Xbox CEO Confirms Project Helix Is a Family of Devices, Not Just a Single Next-Gen Console
SummaryXbox CEO Asha Sharma clarified that the upcoming Project Helix hardware platform will consist of a comprehensive family of devices rather than a single standalone consoleDeveloped through a strategic multi-year partnership with AMD the upcoming hardware suite is expected to natively support both traditional console gaming and PC titlesAlpha hardware kits are projected to reach developers starting in 2027 as Microsoft pushes for greater hardware affordability and efficiencyThe next generation of Xbox hardware is officially taking a multifaceted approach to the market.…
During a recent interview with BBC News at gamescom, Xbox CEO Asha Sha…
The clarification marks a notable pivot from early announcements that …
Sharma emphasized that the internal team is hard at work on this expan…
JOURNAL STANDARD relume Rebuilds the Barbour Solway Zipper With Non-Oiled Cotton-Nylon and a Drawcord Hem
SummaryJOURNAL STANDARD relume has reworked Barbour's Solway Zipper as a special-order jacket built around three specific construction changesThe exclusive swaps the original waxed shell for a non-oiled cotton-nylon blend and trims the length into a relaxed mid-cut with the waist belt removedA newly added hem drawcord lets the wearer cinch a rounded shape, and the jacket arrives in Black, Natural and KhakiJOURNAL STANDARD relume has reengineered the Barbour Solway Zipper into a special-order jacket that reworks the archive piece from the fabric up.…
Rather than a straight reissue, the relume version, dubbed the Solway …
The most significant change is the shell.
relume swaps the original's waxed construction for a non-oiled cotton-…
A One-of-One Gold Star Rayquaza Becomes the First English Pokémon Card to Sell for $1 Million USD
SummaryA 2005 Pokémon EX Deoxys Holo Rayquaza Gold Star has become the first English-language Pokémon card to sell for more than $1 million USDThe card is the only known copy to earn a CGC Pristine 10 grade, a distinction that drove its $1,020,000 USD result after 35 bidsThe sale unseats a First Edition Base Set Charizard as the English-language record holder while sitting well below the all-time Pokémon markA 2005 Pokémon EX Deoxys Holo Rayquaza Gold Star #107 has become the first English-language Pokémon card to cross the $1 million USD line, closing at $1,020,000 USD including buyer's premium through Fanatics Collect's August Premier Auction.…
The seven-figure result rode on a single detail that separates this co…
The card carries a CGC Pristine 10, and it stands alone at that tier.
Fanatics Collect billed it as potentially "the single greatest copy" o…
‘Avengers Endgame: Encore’ Trailer Quadruples the Re-Release Record With 77 Million Views in 24 Hours
SummaryThe trailer for Avengers Endgame: Encore drew 77 million views in its first 24 hours, more than quadrupling the previous record for a re-release trailerThe September 25 theatrical return doubles as a launchpad for Avengers: Doomsday, offering an exclusive look at the December 18 releaseThe re-release arrives just as Endgame was overtaken at the domestic box office, reframing the encore as both a victory lap and a setupAvengers: Endgame is heading back to theaters, and the appetite for its return has already rewritten the record books.…
The scale of that figure comes into focus against what re-release trai…
The marketing push for Top Gun's 40th anniversary run this past May, w…
James Cameron's original Avatar managed 14 million on its re-release t…
‘Maserati: The Brothers’ Biopic Starring Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins Gets Its First Teaser Trailer
SummaryChronicling the high-stakes origins of the Maserati family and their pursuit of motorsport glory during the early 20th centuryStarring Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins alongside a cast including Jessica Alba and Andy GarciaA teaser trailer just surfaced for Maserati: The Brothers, a new period biopic detailing the rise of the iconic Italian automotive manufacturer.…
Directed by Academy Award winner Robert Moresco, the feature focuses o…
Viewers will watch as the trio navigates financial struggles and inten…
The narrative centerpiece of the production focuses on the marque achi…
Orange Pi Zero 4 – Compact Allwinner A733 SBC offers HDMI, USB-C DP, GbE, WiFI 6, PCIe FFC connector for $26.5 and up
Orange Pi Zero 4 is an affordable yet feature-rich Allwinner A733 single board computer (SBC) with up to 8GB RAM, eMMC/UFS storage footprint, a microSD card slot, and plenty of I/Os.…
The board packs mini HDMI and USB-C DisplayPort, Gigabit Ethernet, WiF…
4, two MIPI CSI camera connectors, a Raspberry Pi-style PCIe FFC conne…
Key Takeaways: Photonics changes chiplet design from a placement problem into a multi-physics co-design problem because thermal, mechanical, electromagnetic, and optical effects interact bidirectionally.…
The closer optical chiplets move to compute silicon, the more bandwidt…
Chip architects should start with traffic patterns, system architectur…
Optical chiplets promise a way out of the bandwidth, power, and reach …
HyQuant: Hybrid-Precision Quantization for LLM Attention
arXiv:2608.27875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantization has been widely adopted in LLM training and inference to reduce cost and improve efficiency.…
However, low-bit quantization of the \emph{attention} module often int…
Existing methods mainly rely on smoothing techniques to handle outlier…
Specifically, we propose \textbf{HyQuant}, an efficient hybrid quantiz…
See, Hypothesize, Validate: Multimodal Agentic Framework for Discovering Governing PDEs
arXiv:2608.27869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discovering governing partial differential equations (PDEs) from observational data remains a core challenge across the sciences.…
Existing sparse-regression, symbolic-regression, and LLM-based approac…
We introduce \textbf{MAGE} (\textbf{M}ultimodal \textbf{A}gentic \text…
Four role-specialized agents collaborate: a \textit{Differential Obser…
Forget the Firm Handshake, BANDAI SPIRITS' Auto-Transforming Business Card Case Presents Your Card on Cue
SummaryThe Auto-Transforming Business Card Case is the first product in BANDAI SPIRITS' new Mobile Stationery seriesBuilt in ABS using the brand's Chogokin manufacturing know-how, it shifts from a card-presenting posture into a complete transformation that dispenses a card automaticallyThe unit ships in three colorways, spanning “Black,” “Standard” and “Toy” finishesBANDAI SPIRITS is applying its toy-engineering pedigree to the office desk with the Auto-Transforming Business Card Case, the launch entry in a new line the company calls Mobile Stationery.…
Rather than a passive holder, the piece is engineered to move, snappin…
The core of the design is its mechanism.
The case starts in what the source frames as the ideal posture for off…