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TechSpotlight poster cover: the JD.com CECONOMY takeover gives JD.com 59.8% of the MediaMarkt and Saturn owner

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JD.com completes its CECONOMY takeover, and says MediaMarkt and Saturn will stay as they are

JD.com CECONOMY deal closed on 12 November: a 59.8% stake in the MediaMarkt and Saturn owner, worth EUR 1,335 million, with no material changes planned.

Video of the day

Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen brings a faster, cheaper Gemini 4 to Search, the free app and developers

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AI

Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen key art: the name beside a glowing, bubble-like shape on a blue background

Google's Gemini 4 Hydrogen brings a faster, cheaper Gemini 4 to Search, the free app and developers

Poster cover in United Airlines colours about the United Airlines AI booking ban on personal AI agents

United Airlines bans personal AI agents from booking its flights, even through travel agencies

Google's header image for the Gemini Decisions API announcement

Google's Gemini Decisions API gives fast yes-or-no AI answers, each with a score for how sure it is

Big Tech & Business

Nvidia's board is reportedly preparing to replace CEO Jensen Huang. No decision has been announced

Colette Kress, Nvidia's interim CEO and CFO, in an official company portrait

Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO; finance chief Colette Kress steps in while the board searches

Nvidia's board opens an independent investigation around CEO Jensen Huang, as shares fall and a lawsuit lands

Science & Breakthroughs

Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome 2 illustration: a grid of glowing, translucent pink cubes on a dark background

AlphaGenome 2 predicts what a DNA change does inside one type of cell, but it is for research only

Artist's illustration of starlight being filtered through a digital twin of a telescope to reveal 51 Eridani b

51 Eridani b isn't a new planet, but the software that found it in old Webb data could find new ones

Artist's impression of the Hayabusa2 spacecraft touching down on the small grey asteroid 1998 KY26

Hayabusa2's next asteroid, 1998 KY26, is too warm to hide ice, a new study finds

Phones & Gadgets

The Ring Drone Cam, a small black flying camera with caged propellers, hovering above its white Ring dock against a wall

Ring's $249.99 Drone Cam will fly through your home to check on it, if US regulators approve it

Google Pixel Tag in a pale green holder on a keyring with two brass keys, resting in a terracotta tray on a wooden desk

Google's first tracker, Pixel Tag, goes on sale 11 November for $29.99, for Android phones only

Five Googlebook laptops from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP and Lenovo on a black background under the Googlebook name

Googlebook's first big update brings 31 fixes, from Zoom crashes to reboot loops

Apps & Software

AWS Emulator header from Amazon: coloured puzzle pieces and the words How we built the agents that built AWS Emulator

AWS Emulator puts a free copy of AWS on your computer, and AWS says AI agents wrote every line

Poster cover about the Microsoft 365 outage of 12 November 2026 affecting Outlook email and Teams

Microsoft 365 outage hits Outlook and Teams as servers become unexpectedly unavailable

Poster cover reading Apple forum closes Nov 20, about the Apple Support Community closing and going read-only

Apple Support Community closing on 20 November: the help forum is already read-only

Launches

SpaceX will try to catch both halves of Starship on Flight 15, as soon as Friday

GTA 6 leads Jason and Lucia escaping on a dirt bike as a police car and helicopter chase them through Vice City

GTA 6 launch trailer lands: Grand Theft Auto VI arrives 19 November on PS5 and Xbox, with no PC date

The new white Tesla Roadster with both doors open and a large rear wing, in a dark studio

Tesla's new Roadster flew in a Texas demo, but buyers still have no price or delivery date

Gaming

A Horde village in WoW: Forever with spiked wooden fences and red banners under green mountains

WoW: Forever is the biggest World of Warcraft launch ever, Blizzard says, but it shares no player count

Collage of classic EA game box covers, including Wing Commander, Road Rash and Ultima, floating on a starry dark background

EA puts 25 classic games on Steam, with Wing Commander restored from a rediscovered tape vault

Nintendo Switch 2 sales pass 26 million, but slow down as memory costs bite

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