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This Sunday of deals brings us quite the mix of great savings. The Dell laptop deal continues over at Best Buy, so if you’re in the market for a new productivity device, that’s the place to be. Another set of protein drinks are on sale at Amazon, and there’s a healthy little mix of tech items being discounted this weekend as well. Of course, no list is complete without some games, so cruise down to the bottom to see what’s still currently on sale for the holiday season.

The Best Daily Deals for January 3rd

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PS4 “Greatest Hits” Collection for $9.99 Each at Best Buy

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Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment Group and Endeavor Content are teaming up for a feature film based on the iconic toy known as the Rubik’s Cube.

As reported by Deadline, Hyde Park Entertainment is also partnering with Glassman Media (The Wall) to create a game show based on the global brand of Rubik’s Cube.

The Rubik’s Cube was invented by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik in 1974. In 1980, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik and sold by Ideal Toy Corp. Since then, the Rubik’s Cube has sold over 450 million units worldwide.

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As of 2018, amateur and professional “speedcubers” from all over the world have competed for puzzle-based glory in the Rubik’s Cube World Championship Finals in Boston, MA.

“I’ve had a personal and nostalgic connection to the Rubik’s Cube from my early days in India,” Ashok Amritraj said. “I am thrilled to partner with Endeavor Content and Rubik’s/Smiley and look forward to creating a wonderful and complex Rubik’s universe.”

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For more on Rubik’s Cubes, check out a 17x17x17 Rubik’s Cube – the largest in the world in 2015 – being solved in 7.5 hours.

Image Credit: Marco Secchi/Getty Images.

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NieR: Automata’s “final secret” has been discovered after nearly four years, and it allows you to skip the entire game.

As reported by Kotaku, modder and dataminer Lance McDonald discovered this cheat code that allows players to go straight to the end of NieR: Automata after only defeating the first boss.

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NieR: Automata, which was released in 2017, has multiple endings that require players to replay the game numerous times to truly complete the story. This cheat code, however, allows you to simply go right to the last ending.

Spoilers ahead for NieR: Automata.

Once you have unlocked Ending E, players must make it through a challenging arcade shooter that has you attempting to destroy the game’s credits. Once finished, you are given the option to sacrifice you save data to assist others in that task. If accepted, you will actually lose your save file.

This cheat code, however, lets you get to that ending to help others without completing the game and having to give up your hard earned save data. McDonald discovered that this is not a glitch, but an actual cheat code that is programmed into NieR: Automata. According to him, it took “hundreds of hours of reverse engineering” to figure this out.

I found a cheat code in NieR Automata that allows you to skip to the last ending immediately after killing the first boss and unlock the bonus modes. I’ll do a full video soon. It’s not a glitch, it’s an actual cheat code hard-coded into the engine. @yokotaro pic.twitter.com/FtuNPovq6F

— Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) January 3, 2021

As of this writing, McDonald hasn’t fully revealed what the inputs are to activate the cheat code, but the video above shows him doing so near some barrels after defeating the aforementioned first boss. The screen fades to black, and he is then able to sacrifice his save data.

Following this discovery, NieR: Automata’s director Yoko Taro Quote Tweeted McDonald’s video and appeared to confirm the discovery by saying “3 years 10 months.（◎血◎）”

The Japanese NieR Twitter also acknowledged the find, saying (via Google Translate), “It seems that the last secret has been discovered.”

McDonald has said he will be releasing a full video of the game-skipping cheat code soon, but be sure to let us know if you figure it out before then!

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This “final secret” arrives just a few months before Nier Replicant Ver. 1.22474487139 will be released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on April 23, 2021.

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A giant bubble of VLF radio frequencies – entirely created by human activities – is not only surrounding the Earth, but is creating weather-like effects in space.

According to NASA, the bubble was first detected in 2017, and is the result of very low-frequency radio communications, often used for coded or long-distance messaging – such as contacting submarines deep underwater. These frequencies have been “leaking” into space, and have created a barrier of sorts around Earth.

As turns out, this giant bubble is keeping charged, radioactive particles from entering Earth’s atmosphere. Various nuclear blasts over the years have resulted in belts of radioactivity around Earth, which this barrier has pushed further away than they were in the 1960s.

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“A number of experiments and observations have figured out that, under the right conditions, radio communications signals in the VLF frequency range can in fact affect the properties of the high-energy radiation environment around the Earth,” Phil Erickson, assistant director at the MIT Haystack Observatory, said, according to NASA.

In effect, VLF frequencies are creating human-induced ‘space weather’. Unfortunately, according to a new article from Science Alert, the barrier doesn’t solve the problem with the radioactive particles damaging Earth’s satellites.

NASA says that tests are underway to see if VLF transmissions can be used to remove the excess radiation surrounding Earth.

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Scientists are discovering what could be a parallel universe where time goes backward and signs of life on Venus, so a man-made barrier surrounding Earth fighting off radiation shouldn’t be too surprising. There might even be a Galactic Federation that won’t let humans in yet. Maybe there will be a change of heart when they see the cool Earth barrier that humans made!

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Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN.