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Surface 2: Thinner, lighter and longer-lasting RT tablet powered by Tegra 4 chip, coming October 22 for $449 (hands-on)

Microsoft's Surface tablet was supposed to usher in a new generation of Windows RT products, targeted to compete more with iOS and Android tablets than full-featured laptops. The lukewarm reception Windows RT received meant that we've seen very few RT products since, and the Surface tablet itself was outshone by the superior Surface Pro, a slightly heftier version that ran full Windows 8 with an Intel Core i5 CPU.

This Week’s Apple Rumors, Ranked From Dumbest to Most Plausible

With Apple’s next media event scheduled for Tuesday, September 10th, the rumors are really heating up this week. We’re definitely expecting new iPhones. Other than that, rumors and reports are our best glimpses at what else Apple has in store. But not all rumors are created equal. So we’ve parse the week’s rumors for you (and there’s a lot!), ranking them in order from “utterly ridiculous” to “Duh, of course.” First up…