Best Buy's Great Summer Sale is now live, featuring deals on a wide range of products, including Apple and Samsung tech, headphones, gaming, smart home gear, EVs, and smart TVs. The sale runs through Sunday and offers notable discounts on previous-generation Apple products.

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ASUS has officially launched the ROG Ally X gaming handheld for $799.99, featuring a new and improved battery with double the capacity of its predecessor. The device is available for purchase at Best Buy, although the ASUS Online Store is currently out of stock.

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Blackmagic has launched a camera app for Android, bringing pro-level video recording controls to select devices. The app offers manual controls, detailed information such as status and record parameters, histogram, focus peaking, levels, and frame guides. It can record in H.264 and H.265 formats and integrates with Blackmagic's cloud services for sharing and collaboration.

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Google has announced an event on October 19 at 10am PT to launch the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, but has not confirmed the release date. Pre-orders are likely to open on October 19, but shipments will likely not start until later. The event will be streamed, but there will be no in-person event due to rising COVID-19 cases in the US.

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Astra, a smallsat launcher, has been taken private by its founders Chris Kemp and Dr. Adam London, who will merge it into a new company called Apogee Parent LLC. The deal, which closed on Thursday, involves purchasing all outstanding Class A shares for $0.0001 and any shares not owned by Apogee Parent. The company had been following a financial downfall and defaulted on a loan.

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Amazon is offering the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 4 portable Bluetooth speaker for $79.99 shipped, a 20% discount on the new $100 model. The deal is applicable on all four colorways and is also matched by Best Buy as part of its Black Friday in July sale. The speaker supports Bluetooth, has a range of 40 meters, and comes with IP67 certification for dust and water resistance.

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Amazon has dropped the price of the 13-inch 2TB Wi-Fi + Cell M4 iPad Pro to $2,134.44 shipped, a $364.56 discount from its regular price of $2,499. This is the lowest price tracked for this configuration and one of the deepest deals on any M4 iPad Pro since its release in May.

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Luxaviation Group, a business aircraft and helicopter operator, has made a milestone transition to fully electric ground handling equipment at its ExecuJet fixed base operations in Paris' Le Bourget Airport, becoming the first FBO with fully electric owned GHE in Europe. The CEO, Patrick Hansen, expressed happiness over the achievement, which contributes to decarbonizing ground transport. The company is headquartered in Luxembourg.

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PITT OHIO is adding four Mack MD Electric commercial trucks to its Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania operations, increasing its battery-electric vehicle (BEV) fleet to 10. Mack Trucks is supporting PITT OHIO's emissions reduction efforts, with the company planning for EVs to become a bigger part of its fleet.

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CNH has inaugurated a new production line for its first-ever all-electric compact wheel loader, which will produce machines for international markets under the CASE and New Holland brands. The new line is part of the company's existing Lecce, Italy plant, which now houses 7 product lines for 203 models and 4896 different configurations. The new electric loaders join two mini electric excavators produced in Cesena in the company's growing BEV lineup.

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