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News Image Xbox Series X / S expansion cards are near their lowest prices for Prime Day

There’s a deluge of games coming to Xbox over the next few months, so you’d better have some extra storage handy. Xbox Series X / S owners only have one real option for newer games: the various expansion cards you can get from Western Digital and Seagate. Thankfully, they’re steeply discounted for the October Amazon Prime Day event. Exclusively for Prime members, Western Digital’s WD_Black C50 1TB Storage Expansion Card for Xbox is on sale at Amazon for $120.64 (about $37 off), very nearly its lowest price to date. You can also get WD’s 512GB card for $65.54 (about $14 off), a few dollars shy of its lowest mark. Seagate expansion cards are on sale, too. They’re a bit more expensive, but they also don’t require a Prime membership. A...

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News Image NASA’s Next Big Thing: These Space Telescopes Could Reveal the Secrets of Black Holes

NASA selected two space observatory proposals for additional review, and one is expected to be cleared for a 2032 launch.

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Windows 11 KB5044284 and KB5044285 cumulative updates released

Microsoft has released the KB5044284 and KB5044285 Windows 11 cumulative updates for versions 24H2 and 22H2/23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and resolve 27 bugs and performance issues....

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News Image Give Up on the PS5 Pro and Welcome in a Powerful ASUS Gaming Laptop for Not Much More This Prime Day

The ASUS ROG Strix G16 gaming laptop is 21% off for Prime Day. Dominate the gaming competition by taking advantage of Amazon Prime deals.

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News Image Invincible Fight Girl smashes her way onto Adult Swim this November

Though Adult Swim has been very quiet about Juston Gordon-Montgomery’s Invincible Fight Girl since sharing a brief tease earlier this summer, the animated series finally has a release date and a snazzy new trailer. Set in a world where seemingly everyone is a self-styled wrestler, Invincible Fight Girl tells the story of Andy (Sydney Mikayla), a young girl who sets out on a mission to become a legendary brawler one match at a time. While Andy’s parents want her to become an accountant, she longs for the kind of fame and glory that her retired wrestling champ Aunt P. (Rolonda Watts) enjoyed during her days knocking skulls in front of crowds of roaring fans. Andy’s size makes her seem like she might not be all that much of a threat to the...

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News Image What to Expect When Hurricane Milton Rams Into Florida

The monster storm will have winds reaching 150 miles (241 kilometers) per hour, and will dump an enormous amount of rain on coastal Florida.

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News Image Prime Day: Amazon Slashes Prices Dramatically, 10 Best Deals of Tuesday

Looking to save big during this year's Prime Day? Here’s our updated selection of the best deals of the day.

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News Image The US could finally ditch lead pipes under new EPA decision

The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule today that mandates the replacement of lead pipes in drinking water systems within 10 years. The agency also announced $2.6 billion in funding to upgrade systems and make the changes. Up to 9 million homes across the US still get water that flows through old lead pipes, according to EPA estimates. Lead can get into drinking water when pipes corrode. And as a toxic metal, it can accumulate in the human body over time, which is particularly harmful to children. The announcements today are supposed to accelerate the painfully slow progress that’s been made to address the health risks posed by lead exposure — risks that are often magnified in low-income neighborhoods and communities of...

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News Image NYT Games is testing Zorse, a new ‘phrase guessing’ puzzle game

The New York Times is starting to beta test a new puzzle game called “Zorse,” as reported by Semafor. The game is a “new phrase guessing game where every puzzle is a mash-up of two phrases,” NYT spokesperson Jordan Cohen says in a statement to The Verge. As Semafor points out, the Zorse name “identifies the offspring of a zebra and another equine,” so it seems like the game will focus on wordplay like that. Cohen says Zorse is currently only available in Canada, meaning I can’t play it myself. But my Canada-based colleague Andrew Webster gave it a shot and told me about it; the game sounds a bit like Wheel of Fortune with a puzzle-y twist. When you start a Zorse puzzle, you’re given a clue and shown a series of blank tiles that, when...

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News Image Amazon Cares About Your Health, It’s Selling Blueair Air Purifiers at 46% Off

This air purifier is one of the best sellers of Prime Day.

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News Image Roblox Is Playing Dumb About the Bots and Predators on Its Platform, Hindenburg Research Says

Hindenburg found the platform recently had hundreds of active accounts under different variations of the name Jeffrey Epstein. 

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Windows 10 KB5044273 update released with 9 fixes, security updates

Microsoft has released the KB5044273 cumulative update for Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 10 21H2, which includes nine changes and fixes, including a new Windows Update opt-in notification shown when you log in to the operating system....

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News Image Conquer Every Stain with the Bissell Little Green Cleaner at 34% off, A Discount You’ve Never Seen Before

Tackle tough stains anywhere with this best-selling Bissell cleaner.

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News Image High Blood Pressure Reading? You Might Have Been Holding Your Arm Wrong

Two common arm positions for getting a blood pressure reading can lead to misdiagnoses of hypertension, new research finds.

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Price cap could limit district heating tariffs to get more homes off gas

The minister in charge of Dutch climate change and sustainability policy wants to examine the possibility of setting a maximum tariff for smaller-scale consumers using heating networks or

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News Image Giancarlo Esposito Hints at How Moff Gideon Could Somehow Return to Star Wars

The villain of The Mandalorian seemingly perished at the end of season three... but is he really gone for good?

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Judge orders Google to distribute third-party app stores on Google Play

A federal judge yesterday ordered Google to open up the Google Play Store and its collection of apps to third-party app stores as part of a US-wide injunction stemming from Epic Games' antitrust victory over the company. The injunction is scheduled to take effect on November 1, though Google will have up to eight months to implement certain provisions. For three years, Google will have to let third-party Android app stores access the Google Play Store's catalog of apps "so that they may offer the Play Store apps to users," said the injunction issued by US District Judge James Donato of the Northern District of California. App developers will have some control over which app stores their software is distributed on. "Google will provide developers with a mechanism for opting out of inclusion in catalog access for any particular third-party Android app store," the injunction said. Read full article

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News Image The Worst Prime Day Deals of October 2024

Get ready for the cheapest, worst things you can buy on Prime Day, including a sauna sleeping bag, "$700" compressed air blaster, and a frightening Nicolas Cage throw pillow.

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Code in Meta’s Threads app references a communities feature, similar to Elon Musk’s X

Meta’s take on a Twitter/X rival, Instagram Threads, may be inching further into its competitor’s territory with the development of a communities feature that would presumably allow users to better organize their discussions on the platform by topics. At least that’s what references in the app’s code seem to imply. The code mentions a new […]

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News Image Scarlett Johansson, Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift Top List of Celebrities Used for AI Scams

From selling crypto to miracle cures, deepfake celebrity ads are everywhere.

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News Image A rare Apple Macintosh prototype is returning to auction

A rare prototype of the original Apple Macintosh featuring a 5.25-inch disk drive instead of the 3.5-inch drive the personal computer eventually shipped with is headed to auction again as part of Bonhams’ upcoming History of Science and Technology collection. The prototype has been nicknamed the Twiggy Macintosh because it features the same 5.25-inch double-sided floppy disk drive originally created for the Apple Lisa, which had been codenamed the Twiggy during its development. Those drives were notoriously unreliable, and since the Macintosh didn’t come with any internal storage, a disk drive users could rely on was a critical component. Apple eventually opted to use a new 3.5-inch disk drive design from Sony, and Steve Jobs reportedly...

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Apple kicked Musi out of the App Store based on YouTube lie, lawsuit says

Musi, a free music-streaming app only available on iPhone, sued Apple last week, arguing that Apple breached Musi's developer agreement by abruptly removing the app from its App Store for no good reason. According to Musi, Apple decided to remove Musi from the App Store based on allegedly "unsubstantiated" claims from YouTube that Musi was infringing on YouTube's intellectual property. The removal came, Musi alleged, based on a five-word complaint from YouTube that simply said Musi was "violating YouTube terms of service"—without ever explaining how. And YouTube also lied to Apple, Musi's complaint said, by claiming that Musi neglected to respond to YouTube's efforts to settle the dispute outside the App Store when Musi allegedly showed evidence that the opposite was true. For years, Musi users have wondered if the service was legal, Wired reported in a May deep dive into the controversial app. Musi launched in 2016, providing a free, stripped-down service like Spotify by displaying YouTube and other publicly available content while running Musi's own ads. Read full article

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