2026-08-04

‘A football playground built for you and your friends’: The Grounds in FC 27 is EA’s answer to NBA 2K’s The City — and it could be just what the franchise needs

EA Sports has officially confirmed its new open-world mode, The Grounds, in FC 27. [...]

2026-08-04

Fanxiang PS2000W review: A solid portable SSD that's another victim of the rising memory prices

The Fanxiang PS2000W portable SSD offers up to 2000MB/s file transfers with a suitable USB port. [...]

2026-08-04

7 things you can negotiate even when the salary is fixed

Start date, title, remote flexibility, professional development budget — the terms that are often more negotiable than the number on the offer letter [...]

2026-08-04

6 historical figures who invented something while on vacation

Six historical figures stumbled onto major inventions while on vacation, including a chemist's holiday mishap and a doll idea from a Swiss shop window [...]

2026-08-04

10 things college doesn't teach you about your first real job

Performance reviews, office politics, the gap between effort and visibility — the realities of full-time work that school never quite prepares anyone for [...]

2026-08-04

Amazon Bedrock Gets Built-In Web Search for Grounded Model Responses

AWS made Web Search generally available on Amazon Bedrock on August 4, 2026, giving foundation models on its AI platform a built-in way to ground answers in current web knowledge without a third-party search provider. The server-side tool is enabled through a single parameter in an existing OpenAI-compatible API call, and responses come back with structured citations to the sources used, AWS said [...]

2026-08-04

Xbox's free 25th anniversary gifts include a dynamic theme and avatars

Xbox's free 25th anniversary gifts include a dynamic theme and avatars. [...]

2026-08-04

Budget Meta Ray-Ban alternatives are selling out in stores — but please don’t buy them

There are too many reasons you shouldn’t buy cheap Meta Ray-Ban alternatives. [...]

2026-08-04

Amazon admits it accidentally shelled out $1.8 million for Claude to finish its menial coding tasks

Amazon's Claude Sonnet deployment cost $1.8 million, 860% over budget, exposing broader AI spending issues despite the company's continued experimentation defense. [...]