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The iQOO Z11xa 5G — with Dimensity 7400 Turbo, 7200mAh battery and 50MP Sony IMX 852 rear camera — is now available for ₹24,749 after ₹3,000 coupon and ₹1,250 bank discount.
Starlink’s commercial launch in India remains stalled—not by oligarchs, but by security clearances.
Samsung Galaxy S25 (12GB/128GB) is ₹54,999 on Flipkart during Big Billion Days 2026 — ₹52,249 with SBI bank discount. Exchange up to ₹53,350. No US or UK pricing reported.
Melbourne developer Beethoven & Dinosaur took Game of the Year, visual art, and sound design honours for Mixtape at the 2026 Australian Game Developer Awards.
Notebookcheck's review of the Lenovo Yoga Tab Gen 2 found over 24 hours of WiFi battery life, a Dimensity 9500s chipset, WiFi 7 and a $599 starting price, with weak speakers and no cellular option as the main drawbacks.
Sesame Solar, Target Arm and AG3 Labs have teamed up on an automated Nanogrid combining renewable off-grid power, robotic deployment arms and modular drones to keep unmanned flight operations running around the clock.
Motorola has started rolling out Android 17 to the Razr Ultra 2026 in the United States, bundling its Qira AI assistant, key remapping, and reworked notification controls into a 4.17GB download.
Security researchers compromised the Samsung Galaxy S26 multiple times during Pwn2Own Ireland 2026, triggering a 90-day disclosure countdown for Samsung to push firmware fixes to users worldwide.
Apple Watch Series 12 managed a slight repairability bump to 4 out of 10 in teardowns, but glued screens and missing parts continue to frustrate fixers.
Samsung's flagship Galaxy S26 Ultra was listed at Rs 1,24,999 on Amazon India during the Great Indian Festival 2026, delivering a flat Rs 30,000 reduction off its official retail price.
Amazon India listed the 128GB iPhone 16 at Rs 76,999 during its Great Indian Festival Sale, with bank offers and exchange bonuses pushing the net price down to Rs 72,249.
Tamron is launching its full-frame 20-40mm F2.8 Di III VXD zoom lens for Nikon Z-mount cameras on October 22, priced at $729 in the US.
The Surface Laptop Ultra ships with a patent-pending magnetic USB-C charger — the first laptop to do so. It works on only one of three USB-C ports, doesn’t fit other devices, and starts at $2,600.
Lego’s 2027 lineup is leaking — not in code or cloud storage, but on Instagram. A post from @unibricks on 8 October 2026 lists unreleased sets across Pokémon, Harry Potter, and Icons, all slated for first-half 2027. Lego has not confirmed any of them.
Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5 — its fastest and cheapest model yet, priced at $0.10 per million input tokens in the US, with a 1-million-token context window. It’s live globally as of Tuesday, October 8, 2026.
Amazon Great Indian Festival 2026 is live, with real, listed prices on flagship smartphones: Galaxy S25 Ultra at Rs 84,999, Pixel 10 at Rs 69,958, Xiaomi 17 at Rs 68,999, iQOO 15R at Rs 53,999 plus Rs 7,500 coupon — all on Amazon.in as of 8 October 2026.
Asus has rolled out festive discounts on Vivobook, Zenbook, TUF Gaming and ROG laptops, desktops and a tablet during Flipkart's Big Billion Days and Amazon's Great Indian Festival, with cuts of up to 58% on select models.
Microsoft confirmed Call of Duty will launch on Nvidia RTX Spark laptops in 2027, adapting Activision's Ricochet anti-cheat system to run natively on Arm64 architecture.
Anthropic's Claude chatbot now supports interactive Mermaid diagrams inside conversation threads through a Model Context Protocol integration, enabling direct visual editing and account syncing across dozens of chart formats.
Google rolled out its Android 17 QPR1 release to older hardware weeks ago, leaving Pixel 11 owners waiting while their flagship devices sit on an older software build.
Amazon reduced the Citizen Blue Angels World Chronograph A-T to $375.23 for Prime members, beating typical second-hand listings by more than $120.
Preorders have opened for the first wave of Nvidia RTX Spark laptops from Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI, with hardware pricing starting at $2,599.99 ahead of an October 16 rollout.
Preorders have opened for the first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops, with entry models starting at $2,600 and high-end configurations climbing all the way to $7,000.
ChatGPT for Teens is failing basic safety checks — no parental alerts for suicidal ideation, no enforcement of Study Mode, and age verification that lets teens register as adults with no correction.