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Valve's Steam Deck is quietly becoming a significant commercial force. Reports suggest Valve is moving somewhere between twelve and fifteen thousand units every single week, a pace that signals the handheld PC gaming market is no longer a niche experiment but a genuine consumer category worth watching closely.
Turning to something more culturally uncomfortable, a piece in The Atlantic is drawing attention to what it calls the attention-span class divide. The argument is that the ability to sit through a three-hour opera or a demanding film is increasingly tied to education, income, and environment — making sustained focus not just a personal habit, but a marker of privilege in an age engineered for distraction.
And in a story that blends ingenuity with grim necessity, Russian drones have been spotted carrying old-fashioned screwed-on magnetic compasses as backup navigation. When satellite signals are jammed or lost, the onboard camera simply tilts downward to read the bearing. It is a reminder that in modern warfare, a five-dollar compass can still outmaneuver a million-dollar jamming system.
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