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The Pixel Watch 5 is discounted for the first time — up to $70 off at Amazon — and the Steph Curry Special Edition variant has hit its lowest price yet.

The 2026 MacBook Air 13-inch with Apple’s M5 chip is $200 off — $1,099 — during Amazon’s October Prime Day sale.

Amazon’s standard Kindle drops to $104 for Prime Big Deal Days — its lowest recent price, with added perks and a new color. Not the new flagship. Not a global price. Just two days.

HP has slashed $2,200 off the Omen 35L gaming PC, bringing it to $2,799 — a 44% discount — ahead of Amazon’s October Prime Day. The deal is live on HP.com and applies to a configuration with an AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, and an unannounced NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 GPU with 16GB GDDR7 VRAM. No pricing or availability is given for India or other regions.

Gears of War: E-Day runs on Xbox Series S using SSD-as-RAM — a targeted, frame-aware memory offload strategy confirmed by The Coalition’s technical director.

Halo: Combat Evolved now runs in a web browser with 128-player multiplayer. Lego Racers — the 1999 kart racer — is playable on Android, Steam Deck, and iPhone via Safari. And The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time boots on modern Windows PCs without emulation...

Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter Smart Play set is $55.95. The Botanicals Flowering Cactus is $25.55. The City Police Motorcycle Chase is $4.89. All live now on Amazon US.

The Galaxy S26 series is back at launch pricing — and in some cases, cheaper — for 48 hours starting Sunday, October 6, as part of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days event. The sale ends Monday, October 7.

OpenAI is adding visual ads to ChatGPT and rolling out EU text watermarking — two separate, regionally staggered changes hitting later this month.