Tesla's Mobile Connector is a $300 cable that plugs into an outlet; the Wall Connector is a $585 unit an electrician wires in, as priced by Tesla on October 11, 2026. On a 240-volt outlet the cable tops out at 32 amps, up to 30 miles of range an hour on a Model 3, and the wall unit reaches 48 amps and up to 44. For a Model 3 Rear-Wheel Drive or Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive, Tesla says both charge at the same top rate. Here are Tesla's speed tables for each outlet and breaker, its install estimates, what the extension-cord warning says, which cable works with Powershare, and what a red light on the Wall Connector means.
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Apple confirmed on October 2, 2026 that some iPhone 18 Pro Max phones on AT&T lose cellular service, and that a phone already stuck on SOS has to be replaced. iOS 27.0.1 and a carrier settings update are meant to help prevent the problem on phones that still work. Here is what to do in each case, and what Apple has not said.
Apple said on October 2, 2026 that it will add controls to Full Disk Access, the Mac permission that lets an app read files, mail, messages and browsing history. It gave no date and named no app. The post follows a public dispute over Meta's Muse agent, and you can check which apps hold the permission on your Mac.
When the power flickers, a Starlink router can factory reset itself, and the dish can need half an hour or more to come back. Here is the fix order after an outage, how many hours each Starlink kit runs on a battery, and how to keep it online through the next one.
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.
Tesla's Model 3 manual describes no spare wheel, so a flat leaves four options: Tesla Roadside Assistance, Tesla's $110 sealant-and-compressor kit, a tire shop, or a tow. Tesla says roadside help costs nothing while the car is under warranty, but its policy says you pay for the tire repair or replacement in all cases, and it covers a tow for the first 50 miles only when the car goes to a Tesla Service Center and Tesla does the tire work. Here is what to do in the first five minutes, what each option covers, whether the tire can be repaired, and what to tell a tow driver or tire shop.
When a used Tesla changes hands, the balance of the original warranty goes with the car, Full Self-Driving stays if a previous owner bought it outright and never moved it, subscriptions end, and Tesla says Supercharging credits and some other features may not be transferable. Here is what each Tesla document says transfers, how much warranty is left by delivery year, how the ownership transfer works in the app, and what to check on the car before you pay, including the battery health test in the owner's manual.
Tesla Premium Connectivity costs $9.99 a month or $99 a year in the US, plus tax. Without it the car keeps navigation with traffic-based routing, Trip Planner and software updates, and loses the phone app's live Sentry Mode camera and dashcam viewer, satellite and live-traffic maps, and streaming over cellular. Tesla marks music, video and the browser as available over Wi-Fi without it, and names video and the browser as usable on a phone hotspot, subject to your carrier's fees. Here is Tesla's feature list tier by tier, who still has connectivity free and until when, and when paying by the year beats paying by the month.
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.
The four Tesla accessories worth buying for a Model 3 or Model Y, with Tesla's October 2026 prices and the version that fits your car, plus the add-ons Tesla's own manuals say to skip, starting with screen protectors.
Four kids tablets worth buying in 2026, sorted by age: Amazon's Fire HD 8 Kids, Fire HD 8 Kids Pro and Fire HD 10 Kids, or Apple's iPad, which now costs $449 after a $100 price rise. What each one includes, what the Kids+ subscription costs afterward, and what independent testers found.
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