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Google ships Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel 11 Pro FoldGoogle's latest hardware push lands the Pixel Watch 5 and Pixel 11 Pro Fold into a market where foldables and wearables remain a rounding error next to Apple's iPhone volumes. The bigger point is s…Qualcomm's profit fell on costs, not demandChip demand isn't the problem at Qualcomm, cost inflation is. The company's profit declined even as revenue held up, which points to margin pressure from input costs and R&D spend rather than any w…Apple is reportedly rethinking smart glasses after Meta's backlashMeta's Ray-Ban display glasses have drawn criticism over always-on cameras and unclear recording indicators, and Apple is said to be reconsidering its own hardware approach before launch rather tha…Apple teams up with Klarna to let you rent an iPhoneThe lease-to-own scheme lets customers pay monthly for iPhones, iPads, and Macs without owning the device outright until the term ends, giving Apple a subscription-like revenue stream and Klarna a …Microsoft's Xbox cuts land as another gaming bloodbathXbox staff calling this round of layoffs a bloodbath tells you Microsoft is still treating gaming as a cost centre to trim rather than a strategic bet to protect, more than a year after its Activis…Google's image search rebuild is a defensive move against AI searchTwenty-five years after launching image search, Google is rebuilding it with heavier AI integration precisely as Perplexity, ChatGPT search and Meta's own AI tools chip away at the query volume Goo…Google has set August 12 for the Pixel 11 launch, with price increases expected. The Android premium play is being tested.Google's Pixel 11 launch date is confirmed for August 12, and the signal accompanying it is that pricing will rise. Google has been repositioning Pixel as a premium hardware line anchored to its Ge…Luxshare's $3.1bn Hong Kong IPO tests whether the exchange's recovery is realLuxshare Precision, the Chinese contract manufacturer that builds AirPods and competes with Foxconn for iPhone assembly, is seeking up to $3.1 billion from a Hong Kong listing, which would rank amo…Apple passes the memory bill to consumers, and the iPhone's exemption is temporaryApple has raised prices on Macs and iPads by $200 or more on several models, with some lines up roughly 20 percent, citing a worsening memory chip crunch that has pushed NAND and DRAM costs sharply…An Apple supplier's Hong Kong debut tells you the supply chain consolidation story is still runningLingyi iTech, a Shenzhen-based precision components supplier to Apple, rose on its first day of trading in Hong Kong after raising $1.1 billion in its IPO, signalling that investor appetite for qua…Meta launches its own-brand smart glasses at a lower price point, cutting Ray-Ban outMeta selling smart glasses under its own brand rather than through the Ray-Ban partnership is a direct signal that it now believes the product has enough consumer recognition to stand without Luxot…Amazon Prime Day is live and the deals are real, but the framing is notPrime Day 2026 is running now, and the robotics, smart home, and consumer electronics discounts are genuine on a handful of SKUs. The bulk of the 'deals' are products whose prices were quietly rais…Sony finally redesigns flagship Xperia after five years of stagnationLeaked renders show Sony abandoning the vertical camera strip it's used since 2020 for a square camera island on the upcoming Xperia 1 VIII. The triple 48MP Zeiss setup positions telephoto, wide, a…