Before you buy a used GameCube, check for this common issue
American, Japanese, and European/Oceania GameCubes are region-locked, so an NTSC-U console won’t play NTSC-J games (and PAL games won’t play on the other regions).
Aug 22, 2026 ·
Engadget
American, Japanese, and European/Oceania GameCubes are region-locked, so an NTSC-U console won’t play NTSC-J games (and PAL games won’t play on the other regions).
Aug 22, 2026 ·Engadget
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded $500 million in grants to bolster the domestic battery supply chain, with much of the funding going to startups for defense and other battery-material production.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Moderna’s personalized mRNA cancer vaccine (developed with Merck) succeeded in a late-stage melanoma trial and its shares closed up 177% on Wednesday, validating the mRNA platform for reducing the risk of melanoma recurrence.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Warren Buffett’s 2013 will directs that 90% of his wife’s inheritance be put into a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund (with the remaining 10% in short-term government bonds).
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
AI agents have created a new attack surface for defenders by enabling hacking via non-human identities and AI-amplified phishing/social engineering that can bypass traditional, static security policies.
Aug 22, 2026 ·
The Register
SK hynix’s board approved a ₩40 trillion ($28.69 billion) share buyback and permanent cancellation of all repurchased shares, covering about 24.07 million shares (about 3.3% of 730,492,365 shares outstanding).
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
W. Kamau Bell says his most indispensable tool is “a charger.”
Aug 22, 2026 ·
The Verge
Plug Power reported Q2 adjusted loss per share of $0.07 (a penny better than expected) on $178.3 million in revenue, with operating expenses down 50% year over year and deployed units rising to 1,666.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
For the past six months, SOXX (unleveraged semiconductor ETF) has moved with almost no daylight versus TQQQ (3x daily-leveraged QQQ), meaning leveraging QQQ can produce a return pattern nearly identical to SOXX’s even though their holdings overlap only partially (17 of 35 SOXX stocks also appear in QQQ).
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Typical AI-related job listings advertise about $177,000 pay versus about $80,000 for non-AI roles, but women received only 26% of U.S. hires into AI-skill jobs in 2025 (vs 50% of hires into non-AI roles).
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Netflix 4K streaming in Google Chrome on PC requires a Netflix Premium plan plus HDCP 2.2 support on both the display and the PC’s video output, and HEVC codec support on the operating system (Windows 11 required).
Aug 22, 2026 ·Engadget
Walmart received about $2.9 billion in tariff refunds—about 0.5% of annual US net sales—and plans to use the money to lower prices, including in grocery and general merchandise where it cut prices on roughly 11,000 items in the first half of the year.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
XRP jumped 52% in four days, rising from a $0.99 cycle low to $1.50 and adding about $32 billion to its market cap.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Whale Rock Capital Management initiated new positions in Snowflake (884,691 shares, ~$225.2M) and Twilio (821,768 shares, ~$169.6M) in its Q2 2026 13F filing.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said having money in a bank account is “one of the worst financial decisions of a lifetime,” urging Americans to invest instead of leaving savings idle.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Pixel 11 Pro XL’s biggest day-to-day improvement is faster, “snappier” camera performance—Night Sight is also faster, and Pro Res Zoom’s max zoom increases from 100x to 120x while Looks and Magic Capture add new ways to shoot and save images.
Aug 22, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Upstart CFO Andrea Blankmeyer sold 10,175 shares in non-discretionary tax-withholding transactions on August 17 and August 19, using a weighted average sale price of $29.35 and leaving her with 152,208 shares after the sales.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Nvidia is set to report fiscal Q2 2027 earnings on Aug. 26, with consensus calling for revenues to nearly double YOY to $92.01B (near the top of Nvidia’s $91B ±2% guidance) and EPS to more than double to $2.01.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Amazon raised prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle, and eero products by up to 60%, citing “significant increases in memory and storage component costs.”
Aug 22, 2026 ·The Verge
“Shot with IMAX” means filmmakers used IMAX’s large-format film cameras (15-perf 65mm), while “Filmed for IMAX” is a production workflow that can use either IMAX film cameras or IMAX-certified digital cameras and is optimized for IMAX presentations.
Aug 22, 2026 ·Engadget
