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.
TechRadar on Oct. 7, 2026, published a headline asking readers whether they could stop a rogue AI from escaping and inviting them to take a sci-fi security test. The available source text contains only contributor Becca’s biography, not the test’s details.
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.
Le Monde reported on 7 October 2026 that French scientist Henri Kagan has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, an award the paper described as long awaited. The accessible version of the report contained no further details on the citation.
President Trump will award science and technology medals to Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella and other tech executives Thursday, as SpaceX seeks $40 billion to buy Nvidia chips and Samsung commits $1 billion to a data-center venture with Nvidia and KKR.
Googlebook keyboards now use F1-F3 keys for Android’s classic triangle, circle and square navigation buttons, The Verge reports.
OpenAI published 722 math papers from an unreleased AI model, spanning about 20 subfields and including a proof of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis.
Nous Research raised a $90M Series B at a $1.5B valuation and launched Hermes for Businesses, moving its open-source AI agent into the enterprise.
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.
A mammal fossil from China's Inner Mongolia region preserves rare evidence that the animal could chew and swallow food and suckle milk, pushing both traits back to at least the middle Jurassic, according to a study in Nature.
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.
The US Army’s 2nd Cavalry Regiment built and flew an armed drone with a 3D-printed explosive casing during a live-fire exercise in Germany, conducting a kinetic strike without contractor support, TechRadar reported.
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.