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PC shipments are in the toilet, plunging over 20 percent from last year

Engadget Oct 22, 2026, 6:56 PM (1 hour ago)

This could reach 27 percent throughout the end of 2026 as prices continue to rise.

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The smart home dream is dead, and Google killed it

It’s time to admit that true smart homes are simply not going to happen

Android Police 20 minutes ago

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Gradium Open-Sources Phonon, a 31M-Parameter On-Device TTS Model Under Apache 2.0

Gradium has open-sourced Phonon, a family of on-device text-to-speech models. The English Phonon 31m ships under Apache 2.0, fits in 64.5 MB, and starts speaking in about 7 ms on a laptop CPU.

MarkTechPost 24 minutes ago

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I’ve never seen a laptop cooler come with its own comic strip before, but it still hasn’t convinced me this noisy beast is worth $50

Not so cool.

PC Gamer 43 minutes ago

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Our top over-ear headphones of 2026 so far: every pair of cans that blew us away in our tests

We’ve tested some seriously good over-ear headphones this year — browse the pairs that impressed us the most.

TechRadar 57 minutes ago

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Score $91 off the TP-Link Deco 7 BE5000 whole-home Wi-Fi 7 system

Save 30% on the TP-Link Deco 7 BE5000 3-pack and get Wi-Fi 7 mesh coverage for up to 6,600 sq. ft. on Amazon.

Android Authority 59 minutes ago

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GPUs from Nvidia RTX 5090 stolen $470,000 shipment from Brazil airport appear for sale online, identified by serial numbers

One of the GPUs from a stolen shipment of RTX 5090 graphics cards has appeared for sale online. Police have identified three employees at an airport who stole the goods.

Tom's Hardware 1 hour ago