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Newegg is selling Microsoft's black wireless Xbox controller together with a $50 digital Xbox gift card for a combined $80. Since the controller alone usually costs $50 to $60, the deal effectively prices it around $30 once the gift card value is factored in.
Bitcoin surged past $85,000 on Monday morning, hitting an intraday high of $85,229 before settling near $84,256, a gain of roughly 3.8% on the day. The move extends a multi-day rally that has pushed the token up more than 7% over five days and nearly 35% over three months, though it remains far below its October peak above $126,000.
Toys 'R' Us and Go! Retail Group are rolling out 120 new standalone stores across the United States, timed to be ready for the holiday shopping season. Some locations will feature studio spaces designed for creators and toy influencers to debut products and host live events.
The ASRock Phantom Gaming PG27FFT1B, a 27-inch 1080p IPS monitor with a 180Hz refresh rate, is currently listed at $96.77, down from $159.99, marking its lowest price yet. The panel supports HDR400, AMD FreeSync, a 1ms response time, and covers 94% of the DCI-P3 color space.
Researchers have identified numerous rock glaciers—ice masses disguised beneath layers of rock and debris—that were previously overlooked in freshwater assessments. The newly mapped ice reserves amount to roughly 600 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water, hidden in mountainous terrain around the world.
In a Modern CEO newsletter interview, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins reflected on his time as chair of the Business Roundtable and discussed how artificial intelligence is reshaping the workplace. He warned that employees resistant to organizational change driven by AI adoption should expect ongoing discomfort rather than relief.
A Texas jury ruled that Bambu Lab's X1, P1, and A1 printer lines infringe two Stratasys patents covering prime tower purging and bed-leveling force-sensor methods, ordering Bambu Lab to pay $27.6 million in damages. No injunction was issued against the affected machines, all part of Bambu's first-generation lineup. Bambu Lab's newer H2 and X2 series use dual-nozzle and optical-sensor designs that reportedly sidestep the disputed patents.
GDQuest, a game development education group, has published a free tutorial teaching newcomers how to write their first shader in the Godot 4 engine. The lesson is part of the organization's broader library of open-source learning resources for game developers.
Polymarket's aggressive push for growth reportedly outpaced its fraud controls, creating vulnerabilities that bad actors were able to exploit. The prediction market platform's scaling priorities appear to have left compliance and security measures lagging behind user growth.
Microsoft has released fixes for a bug that silently broke copy-and-paste, autofill, and formula dragging in Excel after installing this month's security updates, including KB5002914. Users of Excel 2016, Office LTSC 2019, 2021, and 2024 must manually install specific updates to resolve the issue, which had been widely reported on Reddit and Microsoft's Q&A forums.
iFixit's teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max found Apple's first variable aperture camera, using six hair-thin blades that slide with high precision to control light intake. The report also revealed a new chip packaging layout that places the A20 Pro processor beside its memory rather than stacked, separating memory from the chip's heat path, and noted that three of four test units cracked their display frames during battery removal.
Responding to former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon's claim that AI has more than a 10% chance of wiping out humanity, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS News there is 'zero chance' AI will end the world by 2030. He argued that stoking fear about AI risk is unnecessary and irresponsible.