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Amazon is currently selling the Google Pixel 11 Pro for $799, a $300 reduction from its $1,099 list price. The discount marks the lowest price the phone has reached since its launch, surpassing an earlier 2024 low of $899, and the device carries a 4.4-star rating on Amazon.
A new open-source project called nv-uefi-unlocker lets owners of Nvidia RTX 20, 30, and 40-series GPUs remove a built-in tensor-performance limiter by booting from a USB stick, with no VBIOS flashing or driver patching required. The tool runs before Nvidia's driver loads, rebuilding firmware locally from Nvidia's public driver files, and the developer reported a 65% jump in FP16 performance on a laptop RTX 4060.
The Google Pixel 11 is currently selling for $699 on Amazon, down $200 from its $899 list price, a 22% discount. Amazon says this is the lowest price the phone has reached since its launch in late August. The Pixel 11 features a 6.3-inch 60-120Hz display, Google's Tensor G6 chip, 12GB of RAM, and the camera and software features typical of Pixel devices.
Google confirmed its first Suncatcher prototype satellite, which carries a single Tensor Processing Unit and generates up to 1 kW of power, is online and communicating with ground engineers after launching this month on a SpaceX Falcon 9. Following roughly three weeks of subsystem checks, engineers sent the satellite its first prompt, having it run Google DeepMind's Gemma model to generate a haiku and report on orbital conditions; a Google spokesperson said the satellite is operating nominally.
Amazon has discounted the Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold by $250, bringing it down from its $1,899 list price to $1,649, a 13% reduction. The retailer says this is the lowest price the foldable has reached since its launch. The device runs on Google's Tensor G6 chip with 16GB of RAM and features a triple-camera system, a book-style inner display, and a more usable outer screen.
Amazon is selling the Google Pixel 11 Pro XL for $949, a $350 cut from its $1,299 list price and the lowest price seen for the phone so far. The device features a 6.8-inch OLED display, Google's Tensor G6 chip, a 5,115mAh battery with 45W charging, and on-device Gemini AI tools, and currently holds a 4.4-star Amazon rating.
Amazon is selling Google's Pixel Buds Pro 2 for $169, down from the $229 list price, a 26% discount that applies across all color options including Olive. The earbuds feature Google's Tensor A1 chip, Silent Seal 2.0 noise cancellation, IP54 water resistance, and up to 48 hours of battery life with the charging case.
Google confirmed in a blog post that it successfully activated the Tensor Processing Units aboard a satellite launched earlier this month, running its Gemma 4 model to produce a space-themed haiku and other test prompts. The milestone is part of Project Suncatcher, Google's experimental effort to explore running AI compute hardware in orbit.
Alphabet announced that Oracle will offer Google's tensor processing units through its own data centers, marking the first time the custom AI chips are available outside Google's own infrastructure. The move extends a shift that began last quarter when Google opened TPUs to outside data centers, and comes a day before Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report.
Developers have released Linux kernel modules—gpu-unlock, gpu-unlock-ada, and turing-unlock—that rewrite speed-select registers on Nvidia RTX 20-, 30-, and 40-series GPUs before the driver loads, removing a hardware-level cap on FP32-accumulate tensor math that Nvidia normally reserves for workstation cards. Benchmarks show gains ranging from roughly 12% to nearly 2x depending on card and workload, with an RTX 3090 Ti jumping from 87.5 to 157.4 BF16 TFLOPS and an RTX 4090 doubling its raw FP16 instruction rate, though real-world matrix workload gains are smaller.
The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL is currently on sale for 29% off, bringing it back to its all-time low price, a $350 reduction from its list price. The device features Google's Tensor G5 chip, 16GB of RAM, and built-in AI capabilities.
During Prime Day, Amazon reduced the Google Pixel 11 to $749, marking the lowest price since its launch in August 2026. The deal provides a $150 discount from the original $899 retail price, making it an attractive option for shoppers interested in Google's latest flagship phone. The Pixel 11 features a refined design, upgraded Tensor chip, enhanced AI capabilities, and improved battery life, with positive reviews supporting its value at this price point.