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Redwood Materials repurposed old EV batteries as power storage for a 2,000-GPU data center running solely off renewable energy.

After 40 years, Microsoft is replacing its iconic blue screen of death with a simpler black screen that displays the stop code and faulty driver error message.

I saw up to a 50 percent performance uplift going from the default Wi-Fi 6E card to a Wi-Fi 7 transplant.

Lenovo's hot swappable batteries were a great way to keep working when you ran out of charge. Now, there are many ways to do that.

ASML launches an online competition in China to boost lithography awareness and recruit talented engineers for its operations in the country.

Micron announces the new Micron 2600 SSD, available in 2230, 2242, and 2280 form factors.

DeepSeek's development of its next-gen R2 AI model has reportedly stalled due to a shortage of Nvidia's H20 chips in China, exposing the company's heavy reliance on U.S. hardware and casting uncertainty over the model's launch timeline.

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Micron has begun sampling LPDDR5X chips made with its new 1 process that relies on EUV patterning, marking a major technology transition that improves performance, power efficiency, and bit density across its DRAM portfolio.

A Reddit user has revealed they spent $30 on a Goodwill PC find, only to discover an RTX 3080Ti and a Ryzen 7 3800X inside.

Dell has unveiled two new Premium laptops sporting Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors.

Jensen Huang will rake in almost a billion dollars this year from his planned sale of 6 million Nvidia shares.

AMD's next-generation laptop processors, Gorgon Point," were spotted in shipping manifests with similar designs to the corresponding models of this generation's Strix Point, Ryzen AI 9 365 / Ryzen AI 9 HX 375.

Intel Foundry hosts its first Direct Connect Asia event in Korea, targets local chip designers, automotive industry.

From electric screwdrivers to high-res webcams, these are inexpensive game-changers.

A proposal for Fedora 44 suggests removing 32-bit support from the operating system, and many gamers are up in arms against it.

Maxwell Labs has received a $500,000 grant through a U.S. Army-backed program to develop and test its laser-based cooling technology using ultrapure gallium arsenide semiconductors.

New single-molecule magnet tech could enable hard drives with 100x more capacity

As tariffs rise and production falls, DDR4 has soared to become over twice as expensive as DDR5. This is the first time in DRAM history that a previous generation of DRAM has become this much more expensive than its current-gen replacement.

The compact prototype is similar in size to RX 7600M XT-powered eGPU docks.

The semiconductor industry is experiencing strong growth and soaring demand, but a worsening shortage of engineers, managers, and technical talent threatens to undermine its ability to grow further.

Nvidia has revealed why it used GDDR6 VRAM in the desktop version of its RTX 5050, despite the fact the laptop version comes with GDDR7

Nintendo's latest Switch 2 console allegedly has a response time that is inadequate even for 60 FPS gaming.

Gigabyte has announced the GeForce RTX 5050 OC Low Profile 8G for compact systems.

Windows 10 goes EOL on October 14 2025 and I'm testing three alternative Linux distros that the community are raving about.

Auburn University researchers have replicated a 500-year old prosthetic hand and demonstrate its usability half a millennia later.

Nvidia's Transformer model for DLSS has exited the beta stage and will replace the CNN-based approach very soon with DLSS 4.

The CVE-2025-6218 bug allows attackers to manipulate archive paths, potentially writing to protected system folders

Intel has begun laying off employees in California - including design engineers - as part of CEO Lip-Bu Tan's plan to cut 15-20% of the workforce. The company is also to shut down its automotive chip division.

Amid rising demand for AI hardware in China and U.S. sanctions, China's GPU industry is rapidly expanding, with companies like Biren, Moore Threads, MetaX, and Zhaoxin pursuing IPOs to secure funding and strengthen their position.

The full spec for HDMI 2.2 has been released and it confirms 96 GB/s data transfer rates, which edge DisplayPort, and allow for uncompressed 4K 240 Hz video support.

Valve's Steam Deck typically stores my neglected Steam games library, but with Heroic Games Launcher, I can now keep my Amazon, GoG, and Epic games close at hand and ready to play.

The activation method for an Easter egg, hidden deep within the ROMs of ancient beige Apple Power Mac G3 computers, has been uncovered.

Asus' new flagship ROG Azoth X keyboard looks very different from its predecessor - white, colorful, and with semi-translucent keycaps for better backlighting. The new Azoth X also comes with a wrist rest and support for Asus' new web-based armoury crate software.

Valve's new in-game performance monitor can report real and DLSS / FSR-generated frames at the same time.

Build 26200.5661 also adds Recall Homepage, customizable system indicators, and key stability fixes