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Solve harder problems with AlphaEvolve, now available to everyone on Google Cloud Anant Nawalgaria Group AI Product Manager & Engineer, Google Laurynas Tamulevičius Staff AI Software Engineer, Google Many of the most challenging and valuable problems in the world are related to o

Dive Brief: - Back-to-school spending is expected to stay flat this year as parents of K-12 students look for value and approach the season with a mixture of caution and intention, according to a new 2026 survey from Deloitte. Parents are expected to spend $557 per child, down $1

Ingenious father fixes dead RTX 3070 with a jerry-rigged capacitor from an old radio — Saves worried son $120 in repair costs, GPU 'works better than before' now Simple fix for an expensive issue. We've seen a lot of dead GPUs around here, some of which have been brought back to

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When surgeons dug into a man’s groin to repair a painless bulge, they made the unexpected discovery of a living, 10-inch-long (26 cm) worm snug in his abdomen. Adding to the oddity, the man told the surgeons that this had actually happened to him before, according to a case repor

While the U.S. flip-flops on chip sanctions, China is building its own chip supply market — export controls are creating conditions for a Sino-Russian chip trade alliance Donald Trump can’t seem to decide whether or not he wants China to have access to chip supplies – but in the

- Data Center Site Selection - Data Center Construction - Next-Gen Data Centers - AI Data Centers - Industry Trends Can Growing Community Backlash Quiet the AI Data Center Boom? Local opposition groups surged to 430 from 76 since 2025, while recent Virginia project failures sugge

U.S. investors are getting a new way to buy into the memory boom. SK Hynix, the second most valuable company in South Korea, behind only Samsung, is slated to begin trading on the Nasdaq on Friday. The market debut, coinciding with the company's hefty expansion plans for the U.S.

It was 2007. George W. Bush was president. The U.S. economy was expanding, but there were growing signs that the explosive growth in the housing market — and maybe the entire boom of the past five or six years — was a giant bubble. As gains became ever more elusive, states got mo

Real estate giant Prologis is looking to build a data center in San Jose, California. As reported by NBC and Mercury News, the company is looking to develop a three-story facility totaling 516,000 sq ft (47,935 sqm) on around 15 acres at 5977 Silver Creek Valley Road. The facilit

A developer has filed an interconnect application for a 250MW data center in Greater Napanee, Canada, but local officials have said that no application for the campus has been received. In 2025, Napanee Environmental Complex, Inc. filed an application with the Independent Electri

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We haven’t seen much footage to date for Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Three, other than the broody and haunting extended teaser Warner Bros. dropped in March. But now we’ve got a shiny new trailer jam-packed with tantalizing hints of what to expect, and plenty of Easter eggs to

High mortgage rates coupled with record-high prices are causing homebuyers to pull back. Sales of previously owned homes in June dropped 2.4% from May to 4.09 million units on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis, according to the National Association of Realtors. Housing anal

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Thrift stores are a first line of defense against textile waste, and changing attitudes about thrifting and resale could help shape recycling systems and divert more material from landfills in the coming years, said speakers at the Northeast Recycling Council’s material reuse for

NVIDIA has introduced a new business model to accelerate the deployment of AI infrastructure by combining revenue sharing with credit support for AI cloud providers. Announced July 1 in a blog post co-authored by CFO Colette Kress, the initiative is designed to expand access to a

Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism, by Colin Kidd. Focusing on the unworldly academic class of senior tutors and lecturers that haunted the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, Kidd writes that the dons were not simply “a set of quirky and e

Ruf has come quite a long way from its roots as a tuner of Porsches. The German company (no doubt familiar to those of us in the PlayStation generation as Gran Turismo 2‘s workaround because someone else owned the video game rights to the real 911) has evolved past that stage and

AI inference cloud DeepInfra has launched a data center location in Toronto, Canada. According to the company, the facility offers 1.7MW of capacity and will host more than 1,000 Nvidia Blackwell B300 GPUs. This is the company's ninth data center location and its first outside of

AMD revives aging Zen 2 processor for budget PCs — Ryzen 7 4700LE resurfaces in a new $800 RTX 3050 prebuilt AM4 is alive and kicking. AMD continues to squeeze more life out of its AM4 platform as a newly listed prebuilt gaming PC has been spotted powered by the Ryzen 7 4700LE. T

Intel preps 28-core Nova Lake-S CPUs for Dunlow workstation platform — Entry-level Xeon chip features LGA1954 socket For entry-level servers and workstations in LGA1954 packaging. Intel is working on a version of its Nova Lake-S processor platform codenamed Dunlow that will offer

Ways to think about token pricing There are only two things you can say with certainty about token prices: we’re in a supply crunch, and this is unstable. All of the variables are in play, and the market will get shaken out over the next few years to arrive at a new equilibrium.

Off the Wire Press Releases MUNICH, July 9, 2026 — QuantumDiamonds GmbH (QD), one of Europe’s fastest-growing semiconductor equipment companies, today announced the closing of a €91 million funding round to scale production of its quantum-based semiconductor inspection technology

Nvidia shows off GeForce Trading Cards Series 1 — collectible cards show off games, GPUs, and tech demos, and will be available for free at upcoming events A card you can't put in your PC. Nvidia is making a new set of cards, and no, they won't make it among the best graphics car

Gamma is the anti-PowerPoint. Grant Lee and two former Optimizely colleagues set out to kill the blank page problem, and five years later they’re at $100M ARR, 50 million users, and 600,000 paying subscribers. Profitably. With a team of 50. They did the bulk of that with zero sal

Professor suspected AI-powered cheating on take-home midterms, makes finals in-person — only two students scored within 10% of their midterm score Are students outsourcing critical thinking to AI tools? Brown University professor Roberto Serrano suspected that his students were c

Plans for a data center development at the site of a former Walmart in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have been dropped following significant local opposition. Described as a “computing research facility” by developers and the local Alderman, the proposed development in Midtown would have

Officials in Elk River, Minnesota, have denied a zoning application for a proposed data center project and are considering a year-long moratorium on new developments. Swervo Development Corp. affiliate Elk River Capital was proposing to convert an existing 60,000-square-foot (5,5

A consortium of European companies, Aether Infrastructure, wants to build two data centers in France as part of the European Commission’s AI Gigafactory scheme. Aether brings together “leading European players in energy, construction, cloud computing, semiconductors, high-perform

Three months after unveiling its first artificial intelligence model under the leadership of AI chief Alexandr Wang, Meta is rolling out a major update as it attempts to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic in critical areas of the market. Muse Spark 1.1, which Meta introduced on Th

Three months after unveiling its first artificial intelligence model under the leadership of AI chief Alexandr Wang, Meta is rolling out a major update as it attempts to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic in critical areas of the market. Muse Spark 1.1, which Meta introduced on Th

After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API. Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding Muse Spark 1

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Australian Internet of Things (IoT) firm X2M Connect Limited is looking to move into the data center space. The ASX-listed firm this week announced its partner, Resi Ventures, has completed settlement for land located approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) from Ballarat's centra

Sega’s $5M investment saved Nvidia in 1996, now Jensen Huang is heading to Tokyo to mark 30 years of partnership — Akihabara event will include a GeForce RTX 5090 FE lottery, an RTX Spark presentation, and more In the mid-90s Sega provided a $5M lifeline to Nvidia before its firs

Robotaxi companies have thrived in California, where the good weather, enthusiasm for technology, and sophisticated labor force have supported their growth for nearly two decades. But a delayed decision from a state regulatory agency is now slowing Alphabet’s subsidiary Waymo, th

Cisco got the nod to supply its network offerings for some of golf’s biggest tournaments. The R&A selected the networking giant to support The Open, the sport’s oldest tournament. The 154th Open, set to be held July 12-19 at Royal Birkdale in North West England, will be supported

The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber — and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a “reflect” feature for its Claude chatbot, allowing users to see an analysis of th