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NBC's Chicago Med, Chicago PD and Chicago Fire return Oct. 7, with U.S. viewers able to watch on NBC or stream on Peacock the next day. TechRadar outlines free-trial options, a $1 Walmart+ Peacock offer and VPN use for international viewers.
Apple released the first release candidates of macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.7.2 on Oct. 7, saying the updates carry important security fixes. The builds later reached public beta testers with unchanged numbers.
Pixel 11 owners still await Android 17 QPR1, announced September 17, while older Pixel phones have received it, Android Authority reports.
TechRadar reports the MSI Roamii Be Pro is the cheapest tri-band Wi-Fi 7 mesh system in its comparison, priced at $245 in the U.S. and £240 in the U.K., with no subscription fees for security and parental controls.
Amazon's October Prime Day sale runs until 3 a.m. ET on Oct. 8, 2026, with dozens of accessories, trackers and smart home devices discounted to $50 or less, according to a roundup by The Verge.
Cisco announced at WebexOne a broad Webex expansion that adds AI agents to meetings and calls, introduces customer-service automation, and connects Anthropic and OpenAI models. Most new features are planned for early 2027.
Aston Martin runs back-end AI on Infor software but keeps AI agents off its customer website, CIO Steve O'Connor says.
Googlebook keyboards now use F1-F3 keys for Android’s classic triangle, circle and square navigation buttons, The Verge reports.
Code found in iOS 27.2 lists a Schneider-branded thermostat and a temperature/humidity sensor as 'second-party' HomeKit devices, suggesting Apple's co-development push extends beyond its reported work with LG.
OpenAI is rolling out new GPT-6 models in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, which lets the chatbot combine text, graphics, buttons, forms, charts, and interactive tools in responses. Paid users get access first, with Free and Go users following on October 8.
Arista unveiled an open Ethernet rack-scale portfolio for AI scale-up and scale-out fabrics, led by Etherlink SU-144, which connects up to 144 XPUs in one hop and 1,024 across racks.
Microsoft unveiled Nvidia RTX Spark-powered Surface PCs, including a $6,000 developer workstation and a laptop starting at $2,600, plus Windows 11 tools for sandboxing AI agents.
Spotify is expanding audiobooks to over 180 markets, with 350,000 titles in 120 languages and new subscription access.
Roku’s first OLED TVs are on sale for the final day of October Prime Day, with the 55-inch Pro Series at $699.99 and the 65-inch model at $799.99 on Amazon.
Newegg's Hasee X5, a Core i7-13620H laptop with 16GB RAM and a 1TB SSD, is selling for $549 — $350 off — according to TechRadar.
Amazon fall Prime Day: AirPods Pro 3 at $179, AirPods Max 2 at $429, with the Pro deal near its lowest Amazon price.
Midwest Wheel Companies is working toward agentic AI that can fix operational problems, not just flag them, while tying new capabilities to a single Infor system, Senior Vice President Steve McEnany said at Infor Velocity Week. The century-old truck parts distributor has added AI features for order entry and invoice processing, with human oversight for cash-related tasks.
TechRadar reports that Sony's Inzone H6 Air, a five-star open-back gaming headset, has dropped to its lowest-ever Amazon Prime Day prices: $168 in the US and £139 in the UK.
CNBC's Investing Club said Morgan Stanley survey data reinforced its confidence in TJX Companies, pointing to macro pressure rather than structural weakness. Microsoft and Nvidia also introduced the Surface Laptop Ultra, a Windows PC for personal AI agents, starting at nearly $2,600.
Liquid AI has released Open d1, two open-weight multimodal decision models that return calibrated typed answers with zero output tokens. d1-3B and d1-omni-600M are on Hugging Face and target real-time decisions on NVIDIA hardware.
Google Photos now offers one-tap video editing from the share preview, an option previously limited to photos.
Meta launched Muse on iPad a month after its iPhone debut, with 6.6 million installs since September 8 and new connectors.
Analysts and executives from Cisco, Zoom, Five9 and other vendors told theCUBE's AI ROI in Contact Center Summit that AI's value in customer service should be judged by whether problems get resolved, not by how quickly calls end.
Apple's watchOS 27 adds Siri, Find My, and Readiness apps to Apple Watch, per 9to5Mac.