Ex-Blizzard boss: a $1,800 Xbox 'will never sell' - stick with current-gen
Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra says Microsoft should skip a $1,200-$1,800 next-gen launch and keep PS5 Pro and Series X until prices normalize.

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Former Blizzard president Mike Ybarra says Microsoft should skip a $1,200-$1,800 next-gen launch and keep PS5 Pro and Series X until prices normalize.
Tesla's safety reel shows Waymo and Avride cutting into its lane, a subtle jab ahead of earnings and the Dallas Cybercab launch.
The next Starship test flight targets a first for orbital launch: catching both the Super Heavy booster and Ship upper stage with the launch tower's chopstick arms.
Thore Graepel, who helped build DeepMind's AlphaGo, is applying game-winning search techniques to general reasoning. His warning: LLMs can't be trusted to reason.
Musk says the launch tower will try to grab the returning booster, aiming to make history by recovering an entire orbital launch vehicle for the first time.
Astrolab's FLIP rover will test HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 at the lunar south pole, a milestone for edge computing, autonomous navigation and the commercial moon economy.
The ride-hailing launch gives VinFast a rolling US showroom and tests whether Vietnamese EVs can compete in a market dominated by Uber and Tesla.
Experts tied the fragment to LandSpace's Zhuque-2E, which launched on September 15 and shed debris over the American Midwest after deploying 10 satellites.
The Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft targets Phobos with a 10-gram sample return that could settle whether Mars' moons are captured asteroids or impact debris.
The Oasis frontman's blunt dismissal lands as Fontaines D.C. drop 'Dopamine Chamber' and all 42 dates of the reunion tour sell out.
New iPhone Duo preorders won't ship until January 25, 2027, while early buyers get theirs in October. Tim Cook sees supply constraints tightening.
Blue Origin's Florida buildout targets 150 launches a year, a bet that could reshape the launch market.