Google has revealed a fair number of goodies at this year's I/O event, with the all-new Android XR-based taking one of the prime spots on stage as an elegant hardware companion to Google's ever-present and highly capable Gemini models.
The Google Audio glasses are expected to launch this fall in an aesthetically pleasing form factor, replete with frames designed by Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, and engineered with Samsung's assistance. The glasses pair with Android as well as iOS devices.
It’s never a good look for a company when you’re flaunting a competitor’s smartphone to demo a product on stage, but Josh Woodward, who spearheads Google Labs, Gemini app, and AI Studio, likely didn’t care when he was caught demoing an iPhone 17 Pro to showcase Gemini Spark, the Mountain View giant’s latest personal AI agent designed to help with productivity. Given that the company’s Pixel series is a direct competitor to the iPhone, it would have been a
Earlier this month, it was finally confirmed that Nintendo could hold out no longer. The Nintendo Switch 2 is going up in price, with a $50 increase going into effect globally on September 1, 2026. It's a sign of Nintendo, like XBOX and PlayStation , succumbing to the combined pressures of elements like the memory shortage and tariffs , but according to veteran analyst Joost van Dreunen , this final domino falling is " the canary in the coal mine " that if even Nintendo can'
In a fresh interview, Intel's CEO Lip-Bu Tan candidly discussed his firm's current market position and the mistakes made under the previous position. Tan, whose tenure at Intel has seen the firm manage to turn around its dismal share price performance, is one of the most experienced executives in the industry. During Intel's latest earnings call, he shifted the narrative around the AI buildout and asserted that agentic AI would make CPUs relevant in the ongoing multi-billion-dollar buildout. In his interview
A few days ago, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim received a substantial visual upgrade with brought by the Community Shaders PC mod, which previously introduced true PBR and frame generation support to Bethesda 's best-selling game.
This means anyone who owns an HDR-compatible display will be able to benefit from greatly improved brightness peaks , helping breathe new life into the 2011 game's visuals alongside the other Community Shaders features. The CS team worked with this alongside the folks at HDR Den, including HDR
Toy makers and Wizards of the Coast parent company Hasbro have spent a whopping $1 billion over the past eight years in an effort to flesh out its video game division and develop its own games with its own studios. Based on the last decade or so of the video game industry, you'd be right to assume that a company like Hasbro, with a wealth of IPs on hand, would look to lean on live service, or Games as a Service (GaaS) games, to lead its portfolio.
But
Intel's next-generation Crescent Island PCIe graphics card has been pictured in the first PCB leak, giving us a look at the large Xe3P GPU & support for LPDDR5X memory.
The first pictures of Intel's Crescent Island PCIe accelerator's PCB have been leaked by . Crescent Island is the latest and upcoming Inference accelerator designed for AI workflows, offering competitive value.
Apple is not above employing a few sneaky tricks to steal some of its competitor's thunder, especially as coincidence alone is not a very credible explanation for Apple's casual disclosure of a few agentic capabilities of the new Siri , with the announcement apparently timed to land just hours ahead of Google's I/O event.
Apple has just unveiled that are likely to debut with iOS 27.
Apple Intelligence's VoiceOver and Magnifier features are meant to assist individuals who are either blind or have a degraded vision
The second batch of XBOX Game Pass titles for May 2026 has been alongside the full release of Forza Horizon 6 , which is the big headlining game for the entire month. The rest of the month will include titles like the upcoming shooter Luna Abyss , the dinosaur park management game Jurassic World Evolution 3 , and the co-op shooter Remnant 2 .
Those are just a few of the notable titles entering the subscription service over the rest of the month and into the first two days of June , others being
In LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight , you can learn new skills via the skill tree and upgrade your gadgets via Workbenches . While skills are shared among all playable characters, gadget upgrades are not .
As such, if you are not planning on exploring Gotham City thoroughly for Waynetech chips, you will want to use the ones you get naturally as you progress through the game wisely to unlock crucial upgrades that will make combat easier and generally more fun.