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Starlink on Your Phone: What Works Today and What It Costs

Starlink does not sell phone plans to you directly yet. In the US, the way to use Starlink satellites on your phone today is T-Mobile's T-Satellite: texts, picture messages, location sharing, select apps and text to 911 where you can see the sky. It is included with T-Mobile's top plans or costs $10 a month per line, and customers of other carriers, such as AT&T and Verizon, can add it too. SpaceX calls Starlink Mobile a strategy and is buying spectrum for it, but it has published no consumer plans or prices, and the Boost Mobile access plan has no start date.

#Starlink #Smartphones #Satellites

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Tech & Innovation

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Oct 31, 2026 • 17 min read

Is Starlink Worth It? What It Costs vs Your Other Options

Starlink is worth it if no wired line or 5G home service reaches you, or if your other choice is old satellite or slow DSL. Year one ran $1,009 (where the $55 plan is offered) to $1,909 at mid-October plan prices plus a $349 dish (a July report), where buying is offered, before any demand surcharge, and prices can vary by address. Where fiber or 5G home internet works well at your address, those measured faster on national medians in Ookla's 2026 data, and the cheapest 5G home plans cost less.

#Starlink #satellite internet #Home Internet

Two neighbors on side-by-side farmhouse porches at dusk each hold up an identical green envelope of cash, grinning at each other, as a satellite's glowing trail splits in two and ends at each envelope

Oct 28, 2026 • 10 min read

Starlink Referral: What You Get and the Catches

A Starlink referral link pays the new customer and the person who shared it the same reward, $100 each in the US as of October 28, 2026, in cash or bill credit. It pays only after two months of service, only on starlink.com orders for a Residential or Roam plan, and only for brand-new customers.

#Starlink #Referral Program #satellite internet

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Oct 27, 2026 • 9 min read

iPhone Duo Screen Cracked? What Apple Covers and Costs

If your iPhone Duo's inner screen cracks or shows a line and you didn't damage it, contact AppleCare: Apple says it knows of an issue on a small number of units and is offering replacements, and 9to5Mac reports you don't need AppleCare+ for it. In the US, accidental damage to the inner screen costs $999, or $99 with AppleCare+. What to do, returns, and the screen fees.

#Apple #iPhone #Foldables

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AI & Automation

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Oct 22, 2026 • 11 min read

Chase Says You Pay If Your AI Agent Moves Your Money

Major US banks are finding outside AI agents inside customer accounts, Axios reported on October 22, 2026. Chase, Citi, Bank of America, Schwab and Morgan Stanley are restricting them. Chase's own terms say that if you let an AI agent use your login, you are responsible for what it does.

#AI Agents #Banking #Meta Muse

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Sep 22, 2026 • 7 min read

GPT-6 Sol Is Half Price. You Can't Chat With It Yet

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.

#OpenAI #ChatGPT #GPT-6

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Sep 22, 2026 • 12 min read

Claude Opus 5.5 Matches Fable 5.1 at 40% of the Token Price

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.

#Anthropic #Claude #Opus 5.5

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EVs & Mobility

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Oct 27, 2026 • 9 min read

Does Tesla FSD Work in Snow and Rain? What the Manual Says

Tesla doesn't stop you from using FSD (Supervised) in snow or rain, but its own manual says poor visibility from rain, snow, fog, direct sun or low light "can significantly degrade performance," and a blinded camera can make Self-Driving features unavailable. Regulators are investigating FSD crashes in glare, fog and dust. What each condition does, the alerts, and how to keep the cameras clear this winter.

#Tesla #FSD #Winter Driving

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Oct 26, 2026 • 17 min read

Tesla Drive Unit Failure: Signs, Warranty and Repair Cost

A Tesla drive unit (the motor, gearbox and inverter in one housing) is covered for 8 years. On current terms the mileage cap is 100,000 to 150,000 miles, depending on the model and trim; the older Model S and Model X booklets read here set no mileage cap. After that, a Model 3 or Model Y can be covered for up to 2 more years or 30,000 miles with Tesla's one-time extension, if Tesla offers it for your car, 2,000 dollars plus 500 per repair visit in the US, but only if you buy it before the factory coverage ends. Here are the alerts that point to the drive unit, what owners have filed with NHTSA, and what repairs cost outside the warranty.

#Tesla #Drive Unit #Warranty

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Oct 26, 2026 • 17 min read

Tesla Extended Warranty: Is the Monthly Plan Worth It?

Tesla's US Extended Service Agreement costs $50 a month on a Model 3, $60 on a Model Y, $125 on a Model S and $150 on a Model X, before tax, plus a $100 deductible per repair visit ($200 on some older Model S and Model X). It starts when the 4-year or 50,000-mile basic warranty ends and can run up to 4 more years or 50,000 more miles, but never past 8 years or 100,000 miles on the car, so at the July 2026 price the most a Model Y owner pays in fees is $2,880. It excludes the battery and drive unit, which every Tesla factory warranty edition read for this page, back to 2017, covers at least that long. It pays off only if covered repairs cost more than the fees plus deductibles, and a car whose plan is cancelled can't be enrolled again.

#Tesla #Warranty #Ownership Costs

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Money & Power

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Oct 31, 2026 • 12 min read

Is a Tesla Powerwall Worth It? What Utilities Pay in 2026

The 30% US federal tax credit for home batteries is gone, so a Powerwall 3 now costs full price unless your utility helps. Which utilities pay up front, which pay every year, and how far that money goes against a typical price.

#Tesla #Powerwall #Home Battery

A worried woman presses her hands against the locked glass door of a crypto exchange office at night while, inside, an emptied vault with a hole blasted through its back wall leaks a trail of gold coins

Oct 30, 2026 • 10 min read

Hackers Took $6.3B From Binance. Is Your Crypto Safe?

Hackers moved about $6.3 billion out of Binance on October 29, 2026, the largest crypto theft on record. Binance says user funds are safe, that it has set aside $6.34 billion to cover losses, and withdrawals are paused. What that means for coins on an exchange, and when a hardware wallet makes sense.

#Crypto #Binance #Bitcoin

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Sep 25, 2026 • 21 min read

Why Your Electric Bill Spikes in Winter, and How to Cut It

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.

#Electric Bills #Home Heating #Heat Pumps

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Picks & Reviews

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Nov 2, 2026 • 13 min read

Ring vs Blink: Which Camera Costs Less With the Plan?

Blink's cheapest plan is $39.99 a year for one camera against Ring's $49.99, but for two or more devices Ring Multi ($99.99) costs less than Blink Plus ($119.99). Ring's Battery Doorbell 2K was $39.99 on Amazon on November 2, 2026 (typical $99.99; Amazon deals change). eufy's E340 records to its own storage with no plan, and Aqara's G410 is the pick for Apple Home, with iCloud+ and a home hub.

#Buying Guide #Smart Home #Ring

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Nov 2, 2026 • 12 min read

Which Govee Lights to Buy for the Roof, Tree, TV and Room

For a roofline you light all year, Govee's Permanent Outdoor Lights 2 cost $179.99 for 50 feet or $279.99 for 100 feet on Govee's US store on November 2, 2026; the 2 Pro ($499.99 for 100 feet) can be cut to fit. For a Christmas tree, Christmas String Lights 2 start at $99.99, and for a TV the TV Backlight 3 Lite starts at $69.99. Lights whose pages list Matter can join Apple Home through a Matter hub.

#Buying Guide #Govee #Smart Home

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Nov 2, 2026 • 13 min read

Which Wireless Meat Thermometer Should You Buy?

For one probe with the highest heat rating, the MEATER Pro ($99.99 at MEATER on November 2, 2026) is the pick; the Typhur Sync One ($89.99 on sale) adds a Wi-Fi base with a screen. For a turkey and a second dish at once, the two-probe MEATER Pro Duo is $179.99. The Combustion Predictive Thermometer ($149) packs the most sensors of these picks, ThermoWorks' RFX kit ($179 on sale) is built for smokers, and TempPro's TempSpike TP960 ($64.99 on sale) is the budget choice. An instant-read thermometer is still worth having for spot checks.

#Buying Guide #kitchen #Smart Home

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