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Circana: Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest-selling video game device in US history, with 1.6M units sold in June, topping the PS4's 1.1M units in November 2013 (IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-nintendo-switch-2-is-the-fastest-s…

The Nintendo Switch 2 Is the Fastest-Selling Gaming Hardware in U.S. History - IGN
The Nintendo Switch 2 debuted in June to become the fastest-selling hardware ever in the U.S., shooting spending on games to new monthly records, according to the monthly report from Circana.

AppleCare One: Apple bündelt Hardware-Versicherungen in einem Abo
Eine neue Apple-Zusatzversicherung richtet sich an Kunden, die gleich mehrere Produkte besitzen. Für Familiengeräte ist das aber nicht gedacht.

Microsoft: Frühjahrsputz bei Treibern von Windows Update
Microsoft weist insbesondere Hardwarehersteller darauf hin, dass alte Treiber auf Windows Update der Entrümpelung anheimfallen.
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Ranked choice ballots give voters more options -- but make ballots harder to fill out (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/ranked-choice-ballots-give-voters-options-make-ballots-harder-fill-rcna214026
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p14#a250623p14

"A new state law forbids education increasing ‘awareness’ of issues relating to race. How are educators supposed to teach history?"
Teaching the Holocaust Just Got Harder in Mississippi
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/teaching-the-holocaust-just-got-harder-in-mississippi-hb-1193-dei-slavery-tate-reeves

Application-Driven Benchmarking of the Traveling Salesperson Problem: a Quantum Hardware Deep-Dive
Amine Bentellis, Benedikt Poggel, Jeanette Miriam Lorenz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16471

Application-Driven Benchmarking of the Traveling Salesperson Problem: a Quantum Hardware Deep-Dive
The potential analysis of the capabilities of quantum computing, especially before fault tolerance at scale, is difficult due to the variety of existing hardware technologies with a wide spread of maturity. Not only the result of computations, but also the very process of running quantum-enhanced algorithms differ from provider to provider. The study includes a comparative analysis of various hardware architectures with the example of the Traveling Salesperson Problem, a central class of combin…

Microsoft launches the 13.8-inch Surface Laptop 5G for business customers, featuring Intel Core Ultra series 2 processors, shipping on August 26 for $1,799 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/surface/sur…

Microsoft launches Intel-exclusive Surface Laptop 5G with reengineered design — but it's SHOCKINGLY expensive
The Surface Laptop 7 with 5G is now available to order, but only for business customers and with an Intel Core Ultra chip. The device will ship on August 26 and starts at an eyewatering $1,799.

heise | macOS: Stable Diffusion in die eigene App integrieren
Ohne Training, aber mit dem vollen Potenzial von Apples Hardware: So binden Sie den Text-zu-Bild-Generator in Ihre eigene App ein.
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Court filings from in-ear hardware startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's early work on in-ear hardware devices (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/court-filing…

Court filings reveal OpenAI and io's early work on an AI device | TechCrunch
Court filings in a trademark case against OpenAI reveal some of the company's early work on developing AI devices.

Hinweise auf neues HomePod-Modell mit Bildschirm von Apple geleakt
Seit langem schon wartet die Apple-Gerüchteküche auf ein neuartiges "Home-Gerät". Nun gibt es Anzeichen: Offenbar wird eine bestehende Hardware aufgemotzt.