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Score 16GB of DDR5 RAM for just $61.99 in this Newegg parts bundle with the 7800X3D — epic kit deal for a gaming PC build nets you $189 in savings and ships with a Gigabyte motherboard and free MSI MAG cooler A solid start to a gaming PC build with this Newegg bundle With hardwar

Anil Menon, a NASA flight surgeon, felt crushed nine years ago as his hopes and aspirations collapsed around him. For the fourth time, he had diligently applied to become an astronaut at the US space agency, seeking to fulfill a lifelong dream. Although he made it to the final ro

Best Buy has slashed $900 off this Asus 64GB 2-in-1 touchscreen gaming laptop — $2,099 RoG Flow Z13 is great for both gaming and AI use A hefty 64GB of superfast 8000MT/s LPDDR5X memory for both gaming and small LLM model play Fancy a gaming laptop that's a little different? Some

Nvidia and Sega team up to deliver RTX Spark support for future games — partnership kicks off next year with upcoming Virtua Fighter Crossroads The two companies continue a collaboration that spans over 30 years. Nvidia's RTX Spark platform arrives later this year, and the compan

Intel's big $5 billion bet on Ireland aims to right the wrongs of the cancelled Magdeburg, Germany complex — Fab 34's proven pipeline and Intel 3 node should help the company meet insatiable HPC demand The Leixlip program is brownfield, self-funded, and tied to demand Intel says

US Coast Guard ships that previously operated in the Middle East have been deployed to Singapore and the Philippines, as Washington looks to challenge China’s assertion of power in the Pacific Ocean. Tensions have risen in the region as Beijing has sought to expand its maritime a

Editor's note: This is the second of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions of orbital data centers. Although the idea of putting data centers into space has long been discussed on a theoretical basis, the technolo

Home to leading manufacturers, robotics pioneers, infrastructure builders and iconic gaming companies, of course, Japan is one of the world’s centers of AI — building across the full stack with NVIDIA technologies. This week NVIDIA and its partners in Japan are showcasing the AI

Electric two-wheeler maker Ather Energy has approved a preferential issue worth Rs 1,200 crore, with existing investor Hero MotoCorp committing nearly Rs 960 crore and the India-Japan Fund (IJF) investing Rs 200 crore, according to a stock exchange filing. The India-Japan Fund (I

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US President Donald Trump threatened to attack Iranian civil infrastructure, including bridges and power stations, unless Tehran resumes peace talks. A month-long ceasefire has effectively collapsed, with the two countries exchanging fire for four consecutive days. The renewed fi

The Scene Gaming is moving from the margins of Gulf marketing budgets toward the center. In Saudi Arabia, two-thirds of the population are active gamers and the state has committed more than $37 billion into games studios and esports through its Public Investment Fund-owned Savvy

Forget the sale of the century. The auction house Sotheby’s has geared up for the sale of the epoch. On July 14 it opened live bidding on assorted fossils, but the pièce de résistance is lot 20, a rare 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton. The specimen—dubbed Gus—is bil

The Scene Soccer fans in Saudi Arabia have been unable to legally watch World Cup matches, after restrictions were placed on the Qatar-owned platform that holds the exclusive regional broadcasting rights. It’s unclear why the kingdom — which is preparing to host the 2034 World Cu

Beauty and personal care brand Recode Studios has acquired up to a 51% equity stake in Aflairza Professionals, a luxury beauty and cosmetics brand. The proposed acquisition will be executed in two phases, combining a secondary purchase of shares from the existing promoters and a

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Developer successfully ports Linux to 1994 Sega 32X — Genesis and MegaDrive expansion runs open-source OS on paltry 23MHz processors and 256KB of RAM In today’s employment market, the dev reckons this port and their earlier Linux for Atari Jaguar effort will help improve their jo

IBM announced preliminary results that spooked the software market generally; this is a story, however, specifically about IBM and its mainframe franchise. Subscribe to Stratechery Plus for full access. Already subscribed? $15 / month or $150 / year With Stratechery Plus you get

After twin earthquakes struck northern Venezuela last month, thousands of people took to social media, pleading for help locating friends and family. The interim government was slow to act, but help came quickly from an unexpected source: developers and programmers. “Who knew whe

Legendary Gravis Ultrasound sound card gets new open-source clone — Beavis Ultrasound remake includes complete KiCad schematics, PCB layout, sample ROM, and more KiCad schematics, PCB layout, sample ROM, and reverse‑engineered GAL logic are all provided, but you’ll still need to

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CXMT close to matching Micron's memory capacity in 2026, research claims — would put China on track to become world's second-largest DRAM producer All they need is enough immersion DUV lithography. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's largest DRAM maker, is on track to ma

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Ukraine conducts record drone strike of 2,500km after 12-hour flight — $55,000 unit made of plywood halts operations at Russia's largest gasoline producer Fire Point's FP-1 uses a two-cylinder engine, a plywood airframe, and a wing-integrated fuel tank to reach targets deep in Si

The Scoop The owner of The Baltimore Sun is threatening to sue Maryland Gov. Wes Moore over comments the governor made linking him to Jeffrey Epstein. During an appearance on MS NOW on June 16, Moore was asked about the newspaper’s recent critical reporting on Moore’s administrat

The Trump administration is leaving the door open to future executive action that would address China-related concerns over open-source AI models, an unnamed senior White House official signaled Tuesday, referencing “plenty of ongoing work” beyond an executive order signed by Don

Legislation making daylight saving time permanent will face turbulence in the Senate after sailing through the House. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has previously opposed the bill, citing potential harms to schoolchildren commuting in the dark and people working outdoors in the early

The News Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche has a tough task in front of him at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday: winning over two Republican senators who still have reservations about his nomination. Both Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told Semafor

Aurrevia, an investment platform focused on research driven public market strategies, has launched a Category III Alternative Investment Fund (AIF). The fund combines fundamental research with portfolio construction and risk management across deep value and momentum strategies, t

Quantum Meets the Data Center: Hybrid Systems Take Off Data centers are moving from lab demos to production by colocating QPUs with GPU/CPU nodes, driven by 2026 US policy boosts and new vendor roadmaps. July 15, 2026 Quantum computing has entered a new phase. Instead of chasing

PS5 emulation ramps up in response to Sony killing physical games — PS5 titles now booting across different emulators with rapid community development for both 2D and 3D games Milestone after milestone. For years, the PS5 emulation scene has remained dormant, with updates few and

Kevin Ryan knows how to change his mind. Consider psychedelics: Ryan—often called “the Godfather of NYC Tech”—was once skeptical that psychedelics could be viable treatments for depression or PTSD. But in 2018, he read Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind and encountered a wa