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SpaceX is making a quiet but significant move in the financial world, setting aside five percent of shares in a potential IPO for selected buyers while waiving the usual lock-up restrictions. That means certain investors could sell immediately after any offering — a notable departure from standard practice, and a signal that SpaceX is carefully curating who gets in early.
On the hardware front, AMD's Radeon RX five thousand seventy GRE is now available globally, landing at five hundred forty-nine dollars. Reviewers at both Engadget and Tom's Hardware agree it's a capable card for high-refresh-rate gaming at ten eighty and fourteen forty, but the consensus is the same — a lower price tag could have genuinely shaken up the midrange market rather than just joining it.
And in a story that sits somewhere between cinema and cultural criticism, Tom Hanks is speaking out about Toy Story Five, saying the film confronts what he calls the terror of children's screen addiction. That a beloved franchise aimed at families is now grappling with technology's grip on young minds says something worth sitting with.
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