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Japanese tech giant deploys laser drones to protect chickens — drones are hoped to prevent the spread of avian flu
NTT has designed a laser drone system to protect poultry farms from potential spreaders of avian flu.
Save over $1,200 on a RTX 4060 gaming laptop during Prime Day — pay less than half the normal price for the MSI Raider GE68HX
Last year's MSI Raider GE68HX combines solid performance and premium features, and at this price, it's a steal.
Ukraine’s rotating barbed wire drone barriers discovered by Russians — motorized barriers tear and slice the fiber-optic lines that jam-proof drones leave in their trail
Remote controlled fiber optic-tethered drones may have met their match with a new Ukrainian innovation.
Nintendo Switch 2 supports two different types of Nvidia DLSS — A second, 'light' version for upscaling beyond 1080p, along with the standard, PC-like CNN model
Nintendo apparently includes two different versions of DLSS on the Switch 2, corroborating long-standing rumors of a custom DLSS present on the console. Digital Foundry's latest testing reveals that the second, 'light' version of DLSS can upscale beyond 1080p at the cost of an inferior image while in motion.
Bitcoin rockets to all-time high of over $125,000 — rise fueled by increase in U.S. equities and interest in Bitcoin ETFs
Bitcoin just hit an all-time high of $125,000 due to a combination of investors seeking alternative assets and MegaWhales moving holdings to long-term storage.
Intel’s Core Ultra 5 225F is at an all-time low $170, making Arrow Lake more affordable ahead of Amazon's Prime Day sale
Intel's entry-level Core Ultra 5 225F processor is now available for under $170, offering 10-core performance, PCIe 5.0 support, and an onboard NPU at a wallet-friendly price.
The transistor was patented 75 years ago today — the age of silicon and software began with a three-electrode circuit element using semiconductor materials
75 years ago, the three Bell Labs scientists behind the invention of the transistor would, at last, have the U.S. Patent in their hands.
OCuLink outpaces Thunderbolt 5 in Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti tests — latter up to 14% slower on average in gaming benchmarks
Independent tests confirm that while Thunderbolt 5 improves eGPU performance over Thunderbolt 4, OCuLink's direct PCIe connection delivers superior gaming and bandwidth results, although it remains impractical for most users.
Award-winning gaming keyboard reaches a historic low of $17 just before Prime Day — get 66% off on the Apex 3 TKL for a limited time
The SteelSeries Apex 3 TKL gaming keyboard is on sale for just $16.99 - a 66% discount from its $49.99 original price.
Microsoft reportedly mulls ad-infested free Xbox Cloud Gaming plan — Game Pass Ultimate subscriber allegedly catches ad during game loading
Microsoft is reportedly preparing to launch a new, ad-supported free tier of Xbox Cloud Gaming very soon. You'll have to watch two-minute ads before each session, which will be limited to one hour in duration. You get a total of five hours each month, and only a limited number of games will be available in this tier.
Hyper 212 Pro CPU air cooler drops to an all-time low of $18 just before Prime Day — save big with a 49% discount
Cooler Master's Hyper 212 Pro aRGB air cooler is on sale for half off, just before Amazon's Prime Big Deals Day, making it one of the most affordable tower-style CPU coolers available right now.
UK cops busted for faking productivity while working from home by holding down keys on keyboard — 26 officers and staff reportedly caught trying to trick keylogging software
Officers and staff are finding creative ways to trick the system.
One of the fastest 2TB PCIe 5.0 SSDs is down to its lowest price ever, 8 cents per gigabyte this Prime Day — Enjoy blazing-fast PCIe 5.0 storage for only $159
Crucial is offering its flagship 2TB T705 PCIe 5.0 SSD for just $160, this Prime Day. Utilizing Phison's E26 controller and 232-layer Micron TLC, the T705 achieves read and write speeds of 14.5 GB/s and 12.7 GB/s, respectively, backed by 1,200 TBW of endurance. It earned the Editor's Choice award in our review.
Discord data hacked in latest customer service breach to expose user information — hackers gained access via third-party support systems but didn't steal passwords
Discord's support systems were recently compromised in a data breach, where hackers gained access to some user information via third-party service providers. The hackers intended to extort money from Discord by holding the data, but the company has already begun an investigation and severed the affected provider's access to its ticketing system.
Samsung’s QD-OLED 4K 240 Hz gaming monitors are now at their lowest-ever price for Prime Day — $879 for the 27-inch, $999 for the 32-inch
The new Odyssey G8 QD-OLEDs from Samsung bring flagship-grade visuals, 240 Hz smoothness, and advanced burn-in protection.
Ultra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980
A rare Intel engineering sample from the twilight of the Pentium 4 era has surfaced on social media.
AOL's dial-up internet service killed with a final modem screech after 34 years — America Online goes offline this week, but other dial-up services still exist
AOL's 34-year established dial-up service was finally shuttered this week.
Classic Snake game now playable in your browser URL address bar — JavaScript remake uses Unicode Braille characters to render the game
A new version of Snake, coded to run in your browser's URL address bar, makes playing it on your old Nokia brick feel luxuriously high-res and futuristic.
Crazy Google Japan keyboard design switches keys for dials — the Gboard Dial Edition shows why the software team isn't allowed to design hardware
Google Japan's Gboard team have designed and open-sourced a revolutionary new physical keyboard that boldly eschews keys in favor of dials.
Best MicroSD Express Cards for Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025 — the best cards on the market, benchmarked and ranked
We've carefully chosen the best microSD Express cards to meet the needs and budgets of all Switch 2 owners, based on our detailed lab testing.
Jeff Bezos envisions space-based data centers in 10 to 20 years — could allow for natural cooling and more effective solar power
Jeff Bezos envisions gigawatt-scale orbital data centers within 10-20 years, powered by continuous solar energy and space-based cooling, but the concept remains commercially unviable today due to the immense cost and complexity of deploying thousands of tons of hardware, solar panels, and radiators into orbit.
China to launch commercial underwater data center — facility expected to consume 90% less power for cooling
Chinese company Highlander will be the first to run a commercial underwater data center, serving state-owned companies off the coast of Shanghai.
Crucial's 20Gb/s X10 Pro 2TB external SSD is only $149 in this early Amazon Prime Day deal — rugged and portable USB-C storage for tech lovers
Crucial's X10 Pro 2TB puts large-capacity storage in the palm of your hand. Save $59 in this early Prime Day deal.
AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade
As flash demand climbs and legacy DRAM supply lags, memory prices are rising across the board. Meanwhile, nearline HDD shortages are forcing hyperscalers to accelerate the adoption of QLC SSDs for roles once gated by cost, tightening both ends of the storage market.
BlackRock subsidiary buys up 78 data centers totaling 5 gigawatts in $40 billion deal — AI vendor Aligned added to company's portfolio
BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners set to buy out Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion.
Nvidia details efficiency of the NVFP4 format for LLM training — new paper reveals how NVFP4 offers benefits over FP8 and BF16
Nvidia has demonstrated that its NVFP4 4-bit floating point format - originally intended for inference - can be used for stable, large-scale training of LLMs with minimal accuracy loss, offering significant gains in compute and memory efficiency over both FP8 and BF16.
Samsung's 49-inch OLED gaming monitor drops to lowest-ever price — max out your GPU, not your credit card, for just $879
Amazon is offering the Samsung Odyssey G9 G93SC at a price of $879.99, representing a new all-time low. The gaming monitor typically retails for $1,599.99.
Qualcomm's big win over Arm could reverberate throughout the industry — ALA licensees could potentially develop custom designs without renegotiating terms
Qualcomm's legal victory over Arm not only secures its right to deploy Nuvia's custom CPU cores under its existing license but also sets a major industry precedent, weakening Arm's control over licensing as it pivots toward designing its own CPUs.
Intel's next-gen Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids microarchitectures get official confirmation — Latest ISA reference doc details the P-Cores and E-Cores upcoming CPUs will use
Intel's upcoming client and server CPUs will use brand new core micro-architectures, as confirmed by the latest edition of the ISA reference doc. Nova Lake client processors will use Coyote Cove P-Cores and Arctic Wolf E-Cores, while Diamond Rapids workstation SKUs will use Panther Cove P-Cores.
High-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech
Researchers from UC Irvine developed a way to capture vibrations from surfaces using high-quality mouse sensors and convert them into audio.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang frustrated by UAE AI chip delay, claims report — White House said to be pressing nation to finalize U.S. investments before chip deliveries are authorized
Nvidia cannot start shipping its AI chips to the UAE, as the country is reportedly yet to finalize its investments in the U.S.
Chip designer Jim Keller says Intel still has 'a lot of work to do' — would consider it for Tenstorrent AI chip production, already in talks with TSMC, Rapidus, and Samsung for 2nm tech
Chip design startup Tenstorrent has announced it'll work with TSMC and Samsung for its next-generation 2nm chips. It will also work with Japanese firm, Rapidus, and would consider Intel in the future, once it has a more defined roadmap.
Taiwan proposes strategic tech alliance with the White House — "Taiwan Model" would help companies invest easily in the U.S. to satisfy demands
The "Taiwan Model" has been proposed by a new delegation that seeks to form a high-tech alliance between Taiwan and the U.S., whereby the former will help its companies make investments in the U.S. to satisfy demands for expansion into the country.
GameStop promises to keep selling Game Pass Ultimate for $19.99 — company defies Microsoft's 50% price increase
GameStop says it will continue to offer Xbox Game Pass Ultimate at its old price of $19.99 after Microsoft raised the price by 50%.
How Nvidia's deal with Intel has been decades in the making — Years of rivalry culminated in an unexpected alliance
Nvidia and Intel are working on something few thought possible: A partnership so deep it could redraw the boundaries of the x86 ecosystem. Their new joint effort will see Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets integrated with Intel CPUs in a single package, using Intel's Foveros and EMIB technologies.
SiPearl unveils Europe's first dual-use sovereign processor with 80 cores — expected in 2027 for government, aerospace, and defense applications
SiPearl's Athena1 derives from Rhea, packs up to 80 Neoverse V1 cores, and is aimed at both civilian and military use. But will it be competitive in the second half of 2027?
Microsoft inks $33 billion in deals with 'neoclouds' like Nebius, CoreWeave — Nebius deal alone secures 100,000 Nvidia GB300 chips for internal use
Microsoft has signed $33 billion in deals with "neocloud" GPU-as-a-service providers to date, underlined by its $19.4 billion spend on neocloud provider Nebius. The move comes as Microsoft seeks to outsource the processing for its own internal workloads, so it can rent its internal datacenter infrastructure out for profit.
Nvidia's 16-pin time bomb could be defused by this $95 gadget — Ampinel offers load balancing that Nvidia forgot to include
Aqua Computer launches the Ampinel, an active power management module for graphics cards that utilize the 16-pin power connector.
This early Prime Day deal has MSI's gorgeous 34-inch curved ultrawide QD-OLED gaming monitor dropping to $649 at Amazon
MSI's MAG 341CQP QD-OLED gaming monitor is now only $649.99 in these early Prime Day deals.
AMD and Intel's unlikely chipmaking partnership isn't without its benefits — how AMD could divest reliance on TSMC
Intel and AMD have competed at opposite ends of the x86 spectrum for decades, but a potential deal could be mutually beneficial for both companies.
Grab an Acer Nitro 60 desktop with a Ryzen 9 CPU and RTX 5070 Ti or 5080 graphics cards for 30 to 50% off
Get a Acer Nitro 60 with Ryzen 9 and RTX 5070 Ti or RTX 5080 for 30-50% off.
ASRock issues longer warranty amid failing CPU controversy — but only in Japan
Just after Gamers Nexus dropped a video about CPU failures on ASRock motherboards, the company started offering extended warranties.
Phison CEO claims NAND shortage could last a staggering 10 years — says memory 'supercycle' imminent and 'severe' 2026 shortages are at hand
Phison CEO Pua Khein-Seng has claimed in an interview this week that the upcoming forecasted NAND flash shortage will last "for the next ten years", rather than the more optimistic 1 year claimed by other industry insiders. The negative implications of the AI boom continue to grow by the day.
Harvard researchers hail quantum computing breakthrough with machine that can run for two hours — atomic loss quashed by experimental design, systems that can run forever just 3 years away
This breakthrough will allow researchers to run quantum computers continuously from just a few seconds to several hours at a time.
Ingenious modder turns Lego Game Boy into an actual Game Boy that can run real cartridges — new Lego set gets outfitted with custom PCB in less than a day, 3D printing required for future button
Natalie the Nerd has modded the Lego Game Boy into one that actually plays real cartridges, outfitted with a custom PCB and screen that takes retro gaming to another level. This is not emulation; this Lego kit has original Game Boy chips inside to make it all possible, with even 3D-printed pieces planned for the future.
$568 million of GPUs allegedly misused for crypto mining caught in tax evasion and money laundering probe — EU claims 10,000 Nvidia H100 units acquired by Northern Data may not have been used fo
Northern Data is under investigation for allegedly misusing AI tax breaks on 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, despite the hardware being ill-suited for crypto mining.
Monstrous SSD cooling solution strapped to iPhone 17 Pro Max delivers unparalleled performance — clocks 90% stability in 3D Mark Stress Test, jury still out on hideous aesthetics
A smartphone performance enthusiast has shown pictures of their PC SSD cooler-boosted iPhone 17 Pro Max on Reddit.
Lenovo Legion Go 2 review: AMD’s Ryzen Z2 Extreme makes gains at 800p
The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is packed with an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor, an OLED display, and improved controls and ergonomics.
U.S. Commerce Sec. Lutnick says American AI dominates DeepSeek, thanks Trump for AI Action Plan — OpenAI and Anthropic beat Chinese models across 19 different benchmarks
NIST just released a study showing OpenAI's and Anthropic's models defeating DeepSeek in several benchmarks.
Wi-Fi signals can now create accurate images of a room with the help of pre-trained AI — 'LatentCSI' leverages Stable Diffusion 3 to turn Wi-Fi data into a digital paintbrush
Researchers have cracked the code to fast and accurate image generation with Wi-Fi signals. Previously, Wi-Fi-based imagery was all but rough sketches, but with the help of a pretrained Stable Diffusion model, these Wi-Fi signals can now create realistic visuals of the space they're bouncing around in.
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