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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  We found some great October Prime Day deals under $50

  Getting in on the Prime Day action doesn’t have to result in an empty wallet. Just as we found a couple handfuls of goodies that are under $25, there are plenty of deals during Amazon’s October sale that are $50 or less, many of which offer a lot of practical value. Everything from chargers to coffee makers are discounted until 3 AM ET on October 8th, 2026, so you only have a few hours to take advantage of some of these deals.

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  Roku’s OLED TVs are up to $400 off during Prime Day, starting at $700

  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.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  ChatGPT’s ‘Intelligent UI’ update fills its responses with pictures, charts, and buttons

  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.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  The first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops cost up to $7,000

  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

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  It appears .agent and .agi are about to be the hot new domains

  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.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Everything announced at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra event

  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 of storage, and it will be released on October 16th. The laptop also has built-in magnetic USB-C charging instead of the proprietary Surface Connect magnetic charging port.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Microsoft is giving Copilot more control over Windows and your files

  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 local and cloud AI models to accomplish tasks efficiently.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  How Microsoft built its MacBook Pro competitor

  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 builds contraptions that drop objects from increasingly daring heights to see whether the products can hold up.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  The Meta Quest 3S gets a rare discount during October Prime Day

  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 for casual VR gaming and movies. In other words, it’s a big upgrade over

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  What The Social Reckoning gets right — and wrong

  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, in what would later become a 2021 series called "The Facebook Files." In both real life and in the film, Haugen's leaks lead her to testify as a congressional whistleblower.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  The Surface Laptop Ultra finally has a release date — and a starting price of $2,599

  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.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder for $5,999

  Microsoft's Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder now directly, and slated to ship in November for just about $6,000. It's pricier than the DGX Spark mini PC Nvidia launched last year, but PC prices have been climbing due to shortages of RAM and other components.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra has built-in magnetic USB-C charging

  Microsoft has created a magnetic charging solution for its Surface Laptop Ultra that uses USB-C. After scrapping its proprietary Surface Connect magnetic charging on its smaller Surface devices last year, the Surface Laptop Ultra has a charging cable that attaches magnetically to the right-side USB-C port.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  The scariest thing about gray-market peptides is how little we know

  This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  The Apple Watch Series 12 is a good deal at $50 off

  Several configurations of the Apple Watch Series 12 are $50 off for the first time for the remainder of Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days. This includes both sizes (42mm and 46mm) of the GPS + Wi-Fi watches, as well as their pricier 5G-ready counterparts. Normally $399, the 42mm Series 12 is currently set at $349.99 at Amazon and Target. It costs $100 more for the cellular model. The 46mm model starts at $50 more, costing $399.99 at Amazon and Target, while its 5G version is $499.99 during the sale. Apple Watch Series 12

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Windows and Surface live blog: On the ground at Microsoft’s event

  We're in San Francisco today to hear what's next for Windows and Surface. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri will all be holding a "conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC."

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Disney Plus will stream Super Bowl LXI

  Next year's Super Bowl is headed to Disney Plus. On Wednesday, Disney announced that viewers will be able to tune in to Super Bowl LXI on its streaming service when the game kicks off on February 14th, 2027.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  A free mod for Titanfall 2 makes it one of the best VR games ever

  Titanfall has a special place in my heart. I've never felt such a rush in gaming since - leaping into the air with a jump pack, running on walls, summoning a giant mechanized battle suit that falls like a meteor from the sky, then letting one of its giant hands stuff me into the cockpit for a supersized skirmish.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Doxxing Jane Doe

  Who is Jane Doe? Online vigilantes have tried to expose the Cornell University student who filed a lawsuit accusing seven fraternity members of gang rape, and in so doing have invited a torrent of abuse on several other women. Her lawyers say three women have been falsely identified and harassed - and the real Jane Doe is being inundated with threats, too. "She's not doing well," her attorney Thomas Guiffra told CNN on Sunday. "She's under siege on social media, where people are trying to identify her."

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Xreal’s most affordable display glasses are $50 off

  Xreal launched its xbx A01 Plus display glasses over the summer for $299, and they’re a decent value. The design and fit are more or less on-par with the company’s pricier 1S that are $399, though they don’t have my favorite feature: built-in three degrees of freedom to let you lock the virtual screen in place. Despite the omission, they’re a more tempting gadget at their current $254 price at Amazon and via Xreal during October Prime Day. Xreal xbx A01 Plus Where to Buy: $299.99 $254 at Amazon

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  ChatGPT is getting college planning tools

  OpenAI is bringing new tools to ChatGPT for Teens, a mode for teens introduced in August with safeguards and break reminders, to help users with the college application process.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Muse launches on the iPad

  After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple's App Store, the latest update to Meta's Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A Mac version of Meta's agentic AI tool (designed to compete with OpenClaw, ChatGPT's Dots, and Grok Bot) was released about a week after the original mobile version debuted expanding its usefulness to desktop tasks like organizing files.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to create a ‘virtual cell’

  Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into Biohub, the nonprofit biomedical research organization founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, as reported by Reuters. The funding is part of a $1.8 billion initiative to build AI datasets that could allow researchers to "ask, predict, and answer biological questions digitally," helping find new ways to prevent and manage diseases.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  New leaks provide our first look at Apple and LG’s smart home devices

  Following a report from Bloomberg yesterday that Apple is collaborating with LG for a new collection of smart home devices and accessories, a reliable leaker known as "pdfu" on X has revealed more details about several of the new products, including a thermostat with a "Far Sight Display" that sounds similar to what

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  Ring’s first smart lock can be charged by turning a dial when the battery unexpectedly dies

  Amazon announced its first smart lock that eliminates the need for a physical backup key should its rechargeable battery die while you're away from home. While other smart locks lean on hidden USB ports or metal contacts for connecting a 9-volt battery to replenish a dead battery, the new Ring Smart Lock incorporates a more convenient charger right into its thumb-turn dial.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  My cats hate to see this great upright carpet cleaner coming

  For a while, I swore by Bissell’s Little Green carpet cleaner. I liked the sub-$100 price, the fact that it was small enough to fit on a closet shelf, and that it does a good job of cleaning up little messes. However, after you clean enough spots around the place, eventually the entire carpet needs a cleaning because the cleaned spots appear in stark contrast. It looks bad!

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends

  Most people know that Amazon collects data about your shopping history to serve up personalized product recommendations. But what some of us didn't realize is that you can check exactly what Amazon knows - or thinks it knows - about you in your settings menu. One user's findings went viral on Threads after she discovered that Amazon assumed she "has flat buttocks" based on her purchases, resulting in a flood of other posts with users sharing the oddly specific information Amazon uses to describe them.

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Windows and Surface event: how to watch and what to expect

  Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this morning to reveal what's coming next for Windows and Surface and a "conversation on how local AI will shape the next chapter of the PC." That conversation will include Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri.

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  The Social Reckoning is a tepid thriller that reminds us of how we got here

  When David Fincher's The Social Network premiered in 2010, many people still thought of Mark Zuckerberg as a genius who had revolutionized the world by creating Facebook. Writer Aaron Sorkin's script was critical of Zuckerberg's character and his ruthless approach to doing business, but it also helped mythologize the co-founder at a time when the general public was much more enchanted by Silicon Valley. When Zuckerberg said in 2014 that he'd been hurt by the film's depiction of him, Fincher said he was "sorry that it did" and admitted that he "

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• The Verge2026-10-07✓ Read

  Google’s Pixel Buds update will put them to sleep along with you

  Google has detailed an update bringing a slew of new features to its Pixel Buds 2A and Pro 2, which the company says are rolling out now. The new features were first teased in August.

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