-references between them.
Apple’s HomePod mini 2 is confirmed for launch on Friday, October 30 — two weeks after its October 13 unveiling at the “Welcome home” event in New York.
iFi’s new Up Play ($59) and Up Play Max ($89) USB-C Bluetooth transmitters bring LDAC and aptX Lossless to devices that don’t support them natively — including Apple iPhones, MacBooks, Windows laptops, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 2.
MSI’s Prestige N16 Flip AI+ is now live — the first RTX Spark laptop to offer 128 GB of RAM, a 16-inch Tandem OLED touchscreen, and full 360-degree convertible design.
Amazon has kept its Prime Day pricing alive on current Apple Watch models, with the Apple Watch SE 3 starting at $199.99 and Apple Watch Series 12 inventory holding steady at sale lows.
Retailers cut prices on portable SSDs, PCIe 4.0 internal storage, and mechanical desktop hard drives from Lexar, Samsung, and Kingston amid rising memory costs.
Taskwarrior now syncs with Google Calendar and Keep — but only if you’re willing to spend hours in the terminal, hand-craft OAuth tokens, and trust a third-party library that asks for your Google password.