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Sega Game Gear at 35: Switch and Steam Deck might not exist without this flop

Sega's Game Gear handheld launched 35 years ago in North America, and it changed the history of handheld gaming

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal for Amazon Graviton5 chips as AI compute demand outstrips $135B capex budget


Summary: Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon’s Graviton5 ARM CPU cores in AWS data centres for agentic AI workloads. The chips are general-purpose processors, not AI accelerators, handling the CPU-intensive inference and orchestration tasks behind real-time reasoning and multi-step agents. The deal is one piece of a procurement […]



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Why colleges are going out of business

Higher education is in crisis. Last week, Hampshire College — a private liberal arts school in Amherst, Massachusetts — announced it will shut down after the fall 2026 semester. Founded in 1965 to “reimagine liberal arts education,” Hampshire counts documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and actors Lupita Nyong’o and Liev Schreiber among its most notable alumni. […]

Meta is firing 8,000 people. Microsoft is paying 8,750 to leave. Both are spending the savings on AI.


Summary: Meta and Microsoft announced workforce reductions on the same day, April 23, affecting up to 23,000 positions combined. Meta is cutting 8,000 jobs (10% of staff) and cancelling 6,000 open roles effective May 20, while Microsoft launched its first-ever voluntary retirement programme offering buyouts to up to 8,750 US employees whose age plus years […]



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Beef's Big Matthew Kim finally opens up on childhood before k-pop

Matthew Kim aka BM is a breakout of Beef season 2 on Netflix, but his beef is mostly with Korean Call of Duty servers.