Vivo has officially confirmed the X300 and X300 Pro smartphones are heading to India. The devices may arrive in the first week of December, bringing premium camera features to the competitive market. A separate Photographer Kit with telephoto extender will also be available.
Xbox leadership is taking Valve’s new hardware announcement in stride. Phil Spencer praised the move toward “open platforms” while a colleague noticed the design looks suspiciously familiar from Xbox’s own leaked concepts years ago.
India’s government is aggressively promoting homegrown messaging app Arattai as an alternative to WhatsApp. The campaign has driven downloads from 15,000 to 350,000 daily and rocketed the app to top charts. But dethroning WhatsApp’s 530 million Indian users remains a massive challenge.
Apple continues refining iOS 26 with the second beta of version 26.2. The update includes significant changes to sleep tracking categories and AI-powered podcast improvements, plus new customization features.
SoftBank is making one of the biggest AI bets in history. The Japanese conglomerate sold its Nvidia position to pour billions into OpenAI following its corporate restructuring that removes investor return caps.
Visa and MasterCard have agreed to a settlement that lowers swipe fees by 0.1% over five years, valued at roughly $38 billion in savings for merchants. This comes after two decades of antitrust litigation from retailers who claim the companies hold monopoly power. The tiny fee reduction actually hig
X is experiencing widespread login failures affecting millions of users. The outage appears related to the platform’s transition away from Twitter.com and security key requirements. Users are receiving YubiKey error messages when attempting to access their accounts.
Microsoft has resolved a Windows 11 bug that prevented Task Manager from closing properly. The issue started after October 28th updates and could lead to multiple instances running silently. The fix came via build KB5068861 released yesterday.
Three former cryptocurrency mining companies are making a massive bet on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Applied Digital, Cipher Mining, and CleanSpark plan to raise nearly $5 billion combined through senior secured notes to fund new AI and high-performance computing data center projects acr
OWC’s new StudioStack brings Thunderbolt 5 connectivity and near-internal SSD speeds to Mac Studio and Mac mini setups. The aluminum enclosure supports up to 32TB storage and three 8K displays while adding multiple USB ports. Pre-orders are open now with shipping expected in mid-December.
