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The Reason Why Your Xbox Controller Still Uses AA Batteries

Rechargeable controllers might seem the modern choice, but the gaming community is torn.

On December 12, 2019, during The Game Awards, Microsoft revealed its shiny new gaming console, the Xbox Series X. It had a solid-state drive for much shorter loading times and a brand-new controller that still needed a pair of AA batteries to operate. By then, both of Microsoft's rivals had long abandoned replaceable batteries, and their controllers shipped with internal rechargeable ones.

So, what happened? Why did Microsoft expect its customers to bring their own AA batteries in 2019, and why does it still do so to this day?

Xbox was late to the game

If you are not a gamer or have never owned an Xbox, you might not know that the original Xbox console shipped with a wired controller. And when the Xbox 360 arrived, it shipped premium units with a wireless one that ran...

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Upgrade Embedding Models in AlloyDB AI with Zero Downtime

Imagine you've just launched a new semantic search feature for product reviews to help customers quickly research products on your site. Users love it. But the next day, you see an announcement for a new vector embedding model promising higher accuracy, better nuance, and multilingual search out of

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ARTEX and Friends: Enter Agentic Offensive Frameworks

Written by: Aurora Blum, David Mainor, Rohit Nambiar, Omar ElAhdan, Matthew McWhirt, Will Silverstone, Bhavesh Dhake, Chris Busse Introduction Recent intrusions in which threat actors have been observed weaponizing agentic frameworks to execute highly-automated intrusions has put a spotlight on evolving adversarial use of LLMs. In our September 2026 report,

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Moving toward a more manageable and secure web with Chrome Enterprise

Enterprise applications have been rapidly shifting to the web, and the browser has become the primary destination for getting work done. More than 65% of workers rely more heavily on their browser today than just two years ago. For years, Chrome has been at the forefront of this shift because

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As software cycles increase, developers and operators increasingly need to be partners

In 500 B.C., the Greek philosopher Zeno came up with a good way to think about modern software. In his famous paradox, Achilles and a tortoise agree to a race where Achilles would have to reach where the tortoise started. No matter how fast Achilles ran, the tortoise had

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