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This week, SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying 81 payloads into a sun-synchronous orbit. Among them was a softball-sized BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability)...
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As Sony is amidst a PlayStation disc-killing gaming preservation crisis of its own making, Nintendo has also put itself in the crosshairs of gamers by killing Mario Kart Tour, its mobile Mario Kart title. If you own Mario Kart 8 (Deluxe)...
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Anyone who has spent time chatting with an AI assistant knows the rhythm. Speak, stop, wait, listen, repeat. OpenAI wants to retire that walkie-talkie cadence for good with GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models now powering ChatGPT...
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Look, we all know what time it is and so whenever a market research firm releases a report on the state of PC shipments, we pretty much know the gist of it. So it goes again, with Omdia's latest reporting highlighting yet another quarterly...
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A federal safety crackdown is forcing autonomous vehicle developers to deal with the ongoing problem of their driverless cars physically impeding emergency services and putting lives at risk.
The National Highway Traffic Safety...
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In late 2025, David Tracy was at an F1 event in Las Vegas, talking casually with an eBay Motors representative about the absurd breadth of Jeep parts available online. He joked that it might be possible to build a complete World War II...
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OLED Monitor makers have a new flagship DisplayHDR certification tier to strive for with VESA adding a True Black 1400 performance level to the top of its DisplayHDR totem pole. As revealed in the designation, part of the requirement is...
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Razer is expanding its $99 Hammerhead V3 X HyperSpeed gaming earbuds with a couple of dedicated options specific to Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 consoles. In doing so, Razer unintentionally adds a bit of confusion to its modest but...
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Rumors of an Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death-like defect for Valve's Steam Machine have been spreading for the past week, but follow-up comments from both Valve and the original poster have assuaged these worries.
The original photo posted to Reddit by u/me_hill
Specifically, user u/me_hill on...
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While the groundwork for this was technically laid back in November when Intel released GCC patches (following our earlier reporting), a major new piece of the puzzle has just surfaced. Those patches revealed that Nova Lake would have not...
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The PowerVia back-side power delivery network (BSPDN) technology that Intel pioneered with its 18A fabrication process is brilliant, because separating power lines from data lines offers tremendous benefits to chip designers in terms of...
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The launch of Doom: The Dark Ages has unfortunately coincided with not only news of PlayStation killing discs, but also mass layoffs at developer id Software.
This is thanks to the wider layoffs happening across developers and...
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Japan’s veteran Hayabusa2 spacecraft recently completed a daring, ultra-close flyby of the asteroid Torifune, sending home the first-ever close-ups of a bizarre "two-headed" asteroid located 62 million miles from Earth.
JAXA (the Japan...
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Official invites for Google's next major hardware showcase are out. Looking closer at the event details, you might notice something different: the "Made by Google 2026" event, scheduled for Wednesday, August 12, breaks away from standard...
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Removing the privacy light from Meta's AI glasses turned into a small business, with modders openly advertising the work on Meta's own marketplace. Meta is now slamming that door shut with a software update that kills the camera entirely...
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Building or upgrading a PC in this climate of chip shortages and price hikes is a tough proposition, though the current situation only makes it more important than ever to shop around for deals. We have done exactly that, and for what we...
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Apple has announced its largest domestic manufacturing investment to date, a massive multiyear partnership with chipmaker Broadcom that is valued at more than $30 billion. The agreement will see the production of over 15 billion U.S.-made...
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Even a true psychic would have a tough time predicting when, if ever, we will see a GeForce RTX 50 Super series refresh. The on-again, off-again lineup has been rumored for what feels like ages (not actually that long), though a...
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Samsung has begun mass production of its PM1763 solid state drive (SSD) family, which brings blazing-fast PCI Express 6.0 storage speeds to next-generation AI and HPC servers such as the ones powered by NVIDIA's Vera Rubin GPUs. At full...
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A recently-discovered Windows 11 bug is devouring up to 500 GB of storage, but how do you check to see if you're affected and how do you fix it if you are? It can be a rather expensive glitch in this day an dage, after all. Fortunately...
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Apple is hoping to deliver a far better AI experience with future OS and app updates, following its partnership with Google. When the company announced its new and improved Apple Intelligence at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference...
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Whatever you think about the Steam Machine, the fact is it's launching into a brutal market for anyone trying to sell a gaming product. So brutal, in fact, that Valve has been unable to source the 8GB SODIMMs that it originally planned to...
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