Sony is preparing to sell a new version of its portable game streaming device in Japan next month. The PlayStation Portal Player Midnight Black Japanese Only model arrives on December 10 for 39,980 yen, which converts to roughly 250 US dollars. Preorders open on November 13 at 10 a.m. local time through PlayStation retailers and online shops across the country. Each unit includes a one-month PlayStation Plus Premium membership so buyers can begin streaming games right away.
Sorting through the numbered bags of LEGO Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (set 75428), priced at $83.99 today (was $140), starts the process with the large-scale B1 Battle Droid rather than the vehicle it rides. Early bags focus on the torso and limbs using a mix of standard bricks, brackets, and Technic ball joints in tan. Those joints give the figure movement at the shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, and knees while keeping the finished piece stable enough to stand on its own feet.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 today, the most recent version of its model designed for rigorous technical tasks. Regular users benefit from faster responses, clearer writing, and a price reduction that reduces the cost down to $8 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens. An optional fast mode doubles those rates in exchange for generating speeds that are two and a half times faster than the usual setting.
DEEPX, a South Korean chip designer, has been showing off its DX-M1 neural processing unit by placing ordinary sticks of butter directly on the silicon while it runs AI workloads. In side-by-side tests against other AI chips, the butter on the DX-M1 stays firm and unchanged. On the competing chips, the same butter softens and melts within seconds under identical conditions. Company founder and CEO Kim Nok-won has stated that the DX-M1 runs 25 to more than 40 degrees Celsius cooler than the alternatives during those runs.
MacBook owners have spent years treating the black camera cutout at the top of their screens as little more than dead space. A small new utility called Archie finally assigns that empty area a clear purpose by turning it into a temporary shelf for screenshots. Independent designer Artiom Piatrykin built the native macOS app so captured images stay within easy reach instead of scattering across the desktop or vanishing into a crowded folder. Once installed, Archie watches the usual screenshot location and pulls new captures into the notch area automatically, ready for quick use without any change to the standard keyboard shortcuts everyone already knows.