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Tom's Hardware Verdict The 3DMakerPro Toucan delivers a portable, computer-free 3D scanning workflow with solid geometry capture and fast onboard processing. Frequent tracking loss, poor color texture quality, and an unreliable Wi-Fi file transfer process keep it from being an ea

AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine builders of massive 6.2 million-square-foot facility over unauthorized water use County's soft touch is a

Tiny credit card computer includes eInk screen and is just 1mm thick — Muxcard is powered by the ESP32-C3 microcontroller Prototype plans are on GitHub where the maker encourages experimentation, modification, and non-commercial use. The supremely portable dimensions of the humbl

Alphabet briefly passed Nvidia by market cap in after-hours trading this week, a remarkable feat for a company that was seen as deeply at risk in the early days of the artificial intelligence boom. The stock is up about 160% in the past year, driven higher by an emerging view on

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D faceoff — How far does dual cache take you? More cache, largely similar performance. AMD’s new Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 already earned a spot among our best CPUs for gaming, leveraging the company’s 3D V-Cache across both CCDs and topping the Zen 5

AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden The K5 (1996) is important in AMD history as it was its f

Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to ‘Go (Bleep) yourself’ over its threatened lawsuit against enthusiast — Right to Repair advocate offers to pay the legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer Bambu Labs controversy heats up. Louis Rossmann has officially ple

On a bright afternoon in Jiangsu, China, Xin Yin is playing personal trainer to some mice. One by one, he sets the rodents on a miniature treadmill that starts slow and gradually speeds up. These littermates are born athletes, able to run farther with less lactic acid buildup tha

AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects Data centers are hurting the ears of the people living around them. Data center p

At 5:26 am local time on August 10, 2025, a massive wedge of rock with a volume of at least 63.5 million cubic meters detached from a mountain above Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord. The falling rock plummeted into the deep waters at the terminus of the South Sawyer Glacier and caused an

$200 'socketed' Nvidia AI GPU for servers hacked into a PCIe card with custom PCB and 3D-printed cooling — modded Tesla V100 SMX data center GPU runs AI LLMs and is more efficient than many modern midrange offerings in AI inference Another hidden gem is about to be price-hiked no

NASA pushes Mars helicopter rotors past the speed of sound for the first time ever — next-gen “SkyFall” aircraft's rotors hit 3,750 RPM, ten times faster than normal helicopters Rotors spin 10 times faster than modern helicopters. NASA confirmed in a blog post that it had success

Ukraine’s new AI-guided laser destroys Shahed suicide drones in seconds from 3.1 miles away — also useful for demining operations, trailer-mounted Tryzub system is in final stages of testing Uses AI for target acquisition and tracking, and it can also eliminate smaller, faster dr

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India’s internet users already rely heavily on voice notes, voice search, and multilingual messaging. Turning those habits into a scalable AI business, however, remains difficult because of the country’s linguistic complexity, mixed-language usage, and uneven monetization pattern

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Artificial intelligence is changing the world, and simultaneously inventing a whole new language to describe how it’s doing it. Spend five minutes reading about AI and you’ll run into LLMs, RAG, RLHF, and a dozen other terms that can make even very smart people in the tech world

Parker, a well-funded startup offering corporate credit cards and banking services for e-commerce businesses, has filed for bankruptcy and is widely reported to have shut down. The startup was part of Y Combinator’s winter 2019 cohort, and its Series A was led by Valar Ventures.

General Motors has reached a privacy-related settlement with a group of law enforcement agencies led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Back in 2024, The New York Times reported that automakers including GM were sharing information about their customers’ driving behavior w

This week, Anthropic announced that it signed an agreement with SpaceX for all of the Colossus 1 data center compute capacity. While this is a big deal in the industry. It is also one that hits close to home at STH. Anthropic Signs SpaceX Colossus 1 Data Center to Boost Capacity

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Nvidia stepped on the gas last year, putting cash into companies up and down the AI infrastructure stack and helping to fund businesses that could turn around and buy the chipmaker's technology. It's been a lucrative endeavor, as the company's $5 billion bet on Intel is now worth

In an increasingly AI-driven and digital world, analog instant film and retro-style cameras remain popular, fueled by a combination of both nostalgia and charm. Instant cameras, in particular, stand out for their simplicity and an experience that has remained largely unchanged ov

Nvidia continues to be a major investor in the AI ecosystem, committing more than $40 billion to equity investments in AI companies — and that’s just in these early months of 2026, according to CNBC. Much of that total comes from a single bet, a $30 billion investment in OpenAI.

FCC reverses course, allows software updates for foreign-made drones and routers until 2029 — agency says blocking security patches could create cybersecurity risks The FCC is extending a software lifeline for millions of already-deployed drones and routers. The Federal Communica

Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers — state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ promises Aren't AI hyperscalers supposed to pay for these upgrades? The Mar

Cloudflare cuts 20% of its jobs due to AI, and its stock takes a 19% spill — 1,100 jobs disappearing as company increased usage of AI sixfold over past months Markets are going to do market things. Jobs cuts related to increased AI usage have practically become background noise a

Save $290 on this Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5, Samsung 9100 Pro 1TB combo from Newegg — $949.99 bundle includes free 750W power supply and one-year VPN subscription A solid start for an AM5 build. If you are planning to upgrade or build a powerful new gaming PC, this Newegg bundle

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Nextorage NEM-PAC is a competent PCIe 4.0 SSD great for desktops and the PS5. It offers good performance and a solid heatsink, but doesn’t otherwise stand out. Pros - + Good performance where it matters - + PS5-compliant heatsink - + Above average TBW C

Best budget gaming laptops of 2026: The best cheap laptops we've tested and benchmarked We benchmarked budget gaming laptops to help you get the most for your money. Gaming laptops can be pricey, and in the past few years, they have only gotten more expensive. The components insi

Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as a British research firm labels them a 'loophole' — one app developer saw downloads surge by 1,800% in just the first month after the UK's Online Safety Act took effect The very tools regulators want to restrict are surging in pop

Testing Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry tech — VRAM-reducing tech a leap forward for path-traced rendering Reducing VRAM and eliminating visual artifacts? What's not to like? We took Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry technology through a series of tests in Alan Wake 2 and the RTX Bonsai Dior

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The main antagonist of Toy Story 5, in theaters this summer, is a green, frog-shaped kids’ tablet named Lilypad, a genius new villain for the beloved Pixar franchise. But if Pixar had its ear to the ground, it might have used an AI kids’ toy instead. AI toys are seemingly everywh

Commodore Amiga-emulating TheA1200 retro computer delayed nearly half a year by ‘global chip shortages’ — Retro Games Ltd says it will use the extra time to finesse the software Originally scheduled for a mid-June release, the makers now insist it will be available from December