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    Is this an iPhone or Rolex? It’s both, apparently.

    Caviar’s known for making lavish (and ridiculously expensive) custom iPhones and accessories, but one of its more recent limited-edition designs embeds a Rolex Daytona watch on the back of a racing-inspired iPhone 14 Pro (via Yanko Design).

    While the watch is completely functional, the 18K gold dashboard dials and switches are purely for show. This phone’s bulky design will do some serious damage to your pocket (both physically and metaphorically), coming in at a price of $133,670.

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    Emma Roth
    Twitter’s former executives might not get their golden parachutes.

    Chief Twit, aka Elon Musk, fired Twitter’s top executives “for cause,” according to a report from The Information. This means the company’s CEO, CFO, policy chief, and others may not get their hefty severance pay (which totaled $38.7 million for former CEO Parag Agrawal).

    Musk also reportedly ordered company-wide layoffs on Saturday, and wants to complete the job cuts by November 1st, the same day employees are supposed to get their stock grants.

    Musk Fired Executives For ‘Cause,’ In Apparent Attempt to Avoid Payouts

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    Emma Roth
    Can we make this the universal button layout?

    Game designer Alex Camilleri shared an image of a controller button layout created by his wife, and it makes a lot more sense than the designs we have now.

    Instead of sporting the traditional X, B, A, and Y layout, this controller mockup turns the buttons into a compass rose, naming them N, S, E, and W for each cardinal direction. Why didn’t anyone think of this in the first place?

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    Emma Roth
    YouTube posted a touching tribute to the late Technoblade.

    Technoblade, a popular Minecraft YouTuber, died at age 23 in June due to cancer. His channel just turned nine yesterday, and YouTube posted a video to celebrate Technoblade’s impact on the platform.

    The video, appropriately titled “Technoblade never dies” after his famous catchphrase, already has over 4 million views and counting. You might also might notice a neat little Easter Egg if you type “Technoblade” in YouTube’s search bar.

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