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Microsoft will increase Xbox Series X and Series S console prices in the United States on October 3. The Series X rises to $649.99 from $599.99 and the 512GB Series S increases to $399.99 from $379.99. The 1TB Series S moves to $449.99 from $429.99. The Series X Digital Edition reaches $599.99 from $549.99 and the 2TB Galaxy Black Special Edition climbs to $799.99 from $729.99. Microsoft cited macroeconomic changes for the increases. Console prices outside the US and controller and headset prices domestically remain unchanged. The company raised console prices globally in May.

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Meta is moving to break into the wholesale power-trading business to better manage the massive electricity needs of its data centers. Bloomberg: The company, which owns Facebook, filed an application with US regulators this week seeking authorization to do so. A Meta representative said it was a natural next step to participate in energy markets as it looks to power operations with clean energy. Buying electricity has become an increasingly urgent challenge for technology companies including Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet's Google. They're all racing to develop more advanced artificial intelligence systems and tools that are notoriously resource-intensive. Amazon, Google and Microsoft are already active power traders, according to filings with US regulators.

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He's been jailed for 17 years but police are asking victims to come forward

Lisa Festervoll, among the crew, said the whole boat shook, 'hit hard and quickly'. Orcas rocked the helm and the rudder, and the boat began turning in circles.

I have been trying to get my head round this business at the Oxford Union, where some undergraduates have been actively rejoicing in the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Local officials compare the sign to 1930's Germany where similar signs could be seen everywhere. The shop owner put the sign up himself claiming it is not antisemitism.

Northern Ireland veterans have blasted the government's 'betrayal' after Labour announced fresh plans which could pave the way for criminal prosecutions of soldiers who served in the Troubles

In the largest study of its kind, researchers examined data to better understand how lifestyle factors, such as smoking, and medical history are involved in cancer development.

Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete?

ChatGPT can be tricked via cleverly worded prompts to violate its own policies and solve CAPTCHA puzzles, potentially making this human-proving security mechanism obsolete, researchers say.…

The Strictly Come Dancing professional, 36, who is gearing up for another glitzy ballroom season, flaunted her toned physique in a sleek white set featuring a SmoothFit padded bra.

James Love, 54, was said to have acted as the getaway driver following the theft of the signed artwork from a gallery in central London on September 8 last year.

The 53-year-old actress joined her husband of 10 years and their youngest child for a casual daytime stroll following their first public sighting together in over a year .

An analysis of tens of thousands of research-paper submissions has shown a dramatic increase in the presence of text generated using AI in the past few years, an academic publisher has found. Nature: The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) found that 23% of abstracts in manuscripts and 5% of peer-review reports submitted to its journals in 2024 contained text that was probably generated by large language models (LLMs). The publishers also found that less than 25% of authors disclosed their use of AI to prepare manuscripts, despite the publisher mandating disclosure for submission. To screen manuscripts for signs of AI use, the AACR used an AI tool that was developed by Pangram Labs, based in New York City. When applied to 46,500 abstracts, 46,021 methods sections and 29,544 peer-review comments submitted to 10 AACR journals between 2021 and 2024, the tool flagged a rise in suspected AI-generated text in submissions and review reports since the public release of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, in November 2022.

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'It's undergone plenty of changes - but it remains a fantastic place to live and grow up'

Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) will vote in the coming weeks on whether to take industrial action.

Training costs detailed in R1 training report don't include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation

Chinese AI darling DeepSeek's now infamous R1 research report was published in the Journal Nature this week, alongside new information on the compute resources required to train the model. Unfortunately, some people got the wrong idea about just how expensive it was to create.…

The Princess of Wales included a sartorial nod during an engagement - her first joint outing with First Lady Melania Trump - on Thursday.

Over the last two years, the 69-year-old momager has shed a significant amount of weight, and she enlisted Manhattan plastic surgeon Dr. Steven Levine to turn back the clock on her face

Parts of the country are enjoying balmy sunshine and highs of up to 27C (81F) - as warm as Barcelona and Athens - but rain arrives tomorrow followed by frost for some as early as Sunday night.

Two ambulance service workers have been arrested as police investigate six deaths in Wiltshire.