Motherboard deals at this level of discount don’t come around that often. Right now, Amazon has the MSI PRO X870-P WiFi at $152 (was $170) for AMD Ryzen and the MSI B760 Gaming Plus WiFi at $133 (was $200) for Intel in the Prime Day sale.

Both are well-regarded ATX boards with built-in Wi-Fi, and both represent meaningful savings if you’re mid-build or planning an upgrade. And both punch above their discounted price.

The two boards target different platforms entirely — one is AMD AM5, the other Intel LGA 1700 — so this isn’t a true apples-to-apples comparison. Think of them as two separate opportunities: one for Ryzen 7000/8000/9000 builders, and one for 12th/13th/14th Gen Intel builders.

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MSI’s PRO series is positioned more toward productivity and professional use than the flashier gaming-branded boards, which means the design is restrained — minimal RGB, clean silver heatsinks, no aggressive aesthetics. Whether that’s a positive depends entirely on what you want your build to look like. Best Buy reviewers have praised it as straightforward to install and stable from the first boot, with multiple builders noting it’s working well with everything from Ryzen 7700X to the 9800X3D.

One honest note: the PRO X870-P is tuned more for stability and accessibility than aggressive overclocking. If you’re planning to push DDR5 kits to their absolute limits or run a flagship Ryzen 9 chip at sustained all-core maximum TDP, a higher-end X870E board would give you more VRM headroom. For the majority of builds — including enthusiast setups — it handles everything without issue.

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Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly visible part of healthcare. From administrative workflows and clinical decision support to remote monitoring and wellness technologies, organizations are exploring how AI can help process information more efficiently and provide greater visibility into health-related data. Yet as adoption accelerates, one challenge continues to influence whether these technologies gain meaningful acceptance.

Trust has become a central issue in the broader conversation around artificial intelligence. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2026 ranked misinformation and disinformation as the second most severe short-term global risk, while concerns about the adverse outcomes of AI technologies rose significantly in the report’s long-term outlook. As organizations introduce AI into increasingly sensitive areas, including healthcare, the findings underscore the importance of transparency, governance, and accountability in building public confidence.

Doug Benoit, CEO of FacialDx, believes trust begins with clarity. FacialDx is an AI-powered wellness intelligence company that uses facial analysis technology to identify visual biomarkers associated with wellness indicators and provide structured observations intended to support awareness. Benoit explains that users increasingly want to understand how conclusions are reached rather than simply receiving results.

Doug Benoit, CEO of FacialDx

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“People want access to the information behind the outcome,” Benoit says. “Trust grows when organizations are willing to show the methodology, the data, and the reasoning that support what the technology is presenting.”

That expectation reflects a broader shift taking place across healthcare and technology. Organizations are facing growing pressure from regulators, providers, employers, and consumers to demonstrate how AI systems function, how data is managed, and where human judgment remains involved. “Transparency is no longer viewed as a supplementary feature,” Benoit notes. “For many stakeholders, it is becoming a prerequisite for adoption.”

Privacy represents an equally important consideration. Benoit explains that healthcare information remains among the most sensitive categories of personal data, which places significant responsibility on organizations developing AI-enabled solutions. Research shows that AI systems handling sensitive health information raise significant concerns around privacy, data protection, and the risk of data breaches, while also highlighting the importance of ensuring that AI supports rather than overrides the judgment of healthcare professionals. Benoit believes those considerations reinforce the need for strong governance, security safeguards, and clearly defined human oversight as AI becomes more integrated into health-related environments.

Benoit notes that conversations around AI have evolved considerably during the past several years. According to him, many organizations have moved beyond asking whether AI should be used and are now focused on understanding how it can be implemented responsibly within existing workflows.

“The concern we hear most often is not whether AI exists,” Benoit explains. “Organizations want to know how it integrates into what they already do, how information is protected, and whether the technology supports the people responsible for making decisions.”

Human oversight remains central to that discussion. He explains that while AI can help identify patterns, organize information, and improve efficiency, healthcare decisions often involve context, judgment, and interpersonal considerations that extend beyond data analysis alone.

Benoit believes AI should be viewed as a support tool rather than an autonomous authority. “Technology can help surface information faster and more consistently,” he says. “But people still need people. Human oversight provides accountability, interpretation, and the ability to apply professional judgment in ways that technology alone cannot.”

This distinction is becoming increasingly important as organizations define governance frameworks around AI deployment. “Successful implementation often depends on clearly establishing what a system is designed to do, what it is not designed to do, and how outputs should be interpreted within existing professional processes,” Benoit says.

For FacialDx, that philosophy shapes the company’s position within the healthcare ecosystem. Benoit emphasizes that the platform is intended to provide wellness intelligence and observational insights rather than diagnostic conclusions. According to him, maintaining clearly defined boundaries helps support responsible adoption while reinforcing the role of healthcare professionals in evaluating information and determining appropriate next steps.

He also points to governance and controlled access as important components of trust. “The goal is to make information accessible, understandable, and secure,” Benoit says. “People should know who can access their information, how it is being handled, and what safeguards exist around it.”

As AI continues to expand across healthcare, enterprise wellness, and telehealth environments, trust may ultimately become the factor that separates short-term experimentation from long-term adoption. Innovation remains important, but sustained success will likely depend on whether organizations can balance technological advancement with accountability, transparency, privacy protection, and human oversight.

Benoit believes the future of AI health intelligence will be shaped by that balance. “The organizations that earn trust will be the organizations that remain transparent, stay focused on their purpose, and use AI to support better decisions,” he says. “When innovation and accountability move forward together, people gain confidence in the technology and confidence in how it is being used.“

Microsoft announced yet another price increase for the Xbox Series X and S consoles, starting Aug. 1. This is the third time Microsoft has hiked the price of its Xbox consoles since May 2025, another example of gaming hardware increasing in price due to the ongoing global memory shortage.

Xbox console prices are jumping $100 for the 512GB model and $150 for the 1TB models. Microsoft says it will discontinue the 2TB version of the Xbox Series X. Here’s the new breakdown of prices:

• Series S 512GB: $500
• Series S 1TB: $600
• Series X 1TB digital: $750
• Series X 1TB disc drive: $800

Microsoft’s blog post said the company spent several months working with suppliers, hoping to avoid another price increase. “Unfortunately, console storage and memory prices have increased by more than 2.5x, and we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027.” It noted that the the components crisis — which was also behind the latest price hike for Apple products — is hitting consoles particularly hard.

That same blog post introduced buy now, pay later and zero-interest financing options, which the company framed as “programs to make XBOX consoles more accessible.” 

Microsoft initially raised the price of the Xbox Series X|S back in May 2025, shortly after President Trump instituted new tariffs on products manufactured in other countries. The company raised the prices again last October, likely due to the beginning of the current memory shortage. 

Both Nintendo and Sony also re-evaluated the pricing of their respective consoles due to the tariffs and the cost of memory. The PS5 saw its price jump twice: The first came last August, followed by another in March. Nintendo will increase the price of the Switch 2 in September, and it already hiked up the price of the original Switch last August. 

New products aren’t immune, either. On Monday, Valve revealed the price of its PC gaming console, the Steam Machine, which starts at $1049. The price tag shocked many gamers, as the company had telegraphed that its new hardware should be similarly priced as other home consoles when it was first revealed last November. Instead, it’s $150 more expensive than the PS5 Pro. Valve also hiked the price of its Steam Deck portable console last month.

For more, check out our best budget laptops and whether iPhones might be next on the price hike list.

Corporate America is hemorrhaging money through inefficient IT business processes, and Jay Roland, founder of Varex Solutions, believes that the industry is complacent about it. Technical debt, which is the accumulated cost of deferred IT fixes, misconfigurations, and other operational inefficiencies, is projected to cost US enterprises $2.41 trillion a year, costing $1.52 trillion to fix. With numbers this staggering, Roland argues that awareness, however, remains precariously low.

“The numbers projected only tell part of the story,” he says. “The struggles companies are going through are far greater than any figure on a slide. I’ve walked into organizations spending $251 million a year on IT and found $51 million of it being wasted, year over year, on problems they didn’t even know existed.”

Jay Roland

To address the bottlenecks he witnessed, Roland launched Varex Solutions. The company functions within a specific pressure point, in the gap where enterprises believe their IT is costing them, and what it is actually costing them. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Varex offers a suite of consulting services spanning ITSM (IT Service Management) platform implementations, maturity assessments, health optimization, and SLA practice guidance.

According to Roland, the company’s key commitment is to uncover bottlenecks, technical debt, misconfigurations, and workflow inefficiencies and then turn those findings into actionable improvements that help increase ROI. This is achieved by Varex’s proprietary technical debt calculator. The tool, he explains, requires just three inputs from a company: industry, employee headcount, and annual revenue.

From those three data points, Roland’s algorithm, which he notes is built on years of archetypal industrial modelling, is designed to autofill an entire financial landscape. The output is intended to encompass a cohesive analysis of expenditure, wasted resources, action steps, and return on investment.

Roland explains, “There’s no AI involved in this entire process. This is all algorithmically structured technical debt assessments. There’s no point in telling someone they’re wasting money unless you can show them how to stop. Otherwise, it’s just noise. When I give you a number, I can show you exactly how I arrived at it, and your own IT team can verify it.”

While most paths follow a direct pipeline shaped by education, Roland’s entry into the industry came through a side door, literally. In November 1999, he tagged along with a friend to a local internet service provider in Pontiac, Michigan, intending to play video games on the T3 line. Someone placed a broken computer on his desk and walked away. He started fixing it. “Ten minutes later, a manager walked by, glanced at the screen, and told me they’d put me on the payroll,” he recalls. “That was my entry into IT.”

He carried that resourcefulness through a career that moved in and out of the industry, through the dot-com crash, through a tech support subscription startup he co-founded, and through a chapter advancing a popular role-playing game that handed him the exact spreadsheet modeling skillset he would later need to build Varex. Roland identifies this as his defining professional trait.

“No matter what I do, I bring everything with me,” he says. “What started as projective analysis on character leveling in a Dungeons and Dragons-style game converted into using a spreadsheet software to optimize a quoting process, and eventually into the algorithms behind Varex Solutions. You never know when you’re going to need it.”

Roland recalls growing up with modest means, without the cushion of inherited privilege, and he frames that experience as the source of his refusal to accept inefficiency as simply the cost of doing business, which now shapes his work. “The same water that boils the egg softens the potato,” he says. “Different people react differently to the same circumstances. It was sheer will and determination that got me here, to make something, to give my children something.”

He rejects the common notion of walking into a boardroom with abstract consulting promises. Instead, Roland believes in handing executives a specific, verified number. He explains, “I show them: this is what you’re wasting, this is the proof, and this is how to fix it.” The calculator, he says, was built to close the distance between vague projections and hard accountability.

The resistance he often encounters tells its own story. “I once asked a CIO if I could help uncover $25 to $40 million a year in unnecessary IT spend,” he recalls. “But the response I received was one of indifference.” Roland believes this dynamic exists because uncovering decades of avoidable waste is a conversation most executives would prefer never to have. “Would you want to tell your CFO that you have been wasting tens of millions of dollars annually for all these years?” he asks.

The question Roland keeps returning to is a direct one: how bad does a problem have to get before the people responsible for it decide it’s actually a problem? How many misconfigurations have to stack up before the cumulative damage becomes unsustainable? That is the conversation Varex Solutions exists to propel forward, and on Roland’s timeline, it is already overdue.