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Aaron Leong - Fri, Sep 04, 2026
Artificial intelligence is now radically reshaping the landscape of physics, generating experimental layouts that outperform traditional human engineering while sparking questions about the nature of scientific inquiry.
A publication in...
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Chris Harper - Wed, Sep 02, 2026
With summer coming to a close, and a new school year upon us, we have put together a list of must-have Back-To-School tech accessories. This list is focused on items that may come in handy or improve your workflow, whether at your desk, in...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Aug 21, 2026
Micron has announced a $10 billion commitment over the next decade to establish Micron Research Labs, a long-horizon research institution headquartered in Boise, Idaho. The new hub is designed to look well beyond today's standard DRAM and...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Aug 20, 2026
A $30 million rescue effort has come to an end, dooming NASAs Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope to a fiery atmospheric reentry later this year. The observatory had previously suffered major attitude control malfunctions and went into an...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Aug 14, 2026
For the first time, astronomers have discovered a globular cluster stellar stream outside the Milky Way, giving scientists a new way to map invisible dark matter in distant galaxies.
Located approximately 115 million light-years from...
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Aaron Leong - Mon, Aug 03, 2026
Chinese memory titan ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is in early talks to secure funding for a second major DRAM fabrication facility in Beijing in a bid to expand memory chip output. Could this help alleviate some of the pressure on...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Jul 31, 2026
Smartphone sales are hitting a wall, so MediaTek is betting big on a completely different (albeit red-hot) market segment. The Taiwanese chipmaker just approved a flexible $5 billion discretionary financing framework aimed at expanding its...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Jul 31, 2026
NASAs Curiosity rover has uncovered an extraordinary, sea-like expanse of geometric honeycomb patterns on Mars, providing novel evidence of how liquid water might have shaped the planet eons ago.
Imaged inside the Valle Grande Martian...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Jul 28, 2026
Amazon has filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission to launch up to 5,105 low-Earth orbit satellites, establishing a direct-to-device (D2D) telecommunications network that supports voice, data, messaging, and...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 27, 2026
NVIDIA is reportedly in negotiations to provide in the neighborhood of $250 billion in financial guarantees to help OpenAI secure a 10-gigawatt AI data center campus in southern Ohio. Expanding on OpenAI's $100 billion partnership to power...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jul 09, 2026
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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Zak Killian - Tue, Jul 07, 2026
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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Aaron Leong - Mon, Jul 06, 2026
Astronomers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth located just 25 light-years away, offering a major new target in the search for alien life.
The newly discovered planet (GJ...
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Paul Lilly - Sun, Jul 05, 2026
An AI-driven shortage of key components, especially memory and storage chips, has driven up the price of a range of electronics, including not only DDR5 memory kits and PC solid state drives (SSDs), but also things like game consoles, consumer laptops, and so forth. Will lower-priced...
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Tim Sweezy - Sat, Jun 27, 2026
Anyone holding out hope that memory and SSD prices will eventually drift back to pre-2025 levels probably needs to recalibrate those expectations. At ISC 2026 in Hamburg, Germany, Lenovo delivered a sobering message to industry attendees...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jun 24, 2026
Hot on the heels of Elon Musk's SpaceX making history with a record-breaking initial public offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ stock exchange earlier this month, chip giant SK hynix is hoping to raise some major capitalbillions of dollarswith...
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Aaron Leong - Thu, Jun 18, 2026
NASA is turning to a commercial newcomer to reach the Red Planet. Through a newly announced public-private partnership, the agency has selected Relativity Space to build, launch, and operate a Mars orbiter mission scheduled for 2028...
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Aaron Leong - Tue, Jun 16, 2026
AMD is reportedly planning a major change for its next-generation Zen 6 desktop processors, trading basic video diagnostics for localized AI processing. Based on the leak, the upcoming 2027 CPU lineup, codenamed "Olympic Ridge," will...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Jun 15, 2026
SMS spam has evolved far beyond the era of low-effort annoyances, transforming into a massive, industrialized ecosystem. Today, its a highly calculated numbers game consisting of fake package notifications, urgent bank alerts, and...
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Aaron Leong - Wed, Jun 03, 2026
Google has rolled out a fake phone call detection feature designed to intercept sophisticated AI voice impersonators and number spoofing scams before users fall victim. Rolling out globally this month as part of the June 2026 Android...
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Zak Killian - Sun, May 31, 2026
At Computex 2026, AMD isn't letting up on its recent AI-heavy message, but it threw gamers a bone with a few announcements targeting the crucial performance-sensitive but budget-conscious gamer demographic. There's also an...
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Marco Chiappetta - Thu, May 28, 2026
Biwin Black Opal NV7400 2TB: $249 Orico X50: $199 ($159 w/ Coupon) External storage is pretty much a necessity for many users, so we built a high-capacity speed demon using parts from Biwin and Orico. Fast Sequential Transfers Silent And Consistent Durable Enclosure Requires TB5 For Max...
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