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Xbox Series X 1TB Digital Edition Still Packs Full Power for Digital Players

By Bill Smith October 31, 2026

Photo credit: Ben Rowlands
Microsoft’s all-digital Xbox Series X in Robot White, priced at $599.99 today (was $749), removes the disc drive while keeping every bit of the original hardware performance intact. An eight-core custom Zen 2 processor runs at 3.8 GHz, paired with a custom RDNA 2 graphics processor delivering 12 teraflops across 52 compute units. Sixteen gigabytes of GDDR6 memory split into high-speed and standard pools handle the load, letting games target true 4K resolution with frame rates reaching 120 on compatible displays.

TrashBench Turns a Junked Air Conditioner Radiator Into a Massive RTX 3080 Cooler

By Jackson Chung October 31, 2026

Australian YouTuber TrashBench decided an old outdoor air conditioner unit sitting in the trash deserved a second life as the biggest radiator his test bench had ever seen. He took the outdoor half of a discarded Fujitsu split-system rated for four kilowatts of cooling, emptied the refrigerant, and kept only the parts that matter for water cooling: the large finned coil, its axial fan, and the pump.

Eden-NX2 Emulator Opens Early Windows Access to Switch 2 Games Days After the Console Jailbreak

By Bill Smith October 31, 2026

Eden-NX2 appeared on October 29 as a pre-release fork of the Eden emulator, created by a developer known as Takoroka and hosted on the Eden project’s own git server. It adds experimental support for Nintendo Switch 2 software on Windows machines, and early tests already show Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza starting up and moving through their opening sections.

Reward AI’s OM-1 Policy Brings Human Hand Skills to Robots Across Arms and Humanoids

By Jackson Chung October 31, 2026

People handle boxes, doors, and tools with an ease that still frustrates most machines. A hand adjusts mid-reach when something feels heavier than expected, pulls against a sticky latch, or tosses an item into a bin without stopping to recalculate. Reward AI built OM-1, short for Omnibody Model 1, to move that kind of everyday competence into robots by recording ordinary human actions and training one policy on those recordings alone.

OQO Model 01 Tablet Packed Full Windows XP Into the Smallest Computer of 2004

By Jackson Chung October 31, 2026

OQO, a small San Francisco startup, spent years downsizing the specifications of a complete Windows PC before releasing the Model 01 in October 2004, a feat of miniaturization measuring 4.9 by 3.4 by 0.9 inches and weighing only 14 oz. Behind the scenes, founders Jory Bell and Jonathan Betts-LaCroix had left larger companies to pursue a radical vision for an ultra-personal computer capable of delivering the full Windows software experience without the need for a special operating system or stripped-down software. Reviewers it the smallest full Windows XP computer on the market, and that claim was valid because nothing else at the time could fit a sliding keyboard, a color screen, and the full desktop version of Windows into a package that was scarcely larger than a regular PDA.