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NTT has designed a laser drone system to protect poultry farms from potential spreaders of avian flu.
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Updated | 2025-10-05 20:45 |
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#70HG4)
Last year's MSI Raider GE68HX combines solid performance and premium features, and at this price, it's a steal.
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Remote controlled fiber optic-tethered drones may have met their match with a new Ukrainian innovation.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70HG6)
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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70HEF)
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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#70HEG)
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.
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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.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70H3J)
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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70H3K)
The SteelSeries Apex 3 TKL gaming keyboard is on sale for just $16.99 - a 66% discount from its $49.99 original price.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70H28)
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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#70H29)
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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70H0K)
Officers and staff are finding creative ways to trick the system.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70H0M)
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.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70GZC)
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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#70GZD)
The new Odyssey G8 QD-OLEDs from Samsung bring flagship-grade visuals, 240 Hz smoothness, and advanced burn-in protection.
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A rare Intel engineering sample from the twilight of the Pentium 4 era has surfaced on social media.
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AOL's 34-year established dial-up service was finally shuttered this week.
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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.
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Google Japan's Gboard team have designed and open-sourced a revolutionary new physical keyboard that boldly eschews keys in favor of dials.
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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.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70GHZ)
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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70GJ0)
Chinese company Highlander will be the first to run a commercial underwater data center, serving state-owned companies off the coast of Shanghai.
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Crucial's X10 Pro 2TB puts large-capacity storage in the palm of your hand. Save $59 in this early Prime Day deal.
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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.
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BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners set to buy out Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70GF5)
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.
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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.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70GF7)
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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70GF8)
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.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70GCE)
Researchers from UC Irvine developed a way to capture vibrations from surfaces using high-quality mouse sensors and convert them into audio.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70GA4)
Nvidia cannot start shipping its AI chips to the UAE, as the country is reportedly yet to finalize its investments in the U.S.
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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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70GA6)
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.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#70GA7)
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%.
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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.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70G6N)
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?
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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.
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Aqua Computer launches the Ampinel, an active power management module for graphics cards that utilize the 16-pin power connector.
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MSI's MAG 341CQP QD-OLED gaming monitor is now only $649.99 in these early Prime Day deals.
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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.
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Get a Acer Nitro 60 with Ryzen 9 and RTX 5070 Ti or RTX 5080 for 30-50% off.
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Just after Gamers Nexus dropped a video about CPU failures on ASRock motherboards, the company started offering extended warranties.
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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.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70FMC)
This breakthrough will allow researchers to run quantum computers continuously from just a few seconds to several hours at a time.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70FGV)
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.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#70FGW)
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.
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A smartphone performance enthusiast has shown pictures of their PC SSD cooler-boosted iPhone 17 Pro Max on Reddit.
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The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is packed with an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor, an OLED display, and improved controls and ergonomics.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#70FEN)
NIST just released a study showing OpenAI's and Anthropic's models defeating DeepSeek in several benchmarks.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#70FEP)
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.