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Amazon is selling the Retroid Pocket Flip 2 for $229, down $40 from its $269 list price, marking the handheld's lowest price yet. The clamshell Android device uses a Snapdragon 865 chip with active cooling and a 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED screen, enabling emulation up to GameCube, Dreamcast and PS2 as well as lighter Switch and Android titles.
A team of three mathematicians has finally proven the 2004 'sandwich conjecture,' which claims that any sufficiently large graph of interest can be mathematically bounded above and below by two simpler, well-understood random graphs. The proof, completed in 2025, resolves a two-decade-old open problem in graph theory by pushing existing mathematical techniques to their limits.
Analysts at Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and TrendForce report that legacy memory types like NOR flash and SLC NAND are facing severe supply shortages as manufacturers redirect production capacity toward more profitable HBM and DRAM chips driven by AI demand. Contract prices for both chip types have already more than doubled in the first half of 2026, with SLC NAND expected to rise another 120-170% in the second half.
An amateur mathematician spent a month using a frontier AI model to attempt a formal Lean proof of John Conway's refinement conjecture about omnific integers in surreal number theory, a problem posed 50 years ago. The proof reportedly passed mechanical verification through the Palomar registry, and some Lean and field experts said the statement appears correct, though full independent mathematical verification is still pending.
Microsoft has officially designated Rust as a Tier One language, granting it the same organizational priority and support as long-standing languages such as C++ and C#. This classification signals broader internal adoption across Microsoft's engineering teams and platforms, including Windows and Azure infrastructure.
AMC theaters will offer a Street Fighter-themed popcorn bucket shaped like Guile's iconic flattop haircut, designed to be worn on your head. Cody Rhodes, who portrays Guile in the upcoming film, showed off the bucket in a social media post. The movie is set to release in theaters on October 16.
Jeff Lawson, who co-founded and scaled Twilio to over $4 billion in revenue, is now leading Inertia, a fusion energy startup. He will speak about this career shift at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in a fireside chat on the Smart Systems Stage, discussing how his software background applies to a capital-intensive deep tech venture involving lasers and manufacturing.
A Guardian investigation found ICE documented 18 miscarriages among detained women in the first nine months of Trump's second term, but stopped keeping records after October 2025, leaving an unknown number of subsequent losses uncounted. One detainee, an asylum seeker named Anabell, described being denied prenatal care and a doctor's visit for weeks despite bleeding, before finally being taken to an emergency room shackled to a bed, where she learned she had lost her pregnancy.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger issued Executive Order 22, barring executive branch officials from signing NDAs on data center projects, mandating faster noise regulations, and reviewing backup power operations. The order also launches an AI task force to study risks like job losses and privacy harms, alongside a new state framework aimed at ending automatic zoning approvals and rolling back subsidies for data center developers.
Disney has hired Karandeep Anand, who spent just over a year as CEO of chatbot startup Character.AI, to become the company's first chief technology officer. Anand will report to new CEO Josh D'Amaro and oversee Disney's infrastructure, product, engineering, and data/AI platforms teams.
Google is quietly expanding its chat themes feature in Google Messages beyond RCS conversations to include standard SMS texts, according to a Reddit user's discovery confirmed on a Pixel 6a. Users can access the feature through the three-dot menu or contact info page, though Google hasn't published official documentation about the rollout.
A freelance professional shares advice on ending client relationships gracefully, drawing from personal experience of leaving a steady gig due to disagreement with the company's public stances. The piece emphasizes that maintaining professionalism during an exit is crucial since the freelance/solo work community is tightly interconnected.