Amazon introduced the Kindle Click Bluetooth page-turn remote with an attached wrist strap and physical previous/next buttons that can control compatible Kindles without touching the device, pricing it at $35.
Oct 1, 2026 ·
Engadget
Amazon’s new Kindle Click is a $34.99 Bluetooth remote that lets readers turn pages with buttons instead of touching the Kindle screen.
Oct 1, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Neurable One is available now for $499 and uses an EEG to monitor focus, warn when attention wanes, and provides an “Alpha Peak Frequency” cognition metric while advising when to take breaks.
Oct 1, 2026 ·Engadget
Amazon’s redesigned 6-inch Kindle removes the raised bezel via capacitive “Cap” touch plus haptics that create a self-detected thumb “dead zone,” and it’s 6.8 mm thick and weighs 140 grams—30% faster at page turns than the prior generation.
Oct 1, 2026 ·TechCrunch
HP’s OmniBook 5 is a thin (11.77mm), light (just over 2.5 pounds) budget laptop that starts at $699 and includes a 2.5K touchscreen OLED with a 180-degree hinge.
Oct 1, 2026 ·Engadget
Audible introduced three new AI-and-interactivity features—character guides, interactive stories powered by generative AI, and expanded imagery/bonus info—that start with specific titles including Audible Original “Dracula,” “Exoplanet,” and a character/learning feature for “The Cultural Tutor.”
Oct 1, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Legato Frames, Legato’s AI hearing glasses, are available for purchase starting at $999 for adults with up to moderate hearing loss, and they reduce sound that escapes by 99% a few inches from the ear.
Oct 1, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Microsoft begins disabling Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online today, with no exceptions, ahead of EWS’s permanent retirement on April 1, 2027.
Oct 1, 2026 ·
The Register
Palantir’s Tom Watson said the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) was live at 142 trusts and that 137 are already reporting benefits, but the Office for Statistics Regulation warned that published claims needed caveats because cause-and-effect can’t be concluded without controlling other variables.
Oct 1, 2026 ·The Register
Satlyt raised an $8M seed round to deploy software that runs AI models on satellites, aiming to use onboard AI to reduce expensive slow downlinks—such as cutting the size of transmissions about onboard software errors by more than 60% using DeepMind’s Gemma.
Oct 1, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Secondary schools in England reported incidents falling to 27% in 2025/26 from 29% in 2024/25 and 34% in 2023/24, with recovery “immediate” rising to 66% from 55% the year before.
Oct 1, 2026 ·The Register
SharpEmu has progressed from a very early May alpha to a state that can load real PS5 eboot.bin files and, in its latest release, marks 10 tested games as “playable,” including six that CursedIfElse says run fully at 60 fps (including Astro Bot and the PS5 Demon’s Souls remaster).
Oct 1, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Katalyst’s $30 million, nine-month rescue satellite mission to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ($500 million) launched July 3 but was aborted after a late-July malfunction prevented Link from rendezvousing and reboosting Swift; NASA also kept Katalyst from a final incentive payment.
Oct 1, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Reports claim Apple plans a product reveal on October 13, expected to include a combined iPad/HomePod, upgrades for Apple TV and HomePod, and a new homeOS to tie its smart home products together.
Oct 1, 2026 ·
Computerworld
On September 30, the UK’s data protection regulator shifted from a single “Information Commissioner” model to a corporate body under an executive and non-executive board, while continuing to use the ICO name as its public identity.
Oct 1, 2026 ·The Register
Neon said it is developing a SCP Foundation-based anthology film that will be released under the SCP Wiki’s required Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license and arrives in theaters in 2027, after earlier A24 plans drew SCP Wiki criticism for not contacting the community or offering open-source licensing.
Oct 1, 2026 ·Engadget
Huawei’s Ruiying Z10 teleconverter lens for the Mate 90 Pro Max adds a 1-inch-type, 50-megapixel sensor and provides a 24-240mm true zoom with a variable aperture of f/2.0-f/4.5.
Oct 1, 2026 ·
The Verge
The Lemmo 3 cargo e-bike uses a 960Wh semi-solid state battery, which Lemmo says provides up to 180km (110 miles) of range and is 20% smaller and lighter while offering a 30% longer lifespan with a lower thermal-runaway risk if punctured or left charging overnight.
Oct 1, 2026 ·The Verge
Kevin O’Leary and Fox Business shifted from claiming China-linked opposition to posting a clarification saying he had “no evidence” that named groups or individuals were funded or directed by China or the Chinese Communist Party, and Fox News Media apologized for an error.
Oct 1, 2026 ·The Verge
The UPerfect BE173BU’s 17.3-inch 4K (3,840×2,160) QLED display delivers 120Hz refresh with FreeSync (48–120Hz) and measures 100% coverage of DCI-P3 and sRGB with Delta E 1976 of 1.07 average and 1.94 max, rated 8.0/10 by CNET.
Oct 1, 2026 ·
CNET
