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Seasonic has introduced the world's first 80 Plus Ruby certified 115V ATX PSU, the Prime RX-1600. The new unit features an efficiency rating of up to 95% at 20% to 50% load.
LG has an unveiled a new OLED manufacturing breakthrough that will allow brighter, sharper and longer-lasting panels of nearly any size.
We review the current state of high-performance supercomputing, interviewing experts, including the deputy head of high-performance computing at GWDG, to find out exactly where the current race stands.
SMIC posted its first $3 billion quarter earlier this month, with revenue up 36.1% year on year, net profit nearly tripling to $479.2 million.
The Poolease X1 can collect leaves from the pool floor, but dirt, silt, walls, and steps are all beyond its pay grade.
A 'grand piano style' Blu-ray drive and USB dock has got tech fans excited over on Kickstarter.
G.Skill has started sending payments to claimants regarding the $2.4 million lawsuit over inadequately marketed RAM speeds.
I put top-rated USB car chargers to the test for fast charging, value, heat, and safety. These are the best I found.
Microcontroller-based products, such as the PineTime smartwatch, PineVoice smart speaker, and Pinecil soldering iron, aren't affected.
Get $800 off this RTX 5090 gaming laptop with Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, 32GB of RAM, and a 2TB SSD.
The Swift observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this year, because NASA has aborted its rescue mission.
Sennheiser's latest earbuds are the rare ones that have user-replaceable batteries.
Judge Reed O'Connor of the Northern District of Texas said that the ATF ruling that putting part kits that can easily be turned into firearms in the same category as actual guns is unconstitutional. He also said that the vagueness of som...
YouTuber Kouzex has transplanted the internals of a pair of Joy-Con 2 controllers into two original Wii Remote shells, producing motion controllers that snap magnetically onto a Switch 2.
Richard Haldenby says his average monthly bill for Harvest had risen from $130 (£95.50) to $2,110.
A Texas woman has filmed the moment an Amazon Prime delivery drone dumped her package straight into her swimming pool.
Samsung says it will be launching a new addition to its S26 lineup next week.
There's nothing else going on that day, right?
Eight leaked Steam Frame videos are informative and kinda silly.
It's a full rollout for the driverless vans in San Francisco, Phoenix and Los Angeles.
The new cameras are prettier versions of Polaroid Now and Polaroid Go.
The FDA has approved a first-of-its-kind automated blood draw device for outpatient settings.
During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool.
College students can get a free year of Google's AI Pro plan, something that would normally cost $200.
Drivers may be more distracted on days when a big new album drops.
The $330 Xbox building set includes a controller that interacts with three game-inspired dioramas.
New gaming studio Black Pony Immersive has veterans from Arkane, Insomniac and Epic.
Who wouldn't want to rest their tush on a green Xbox logo cushion?
Meta's new Mac app is part of the company's push to make more business-friendly AI tools.
Operation Blue Skies, which also involves the UK government, will subtly reroute flights to test contrail avoidance.
Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within hours, overrides were being touted online.
With smarter gym tracking, new health alerts, and offline Gemini, the Pixel Watch 5 fine-tunes a winning formula—for a price.
Amazon says it will serve nearly 500 US towns and cities with Prime Air deliveries by the end of the year.
Samsung raised prices on new orders across its 4nm, 5nm, and 8nm foundry processes in July, with increases reaching 15% for customers in China.
This goes way, way further than keeping an eye on license plates.
According to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request the number of letters sent has almost tripled since 2024.
The digital bank said all of its services were now "back up and running"
Google’s new voice typing is pure magic, but subpar gaming performance and a useless rear LED keep these flagships from true greatness.
The Pixel 11 is $100 more than last year and didn't change a ton, but is still one of the best smartphones on the market.
Chinese tech giants are putting up data centers in rural Chinese provinces with zero resistance. The abundance of land and energy in these areas allowed infrastructure to easily be built with limited issues, although some experts still q...
Qualcomm has issued an updated slide for its Snapdragon C power efficiency claims, removing two benchmarks from the results.
Thermal Grizzly offers the halo CPU with the pop topped for an egregious price, yet it almost makes sense on this chip.
Hacker Cyberleek leaked gameplay clips and the entire map of GTA VI in protest of Rockstar's decision to launch pre-orders of a digital game. They claim that pre-orders were created because physical discs could run out at retailers, mean...
To reduce reliance on China, Google plans to relocate production of Pixel smartphones, smartwatches, and headsets from China to India and Vietnam.
To appease concerns about privacy, Wi-Fi Motion is opt-in
Divided across two countries and four campuses, Samsung's fab roadmap runs from the Korean bases at Pyeongtaek, Hwaseong, and Giheung to the new U.S. site at Taylor.
Two indie brands join together in a viral ad campaign asking people to pee on computers. Taylor Swift's brother-in-law, Jason Kelce, who co-owns one of the brands, stars in this humorous ad where he pees in a bottle and carries it to a p...
An AI-themed bar in Beijing's Zhongguancun tech hub hands out free, unlimited DeepSeek tokens with its drinks, running inference locally on two Nvidia DGX Spark mini-PCs.
Japanese chemical maker Ajinomoto has reportedly told customers in mainland China that it will cut the supply of ABF.
What originally looked like clutter turned out to be my new favorite gadget for organizing my family’s life.
Matt Cole has been running hundreds of microSD cards through their paces, running them through thousands of cycles until they fail. The results are quite surprising, with both the winners and losers coming from some of the most unexpecte...
The ChatGPT-maker said training will be slowed for two weeks while it puts the upgrades in place.
The ASRock X870E Taichi White updates the original with a cleaner all-white design and 10 GbE, and is the first ASRock board to feature all-white components. But pricing could scare away some users.
I tested the top-of-the-line Ecovacs Winbot W2S Omni window-cleaning robot on my Victorian home, and it was an unmitigated disaster.
Taiwan will hand roughly $314 USD in cash to every resident next year as a boon for the island's residents generated by the AI gold rush. The 2027 central government budget sets aside $7.4 billion USD for the dividend.
The replica watch industry is in its “super clone” era. Following tips from murky internet forums, we bought three budget fakes that were good enough to pass as real—but ultimately disposable.
Beijing wants most of each company's U.S.-licensed allowance, which the FT puts at up to 100,000 units apiece, kept off the mainland.
The car world is filled with designers still obsessed with shoehorning sex into their rides. Slate went a different route, and it’s why people are smitten with the charming electric pickup.
The Dell XPS 13 and MacBook Neo are both premium-feeling laptops with only 8 GB of RAM. Which $700 laptop is the better buy?