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A bottom-mounted navigation bar is now live in Windows 11 Insider builds — giving Xbox Mode users one-tap access to Exit to Desktop and Power Options.
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A bottom-mounted navigation bar is now live in Windows 11 Insider builds — giving Xbox Mode users one-tap access to Exit to Desktop and Power Options.

Google has launched the Pixel 11 Pro XL at $1,299 in the US and ₹1,14,999 in India — matching the iPhone 18 Pro Max’s price while delivering a camera system that reviewers call dependable, not dominant.

Fitbit Air users can now feed their health data into Gemini to generate personalized 7-day workout plans—no subscription required.

Just One Before I Die streams free on Tubi in the US and UK starting October 21, 2026 — but not in India, Canada, Australia, or anywhere else. No TV broadcast. No alternative platform. No VPN guidance. Just the facts.

HP Omnibook X Flip 2-in-1 drops to $1,199.99 at Best Buy — a 25% discount on the 16-inch 2K OLED model with Ryzen AI 7 445, 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD.

Nvidia’s RTX Spark SoC is shipping now in the Asus ProArt P16. It’s ARM-based, integrates up to 20 CPU cores and 6,144 CUDA cores, and enables true hybrid agentic AI — local models for privacy, cloud models for scale — all on one chip.

Anthropic and Nscale are negotiating a second $45 billion compute deal — just weeks after closing their first one. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, reports the talks are advanced but not final.

Activision has opened early access for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 DMZ ahead of the game's full launch on October 23, unlocking extraction operations for digital pre-order buyers on PC, consoles, and Switch 2.

Gemini 4 Argon helped physicists extend exact mathematical solutions for magnetic confinement in fusion reactors — breaking a symmetry limitation that had blocked progress since 1967. The work, verified computationally and manually, gives researchers new reference models for testing simulation software. No consumer release. No price. No timeline.

The US Department of Homeland Security has ordered all federal civilian agencies to stop using and remove DeepSeek AI products — effective immediately.

Apple India hit ₹1 lakh crore in revenue for FY26 — the first time it has crossed that threshold in the country. Net profit jumped 66% year-on-year, while revenue grew 31%, outpacing Samsung India, which saw a decline in the same period.
Apple has imposed a two-unit purchase limit on the iPhone Duo in India and the US, citing stock constraints and anti-scalping measures. In Japan and South Korea, walk-in sales are banned; buyers must book store pickups ahead of the October 23 launch.

Asus has reduced the price of its budget L410 laptop to $100 on its official website, down from the usual $250 sticker price for the base model.

Cognizant has assigned more than 18,000 of its employees to a new Gemini Frontier Capability Group — a dedicated unit built with Google Cloud to deploy AI agents for enterprise clients using Google’s Gemini models.

A PS5 jailbreak for firmware 14.10 has been demonstrated—publicly, in video form—by homebrew developer Gezine, just weeks before the confirmed November 19, 2026, release date of GTA 6.

The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra is now shipping globally, starting at $2,599.99 in the US and ₹2,29,999 in India. It’s the first laptop powered by NVIDIA’s RTX Spark chip — a custom Arm64 SoC built around a 20-core N1X CPU and a 6,144-core Blackwell GPU with up to 96GB of GPU-accessible memory. But it’s not a general-purpose upgrade. It’s a narrow, expensive bet on one thing: running large语言模型(

Phony (2026) debuts Tuesday, October 20 — at 12:01 a.m. ET in the US and 7:30 p.m. IST in India. Here's where it streams, what it costs, and what’s in the premiere.

How to budget a gaming PC in 2026, when RAM and SSD prices have soared: where to spend, two current parts lists from Tom’s Hardware and PC Game Check, and when a prebuilt is the better buy.

NVIDIA's GTC Berlin 2026 event—slated for Wednesday—may deliver outsized benefits to Intel through confirmed Xeon CPU roles in DGX systems and potential use of Intel's 18A-P/14A nodes or EMIB-T/Foveros packaging for Feynman GPUs.

Samsung Galaxy F70 5G launches in India at ₹19,999 — a 6.7-inch 90Hz AMOLED phone with 50MP OIS, Exynos 1330, and microSD support up to 2TB. No global rollout confirmed.

Apple is adding a ‘Lock Controls’ setting for all HomePod models—including the 2018 first-gen unit—with the iOS 27.2 and HomePod software 27.2 updates, rolling out next week.

Microsoft is emailing Xbox Series X owners who haven’t used their console in months, offering up to $375 in Best Buy gift cards to trade it in — no new purchase required.

Resident Evil 4 (Gold Edition) launched for Nintendo Switch 2 on October 16, 2026. TechRadar calls it a 'good, but imperfect' port: smooth combat, strong visuals in docked mode, but noticeable texture pop-in and occasional frame drops — especially in handheld and complex environments. Motion controls debut here, but horizontal aiming lags. All major DLC included. No price listed.

The Google Pixel 11 Pro HiLight launched with just five LED colors for contact notifications — despite hardware supporting more — and users are calling the slow, beta-only rollout of additional options 'absolutely insane' given the $999 price.