After nearly 25 years of being one of the most recognizable voices and faces of Bethesda Softworks, Pete Hines announced he is leaving the company and retiring from the videogame industry altogether. Hines said his decision did not come quickly or easily, but after the successful launch of Starfield, he just felt the time was right.

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Xiaomi has unveiled its new mobile operating system to replace the highly customizable iOS lookalike, MIUI. The company claims that the new OS, essentially a skin over Android 14, will bring improved performance partly thanks to being built from the ground up with a new architecture.

In a Weibo post yesterday, Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi announced

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected evidence of quartz nanocrystals in a Jupiter-like exoplanet’s atmosphere 1,300 light-years from Earth. The first-ever detection of silica particles in an exoplanet’s atmosphere was made possible by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).

WASP-17 b, also known as Ditso, is a hot gas giant

Best Buy thinks that Taylor Swift and “funflation” are both bad for business. Why is that? Because potential consumers would rather spend money on watching her concerts than buy big ticket consumer electronics, according to Best Buy CEO Corie Barry.

The CEO blames the whole “funflation” phenomenon—where consumers are spending more on experiential