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Researchers from the University of Houston managed to increase the critical temperature for superconductivity by about 18 K at ambient pressure, but at -122C, they are still 140C away from the target.

There's an unmissable deal on an top-end Alienware gaming PC, fitted with an RTX 5080, 24-core Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, 64GB of fast DDR5 RAM, and a whopping 4TB SSD, all with a $800 saving that brings it down to just $3,999.99.

Add an eye-catching AMOLED display to your PC and keep your processor cool at the same time with Thermalright's Wonder Vision 360 UB ARGB AIO cooler.

Kioxia has developed a new AI SSD that is designed to provide a secondary cache for Nvidia AI GPUs. The new drive comes with the manufacturer's XL-Flash that is SLC based and performs at over 10 million IOPS.

8BitDo has released the 2.4 GHz version of its popular 8BitDo 64 controller; it ships with a Retro Receiver inside the box that can even be connected to an actual N64 console. The receiver can also be bought separately to work over a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connection with most 8BitDo first-party controllers, and other third-party ones, too.

North Korean army of IT workers infiltrates western companies to make money for the nation.

Following in Nvidia's footsteps, Intel has now officially adopted Microsoft's Advanced Shader Delivery to make shader compilation much faster in games. Intel is calling it Precompiled Shader Distribution and it's available on a bunch of Arc GPUs right away, supported in 11 games at launch, with more likely to follow. AMD is now the only company left who hasn't officially embraced this feature.

Australian researchers have reportedly created the world's first quantum battery prototype.

AMD has responded to the Chuwi scandal involving mislabeled Ryzen 5 7430U-equipped laptops. The CPU maker claims it had no knowledge of the issue, and warns that it does not condone mislabelling CPUs in any way.

Microsoft ruminating on suing OpenAI over Altman's recent deal with Amazon

Reputable leaker shares alleged specifications for the unannounced Ryzen 7 9750X and Ryzen 5 9650X processors from AMD.

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Hobbyist makes a Stinger-like missile with $96 in parts and a 3D printer

Cambridge scientists have completed the first longitudinal study of Bitcoin's resilience to network infrastructure disruption, with a particular eye on submarine data cables.

Nvidia officially launches the DGX Station featuring a GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, 784GB of LPPDDR5X and HBM3e memory, and a 1,600-watt power rating.

GameStop has declared that the Sony PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U are now officially retro consoles, with the change now allowing trade-in of any console that still powers on, even if they are faulty or "aesthetically unfortunate."

Another fantastic Newegg combo deal has combined the eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D with 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM and an Asus ROG Strix X870E-E motherboard for just $1,019.99, making the RAM effectively just $111 in this build.

Gaming company forced to backtrack by court after AI-driven plan to dodge $250m bonus payment backfires.

Razer's Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition game controller, with Hall-Effect thumbsticks, is 45% off in this Woot deal.

Have you ever wanted to use a fan that's more than three times as loud as the other option while providing the same performance? If you answered in resounding joy, then this project is exactly what you've been looking for. A YouTuber 3D-printed a fan that's actually made up of 15 tiny fans, fit inside the frame of a regular 120mm fan modelled after the Noctua NF-A12x25.

Taiwan imports almost all of its energy and requires large amounts of LNG to sustain its electrical grid. That grid is then used by local chipmakers - like TSMC who is responsible for making most of the world's high-end chips. Fabrication for these chips requires helium, which Taiwan also imports and right now, the Iran-U.S. conflict has made it difficult to acquire both.

Maker Will Whang designed the MK4001MTD USB Bridge to facilitate the use of the world's smallest (0.85-inch) mechanical hard drives, originally released by Toshiba in 2004.