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Android Authority found evidence within Play Store version 53.0 of an unreleased interface specifically for paid games. The redesign uses a larger, more immersive banner image with ratings, age rating, and device compatibility info layered at the bottom, alongside the recently spotted Ask Play question-chip feature.
Elegoo is offering discounts of up to 35% on its Neptune 3 Pro and Neptune 4 Plus 3D printers as part of a limited-time Labor Day sale. The Neptune 3 Pro drops to $169, while the larger Neptune 4 Plus is priced at $309, both cheaper than listings on major retailers like Amazon. Both printers have previously earned strong reviews for build quality, auto-leveling, and ease of use.
The RPCS3 development team announced that its open-source PlayStation 3 emulator can now run games straight from physical Blu-ray discs, provided users have a compatible internal or external drive from an extensive supported-hardware list. The update also brings faster installation times for package installs from disc and extends support beyond Windows to Linux, FreeBSD and macOS, including PS4 and PS5 consoles running Linux.
Newegg is selling the ABS Kaze II Aqua gaming PC, which pairs an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with an Nvidia RTX 5080, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD, for $2,999.99 using a coupon code. That's $500 off list price and actually cheaper than the same bundle cost when it was featured back in April, despite rising component prices industry-wide.
Digging into Play Store version 53.0, Android Authority uncovered and activated a hidden option that lets users pause and later resume app installs instead of only being able to cancel them. The outlet recorded a working demo showing a new 'Pause' button alongside a 'Resume' option, with the built-in download manager listing paused downloads for quick access. Google has not made the feature public yet, but the code exists and works with some manual tinkering.
Caltech is organizing a 40-hour event called Mathathon, running October 30 to November 1, where about 100 teams will use frontier AI models with over $2 million in compute credits to tackle open mathematical conjectures. Teams will present their findings to leading mathematicians, who will judge their understanding and rigor, with prizes awarded initially and again later once results are independently verified by the math community.
AMD published results from experiments running speculative decoding in vLLM on its MI300X and MI355X Instinct GPUs using the ROCm software stack. The team compared five drafting approaches—native MTP, Gemma 4 MTP, EAGLE-3, DFlash, and DSpark—which differ in how draft tokens are generated and how they receive signals from the target model.
A newly launched interactive map displays every bus, tram, metro and train operated by De Lijn, STIB-MIVB, TEC and NMBS on a single interface. It shows real-time delays, stop locations and departure times for the country's combined public transport network.
Colby Williams, 25, was arrested in Georgia on multiple felony charges including arson and criminal damage to property after police say he set fire to three Flock automated license plate readers, melting at least one down to slag. A nearby fourth camera was found riddled with bullet holes, and one melted pole bore a 'DeFlock' sticker. Investigators identified Williams partly through footage from the very cameras he allegedly destroyed.
A new report from the Plastic Pollution Coalition finds plastics industry groups, including the Society of Plastics Engineers, have been supplying free or low-cost teaching materials to K-12 schools nationwide. These include lesson plans, worksheets, science activities and traveling programs like PlastiVan that emphasize plastics' benefits to society while minimizing their environmental and health harms. The coalition is urging schools to adopt stricter policies limiting industry-funded curricula.
A commentary piece argues that common sense functions like a muscle that weakens from disuse, and asks why practical judgment is so rare in modern workplaces. The piece suggests organizational structures and processes may be crowding out employees' basic instincts and reasoning.
A viral video shows a large data center in Denver's Elyria-Swansea neighborhood running sprinklers heavily on its grounds while residents face stage-one drought restrictions limiting lawn watering to two days a week. The facility is believed to be an 18-megawatt, 170,000-square-foot site owned by cloud provider CoreSite, though the tenants using the space haven't been confirmed.