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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#71DM3)
Grab an RTX 5070 Ti for less in the UK, as Early Black Friday deals start to creep in.
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Google is buying 1.5 terawatt hours of solar capacity from French oil and gas supergiant TotalEnergies. The order could saturate the 50MW solar facility in Ohio that has yet to come online, meaning its entire capacity could be absorbed by Google data centers over the course of the contract.
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Pick up the MSI Ventus 3X OC RTX 5070 Ti for just $729 in Newegg's early Black Friday sale.
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Here are the best motherboard deals.
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Tiny386 emulator turns an ESP32-S3 microcontroller into a full i386 PC
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71DHS)
Kyocera built a custom system instead of using off-the-shelf parts to achieve this high bandwidth.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71DHT)
China accuses the U.S. of being behind the largest cryptocurrency theft in history.
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The 12-year Meta veteran and chief AI scientist, Yann LeCunn, may be leaving Meta in the near future to set up his own AI venture, according to associates. He's reportedly keen to develop his "world model," AI concept that learns from video and spatial data rather than text, like the current-generation of large language models.
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As the Xbox 360 turns 20, the first images showing an exclusive edition of the console, which some claim kicked off the HD gaming era, have been shared on social media.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71DFQ)
An independent software project has published new firmware for select motherboards supporting AMD's Bulldozer and Piledriver CPUs nearly 15 years after release.
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Save up to $249 in Secretlab's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale.
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You can save up to 200 on Secretlab gaming chairs, desks, and accessories, thanks to Black Friday.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71D6K)
An updated CPU roadmap from AMD has put Zen 6 and Zen 7 in clear sight, with the former set to debut next year on TSMC's 2nm node, and the latter slated for a release sometime in 2027-2028, touted as the company's next major leap. Details were scarce at the announcement, and it's mostly just reiterating what we already knew before.
by editors@tomshardware.com (Aaron Klotz) on (#71CYZ)
SanDisk has created a new flash drive designed to be permanently integrated into your device, serving as a secondary storage solution.
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SoftBank has confirmed it sold its entire stake in Nvidia in October, offloading 32.1 million shares for $5.83 billion. The disclosure came Tuesday alongside the Japanese conglomerate's latest earnings report.
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by stephen.warwick@futurenet.com (Stephen Warwick) on (#71CZ1)
PNY tells Tom's Hardware that it is suspending upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions on storage due to rising NAND costs.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71CZ2)
A J.P. Morgan report says that the AI industry needs to make at least $650 billion annually for investors to get a 10% return on all the money going into it until 2030.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71CW9)
DIY-APE has just revealed a next-gen concept for back-connect PCs, using the new BTF 3.0 spec. A single 50-pin connector powers most of the PC, with front panel I/O being simplified into one connector as well. BTF 3.0 is backward compatible with prior BTF standards and even compatible with non-BTF components with the help of adapters.
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AOC packs tremendous value and performance into its Q27G4ZMN. It's a 27-inch QHD VA panel with a 1,152-zone Mini LED backlight, DisplayHDR 1000, HDR10, a 240 Hz refresh rate, Adaptive-Sync, and wide-gamut Quantum Dot color.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Jowi Morales) on (#71CSD)
This chip enables Micro Center to offer sub-$1,000 X3D pre-built gaming PCs.
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Save $700 on the 16-inch MSI Vector 16 gaming laptop in this early Black Friday deal.
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Intel's Chief Technology Officer and AI head has jumped ship to OpenAI to take over the company's compute infrastructure projects. Intel CEO, Lip Bu-Tan, will take over the role of managing Intel's AI efforts going forward.
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Veteran Windows dev Dave W Plummer has run a simple performance test across his 25 computers, released between 1976 and 2023, and he observed a huge 200,000X CPU performance delta.
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$13 billion in two years towards undersea data cables
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OCUK has dropped the price of this Zotac-branded RTX 5060 Ti 16GB to below its RRP, making it a brilliant bargain before Black Friday kicks off.
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A specialized version of the ill-fated OS/2 holds the dubious record, and probably will forever.
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An LED testing device' which largely consists of a hot dog, two forks and a power supply has been entered into an electronics competition
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Elgato's Facecam Neo is a budget-friendly plug-and-play webcam that performs well in low-light scenarios and works on just about any device with a USB-C port (including non-traditional devices, such as iPads). It cost $99.99 when it first launched, but the price has since been permanently cut to $59.99, which might be an unbeatable deal.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71C91)
Chinese researchers have visualized how photoresist polymers cluster during development using cryogenic electron tomography and found that slightly raising post-exposure bake temperature could reduce defect density, but the finding has limited practical impact since this temperature is already typical for DUV processes and unsuitable for EUV lithography, where it would harm resolution and yield.
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Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla's AI6 chip will be manufactured at both Samsung's Taylor facility and TSMC's Arizona fab. The update from the company's CEO follows earlier comments in which he described Samsung's site as technically superior.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71C6F)
Popular Mini PC manufacturer Minisforum has just stepped into the ARM market with the MS-R1. It's a 1.7-liter compact system with the CIX CD8180 SoC, consisting of 12-cores clocked at up 2.6 GHz, with a 28W TDP. There's a full-size dedicated GPU slot and support for UEFI built-in, allowing you to easily boot into mainstream operating systems.
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The best early UK Black Friday deals on PC hardware, accessories, and 3D printers.
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by brandon.hill@futurenet.com (Brandon Hill) on (#71C3M)
T-Mobile's new 5G Home Internet plans go into effect on November 13
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Nextorage launches the NX-PFS1PROB external SSD with capacities ranging from 1TB to 8TB, featuring added security features.
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China has lifted its ban on exports of gallium, germanium, and antimony to the United States, temporarily halting restrictions that had reshaped global materials markets over the past year.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71C3Q)
Khein-Seng Pua, the CEO of Phison, speaking to Digitimes, has painted a damning picture of the storage market to come. With NAND prices already on the rise, the CEO believes there's no alleviation in sight and the landscape will remain rough for the following years. Data centers are rapidly shifting to SSDs to avoid already scarce HDDs, which will only exacerbate the situation.
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Webcam brand Insta360 has gifted real gold keycaps, worth up to $45,000 each, to its most valued employees.
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A hardware hacker has installed a Minecraft server on a cheap smart lightbulb.
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The Biwin NV7200 is a compelling new budget SSD that fits the bill for many users.
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by ashilov@gmail.com (Anton Shilov) on (#71BYF)
Micron has reportedly postponed its New York fab project near Clay by several more years: Fab 1 is not expected is now expected to be completed in 2030 and full campus build-out is now projected to be fully ramped in 2045. At the same time, the company reallocates CHIPS Act funding toward its Idaho fabs.
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Save 50% on this impressive Hoto NEX O1 Pro mini electric screwdriver set with 12 bits
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In the heart of Silicon Valley, two freshly built data centers designed for the world's most power-hungry computing workloads are standing empty.
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Only $399 for one of our favorite 3D printers. The Bambu Lab P1S hits an all-time low price.
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TSMC-branded sneakers were 'the focus of the audience' at the firm's annual Sports Day event this weekend.
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A premium-engineered power supply masquerading as a budget option, delivering exceptional electrical performance in a conservative package, though its high retail price and dated connectivity undermine its value proposition.
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AMD's Ryzen 5 3600 processor has hit its lowest ever price on Amazon, according to popular price tracking websites, and it comes with a boxed cooler.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71BEK)
Windows 11 26H1 has just been made official by Microsoft, with its first build released in the Canary channel for Insiders. Unlike what the name might suggest, this is not a feature update, rather a special update meant to roll in support for ARM-based devices, with lots of juicy rumors floating around.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Kunal Khullar) on (#71BEM)
An AMD BC-250 mining board powered by the PS5's custom APU has reappeared in China for around $120.
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by editors@tomshardware.com (Hassam Nasir) on (#71BCN)
The Phantom employs beam-splitting technology similar to what's used in aviation HUDs, or teleprompters, to reflect a screen onto a half-glass, half-mirror surface, giving it that transparent look. It also claims to have adjustable transparency, meaning you can have a completely opaque monitor if you wanted.
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Bank of America is facing a proposed class and collective action lawsuit that accuses the company of failing to pay hundreds of hourly workers for time spent booting their computers.
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