Yes for charging: the iPhone Duo takes MagSafe and Qi2 chargers at up to 25W. Fit is the catch. Upright stands can tip when the Duo is open, and none of the chargers and power banks this site picks lists the Duo, nor does Apple's own MagSafe wallet. What works folded, what works open, and which accessories name the Duo.
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The pages readers come back to: answer-first guides on the things you own or are about to buy, built from spec sheets and filings, with the date we last checked them.
Out of warranty, Apple charges $999 to fix the iPhone Duo's folding inner screen and $379 for the outer one. AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss costs $199.99 a year and cuts those fees to $99 and $29, so one inner-screen repair is worth four and a half years of the plan. Every repair price, the break-even, AppleCare One, and how Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile compare.
Yes, in your carry-on only. Most big US airlines now cap power banks at two per person, up to 100 watt-hours each, and Southwest reportedly at one, and most bar recharging one from seat power. Here are the rules by airline, how to read your battery's rating, and what changes in 2027.
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.
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.
The average US home paid about $133 for electricity in October 2025 and about $175 in January 2026, by a calculation from EIA utility data, and the price per kilowatt-hour fell in most states over those months. On average the jump is usage, not price: homes that heat with electricity, space heaters and longer nights of lighting, with the furnace's blower fan and electric water heaters as other winter loads. EIA's October 2026 forecast has homes that heat with electricity paying about 4% more this winter than last. Here are the state numbers, the forecast by region, what the common plug-in culprits cost a month, and the cheap ways to stay warm: blankets and layers, heating only the rooms you use, thermostat setbacks, finding drafts with a borrowed thermal camera and sealing them, wood heat done safely, frozen-pipe prevention, and help paying the bill.
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.
For most people, the $899 Mac mini with M6, 16GB of memory and 256GB of storage is enough. Pay $200 more for 24GB if you run many heavy apps at once, and choose 32GB or the M5 Pro if local AI is the point, because memory cannot be added later. The M5 Pro model starts at $1,699. For files that can live outside the Mac, an external SSD can cost much less than Apple's $500 upgrade.
For an iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone Duo or iPhone 17, Apple's $39 40W Dynamic Power Adapter is the charger Apple tested with. An iPhone 17e, Air or 16 needs only a 20W adapter for its fastest wired charge. Here is each model's top speed and the plug it needs.
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.
