In October 2026 Tesla sold four versions of the Model 3 in the US, from the $36,990 rear-wheel drive to the $54,990 Performance. The $5,500 step to the Premium rear-wheel drive buys 42 more miles of EPA range, ventilated front seats, heated rear seats and a rear touchscreen. Here is what every trim costs, how far it goes and who it suits.
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A Starlink Roam plan covers a boat on lakes, rivers and coastal waters from $55 a month, as of October 13, 2026. Past 12 nautical miles it takes Roam Unlimited at $175 plus Ocean Mode at $6 per GB. Here is what each plan allows, what a houseboat can use, and which dish to buy.
Starlink's home plans cost $55, $85 or $130 a month and its travel plans $55, $80 or $175, as of October 13, 2026. Here is which one fits you, what each data limit means, what a year costs, and what changed in 2026.
This guide's pick for most RV trips is a Starlink Mini on a Roam plan, and a home plan will not travel. Here is which dish fits which trip, what each plan costs, how many amp-hours the dish takes from a 12-volt battery, and where to mount it.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on September 22, 2026, at half or less of GPT-5.6's promotional per-token prices. In ChatGPT they are not yet in regular Chat, and Free and Go users get Luna only in the desktop app.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026. Anthropic says it performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work, at $4 and $20 per million input and output tokens, 40% of Fable's rate. Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans get higher five-hour limits.
The creepy AI Cat in the Hat stalking driveways on TikTok has never been found in real life. The kids who post him with a school's name attached are being found fast. At least 15 minors in 10 states have been arrested or face charges in two weeks, several with felonies, under school-threat laws written after real shootings that do not care whether it was a joke.
In October 2026 Tesla sold six versions of the Model Y in the US, from the $39,990 Model Y rear-wheel drive to the $61,990 six-seat Model Y L. The $6,000 step to the Premium buys 36 more miles of EPA range, a glass roof, heated rear seats and 15 speakers. Here is what every trim costs, how far it goes and who it suits.
Every Tesla has lower car seat anchors in its two outer rear seats, and in the Model 3, Model Y and Model S the middle rear seat takes a belt-installed seat only. Three narrow seats fit a Model Y's rear bench on paper with about half an inch to spare, and the one hands-on Model Y report, from Australia, says three fit. This page sets out, model by model, which seats have anchors and tethers, what the owner's manuals forbid, the rear-seat widths against three narrow seats, and what the six-seat Model Y L and the three-row Model X offer a family with a third child.
New Model 3 and Model Y orders in the US and Canada no longer come with Autopilot. Adaptive cruise control is standard, lane-centering Autosteer is not, and Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is $99 a month by subscription only.
Diesel averaged a record $6.529 a gallon on September 21, and Washington is arguing over whether to stop exporting it. An estimate built from EIA storage data gives the Gulf Coast room for about 24 days of stranded exports. After that, refiners must cut runs or reshuffle what they make.
The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate a quarter point on September 16 to a range of 3.75% to 4%, its first increase since 2023, in a unanimous vote under the chair Trump chose to bring rates down. Credit cards and home equity lines reprice within a billing cycle. The Fed did it with core CPI at its lowest since 2021, and its own forecast pencils in one more hike this year.
The EIA's weekly survey put US diesel at $5.967 a gallon for the week of September 7, above the June 2022 record of $5.810. Regular gasoline is $4.157 and nowhere near its own record. Diesel moves nearly everything you buy, so the gap between the two fuels is the number to watch.
Five magnetic power banks for iPhone, three of them sold as 25W Qi2.2 packs, with each maker's price, lab-tested charge counts, which iPhones can use the full speed, and how to check a pack's certification yourself.
Five 3-in-1 chargers for an iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods, three for home and two for travel, with each maker's price, what is in the box, and which iPhones and watches actually charge fast on them.
Starlink sells its mounts by dish family. This guide matches each current dish (Standard 4, V5, Mini, Performance) to the right mount for a roof, wall, pole, ridge, vehicle or the ground, with Starlink's own prices and limits.
