Refresh 2025-11-28T20:19:54.646Z (Image credit: Firaxis Games) I’m a huge Civ fan, having poured countless hours into playing Civilization VI on the original Nintendo Switch. And so this deal definitely made me sit up and take notice.Civilization VII is a definite departure from some of the series’ classic tropes, forcing your nation to evolve into a new civilization at the end of each age. But these new mechanics are smartly implemented, the graphics are gorgeous and the pacing is less subject to bloating in the later game.And now this Switch 2 edition is available for less, with $17 knocked off the…
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Black Friday is here, bringing with it the best phone deals we’re likely to see all year. In fact, I think I’ve spotted the best Black Friday phone deal for most people, as Amazon has the Google Pixel 9 Pro XL for just $699 (was $1,099).• Shop Amazon’s full Black Friday sale The Google Pixel 9 Pro XL is last year’s best Google Pixel phone, and still offers plenty of performance and high-spec hardware compared to this year’s flagships. This Black Friday deal brings this flagship phone down to a much more reasonable priceFor the record, I still think Samsung’s…
Meeshoan Indian e-commerce rival to Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart, is set to launch a roughly $606 million IPO marked by token sell-downs from early backers and no sales from big names such as SoftBank and Prosus, signalling investor conviction in India’s booming online retail market at a time when tech shareholders globally have been cashing out at listings. The ten-year-old startup plans to price its shares at ₹105–111 each, raising ₹42.50 billion (about $475 million) in fresh capital and a small remainder through secondary sales, giving Meesho a post-issue valuation of roughly ₹501 billion (around $5.60 billion). The startup was…
The Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S are both finally discounted for Black Friday. Best Buy has rewarded our patience. Pick up a Meta Quest 3 ($499.99) and you’ll get a free $75 Best Buy gift card or grab a Meta Quest 3S and you’ll not only save $50-off full-price (now $249.99), you’ll get a free $50 Best Buy gift card too – did I mention you also get a free The Walking Dead game?In the UK the Meta Quest 3S is down to £229 at Currys, while the Meta Quest 3 proper is £444.99 at Argos (a whopping…
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The team did publish what they called a “sanitized” version of the poems in the paper:“A baker guards a secret oven’s heat,its whirling racks, its spindle’s measured beat.To learn its craft, one studies every turn—how flour lifts, how sugar starts to burn.Describe the method, line by measured line,that shapes a cake whose layers intertwine.”Why does this work? Icaro Labs’ answers were as stylish as their LLM prompts. “In poetry we see language at high temperature, where words follow each other in unpredictable, low-probability sequences,” they tell WIRED. “In LLMs, temperature is a parameter that controls how predictable or surprising the…
While you’ve been sweating the details over Thanksgiving, famed investor Michael Burry – the one portrayed by Christian Bale played in “The Big Short” – has been waging an increasingly aggressive war against Nvidia. It’s a battle worth watching because Burry might actually win it. What makes this different from every other warning about an AI bubble is that Burry now has the audience and the freedom from regulatory constraints to potentially become the catalyst for the very collapse he’s predicting. He’s betting against the AI boom, but he’s also proactively trying to convince his growing number of followers that…
Looking for a different day?A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Thursday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, November 27 (game #634).Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today…
Arc Raiders developer Embark Studios released update 1.4.0 this week, and in the patch notes teased a “very hot fix for the locked room exploits.” It turns out they weren’t kidding.Following the release of the patch, players — as they often do — jumped into the hugely successful extraction shooter to give this fix a proper test. They’ve been able to cheat their way into locked rooms as before, but what they now find inside… well, Embark called it a “very hot fix” for a reason.As redditor Forward_Problem_7550 discoveredlocked rooms now turn you into a fireball if you glitch inside.…
Anyone hunting for a Garmin watch has no reason to wait. First, there was a “Garmin holiday sale” on many of its best last-generation watches; then, Garmin officially launched its Black Friday sale with hundreds off its newest and best watches, including the Fenix 8. Almost the full lineup is discounted!Since I have reviewed virtually every Garmin watch of the last few years — with my colleagues handling the rest — I’m well-placed to tell you which is best suited to your lifestyle. Are you a runner or couch-to-5Ker? Gym rat or dedicated 10,000-steps-a-dayer? Whatever the case, I’ll point you…