TechCrunch Disrupt Week’s 2026 Side Events program in San Francisco is listing multiple networking, workshop, and community meetups hosted by groups including WayFounder, SafetyWing, Enterprise Ireland, KOTRA, Skyflow, and Descope—spanning Oct. 7–16, with key events on Oct. 13–15.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
You can use Gemini to remember and retrieve saved locations for untaggable documents like passports, birth certificates, and social security cards by linking Gemini to Find Hub and asking questions such as “where did I keep my passport?”
Sep 29, 2026 ·
Engadget
Kindle Unlimited is available for free for the first three months (normally $11.99/month), reducing the cost by $36 for new readers while it lasts.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Woot is selling Razer’s DeathStalker V2 Pro TKL low-latency 2.4GHz wireless gaming keyboard for $130, down from its usual $219.99 price.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
The Verge
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate costs $22.99 per month after being cut from $29.99 in April 2026, but starting in November it will cap cloud gaming at 15 hours per month (down from unlimited streaming).
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Xbox Mythic Achievements are unlocked by earning every original achievement in a game, similar to PlayStation Platinum trophies, and are being added for already-completed games including some Xbox 360 titles for Xbox Insiders to test.
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Verge
Prebuilt gaming PCs are poised to be a better value than custom builds in 2026 because rising PC component prices make building prohibitively expensive, with example GPU pricing ranging from an RTX 5080 at about $2,150 to an RTX 5090 listed on Amazon at about $11,565.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Leaked renders suggest Google’s Pixel 11A will keep the same basic design as the Pixel 9A and 10A, with only a slightly rounder oval rear camera module and the same chunky display bezels.
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Verge
IMAX Dome (formerly OMNIMAX/Omnimax) uses fisheye-lens films to give viewers a 180° field of view on a dome that can stretch nearly 100 feet in diameter, instead of the more typical flat, ~52-by-72-foot vertical IMAX screen.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Travel routers connect to a hotel’s (or other) internet source and broadcast a reusable Wi‑Fi network so multiple devices can join without dealing as much with captive portal logins, but they don’t improve the hotel’s underlying bandwidth or speed.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
The most recommended budget alternative to a Sonos multi-room setup is Google’s $99 Home speaker, with the option to group speakers in the Google Home app without any music subscription beyond your chosen music service.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Uhura Bionics offers two wearable voice devices for laryngectomees—$500 for its basic option and $1,500 for the high-end “Whitney”—aimed at enabling speech with emotion without surgery.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Leaked images suggest Amazon’s next entry-level Kindle will add new colors (including light blue, green, and mauve) and a power button moved to the top right edge, plus more rounded corners and possibly different display features across versions.
Sep 29, 2026 ·The Verge
Dazzle is a personal AI assistant that builds user context exclusively by analyzing the photos in your camera roll to infer interests, hobbies, style preferences, and who you spend time with, and it can scan recent photos for immediate tasks like pulling calendar events from flyers or finding repair help after spotting issues.
Sep 29, 2026 ·TechCrunch
US adults expect to spend an average of $808 on holiday consumer tech products and services this year, $123 less than last year’s $931, as 73% of holiday shoppers plan to buy tech.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
CNET
Every 2026 MLB Wild Card Series game from Tuesday, Sept. 29 through Thursday, Oct. 1 is streaming on Peacock.
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNET
Marshall’s Bromley 150 party speaker weighs 14 pounds and has a battery rated at about 40 hours per charge.
Sep 29, 2026 ·Engadget
Chamberlain’s Premier Smart Garage Door Opener with MyQ ($379) combines a built-in AI-detection garage security camera and two 2,000-lumen LED lights, plus remote app controls, timers, schedules, and alerts—though the camera features require a subscription and it isn’t suitable for side-mounted garage motors.
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNET
Heathrow departure information screens were spotted showing hidden Windows activation reminders, incorrect past dates (September 21 and September 12), and a Windows 7-style network dialog/taskbar beneath the signage software.
Sep 29, 2026 ·
The Register
A $30 SandBar Roller’s dual-roll design lets it pick up cat fur and litter between bed sheets with only a few passes, after which it can leave furniture, curtains, and nearby floors “fairly clean” (but it snagged on loose sheets and can dislodge a roll if used too aggressively).
Sep 29, 2026 ·CNET
