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Steam user becomes first person to own 40,000 games on the platform  TechSpot You won’t believe how much money this Steam user spent to own 40,000 games  Polygon Manic Steam game collector first to surpass 40,000 game titles in library — $640,000 digital collection took 15 years to build  Tom’s Hardware PC Gaming Legend Wins Steam With Achievement For Buying 40,000 Games  Kotaku Steam …

Xbox Series price hikes return, raising some models by $70  TechSpot Microsoft raises Xbox prices in U.S. due to economic environment  CNBC Xbox Console Prices Are Going Up in the U.S…Again  IGN Microsoft raises Xbox prices amid tariffs – is it time to buy?  Windows Central Microsoft hikes Xbox prices in US once again as tariff challenges persist  Reuters Source link

Google turns Chrome into an AI browser with Gemini integration  TechSpot Go behind the browser with Chrome’s new AI features  The Keyword Google adds Gemini to Chrome for all users in push to bolster AI search  CNBC Google adds Gemini to Chrome browser after avoiding antitrust breakup  Reuters Google announces massive expansion of AI features in Chrome  Ars Technica Source link

Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford tells Borderlands 4 critics to “code your own engine,” calls it a game for “premium gamers”  TechSpot ‘My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play’ — Randy Pitchford Is at the ‘Get a Refund From Steam’ Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash  IGN My sincere apologies to Randy Pitchford, but …

Microsoft agrees to unbundle Teams from Office in landmark EU settlement  TechSpot Microsoft sidesteps hefty EU fine with Teams unbundling deal  CNBC Microsoft avoids EU fine after competition probe  Financial Times Evolving our productivity offerings to resolve European competition concerns about Teams  Microsoft Microsoft resolves European Union probe into Teams  AP News Source link

Biden-era noncompete ban collapses as FTC pulls back  TechSpot Trump administration drops defense of ban on employee ‘noncompete’ agreements  Reuters Under Trump, the Federal Trade Commission is abandoning its ban on noncompetes  NPR Update: FTC Abandons Non-Compete Rule and Simultaneously Initiates Targeted FTC Noncompete Enforcement Action  White & Case LLP US FTC’s Meador says noncompete rule was ‘substantively overbroad’  MLex Source link

No wearables needed: researchers use WiFi and Raspberry Pi to measure your heart rate in real time  TechSpot WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed  UC Santa Cruz – News Wi-Fi Signals Can Measure Heart Rates Without Wearables, New Research Suggests  CNET Researchers claim that a Raspberry Pi’s Wi-Fi can provide “clinical-level heart rate monitoring” without the need for a wearable  xda-developers.com UC …

AI boom drives record S&P 500 valuations, but Goldman Sachs warns of $1 trillion risk ahead  TechSpot What if the AI stockmarket blows up?  The Economist Goldman’s top stock picker warns AI’s next phase may not justify the hype around its stocks  Yahoo Finance Why the AI bubble in the stock market might still have a long way to run  MarketWatch Deutsche Bank on …

Scientists might have accidentally discovered how lightning forms – from bending ice  TechSpot Flexoelectricity and surface ferroelectricity of water ice  Nature It Turns Out Bending Ice Produces Electricity, And This Could Finally Explain The Origin Of Lightning  IFLScience Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent  Phys.org Ice shows hidden ability to produce electricity when stressed: Study  Interesting Engineering Source link

August Steam survey: AMD loses CPU ground to Intel, top GPU changes again  TechSpot 32GB of RAM on track to become the new majority for gamers — Steam survey indicates shift could occur before the end of the year  Tom’s Hardware Most Steam users switched to an 8GB GPU this month but I’m not worried for the future of VRAM capacity  Club386 Source …