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Apple has released new Silicone and TechWoven cases with MagSafe for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, in colors including Burgundy, Mulberry, Chambray Blue and Black, priced at $49 and $59. Third-party brands such as ESR, Spigen, Nomad and Burton Goods have also released their own case lines, with ESR debuting a Vegan Leather Magnetic Case featuring a built-in zinc alloy stand, and budget options starting at $14.
Apple has raised prices across its Mac lineup, reportedly due to an ongoing memory shortage, making current models less of a bargain than earlier this year. Despite this, retailers are still offering discounts on the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air, while the $699 MacBook Neo remains largely undiscounted at retail but is available refurbished from Apple for $100-$120 less than retail price with a one-year warranty.
WIRED released an updated roundup of white elephant gift recommendations for the 2026 holiday season, including items like a coffee-pot-shaped mug, a Lego set, and sushi-shaped magnets. The guide, refreshed in October 2026, adds new Lego options, a cozy beverage set, and e-reader cases while confirming previous picks remain in stock.
WIRED released an updated holiday gift guide for fathers, expanding it to 34 recommendations with 27 new additions since the last version. The list spans categories like travel gadgets, headphones, apparel and fitness gear, including items such as Anker's Nano Power Bank and Apple's second-generation AirTag. The guide's author, a WIRED reviewer, says the picks are based on hands-on testing and personal gifting experience.
WIRED's Reviews team refreshed its annual guide to coffee bean subscriptions for 2026, naming Atlas Coffee Club as the top overall pick, Trade Coffee as the best for varied tastes, and Podium Coffee Club for enthusiasts seeking prize-winning beans. The September 2026 update also added Beanz as a new top pick, revised pricing and tariff information, and reorganized several other listed services.
Google's Alexander Kuscher confirmed on the Android Faithful podcast that Magic Pointer and Rambler, two signature AI features on the new Googlebook laptops, will keep working without a Google AI Pro subscription. Googlebooks ship with a free 12-month AI Pro trial, but Kuscher said this sits on top of the base experience rather than gating these core tools.
Just days after pre-orders opened on September 21, Google's US online store has run out of stock for its Acer, Dell XPS, and Lenovo Googlebook models, according to reports from Reddit users who checked the store multiple times. The laptops, which start at $899, remain available to pre-order at Best Buy ahead of an October 4 release date.
Bestselling novelist Jeneva Rose, known for The Perfect Marriage and The Perfect Divorce, has published a new short story collection called Sometimes I Scare Myself. She discussed the release and her creative process on the podcast How Success Happens, describing how motherhood, rejection and constant goal-setting shaped her writing career.
Artificial Analysis maintains an Intelligence Index that plots large language models against their blended API cost per million tokens, using a 3:1 input-to-output ratio and a log-price scale. The tool highlights a 'value frontier' of models that aren't beaten on both price and intelligence by any other option, showing only top variants and hiding low scorers by default, with filters to expand the view.
Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days sale is set for October 6-7, but several tech discounts are already live ahead of the official start. Among the highlighted deals is the Roborock Qrevo Edge 3 Pro robot vacuum, which combines 36,000Pa suction, a mop system with heated water cleaning, and obstacle-climbing capability for mixed flooring homes.
Roborock is running early Prime Day discounts on several of its robot vacuums, including the recently launched Qrevo 2 Pro, now priced around $500. The device features 20,000 Pa of suction, app-based controls, and an extendable mop arm designed to reach corners, and has been discounted twice since its release last month.
DC Comics has released 'Absolute Martian Manhunter' as part of its Absolute imprint, which reboots familiar characters within an alternate universe. The series reworks the classic Martian Manhunter mythology, following the acclaimed relaunch of 'Absolute Batman' in the same line.