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Hoto has reduced the price of its cordless rotary toolkit from $49.99 to $29.99 on Amazon, offering a significant discount. The tool features a five-speed motor up to 25,000 RPM, a 2,000 mAh battery with 50 minutes of runtime, and includes 35 accessories for various tasks including sanding, polishing, and carving. It also has a built-in LED light and dust cover for safer, more precise work.
During Prime Day, Anker reduced the price of its 65W Max 3-Port USB-C charger by 24%, bringing it down to $22.79. The charger is designed to power phones, tablets, and laptops with its compact form factor.
Microsoft announced the Surface Laptop Ultra, featuring an Nvidia AI chip, with a starting price of $2,599 and scheduled to ship on October 16. The device includes the world's first magnetic USB-C port and supports running various AI models locally. The company also revealed plans for Meta's Muse AI agent to be available on Windows, aiming to enhance AI capabilities on consumer devices.
Amazon is selling the UGREEN Nexode Pro 160W charger for $85 as part of a Prime Day promotion, marking its lowest price to date. The charger offers 160W total output across four ports, allowing multiple devices to be charged simultaneously.
Parallel Systems, founded by former SpaceX engineers, has raised a $100 million Series C round led by AVP to scale production of its battery-powered, autonomous rail vehicles called Panther. The vehicles can haul several tons of freight up to 500 miles without an operator, traveling solo or in short platoons rather than traditional long trains. CEO Matt Soule says the technology lets railroads compete with trucking on shorter routes they've largely abandoned.
Microsoft announced the upcoming release of the Surface Laptop Ultra, featuring Nvidia’s RTX Spark Arm-based processor. The device will be available starting October 16th, with a base price of $2,599 for a model equipped with an 8-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. Additionally, Microsoft introduced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a mini PC for developers, which can be preordered at $5,999 and is expected to ship in November.
Microsoft unveiled a new magnetic charging feature called Magnetic Connect for the Surface Laptop Ultra, which attaches to the right-side USB-C port. The magnetic connection is designed to be simple to use, with the connector snapping into place when brought close. Despite the magnetic feature, the USB-C port remains fully functional for data, video, and other connections.
Amazon's ongoing Prime Big Deal Days sale includes a curated set of budget desktop accessories priced at $13 or less, such as a retractable UGreen 100W USB-C cable discounted to $13.29 and a Tassmpitor keyboard cleaning kit now $9.96. The selection spans cables, adapters, cleaning tools and small desk gadgets aimed at PC setups.
The Fanttik T1 Max wireless soldering iron kit is now priced at $52.99, its lowest price yet. The kit includes a battery-powered iron with a built-in 2600mAh battery, USB-C charging, an aluminum stand, and a selection of C210-type tips.
WIRED published an updated list of Amazon Prime Day deals priced under $100, featuring products the outlet says it has tested and recommends, including chargers, a smart bird feeder, PC speakers, a hydroponics system, and the Arlo Pro 6 security camera. The list highlights a 25,000-mAh power bank discounted to $96, down $39 from its usual price.
Researchers used nematode (C. elegans) extract containing a FLAG-tagged PRP19 protein to study how the intron lariat spliceosome (ILS) complex breaks apart once its job is done. By comparing protein pulldowns with and without ATP, they identified which factors are released from the spliceosome specifically when ATP is present, pointing to an ATP-dependent disassembly step. Mass spectrometry and statistical analysis were used to pinpoint proteins significantly depleted under ATP treatment.
A technical explainer breaks down a widely used pattern in which a random 64-bit integer is reduced via the modulo operator to select among a fixed number of choices. It shows mathematically that when the number of choices does not evenly divide the range of the random number generator, some choices end up more likely than others, breaking the assumption of equal probability.