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Amazon is offering its Renewed Premium 17 Pro units, including 512GB and 1TB models, at their lowest tracked prices yet, backed by a 1-year guarantee and over 90% original battery health. The discounts arrive alongside other Apple accessory deals, including AirTag 2 from $20, a discounted AirPods Pro 3, and Anker MagSafe accessories.
Google's newly announced Pixel Tag Bluetooth tracker won't ship until November, leaving buyers without an option for months. Android Authority points to five trackers already available, with Motorola's Moto Tag 2 standing out at $20 (or $99 for four), offering UWB support, a replaceable CR2032 battery, IP68 water resistance, and roughly 600 days of battery life, all while working with Google's Find Hub network.
Amazon has opened pre-orders for Apple's new M6 and M5 Pro Mac mini models across several configurations, ranging from $899 to $1,699. Best Buy is separately offering up to $500 off the M6 Mac mini when trading in an older M4 unit, while other current discounts include AirTag 2 at $20, renewed iPhone 17 Pro units up to $220 off, and Apple's official iPhone Air Bumper case down to under $13.
Nintendo will raise the price of its base 256GB Switch 2 console from $449.99 to $499.99 beginning next Tuesday, September 1st. The company had previously announced the increase, and it also recently unveiled two game bundles priced above $500 that include a slight discount.
At the Actuate conference, robotics AI builders acknowledged that while robot bodies keep improving, the underlying AI models still can't reliably perform valuable work. This gap was underscored by Unitree's stock losing nearly half its value days after its blockbuster IPO valued the Chinese robot maker at $66 billion.
Devine and the author, working on Uxn tooling, have been reworking POP-2—a 1970s programming language from the Lisp era—into a new dialect called Pop-2000 meant to serve as a common language across minimal, bootstrap-friendly systems. The project stems from Devine's search for a high-level language to write a new Uxn assembler, paired with the author's long-standing interest in designing 'tiny compilers' that are easy to implement with little tooling.
IBM has released Granite 4.2, the latest addition to its open-weight, self-hostable language model lineup, offered in 3B, 8B, and 30B parameter sizes. All versions use a decoder-only design and support a 128,000-token context window, while the 8B and 30B models add agentic reinforcement learning that trains them to use tools like web search and terminal commands.
FromSoftware's Elden Ring, including the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, has arrived on Switch 2 as the 'Tarnished Edition,' letting Nintendo owners experience the acclaimed open-world game for the first time on the hybrid console. After roughly 10 hours with the port, the game runs well enough to hold up despite not matching the technical fidelity of other versions.
This bibliography compiles foundational studies establishing systems vaccinology, a field using genomics and machine learning to predict and understand vaccine-induced immunity in humans. Key cited works include the 2009 study by Querec and colleagues, which first showed that blood transcriptional signatures could predict antibody responses to the yellow fever vaccine, and related papers on multilineage immune activation and pandemic vaccine response variability.
CD Projekt Red announced at Gamescom Opening Night Live that a remastered version of The Witcher 3, bundled with both existing expansions, launches September 29 as a free upgrade for current owners. Switch owners will also get a complimentary upgrade path to the Switch 2 version. The remaster brings visual improvements plus reworked skill trees, combat, camera, targeting, movement and mount handling.
CD Projekt Red revealed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered, a free upgrade for current owners launching September 29 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series, and Switch 2, with overhauled graphics, combat, traversal, and mod support. The studio also confirmed existing owners will get the Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions for free, and teased a new paid expansion called Songs of the Past due in 2027.
A report compiles 13 approaches organizations are using to align artificial intelligence deployment with corporate values, emphasizing judgment, trust, and guardrails rather than unchecked adoption. The piece frames AI as a powerful but unpredictable force, urging leaders to think carefully about intent before implementation.