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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is trying to fix the foldable's biggest miss by burying the Face ID sensor beneath the outer screen instead of a notch or cutout.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple is trying to fix the foldable's biggest miss by burying the Face ID sensor beneath the outer screen instead of a notch or cutout.

Qualcomm has introduced Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2, a chipset platform that can scale audio quality between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, potentially narrowing the gap between wireless and wired headphones for open-back designs like Audio-Technica's and Grado's.

Nvidia's GeForce 621.01 WHQL driver adds Advanced Shader Delivery for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 and Gears of War: E-Day, aiming to kill shader-compile load screens. A journalist reports lower RAM use, though CPU load stays high.

Samsung's Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy Tab S12 and Galaxy Z Fold 8 are all discounted today at Amazon and Best Buy, according to 9to5Toys, alongside a $1,000 cut on LG's C6 OLED and a batch of free Android games and apps.

Anthropic says its Claude AI model combed through more than five million lines of open source code across 25 projects and surfaced nearly 500 security issues, including a flaw hidden in OpenSSH for two decades.
Early indications around the upcoming iOS 27.2 release point toward a potential Apple Music rebrand, though full technical details and changes remain under wraps.

A Redditor's attempt to debloat a Samsung Tizen TV with Claude turned into an 11-hour project after the AI discovered it wasn't dealing with Android TV at all, and had to borrow a phone camera to see its own progress.
iQOO 16 pairs a 165Hz display and an 8,400mAh battery with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, while Xiaomi 18 Pro counters with a 200MP Leica camera system and a secondary rear screen.
Apple has expanded its Self Service Repair Store to cover the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, M5 Mac Studio and M6 Mac mini, letting owners buy genuine parts and rent tools for do-it-yourself fixes.

AMD and Maingear are giving away a custom Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 themed gaming desktop worth about $3,417 to mark 12 million players, with entries open through October 29.

Google has told Android Authority that sleep breathing quality, a feature already live on Pixel Watch 3, 4 and 5, is on its way to the Fitbit Air, though no release date has been set.

A leaked hands-on video of the iPhone Duo shows the display feeling unusually soft right at the crease, reigniting durability worries about Apple's first foldable and its costly repair fees.

Leaked specs for Intel's Core Ultra 9 4995HX and Core Ultra 9 4970H detail Nova Lake's top mobile chips, with up to 28 cores, new Xe3 graphics and power limits reaching 160 watts, ahead of a CES 2027 debut.

Every Pixel 11 phone, from the base model to the Pro Fold, ships with Magic Capture, a camera mode that pulls high-quality still photos out of recorded video without any manual screenshotting.

Samsung's base Galaxy S26 now costs $1,000 in the US as memory prices push smartphone costs higher across the board, coinciding with a reported 20% sales decline that Android Authority calls the steepest drop in nearly 14 years.

A leaked photo shared by tipster Ice Universe reportedly shows the Samsung W27, a more premium China-market version of the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra with a blue and gold finish, though Samsung has confirmed nothing yet.

OpenAI has upgraded its ChatGPT Chrome extension with a sidebar that reads information across open tabs and a ChatGPT Work mode that can fill out forms, send messages and download files on a user's behalf.

An XDA Developers test of HP's RTX Spark laptop had a local AI model write and render a Blender city scene using 49GB of GPU memory, more than an RTX 5090 or a 48GB RTX PRO 5000 workstation card can hold.

Oppo has launched the Pad Mini Matte Display Edition in India at Rs 94,999 for the 8GB plus 256GB model. It ships with Qualcomm flagship hardware and goes on open sale October 29 via Flipkart and Oppo's online store.

Apple's 36GB M5 Max MacBook Pro is $900 off at Amazon, per 9to5Toys, alongside cheaper AirPods Pro 3, an Apple Pencil (USB-C) discount, iPhone 18 case markdowns and a batch of App Store game sales.

Last One Laughing: Halloween premieres October 23 on Prime Video with Jimmy Carr hosting Jack Dee, Daisy May Cooper and more comedians trying not to crack a smile, finale airs October 30.

Apple's iPhone Duo foldable went on sale with reported strong demand, delayed deliveries and queues outside stores in Sydney and other cities, even as early reviews flagged camera and usability concerns. No India pricing or launch window has been confirmed.

A hands-on review of the Pixel Watch 5 from India Today Tech praises its AI-driven Health Coach and Gemini integration, but flags that the coaching feature comes with an added cost beyond the watch itself.

Microsoft is retiring eight Copilot shortcuts from the Windows 11 File Explorer right-click menu for OneDrive files, folding them into a single Ask Copilot option starting mid-November 2026.