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If you're searching how to watch Lions vs. Bills for free, the live window already closed. Kickoff for the Week 2 matchup between the Detroit Lions and Buffalo Bills was 8:15 p.m. ET on Sept. 17 at Buffalo's new Highmark Stadium, and that broadcast has already run (DetroitLions.com; CBS Detroit). This guide isn't about tuning in tonight. It's about sorting out what was actually free during the live broadcast, what "included at no extra cost" really meant depending on which service you used, and...

Ask "what is Microsoft Copilot" and you'll get four different correct answers, because Microsoft attaches the same name to a standalone chat app, an assistant that lives inside Word and Excel, a class of Windows PCs, and a set of tools built for IT admins. Figuring out whether you need to pay for anything starts with figuring out which one you're actually looking at.

Safari looks almost the same after installing iOS 27. Open it and the address bar, tab bar, and reading view sit right where they always have. But WIRED found that Apple tucked several new tools into Safari's menus, changes easy to miss if you're just scrolling through a webpage (WIRED).

Audible's Timer sits right on the playback screen, impossible to miss. Two of the app's more useful controls, though, live somewhere else entirely: the End of Chapter stop and the finer 0.05x speed adjustments, tucked into menus most listeners never open, according to Android Authority's hands-on rundown from earlier this year. These are exactly the kind of Audible tips and tricks that don't surface until someone goes looking for them, and the playback settings below reflect the Android app...

This guide walks through how to use Visual Intelligence on macOS Golden Gate: what your Mac needs before turning it on, both keyboard shortcuts that trigger it, the in-app option built into apps like Safari, and which questions are actually worth asking it. Visual Intelligence has lived on the iPhone since the iPhone 16, and Golden Gate brings the same idea to the Mac, letting you select something on screen and ask Siri about it instead of typing out a search (MacPaw).

Roku began selling subscription bundles inside its Premium Subscriptions storefront on Sept. 17, 2026, letting U.S. and Mexico account holders pair services like AMC+, FOX One, and STARZ instead of buying each one on its own. It's the first time Roku has offered bundles through Premium Subscriptions, according to Deadline, and the company describes the new Roku streaming subscription bundles as covering "over 30 combinations" in the U.S., according to the Roku newsroom.

macOS 27 "Golden Gate" started rolling out on September 14, 2026, bringing what Apple calls "an entirely new version of Siri" to the Mac, according to Apple Newsroom. The macOS 27 Siri AI features include a dedicated conversational app, personal-context search across messages and email, and systemwide actions that reach into files, folders, and other apps.

Samsung has already confirmed that its next flagship tablet generation is coming in 2026. What it has not confirmed is the date now appearing across Galaxy Tab S12 leaks: October 7.

Apple's iOS 27 update landed this week, but plenty of iPhone owners are opening Settings and finding the same old Siri staring back at them. That's not a bug. Siri AI, the overhauled assistant Apple began promising back in June, does not activate automatically with iOS 27.

Galaxy Z Fold 8 sales in South Korea rose roughly 10% week-over-week in the seven days after Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo on Sept. 10, according to telecommunications-industry sources cited by Yonhap News Agency. That number is fueling a wave of "Galaxy Z Fold 8 sales rise after iPhone Duo launch" headlines this week, but the framing needs a correction up front: Apple has only unveiled the iPhone Duo in Korea. Pre-orders don't open until Oct. 16, and retail sales don't begin until Oct. 23, per...

Apple is handing new and qualifying returning subscribers three free months of Apple One with the purchase of an eligible device, starting today, September 17, 2026 (MacRumors, today). If you're trying to figure out how to get Apple One 3-month free trial access after buying a new device, the first question isn't which iPhone you bought. It's whether your Apple Account qualifies at all.

Google's September Pixel Drop scam detection features are live now, alongside a redesigned VIP contact widget for calling and texting the people you talk to most. Both ship in the same update, which started rolling out on September 15 (Google Pixel Blog, 2 days ago). Because Google frames this as a staged rollout rather than a switch flipped for everyone at once, an eligible phone might not see either feature the moment it checks for updates.

Windows 10 reached its end-of-support date on October 14, 2025, when Microsoft stopped shipping free security and feature updates for the OS (HotHardware reported, last year). Microsoft also offers Extended Security Updates in specific licensing and cloud scenarios, including Volume Licensing plans, Windows 365 Cloud PCs, and Azure Virtual Desktop machines (Microsoft Learn), but that's separate from the free upgrade path this guide covers. If you'd rather upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11...

Microsoft's own support documentation for the KB5124008 update warns that applications using HCS-managed virtual machines "might experience issues" sharing host folders with Linux VMs through Plan9, and it names Claude Cowork and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as two of the affected applications (Microsoft support). The update shipped September 8, 2026, for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, and the most recent revision to that documentation, made last week, still describes Microsoft as working...

Code buried in the iOS 27 Release Candidate points to a new way to handle iOS 27 Apple Gift Card redemption: tapping a physical card against the back of a compatible iPhone instead of typing in a gift card code. MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris found the strings while digging through the RC build and reported that the phone would scan a chip in the card to check whether it's authentic and unspent before adding the balance to an Apple Account (MacRumors, last week).

Samsung boosts pay to retain chip talent as engineers weigh offers from rival SK Hynix, and the numbers behind that push show why the pressure hasn't let up. Samsung's Device Solutions division agreed in May to share 10.5% of operating profit with employees every year for a decade, paid mostly as vesting stock, adopted after SK Hynix put a similar 10%-of-profit arrangement in place (MIT Technology Review, reported earlier this summer). The reported bonus gap between divisions remains wide....

Anyone who shares a Spotify account with a toddler knows the drill: hand over the phone for one car ride, and suddenly Discover Weekly is full of nursery rhymes. Spotify addressed that exact problem yesterday with a new setting built to answer the question a lot of parents have been asking: how to remove kids music from Spotify recommendations without blocking kids from playing that music at all (Spotify Newsroom, yesterday).

Buying a TV with the IMAX Enhanced badge doesn't automatically make every movie look bigger or sound better. The badge doesn't upgrade every title the same way: the expanded picture depends on which movie and which streaming app is playing it, while the IMAX picture preset and DTS:X audio track need far more specific hardware to actually turn on.

watchOS 27 removes the Apple Watch double-click Digital Crown shortcut that used to jump straight back to whatever app you'd just been using. 9to5Mac reports the change on Series 11, Ultra 3, and SE 3, while MacStories documents the same beta behavior: a double-click now triggers the exact same result as a single click, opening the new Dynamic App Grid instead of the old App Switcher. This is watchOS 27 beta behavior, not something confirmed for whatever Apple ships in the eventual public...

Apple's iOS 27 update, which started rolling out two weeks ago, adds a new layer of parental controls that let parents approve or deny specific requests as they happen, rather than relying only on blanket restrictions set once and forgotten (Apple Newsroom, 2 weeks ago). The iOS 27 parental controls now cover new websites, new contacts, and category-based app time limits, giving families a way to manage a child's iPhone in the moment instead of through a single setup screen (Business Insider,...

Apple seeded tvOS 27 RC, build 24J360, to developers and public beta testers yesterday, and the update is now available through Software Update on enrolled compatible Apple TVs (MacRumors, yesterday; iClarified, yesterday). If you're trying to figure out how to install tvOS 27 RC, the requirement comes first: it runs on Apple TV 4K (2nd generation, 2021) or newer, and it does not run on the Apple TV HD (2015) or the original Apple TV 4K (2017) (iThinkDiff, 2 weeks ago; iClarified, yesterday).

watchOS 27's new Siri app can save and continue chats for the first time, but Apple Watch doesn't hand you an obvious way to pick a thread back up. There's no button, no swipe prompt, nothing that mirrors how the iPhone, iPad, and Mac versions handle it, according to 9to5Mac. A workaround exists and it works, but whether any of it applies to your Watch and iPhone pairing depends on a stack of eligibility rules Apple has only partly documented.

Choosing a VPN in 2026 is not as simple as finding the provider with the largest server network or the fastest advertised speeds.

Your Galaxy Watch can estimate body fat, skeletal muscle, and other body composition metrics in seconds. That sounds useful, especially if you're trying to lose fat or track changes in your fitness, but the number on your wrist isn't the same thing as a clinical measurement.

A single number is easier to understand than a night full of sleep charts. That was the appeal when Apple introduced Sleep Score with watchOS 26 in September 2025, giving Apple Watch users a nightly rating from 0 to 100 instead of leaving them to interpret sleep duration, wakefulness, and consistency on their own.

Google Drive's "Organize My Files" tool lets Gemini scan for loose files sitting outside your folder structure and suggest where they belong. Nothing actually moves until you check a box and click approve. Here's how to use Gemini to organize Google Drive files without approving moves you haven't reviewed first, because this is a supervised assistant, not an autopilot cleanup (Google Drive Help).

The Apple Health app redesign does something the app has never really done before: it tells you what to do with your numbers instead of just displaying them. A daily 0-10 readiness score arrives with a plain-language verdict like "Recover" or "Go For It," and a new "Health Age" metric compares your body's tracked stats against your actual age. Apple unveiled both as part of a broader health and fitness push tied to Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4.

Apple and Google have landed surprisingly close together with their latest Pro phones. The iPhone 18 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro both have 6.3-inch 120Hz OLED displays, triple-camera systems, 256GB of base storage, and an increasingly heavy emphasis on AI.

Tonight, September 14, 2026, the 78th Emmy Awards air live at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT, and working out how to watch the 2026 Emmy Awards live without cable comes down to one quick decision: stream it directly on Peacock, use a live-TV service already sitting on your phone, or grab a short trial before the broadcast starts. Mariska Hargitay hosts the ceremony for the first time, arriving fresh off two Emmy wins earlier this year for her documentary "My Mom Jayne" (NBC, this week; NBC, last month)....

Leave a phone on the dashboard of a parked car on an 80°F day, and the cabin around it will hit 114°F within 30 minutes. Give it an hour, and that number climbs past 130°F, according to Meqtor. Most phones are rated to operate only up to 95°F (Meqtor). Past that point, a phone isn't just uncomfortable, it's running well outside the range it was built for.

Apple's new foldable, iPhone Duo, ships without any Face ID hardware. In its place, Apple built Touch ID into a side button and says a paired Apple Watch can unlock iPhone Duo as well, according to Apple's announcement ten days ago.

Sony packs most of the useful controls for its headphones and earbuds into a phone app, and if you've ever wanted to flip noise-canceling modes or tweak EQ from a laptop instead, there hasn't been an official way to do it. A trio of open-source projects, including one called Sony Device Center, now claim to bring that control to Windows. The Sony Device Center Windows app is the newest and most talked-about of the three, but "claim" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Nothing reviewed for...

Apple spent part of the iPhone Duo unveiling drawing a sharp contrast with rival foldables, including the awkward black space that can surround apps not designed for larger folding screens. But Apple's first foldable won't make that problem disappear overnight. As 9to5Google noted after the Sept. 9 unveiling, older iPhone apps can face a similar limitation when opened on Duo's 7.6-inch inner display.

iOS 27 lets an iPhone tap into GymKit-equipped gym machines for the first time, with AirPods Pro 3 supplying the heart-rate data an Apple Watch would normally provide (Engadget, yesterday). That's the shift behind iOS 27 GymKit iPhone and AirPods compatibility: the phone becomes a second way to connect to equipment that could already talk to a Watch. It doesn't add GymKit to treadmills that never had it, and as of this testing, iOS 27 remains in beta; Apple hasn't said when GymKit on iPhone...

Google says its latest Gemini for Home update makes timers and alarms faster and more accurate. It's the third time since May the company has made close to that same claim, following updates on May 11, May 28, and June 23 (9to5Google, 3 months ago; Android Police, 2 months ago; 9to5Google, 6 weeks ago). The cited reports provide no performance figures for any of the three updates, and no independent review available for this article tested alarm accuracy after the June update shipped.

The Google Pixel 11 hasn't launched yet, and leaked details about it are already complicating the case for buying one. Google has confirmed that portions of the lineup will cost more, and says the increase comes from higher memory costs, not tariffs (TechRepublic, last week). At the same time, leaked battery figures suggest the Pro and Pro XL models may actually pack smaller batteries than the Pixel 10 phones they replace (PhoneArena, last week). That's the real tension behind the question of...

Microsoft is moving Teams and Copilot's web apps to new addresses this month, and organizations with locked-down firewalls could lose legitimate access if network teams don't update their allowlists first, Computerworld reported this week. The Microsoft Teams and Copilot URL changes are landing in stages through early October, and Microsoft has published two Message Center notices spelling out what admins need to check before then.

Apple has finally unveiled its first foldable phone, and the shape looks strangely familiar. The book-style design, 7.6-inch inner display, and 3,000-nit peak brightness Apple announced this week land close to where Samsung already sits with the Galaxy Z Fold 8, a phone The Verge put through a week of testing. That overlap is the starting point for any iPhone Duo vs Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 comparison: Apple has arrived at a form factor Samsung has already priced and had independently reviewed.

HONOR shared its first official camera samples from the upcoming Magic 9 Pro Max this week, and anyone searching for a HONOR Magic 9 Pro Max leaked video should know upfront: the supplied reports describe official still samples, not a leaked video. The images show shots captured at 85mm, 500mm, and 1,000mm (Gizchina, 2 days ago).

Sony may be preparing a camera upgrade for the Xperia 1 IX that swaps out the flagship's main sensor for a larger one, which would be the first change to that specific component since the Xperia 1 V launched in 2023. The claim traces to Japanese blog Sumahu Digest and was reported today by PhoneArena.