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  • Roku’s OLED TVs are up to $400 off during Prime Day, starting at $700
    by Cameron Faulkner on October 7, 2026 at 7:27 pm

    Just over a week ago, we covered a deal at Amazon that knocked around 30 percent off Roku’s new (and first-ever) OLED TVs. The deal expired, but has returned for the final day of October Prime Day. The 55-inch Pro Series OLED is $699.99 at Amazon, which is 30 percent off its list price. The

  • ChatGPT’s ‘Intelligent UI’ update fills its responses with pictures, charts, and buttons
    by Emma Roth on October 7, 2026 at 7:10 pm

    OpenAI is launching a new Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to answer your questions with interactive visuals. The update, which is rolling out to all users alongside GPT-6, gives ChatGPT the ability to combine a text response with diagrams, charts, forms, tappable buttons, and more. In a blog post explaining the

  • The first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops cost up to $7,000
    by Antonio G. Di Benedetto on October 7, 2026 at 7:05 pm

    The first array of laptops powered by Nvidia’s new RTX Spark chip are designed to compete with high-end MacBook Pros – and they’ve got some high-end prices to match. The flagship Surface Laptop Ultra and RTX Spark laptops from Dell, Lenovo, MSI, HP, and Asus start as low as $2,599 for configurations with an 18-core

  • It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains
    by David Pierce on October 7, 2026 at 6:46 pm

    For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – better known as ICANN – is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as things like .com, .org, and .pizza. ICANN just announced the 1,615 applications

  • Everything announced at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra event
    by Jay Peters on October 7, 2026 at 6:42 pm

    Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra, its new laptop that’s powered by Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based chip. The machine will start at $2,599 for a configuration with an 8-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB

  • Microsoft is giving Copilot more control over Windows and your files
    by Jay Peters on October 7, 2026 at 6:01 pm

    At today’s Windows and Surface event, Microsoft showed off an upgrade to its Copilot AI system that will give it access to local files on your PC and the ability to take actions across the OS. It’s part of an idea Microsoft is calling “Hybrid Intelligence,” where apps and tools rely on a mix of

  • The Meta Quest 3S gets a rare discount during October Prime Day
    by Brad Bourque on October 7, 2026 at 6:00 pm

    Until the end of Amazon’s October sale later tonight, you can grab the 128GB Meta Quest 3S for just $297.49 (usually $349.99) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. While the lenses and displays aren’t quite as sharp as the Quest 3, the underlying chipset is the same, and this is a much more reasonable price

  • How Microsoft built its MacBook Pro competitor
    by Tom Warren on October 7, 2026 at 6:00 pm

    Before Microsoft releases a laptop to the public, it needs to put the device through its paces. That all happens inside a windowless, warehouse-like lab on the company’s Redmond, Washington, campus, where the team developing Surface devices programs robots to press their buttons thousands of times, pelts devices with radio waves from giant antennas, and

  • What The Social Reckoning gets right — and wrong
    by Lauren Feiner on October 7, 2026 at 5:53 pm

    Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning has its fair share of cinematic flair, but many details in the story hew closely to real life. The movie tells the story of how Frances Haugen, a Facebook civic integrity product manager, came to leak a large trove of internal documents to Wall Street Journal investigative reporter Jeff Horwitz,

  • The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599
    by Tom Warren on October 7, 2026 at 5:48 pm

    Months after revealing its Surface Laptop Ultra, Microsoft has announced that the Nvidia RTX Spark-equipped device will launch on October 16th. Pricing starts at $2,599 for the base configuration, featuring an 18-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. The Surface Laptop Ultra ships with a 15-inch HDR touchscreen display with up to 2,000