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Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, a $2,599 professional laptop powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark platform and Blackwell graphics. Shipping starts October 16, 2026, with configurations up to $5,899.99 and 128GB unified memory.
The second annual VRT Awards took place October 6 at the Edison Ballroom in Manhattan and will stream free on Philo in the US from October 9. Winners included Ariana Biermann, Meredith Marks and Luann de Lesseps, while viewers abroad may need a VPN to watch.
Forza Horizon 6 will launch on PS5 on January 26, 2027, after being delayed from 2026, and will arrive alongside its first expansion.
TechRadar Managing Editor Josephine Watson says Amazon's Alexa Tablet could win her back after her disappointment with the first Kindle Fire, according to an article published on October 8, 2026.
Ben Affleck went viral after interviews explaining neural networks, tensors and filmmaking AI, and his Netflix startup sale.
Google unveiled a unified Gemini agent that can plan and complete work on a user's behalf, launching first for businesses before a later consumer rollout, per a TechCrunch report.
Google will end free LTE Safety Signal on Pixel Watch 2 and 3 after December 12, requiring a mobile plan for safety features.
Amazon unveiled three Alexa-branded tablets starting at $230, dropping the 15-year-old Fire name and, for the first time, shipping tablets with certified Android 16 and the Google Play Store.
Amazon has built its 1,000th satellite and plans to launch space internet by year-end, challenging SpaceX's Starlink.
Razer launched the $170 Basilisk V4 Pro flagship mouse with a new tilt wheel, alongside the $110 Basilisk V4 HyperSpeed and a $70 charging dock.
TechRadar reports the Asus ZenDrive external DVD writer is down to $37.88 at Amazon, about 16% off, offering a portable way to read and burn CDs and DVDs on computers without an optical drive.
Microsoft's 2026 Surface Pro, a 13-inch Snapdragon X2 Elite 2-in-1 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, is discounted $450 to $1,649.99 on Amazon, according to TechRadar.
Amazon cuts the base Apple M6 Mac mini to $779.99, a $119 discount from its $899 price, in one of the first deals.
Canon's Pixma G3270 MegaTank all-in-one is $144 at Amazon, down from $248.99, according to TechRadar.
TechRadar says Apple TV will bring Dolby Atmos to F1 for the first time, and Apple's 'Welcome Home' event is set for Oct. 13.
Apple TV has unveiled the trailer for season 2 of its golf comedy 'Stick,' which returns November 4 with Owen Wilson as a former pro golfer chasing an unlikely comeback.
American Airlines will install Starlink Wi-Fi on its 1,030-plus mainline jets from 2027, more than doubling its May commitment of 500 aircraft.
Liquid AI is building personal AI that runs on phones, wearables, PCs and cars rather than in the cloud, COO Jeffrey Li said at the Fully Connected event, outlining a device-level context layer and a Mercedes-Benz collaboration.
Vari's ComfortEdge standing desk drops to $674.25, 25% off, through October 12. TechRadar rates 60x30 model 4.5 stars.
Microsoft announced changes to Microsoft 365 Personal, Family, Premium, and Pro subscriptions, moving OneDrive storage and Copilot AI credits into shared pools. Family and Premium plans will offer 2 TB of shared storage, down from up to 6 TB, potentially raising costs for heavy users.
Panos Panay told Bloomberg that Amazon will retire the Fire tablet brand and move to Alexa Tablets with standard Android and full Google Play access, while keeping security updates for existing devices.
Richard Bronson, a former Stratton Oakmont partner who served federal prison time for securities-law violations, has launched Commissary Club, an AI-powered job and social platform for formerly incarcerated people. The startup gives users 10 free applications before charging and was selected for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200.
Law & Order season 26 premieres Oct. 8 at 10pm ET/PT on NBC, per TechRadar. Canada gets it same night on CityTV, the UK may wait until 2027, and Australia has no announced release.
JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, a 12B open mixture-of-experts reasoning model with 2.5B active parameters for coding agents and self-hosting. It beats Mellum2 on 15 of 17 benchmarks but still trails Qwen3.5-9B on several hard agentic and knowledge tasks.