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Sharad Agarwal’s arrival as Tesla’s new India head marks a clear pivot from remote oversight to a locally led, luxury-focused push — a strategic recalibration designed to convert curiosity into purchases in a market where high import duties, limited charging infrastructure and entrenched domestic rivals have so far blunted Tesla’s opening momentum. Background / Overview Tesla entered India in mid‑2025 with showrooms and Model Y deliveries, but the launch produced modest order volumes...

Duroflex’s latest move — a full visual and strategic refresh under the banner “Designed to De‑Stress” — recasts the six‑decade mattress maker from a sleep‑innovation company into an explicit wellbeing brand focused on stress relief through restorative sleep. Background Duroflex Limited, a long‑standing Indian sleep and comfort solutions company, announced a refreshed brand identity and positioning in early November 2025 that centers stress reduction as its primary consumer promise. The...

Glow's latest release, version 25.15, lands as a compact, performance-focused refresh that rethinks the app's look, shrinks its footprint dramatically, and adds a novel hardware integrity tool aimed squarely at technicians and anyone who needs rock-solid evidence of component changes. Background Glow is a portable system-analysis utility for Windows that collects and presents detailed hardware and software information in a single, searchable interface. The tool is developed by Eray Türkay...

Sword of Justice’s global rollout has arrived: NetEase and ZhuRong Studio will open servers worldwide on November 7, 2025, with preloads already live and character pre‑creation open ahead of launch — and the package being offered is notable for being entirely free‑to‑play, full cross‑platform between PC and mobile, and loaded with free pre‑registration rewards designed to get players into the world of Wuxia from day one. Background / Overview NetEase’s open‑world Wuxia MMORPG, Sword of...

KDE Discover brings an app-store-style, graphical method for finding, installing, updating, and removing Linux software to desktops that otherwise rely on package managers and terminals, and installing it on Raspberry Pi OS “Trixie” demonstrates just how friendly Linux software management can be for newcomers. The Tom’s Hardware how‑to walks through the simple steps to add Discover to a Debian‑based Raspberry Pi system, explains the Discover user interface, and argues the tool is an...

When Microsoft’s updated Windows Camera app added a simple turtle icon for slow‑motion capture, it marked a small but meaningful victory for Windows Phone users: the Lumia 930, Lumia 1520 and Icon could now record at 720p, 120 frames per second, and the phone did the heavy lifting to output a ready‑to‑share slow‑motion clip. Background The mid‑2010s were a turning point for smartphone camera features. Manufacturers were racing to add higher frame‑rate capture modes, computational tweaks and...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows can now reach beyond the Microsoft ecosystem—if you opt in—and search your OneDrive and Outlook alongside Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar and Google Contacts, while also letting you export chat outputs directly into editable Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF files in one click. Background / Overview Copilot’s new Connectors feature is an opt‑in capability added to the Copilot app for Windows that links the assistant to selected personal cloud accounts so a...

Bill Gates’ off‑hand quip—“That must be why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet”—did more than defuse an embarrassing on‑stage moment; it helped redraw how Microsoft and the wider industry approach live demos, hardware compatibility, and presentation engineering. A plug‑and‑play scanner that hadn’t been vetted by the Windows team triggered a kernel crash during a high‑profile Windows 98 demonstration at COMDEX, producing one of the most famous Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) moments in tech lore...

Ayaneo’s Next II has re-emerged as a deliberately ambitious flagship: the company’s latest redesign teases high-end controls, an 8‑inch (or larger) premium display, and internal engineering aimed at housing AMD’s most powerful mobile APUs — all while the firm continues to withhold firm pricing and a ship date. Early details show TMR-style joysticks, Hall‑effect triggers, an 8‑way floating D‑pad, dual trackpads and what Ayaneo calls a “customised top‑tier screen”, positioning the Next II as a...

Microsoft’s PowerToys gives you a built‑in, officially supported way to add an onscreen crosshair to your Windows desktop — no shady downloads required — and it’s already the simplest and safest option for multi‑monitor setups, accessibility needs, or games that don’t let you customize the reticle. Background Microsoft PowerToys is an official, open‑source collection of utilities maintained by Microsoft that acts as a “power‑user” toolbox for Windows. It’s distributed via the Microsoft...

Free, high-quality AI courses are no longer a niche perk — they’re a practical route to career resilience, whether you want to learn the basics, build prompt-engineered tools, or lead responsible AI projects inside an organization. Lifewire’s roundup of “14 Free AI Courses That Can Boost Your Skills and Career” compiles a useful starting library for learners at every level, but the list also raises important questions about what “free” really means, which credentials carry weight, and how to...

Square Enix has begun a major overseas restructuring that will cut hundreds of roles across its US and European operations while simultaneously accelerating the company’s push to adopt generative AI for game development—most notably a stated goal to automate up to 70% of QA and debugging tasks by the end of 2027—a move that shifts risk from organizational expense lines toward algorithmic automation and raises urgent questions about jobs, quality, and creative stewardship in the games...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a promise on the horizon — 2025 marked the shift from dazzling demos to operational AI, with multimodal reasoning, long-running agents, and platform-level governance becoming the central battlegrounds for vendors, enterprises, and regulators alike. Background / Overview The public conversation about AI in 2025 clustered around three enduring shifts: the move from single‑modal language models to multimodal systems that fuse text, images, audio and video...

Microsoft Teams has matured from a meetings-and-chat utility into a rich telemetry source that — when stitched to CRM, contact‑center, and finance systems — can be turned into measurable customer success outcomes and hard ROI rather than vanity adoption metrics. The shift is already underway: native tools (the Teams Admin Center and Call Quality Dashboard) provide the operational plumbing, Teams Premium’s Advanced Collaboration Analytics adds governance and external‑sharing visibility, and a...

Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has declared what many Windows enthusiasts already grumble about in private: Windows has drifted from a lean, deterministic toolkit toward an experience that too often second‑guesses the user — and he’s proposed a set of pragmatic, engineer‑grade fixes, chief among them a single, system‑wide “hardcore mode” plus radical transparency around telemetry, centralized controls, and safer update behavior. Background Who is Dave Plummer and why his voice...

Microsoft and Abu Dhabi‑based G42 have announced a coordinated expansion that will add 200 megawatts (MW) of new datacenter capacity to the United Arab Emirates, a move packaged inside Microsoft’s broader $15.2 billion UAE investment and delivered through G42’s Khazna Data Centers — capacity the partners say will begin coming online in phases before the end of 2026. Background Microsoft’s recent announcement builds on an already deepening strategic relationship with G42 that includes...

Microsoft is rolling out a long-awaited Shared Audio feature for Windows 11 that can stream the same audio stream simultaneously to two Bluetooth devices, using Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) Audio; the capability is available now as a preview to Windows Insiders in the Dev and Beta channels on select Copilot+ PCs and will expand to more hardware over time. Background Bluetooth has historically supported only one primary audio sink per A2DP stream on most PCs, which made sharing a laptop's audio...

Microsoft appears to be preparing a narrowly scoped Windows 11 platform release — internally codenamed Bromine and widely discussed as 26H1 — that will ship early in 2026 primarily to enable Qualcomm’s next-generation Snapdragon X2-powered Copilot+ laptops. This is not a conventional, broad consumer feature update: the evidence points to a device‑targeted, platform-level image meant to deliver drivers, NPU runtimes, firmware hooks and platform changes that the current 25H2/Germanium branch...

Microsoft’s October servicing wave has once again produced a bitter aftertaste: a subset of Windows 11 and Windows 10 installs can be forced into the BitLocker recovery screen after the October 14, 2025 cumulative updates, and in many of the same cases the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) refused to accept USB keyboard or mouse input — a combination that can leave users effectively locked out of their own encrypted drives until Microsoft’s emergency fixes or manual recovery steps are...

Mustafa Suleyman framed superintelligence not as an inevitability to fear but as a responsibility to shape, telling a packed AFROTECH stage that any future superintelligent system "must always work in service of humanity" and offering a sweeping, optimistic roadmap that ranges from group-friendly Copilot features to the provocative idea that AI could one day cut the cost of energy by two orders of magnitude. Background / Overview Mustafa Suleyman is the executive at the center of Microsoft’s...