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Press review · Monday, 26 October 2026
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macworld.com
Apple just turned an entire generation of kids into Mac users
At just $499, the MacBook Neo is arguably the most compelling, future-proof laptop for students.
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thedodo.com
Mechanics Take Apart Car’s Headlight After Seeing Something Moving Inside
“I was truly astonished.”
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ign.com
The Lenovo Legion Tower 7 RTX 5080 Gaming PC Drops to $2,210 for This Weekend Only - IGN
The liquid cooled Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU and 5080 GPU set this prebuilt up for high-fps 4K gaming.
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pushsquare.com
PS6's Rumoured Portable Could Be in Your Hands as Early as Next Year
Wrap your head around that
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bgr.com
6 VPN Services You Should Try And 5 To Avoid According To Experts - BGR
VPNs are a great way to access streaming services and increase your privacy, but some VPNs are worse than having none at all. Here are our recommendations.
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news.samsung.com
Galaxy Buds4 Series Elevates Call Clarity with HD Voice
HD voice cuts background noise and captures every word
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techcrunch.com
The MacBook Neo is ‘the most repairable MacBook’ in years, according to iFixit | TechCrunch
Apple’s new MacBook Neo isn’t just the most affordable MacBook — it’s also the company's most repairable laptop in “about fourteen years."
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9to5mac.com
iOS 26’s Passwords app has a new feature that can save you a headache - 9to5Mac
Apple Passwords in iOS 26 has a welcome new feature that can prevent the headache of a forgotten password loop.
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kotaku.com
Medieval Sim 1348 Ex Voto Hit With Absurd Anti-Woke Conspiracy
Online chuds are claiming it's lesbian propaganda
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notebookcheck.net
The 7430U CPU scandal could spread: Another manufacturer under suspicion, ODM comes into the spotlight
While we recently found Chuwi guilty of CPU fraud twice, there are now indications that another Asia-based brand, Ninkear, could be affected. We also have a sample of this laptop at our disposal and are investigating immediately. Spoiler: The result exonerates the manufacturer, but raises questions about the original design manufacturer (ODM).
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tomsguide.com
The ‘glitch prompt’ makes ChatGPT smarter — here’s what happened when I tried it on Claude
Claude automatically checks its work, but it still glitches
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theguardian.com
Trump wages war on Iran his own way: commander-in-chaos
Erratic rhetoric, shifting goals and mixed signals leave allies, foes and voters unsure what the president wants from war
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canonrumors.com
Canon EOS R7 Mark II Info: 39MP Stacked Sensor and 2026 Release Date - Canon Rumors
The wait for the Canon EOS R7 Mark II is almost over. A new report suggest a big sensor upgrade to a 39MP BSI Stacked sensor—a first for Canon APS-C. Here is what we know about the mid-2026 launch.
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macrumors.com
MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 17 Pro and 25W Qi Charger From Lululook
For this week's giveaway, we've teamed up with Lululook to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win an iPhone 17 Pro and a 25W Qi2.2 3-in-1 Charger from Lululook to go along with it. Priced at $79, Lululook's 3-in-1 Charging Station is able to charge an iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch at the same time. It features Qi 2.2 support and certification, so it is able to charge the iPhone 16 and iPhone 17 models at up to 25W, the same as Apple's latest MagSafe specification.
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nintendolife.com
Tomodachi Life: Living The Dream Has Been Rated, Here's The ESRB Summary
This is what you can expect...
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windowscentral.com
Don't settle for MacBook Neo's lesser specs when this laptop offers more
HP is hosting an exclusive 57% discount on the HP OmniBook 5 laptop with a Snapdragon X CPU as a cheaper, better-performing alternative to the MacBook Neo.
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androidauthority.com
Pixel Desktop vs Samsung DeX: Which phone-powered PC experience is better?
Pixel Desktop Mode and Samsung DeX run standard Android apps on an external display, but what are the differences, and which one is best?
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Donkey Kong Bananza Developers on Voxels, Sandboxes, and a Delicious Bacon Burger Prototype - IGN
Donkey Kong Bananza is a game that emerged from constant experimentation with tons of different experimental prototypes. And at the Game Developers Conference this week, I managed to get them to talk about one: a giant, delicious, bacon burger.
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t3.com
Garmin celebrates World Sleep Day with free Pokémon watch faces that change as you get tired
The new Pokémon watch faces change throughout the day based on your Body Battery energy levels
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simscommunity.info
EA Cancels The Sims Town Stories
In a shocking reveal we've discovered that The Sims Town Stories has been cancelled. The news comes from a now former employee from EA that this spin-off
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supercarblondie.com
Producer who worked on Oprah Winfrey’s $8,000,000 ‘you get a car’ giveaway shares the ‘devastating’ reality winners faced once the cameras were off
The iconic 'You get a car' giveaway on the Oprah Winfrey Show had been thoroughly planned but, even so, the producers still ran into trouble
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rockpapershotgun.com
Latest Slay The Spire 2 update stops you having over a billion HP, while tweaking the deckbuilder's mod support
Slay The Spire 2 continues its early access journey with an update that fixes a variety of crash bugs, tweaks the balancing and adds some new art.
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cnet.com
CNET Readers Love to Buy Cool Tech. Here Are Your 20 Favorite Things From the Past Month
If you're wondering what tech deals people are buying, take a look at the top 20 products CNET readers picked up last month.
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insider-gaming.com
Starfield's Future Will Be Unveiled Next Week by Bethesda
Bethesda Game Studios is preparing to unveil the future of Starfield next week, letting us know about the game's next expansion.
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androidauthority.com
Samsung is giving all of Android a bad rep with its terrible keyboard
There are many bad stereotypes about Android, and Samsung isn't helping by shipping such a bad keyboard to millions of Android users.
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dropsitenews.com
Behind the Bombs, New Details Emerge on Iran’s Infiltration of Israel
As arrests grow in Israel, internal Iranian intelligence materials reviewed by Drop Site shed light on Tehran’s clandestine attempts to turn Israeli citizens into spies.
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theverge.com
Asus’ new open earbuds are a wonderful companion for handheld gaming
These are great if you play a lot of handheld games.
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kotaku.com
15 Incredible Indie Games Made Computer Worlds A Must-Watch
Noclip's Computer Worlds showcase was full of indie releases you should be paying attention to
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on3.com
2026 NCAA Tournament Predictions: Bracketology updates from Saturday's conference championships, more
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apnews.com
Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany.
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gamesindustry.biz
Embark Studios head Patrick Söderlund explains how Arc Raiders was made on "a quarter of the budget" of a AAA title
"Very little of it is AI. A lot of it is reconfiguring … old ways of working"
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jalopnik.com
15 Useful Car Gadgets You Can Buy From Amazon In 2026 - Jalopnik
Cars still don't come with everything you need. Here's a list of the best third-party products and accessories you can buy on Amazon in 2026.
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This Week's Meager Destiny 2 Update Leaves Fans Feeling Like the Franchise is at Its Lowest Ebb Yet, While Bungie Focuses on Trying to Make Marathon a Success - IGN
Destiny fans are lamenting the future of Bungie's sci-fi shooter franchise, following a threadbare update this week, released while the developer focuses on supporting Marathon.
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nintendolife.com
Nintendo Shows Off Icon Design Proposals For Switch 2's 'C' Button
What could have been...
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How to use the new ChatGPT app integrations, including DoorDash, Spotify, Uber, and others | TechCrunch
Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT.
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tomsguide.com
Windows fans say MacBook Neo’s 8GB RAM is ridiculous — so I tested it, and the results are shocking
Windows 11 just got caught being *way* too greedy
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9to5google.com
Google Meet fully replaces legacy Duo calling
Google Duo is now fully gone, with the company completing its migration to Google Meet as its sole video calling service.
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nintendoeverything.com
Nintendo explains why it gave GameChat a dedicated button on the Switch 2 controller
A Nintendo developer has spoken about why GameChat has a dedicated button on the Switch 2 controller and gave some insight into the making of the feature in general, including scrapped logo design ideas. This comes courtesy of a recruitment post made on Nintendo’s website. GameChat has been one of the big features Nintendo is promoting on its new console....
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Bracketology insights: Friday conference tournament movement, big movers
Bracketology insights will help explain how the Saturday results help shape the latest projections for the NCAA Tournament.
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nintendo.com
Nintendo inspired custom designs are available in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Visit Nintendo’s official island to get original custom designs inspired by Nintendo systems like Game Boy and Famicom in the Animal Crossing™ New Horizons game and the Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition game.
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wired.com
The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Makes Me Wish All Phones Had a Privacy Screen
There's not much else groundbreaking about the company's latest flagship, but the built-in privacy display works well without much trade-off.
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MacBook Air M5 review: a small update for the ‘just right’ Mac
Still the best, unless you’re on a tighter budget.
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iowaparkleader.com
Linux Finally Catches Up to Windows with a Game-Changing Performance Feature - Iowa Park Leader
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whathifi.com
Forget Bose, JBL’s new wireless headphones promise flagship-beating battery life for less
Up to 50 hours of play time with noise cancelling on and 80 hours without
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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: show off
Privacy, please.
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iPhone 17e vs. iPhone 16 Buyer's Guide: Which Low-Cost iPhone Should You Choose?
The iPhone 17e just joined the iPhone lineup. Apple continues to sell the iPhone 16 as an alternative low-cost option, and while the two devices share many core features, there are still more than 25 differences between them to be aware of. Following the launch of the iPhone 17 lineup and the iPhone Air, Apple discontinued the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus, and reduced the price of the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus by $100.
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xda-developers.com
A nasty Windows 11 bug is causing the C drive to become inaccessible in select devices, says Microsoft
There is a custom fix, but it's probably best to wait.
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rte.ie
Four killed, 15 injured in Russian attacks on Kyiv
Russian drone and missile strikes near Ukraine's capital and several other regions have killed four people and wounded 15, authorities have said.
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bleedingcool.com
Pokémon GO Announces A New Slate of Gameplay For March 2026
Raikou features as the ultimate encounter for the GO Pass this March in Pokémon GO, while Kanto birds rule over Five-Star Raids.
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kotaku.com
Marathon Rolling Back Loud Gun Shot Change After Players Revolt
Update 1.0.0.4 made gunshots much louder and that has made the game deadlier for many