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The U.S. economy isn't being propped up by AI investment, despite the common narrative. According to Goldman Sachs, despite hundreds of billions in investment announcements, AI has done little to uplift American financial interests.
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Using the power of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2's RP2350, ATAboy bridges the hard drives of old, with the computers of today.
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Save $408 on this AM5 combo featuring the Ryzen 7 9850X3D, 32GB DDR5-6400, and MSI X870 Tomahawk motherboard-yours for only $849.99 at Newegg while the deal lasts.
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Developer Daivuk has released QUOD, a 64KB boomer shooter' with an uncanny resemblance to id Software's seminal FPS title, Quake.
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Apple announced that it will begin producing the Mac Mini in Houston, Texas later this year, marking the first time that the compact desktop has ever been manufactured in the United States.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#73SPV)
AMD and Meta have announced an AI chips deal thought to be worth more than $100 billion.
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Pair an MSI Shadow RTX 5070 graphics card with 64GB of G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo DDR5-6000 Memory for $1,049.99 - Newegg combo deal strikes again.
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Meta's AI Director of Alignment asked OpenClaw to clean up her inbox, only for the AI agent to nuke everything inside.
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Another brilliant Newegg combo deal has combined the eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D with 32GB of V-Color DDR5-6400 RAM, all for just $650, saving you a whopping $348.99 in the process.
by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#73SPZ)
ASML to use a new CO2 laser system and tin droplet generator to increase EUV light source performance to 1000W and lithography tool productivity to 330 wafers per hour in 2030 and beyond.
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IBM stock takes a 13% whiplash after Anthropic announces COBOL AI tooling
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#73SME)
The Taara Beam offers a fiber-like connection without the hassle of acquiring right-of-way and laying cable. It delivers up 25 Gbps of throughput with ultra-low latency at a range of up to 10 km.
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Cast-iron Victorian radiator gaming PC build finalized and tested by Billet Labs.
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OpenAI spent much of 2025 trying to build its own AI data centers, only to find that it couldn't secure financing on competitive terms.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#73SMH)
A thief in South Korea fled with two RTX 5090s and an RTX 5080 when he broke into a local computer shop. Instead of going for maximum potential gains and picking up RAM, he valued high-ticket items that would sell quickly. The police are already looking for the suspect, but the shop owner promises to show leniency if the items are simply returned.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#73SMJ)
The Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chip was used to communicate with the Ingenuity Mars helicopter. But now that it's been retired from service, NASA engineers found another use for this relatively powerful chip.
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Following a temporary injunction on sales, Asus and Acer have restored their German websites for sales and support. However, some products are still unavailable.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#73S8S)
Anthropic claims DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax made 16 million exchanges using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to advance their models using Claude.
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Optical drives can still be handy in 2026, though desktop and PC laptop makers very rarely offer them. Here's a USB-attached device that is also a SATA dock, and more, for under $21.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#73S6D)
Intel's confirms 'Unified Cores' project in a job listing, but actual CPUs with these unified cores could be years away.
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German data center operator Hetzner announced today that it's raising prices across its cloud, dedicated server, storage, and load balancer products starting April 1.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#73S6F)
A major kernel update, Linux 7.0, has been officially released. Although it'll take some time to show up in various Linux distros, the kernel comes with preliminary support for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 and Intel's Nova Lake.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#73S39)
A 23% discount on Corsair Vengeance DDR5.
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AMD has reportedly stopped delivering new driver updates to handheld gaming PCs with the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU, including Asus ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go S.
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The Trump Administrations' new sweeping tariffs for all American imports could end up hurting American companies and benefitting their international competition at the same time, thanks to existing tariff carve-outs and rising material costs for U.S. producers.
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Asus delivers a flagship 32-inch OLED with the ROG Swift PG32UCDM3. It sports 4K resolution, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, Quantum Dot wide gamut color, DisplayHDR 500, and HDR10, and is one of the few monitors to support Dolby Vision.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#73RXP)
Resellers are now putting up MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Zs on eBay, pricing it from $6,700 all the way to nearly $27,000.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#73RXQ)
OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank have reportedly spent several months negotiating over who would have ultimate control of the data centers planned for Stargate.
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Score a powerful AM5 bundle with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB Corsair DDR5-6400 RAM, and Gigabyte X870E Aorus Elite WiFi 7 motherboard for $1,020- an ideal foundation for a high-end gaming PC.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#73RXS)
Recent trade statistics indicate that Taiwan now supplies more goods to the U.S. than China does, but this is only a part of the picture, as Taiwan is rapidly increasing its exports to everywhere in the world.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#73RXT)
This 20TB Seagate expansion drive is a great external storage solution that defies the AI price crunch.
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RAM, CPU, and Mobo are all included in Newegg's latest bundle deal. Save $177 on 64GB of Corsair Vengeance memory.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#73RV7)
Macho Nacho Productions has modded an original Zelda-edition Game & Watch to run Retro-Go, a custom firmware that unlocks the hardware's full potential. This hacked Game & Watch can now emulate various consoles, includes support for save states, and even has a microSD card slot. But getting here wasn't easy.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#73RS2)
An AI strategist used Claude Code to reverse engineer his robot vacuum and control it with a PlayStation controller, but it accidentally gave him control of thousands of similar devices spread all across the world.
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There's a nearly half-price discount on this TP-Link 5-port unmanaged ethernet switch, down to just $8.98 in this limited-time Amazon deal, unlocking five extra ports for your network at a brilliantly low price.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#73RCZ)
The $370 price difference between the U.S. and the U.K. on 28TB hard drives meant that it's more cost effective to pay for a round-trip ticket and a hotel stay than to just purchase 10 drives locally.
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In February 1971, an order authorized Oakland Police to enter offices in Palo Alto and homes in Menlo Park to look not just for papers but also for data stored on machines.
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Peripheral maker G'AIM'E brings the lightgun back to the living room, with a bang. Celebrating 30 years since Time Crisis was out in the arcades, Richard Miller is back and ready to mow down hordes of bad guys in this officially licensed release.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#73RB2)
A team of researchers from MIT built a 3D printer that can economically print a fully functioning linear motor, with magnetization of the magnetic parts the only required step after printing.
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Be Quiet's Silent Loop 3 420 outperforms most 360mm AIOs while running quieter than the competition. This review is tested with AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X CPU and includes noise-normalized benchmarks.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#73RB4)
Contrary to what Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos say, orbital data centers will not make sense any time soon, believes Sam Altman.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#73R9F)
The Akasa Euler CMX fanless Mini-ITX PC case supports up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 285T with up to 35 watts TDP without relying on thin Mini-ITX motherboards.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#73R9G)
Lenovo has its Legion 5i gaming laptop with an RTX 5060 & Core Ultra 7 255HX CPU on sale for just $1,299, discounted $400 at B&H right now. With that you're getting a stunning 15.1-inch OLED display, 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD that's expandable, and a stealthy design with solid build quality.
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AI energy efficiency comparisons unfair' bleats Sam Altman, citing amount of energy needed to evolve, then train a human
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Museum teases a 'Big Mac' that will be part of its Apple at 50 celebrations next month.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#73R7F)
Dell's solution to the 16-pin connector overheating issues seems to bea custom connector to lock it into place. At least, that's what the OEM has done in a new prebuilt featuring the RTX 5070 Ti. The 12V-2x6 connector is forcibly fixed using genuine Amphenol brackets.
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Intel has launched what it's calling Ask Intel," a new AI-powered support assistant built with Microsoft Copilot Studio.
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Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games via a new online portal.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#73R7J)
Prices of some 32 GB DDR5 memory kits in Europe are dropping.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#73R7K)
Moore Threads seems to have done what Nvidia couldn't... well, at least, at first glance. The company's new MTT AI Book laptop is powered by a custom ARM-based SoC that features 12 CPU cores, an unknown GPU based on in-house "MUSA" architecture, and a 50 TOPS-delivering NPU. The device can even run Windows, but not natively.