
Last week, Xbox players finally got their hands on the long-awaited ROG Xbox Ally X handheld gaming console, and it's been selling out fast. Best Buy is currently showing a 30-day wait for new orders, and the Microsoft store is completely out of stock. We have an early review of the device, but on launch day, I also got to sit down with Sarah Bond, President of Xbox, at the Mashable office in New

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- Built in 1870, the original hotel burned down in the Great Chicago Fire and was reconstructed.
- It has hosted celebrities like Frank Sinatra and nearly every president since Ulysses S. Grant.
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- The staffing firm Kelly Services is cutting about 2% of its corporate workforce.
- The layoffs aim to meet the "evolving needs" of the firm's client portfolio, a spokesperson said.
- The cuts come as the US labor market is slowing, with hiring plans at their lowest since
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- Drew Nieporent helped launch Nobu with sushi chef Nobu Matsuhisa and actor Robert De Niro in 1994.
- Nobu is now a global empire, with over 50 restaurants and more than a dozen hotels around the world.
- Here are the three dishes Nieporent always orders at Nobu.
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On the ROG Xbox Ally X launch day last week, Mashable sat down with the President of Xbox, Sarah Bond, and she confirmed some interesting details about the next-gen Xbox console.
We asked Bond about the rumors that the future Xbox console will be a more high-powered device, more like a gaming PC than a traditional Xbox console. She said the next Xbox will definitely deliver a "premium experience"
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- Fifth-generation jets are now "the peer-level baseline," a Royal Air Force official said.
- He said the advanced jets are now the "entry standard" to get the edge in the air "against the most basic threats."
- Current wars show how hard it
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Out December 1 on practically every platform, Marvel Cosmic Invasion lets you
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- Meta is laying off 600 employees in its Meta Superintelligence Labs division.
- Meta's chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, addressed the cuts in an internal memo.
- Wang said the cuts would help the company to make decisions more quickly.
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