Levoit’s $189.99 Vital Pet Pro Air Purifier uses a three-stage system with a 140-gram activated carbon filter and removes up to 70% of pet odors within an hour while noticeably freshening rooms in testing.
Sep 26, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
macOS 27 “Golden Gate” is incompatible with all Intel-based MacBooks, so any Intel MacBook cannot upgrade to it (Intel is the cut-off starting with the pre-Apple-silicon era).
Sep 26, 2026 ·
Engadget
Garmin’s Fenix 9 starts at $999.99 (43mm) and adds a display claimed to be “twice as bright,” double the Fenix 8’s 64GB storage, and faster map panning (up to 30% faster), while battery life stays the same at 29 days.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
NVIDIA’s RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell workstation GPU costs $16,000, includes 96GB of ECC GDDR7 (vs 32GB on the GeForce RTX 5090), and is designed for professional AI/3D workloads rather than consumer gaming—so it’s only rarely sold to consumers.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Upgrading a turntable’s stylus—choosing an elliptical, microliner, Shibata, or line-contact tip and switching from a bonded to a nude needle—can materially improve how much detail your records’ grooves pick up and reduce distortion and tracking issues.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
The voice on a Roku TV is the Screen Reader text-to-speech accessibility feature, and it can be turned off by pressing the Options button four more times or by setting Settings > Accessibility > Screen Reader to Off.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Merge Watch lets you pair an Apple Watch with an Android phone (after initial activation with an iPhone), including syncing health data to Google Fit and forwarding notifications with reply and Spotify playback controls.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Samsung’s built-in Device care diagnostics let you run a full hardware checklist (Phone diagnostics via Settings > Device care > Diagnostics) and rate the battery as Normal, Weak, or Bad, with Bad signaling significant battery degradation and a recommendation to seek service.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Modern consoles including all PlayStation 5 models and both Xbox Series X and Series S are designed to work either vertically or horizontally; the main deciding factor is airflow and keeping vents unobstructed.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Always-On Display on iPhone turns off automatically when the phone is face-down/obstructed, not near a paired Apple Watch, during CarPlay, or while using Continuity Camera, and it can also be disabled by Low Power Mode or certain Focus modes like Sleep Focus.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Reading Control Resonant’s in-game FBC documents—especially the enemy logs—reveals workplace romantic comedy side stories between the Threat Assessment Team’s Rick Patel and Lydia M.B. McPierce, including Rick’s “I could have died” romantic message and Lydia’s follow-up coffee invite.
Sep 26, 2026 ·
The Verge
Windows 11’s clipboard can be expanded by enabling Clipboard history (it stores your last 25 cut or copied items, accessible with Win + V).
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
The Standard Edition of GTA 6 costs $80 and the Ultimate Edition costs $100, and some Xbox players say they got Ultimate copies for free by trading 100,000 Microsoft Rewards points (about $1 per 1,000 points) for a gift card to cover the purchase.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Closing the lid (or choosing Sleep) keeps your session in memory so you can resume quickly and typically uses less than 1% battery per hour in sleep mode, while a normal shutdown closes apps, shuts down the OS, clears RAM, and draws no power until you power it back on.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Bots and “cook group” tools help Pokémon card resellers buy large quantities of 30th Celebration packs at preorder/M SRP, then flip them at marked-up prices—tightening availability and fueling online backlash and altercations.
Sep 26, 2026 ·The Verge
Engadget reviewed 15 new gadgets in the past two weeks, spanning Apple devices and Sonos plus Beats and DJI.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
Remedy Entertainment’s indie title Control Resonant launched on Steam/console/PC for $60, with Mac support arriving via Steam and the App Store later this year.
Sep 26, 2026 ·Engadget
A 2022 Samsung Galaxy A33 that had been shelved for about a year wouldn’t charge due to a “moisture in its USB‑C port” warning, then after being left in a warm spot it charged and immediately demanded an April 2025 OS update plus six more that required repeated manual approvals and reboots to finish installs.
Sep 26, 2026 ·
The Register
Amflow’s TL Carbon e-bike (with a removable 800Wh battery and 125Nm Avinox M2 motor) completed an Amsterdam-to-Texel bikepacking trip with 22% charge remaining after 82.3km, but it still makes city-and-trail compromises that make it feel more at home on trails than in town.
Sep 26, 2026 ·The Verge
Completed NYT Mini Crossword answers for Saturday, Sept. 26 include WXYANDZ, ABALONE, GOLFTAN, XER, POLEAXE, ONADIET, REWORDS, and WAG, XBOXONE, YALELAW, ALFREDO, NOT, DNA, ZEN, POR, AIR, XED, and ETS.
Sep 26, 2026 ·
CNET
