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Qualcomm aims Snapdragon C laptop chip at the budget laptop segment, as manufacturers feel the DRAM squeeze — analysts warn sub $500 laptop market may disappear before 2028 Kryo cores and 8GB of memory are aimed at a tier analysts say is being priced out of existence. Qualcomm an

How Trustpilot built a real-time architecture for data enrichment using Gemma Dario Banfi Forward Deployed Engineer, Google Assulan Nurkas Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Trustpilot Processing millions of user reviews in real-time, under strict latency and cost constraints, is n

The fully-managed Remote MCP Server for AlloyDB is now Generally Available Paul Ramsey Product Manager, AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Gleb Otochkin Cloud Advocate, Databases, Google Cloud AI agents possess incredible reasoning capabilities and can perform increasingly complex

A new AI weather forecasting tool released today by the startup WindBorne Systems offers more frequent and accurate predictions on key variables than the world-leading system developed by European governments, thanks to advancements in how sensor readings are fed into deep learni

Introducing the GKE standby buffer: Improve node startup times without blowing your budget Eyal Yablonka Product Manager, Google Kubernetes Engine Konrad Kurdej Staff Software Engineer, Google Kubernetes Engine Application owners and platform engineers have long faced a difficult

Nvidia Says Vera Rubin, Vera CPU on Track, Launches DSX OS to Run AI Factories At its GTC Taipei conference, Nvidia announces Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI as early adopters of its new Vera CPU. Nvidia on Monday said its Vera Rubin agentic AI platform and Vera CPUs are in full

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Five years ago, venture capitalists were pouring money into American startups selling everything from lingerie subscriptions to scheduling software, anointing them with billion-dollar valuations before most even turned a profit. It was a frothy era for startups, fueled by a combi

Dell Makes The Profits Up In Volume For Booming AI Servers The last time that Dell had a blowout quarter like the one that it has turned in was probably back when Michael Dell was selling custom PCs from his dorm room at the University of Texas. More than four decades later, the

Asus' world-first OLED esports monitor can hit 540Hz at 1080p — ROG Strix OLED model among four fresh offerings Asus ROG is OLED-heavy at Computex 2026 The Asus ROG gaming monitor family is expanding greatly today with four new entries, including a new OLED esports monitor capabl

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As its traffic continues to climb, alternative search engine DuckDuckGo is leaning into anti-AI sentiment with the launch of new browser extensions that allow users to set its no-AI search experience, noai.duckduckgo.com, as their default search engine. Once enabled, users will b

These days, Nvidia primarily sells AI data center products, and its traditional consumer devices feel like more of a side project. But the company occasionally still releases something designed for consumers. After a couple of years of rumors, Nvidia has announced an Arm-based ch

British fintech Revolut has quietly begun rolling out its services in India as part of a controlled beta program ahead of a broader launch, marking a significant milestone in its years-long effort to enter the country’s fast-growing digital payments market. Revolut started taking

Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this week in a bid to win back developers at its Build conference. I’ve been attending Build since the days when Microsoft called it the Professional Developers Conference, and I can’t remember a more pivotal moment. As Microsoft continues to

Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI would upend the music industry, but still not exactly clear how that would happ

Asus rolls out a ROG 20th anniversary chair and backpack, alongside commemorative components and peripherals — ROG Destrier Edition 20, ROG SLASH Hard-case Luggage Edition 20 are back in black (and gold) Is it a gaming throne if it’s mostly black, with gold accents? To say Asus i

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The popular fitness-tracking platform, Strava, is restricting access to its API as part of efforts to clamp down on AI scraping, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Developers who want to build an app using Strava’s data now need to pay for a flat $11.99 / month subscription. Stra

Seven hospitalized after toxic gas fire at SK hynix advanced memory plant — Cheongju 4th campus incident today led to all 3,600 staff being evacuated Five of the seven were suffering from eye irritation thought to be caused by fluorine gas. Thousands of SK hynix employees fled th

Bambu Lab Launches Big Bed Slinger: A2L — company's 'H2S Lite' is half the cost of H2S at just $469 Or get the combo for $569 Bambu Lab is launching a new, larger-sized bed slinger, the A2L, with a 330 × 320 × 325 mm build volume similar in size to the H2 lineup, but at half the

Intel is finally shipping its Xeon 6+ processor family, codenamed Clearwater Forest. These new chips target the Xeon 6900 series AP (accelerated processor) platforms currently available with the Xeon 6900P series. They are also a successor to the Sierra Forest Xeon 6700E series S

256GB of dual-channel RAM hits mass market thanks to Origin Code — quad-rank CUDIMM packs 128GB of DDR5-8000 into a single module Origin Code, one of the newest players in the memory market, has unveiled the brand's quad-rank (4R) CUDIMM memory kits to compete directly with the b

Intel plans to ship an AI chip by the end of this year that uses cheaper memory and cooling technology than rival offerings from Nvidia and AMD, as the US chipmaker seeks to capitalize on a sharp turnaround in its fortunes. Kevork Kechichian, who leads Intel’s data center group,

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Utilities Say Data Centers Could Lower Electricity Bills. Regulators Want Proof Utilities say hyperscale data centers can spread grid costs across more customers, but regulators are building protections in case that growth fails to materialize. After two years of assuring regulat

Tom's Hardware Unfiltered: Computex 2026, Day 0 — peek behind the curtain to see how we're covering the biggest trade show of the year We peel back the curtain in our new series of daily blogs. Tom's Hardware has covered hundreds of press events, and for a long time, you've alway

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Nvidia says RTX Spark chip will support all major anti-cheat and DRM technologies — Fortnite, Valorant, Denuvo, and more to work natively with Windows on Arm Solving one of the biggest hurdles of a non-x86 platform. Nvidia announced its new RTX Spark Superchip this week, opening

Asus' monstrous ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Edition 20 includes expansive curved AMOLED display — also debuts 3,000W power supply and striking PC case Asus opens the limited-edition floodgates to celebrate ROG’s 20th anniversary. Asus has used its Computex press event to showcase

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AWS: Randomized Graph Networks Are Ready for Prime Time Resilient Network Graphs architecture will become the default network for new non-GPU infrastructure, replacing Clos fabrics. Amazon Web Services says it has adopted a new data center network design – Resilient Network Graph

This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Happy Monday. There's some breaking news to start the week: Nvidia is getting into the PC market, helping to spark a rally in premarket trading among tech stocks. The market is comi

Supermicro shows off Vera Rubin NVL72 rack with all-new type of coolant — company claims coolant offers 1,000 times higher electrical impedance over standard cooling New coolant may be Supermicro’s main advantage over competitors. Supermicro is showing off its upcoming machines b

Headlining NVIDIA’s hardware announcements for this year’s Computex trade show in Taiwan, the company finally revealed its long-awaited (and heavily leaked) Arm SoC for Windows PCs, the RTX Spark. Previously going under the codename N1X, the RTX Spark will mark NVIDIA’s second ef

AI companies have grown into data-hungry entities as their models require ever-larger datasets to train on. To meet that need, many AI startups defy long-standing internet conventions — like respecting robots.txt files, which signal to automated crawlers which parts of a website

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