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Valve has announced three new pieces of hardware for Steam: The console-like Steam Machine, a new virtual reality headset called Steam Frame, and a brand new version of the Steam Controller. They all run on SteamOS and are set to release sometime in early 2026. Prices have not been revealed yet.

Starting off with the Steam Machine, Valve confirmed that it’s six times more powerful than the Steam


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IBM has introduced two different quantum chips that it believes could help demonstrate "quantum advantage," or the ability for a quantum computer to solve a problem faster than a classical computer, by the end of 2026. The new chips, Nighthawk and Loon, should help do that by taking different approaches to connecting qubits in a quantum computer, producing fewer errors and supporting more complex


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Pennies
The US minted its final penny on Wednesday.
  • The US Mint produced the final penny on Wednesday.
  • The coin costs almost $0.04 to make, and ending production will save more than $50 million annually.
  • Some retailers have expressed frustration about the penny shortage and a lack of guidance.

It's a sad day for piggy banks everywhere. And 99-cent stores. And


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flip the camera trend on tiktok: what it is and why are people upset?

There's a new trend on TikTok and everyone hates it.

It's one of those trends you might have found out not because you saw people using it, but because you saw people hating on it — at least that's how it was served up to me, on a plate of disgust.

The trend goes like this: A group of people, typically kids, gives their phone to someone else and asks them to record them doing a dance. They record


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Rep. Derrick Van Orden
Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin said he was driving his motorcycle to get back to Washington D.C.
  • A GOP lawmaker rode his motorcycle back to Washington, DC, to vote to end the government shutdown.
  • Lawmakers, hoping to end the shutdown, faced the travel chaos that was induced by the shutdown.
  • Other lawmakers carpooled to DC after Speaker Mike Johnson

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