Aaron Leong
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Attention stargazers, late July brings a special double-feature to the summer night sky: the Full Buck Moon coinciding with a simultaneous peak of two meteor showers.
Reaching peak brightness on July 29, July’s moon is traditionally...
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For residents of Dowagiac, Michigan, home no longer equals quiet refuge, it now sounds like a clogged vacuum cleaner running full blast in the living room, 24 hours a day. Frustrated by a relentless, high-pitched hum emitted by a nearby...
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Samsung Electronics and U.S. chip designer Broadcom have entered into a landmark $200 billion agreement running through 2030, spanning memory supply, cutting-edge foundry manufacturing, and advanced packaging to power global artificial...
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Amazon is folding its Luna cloud gaming platform directly into Prime Video, giving hundreds of millions of streaming subscribers instant access to playable games on their TVs and mobile devices. Can we get a free tier next?
Previously...
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Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to capture cosmic 'bullets' streaming from V445 Puppis, a unique stellar explosion in the Milky Way firing clumps of gas into space at a blistering 20 million miles per hour.
When V445...
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Xbox is opening a new, zero-cost tier in the cloud gaming wars by letting users stream games they already own in exchange for watching a few commercials. So basically, rather than requiring a paid subscription like Xbox Game Pass Ultimate...
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AMD just launched its Ryzen AI Embedded X100 series processors (first previewed at CES 2026), targeting physical AI applications like robotics, surgical tools, and smart manufacturing. Presented at its Advanced AI 2026 event in San...
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For ages, astronomers have categorized the skies into tidy buckets: stars, planets, and moons. However, a new object 71 light-years from us could completely disrupt that thinking.
A team of astronomers led by Kevin Hoy of Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales and the European Southern...
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Samsung has stepped onto Meta’s turf with its new line of smartglasses (or Intelligent Eyewear in company parlance) at Galaxy Unpacked, indicating that the brand views hands-free AI, not just smartphones, as the next major frontier in...
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has captured a rather mesmerizing time-lapse video of Mars during its recent high-speed gravity assist flyby, offering a different view of the Red Planet’s craters, vast rust-red deserts, and polar ice caps as the probe slingshots toward its main objective: the...
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Garmin has unveiled the CIRQA Smart Band, a $200 screenless fitness tracker that takes the fight to the likes of Whoop and Fitbit by delivering comprehensive around-the-clock biometric insights minus a monthly subscription.
The CIRQA...
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A federal judge in San Francisco has finalized an historic $1.5 billion settlement between AI startup Anthropic and a group of authors, resolving the largest copyright suit in U.S. history over generative AI.
U.S. District Judge Araceli...
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Lamborghini is celebrating its 25th anniversary in the Japanese market with the Revuelto Impavido, a Japan-only limited edition of just 25 individually numbered V12 plug-in hybrid supercars. The bespoke cars pay homage to the traditional...
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Breitling and Aston Martin have teamed up to release the Top Time B01 Chronograph 41, a trio of limited-edition timepieces honoring the iconic 1963 Aston Martin DB5 made famous by Sean Connery’s James Bond in Thunderball.
The new...
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A new path to cleaning up the world’s plastic waste might start on the runway. Researchers from Nanjing Forestry University and Tsinghua University have developed a tandem reactor system capable of converting discarded plastics directly...
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Kodak is attempting to reclaim the burgeoning film photography market with the casual EC35, a 35mm point-and-shoot that pairs 1980s nostalgia with modern reliability, all for a smidge under $35. The perfect stocking stuffer for your teen?...
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For the first time, astronomers have confirmed the presence of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet orbiting within its star’s habitable zone, marking a major milestone in the search for life beyond our solar system.
Located 49 light...
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Luxury tech customizer Caviar is capitalizing on 2026 World Cup frenzy by launching its ultra-exclusive "Legends" collection, featuring a $13,000 Messi-themed Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra and a slightly more affordable Ronaldo-themed...
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Made from the stuff of blurry UFO sightings, engineers at Northwestern University have unveiled a drone that nearly vanishes in mid-air and not by using advanced camouflage or light-bending materials, but simply by spinning too fast for...
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Physicists led by IIT Bhubaneswar have achieved a major breakthrough in spintronic computing by synchronizing over 105,000 magnetic nano-oscillators in just 45 nanoseconds, thus shattering the scalability limits of neuromorphic hardware...
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Astronomers have uncovered one of our cosmic neighborhood's most famous star systems, revealing a third planet that has evaded discovery for more than a decade. The newly-discovered world, Beta Pictoris d, resides 63 light-years away in...
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Well, it was a good 12-year run. Chinese brand OnePlus is officially exiting the North American and European markets, ending a very memorable era of main brand-challenging consumer devices. The much-rumored retreat means a hard stop of new...
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