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PC gamer turns Steam games into cartridges with ingenious 2.5-inch SSD system — games are stored on 128GB drives alongside a script to auto-start the title once plugged in Video shows Steam Game Cartridge system in action. A PC gamer has created and demonstrated a handy Steam Gam

Mortgage rates rose last week to the highest level since August 2025, and that caused homebuyer demand for loans to pull back. Refinance demand, however, moved higher. Total mortgage application volume dropped 2.7% last week compared with the previous week, according to the Mortg

ASML raised its sales outlook, forecasting that AI-driven demand for computing power will continue to surge. The Dutch technology giant makes “extreme ultraviolet” lithography machines used to produce the world’s most advanced semiconductors, perhaps the most complicated objects

A three-year effort to map the oyster population in Abu Dhabi’s waters yielded more than expected, according to the emirate’s environmental agency. Using old pearl diver maps, firsthand knowledge, and modern survey data, as well as Hawksbill sea turtle tracking (the endangered tu

The collapse of the interim peace deal between the US and Iran is delaying any recovery in crucial economic sectors for Gulf countries, including aviation, energy, tourism, and real estate. Regional airlines have mostly recovered to pre-conflict capacity levels, but the EU’s avia

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AI software creation platform Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round led by Creaegis, with participation from Claypond, Sentinel Global, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed and Y Combinator. The fresh round values the company at $1.5 billion,

Palit officially announces RTX 3060 return with 'new' Infinity 2 OC launch — 2021 GPU with 12GB of VRAM is an AI crisis stopgap But should you buy one? Nvidia has just relaunched its five-year-old graphics card, the GeForce RTX 3060, in order to combat the component scarcity driv

Ukraine said it had struck 11 Russian vessels on the Sea of Azov, choking off a waterway that has become vital for Moscow. Russia ships vast amounts of oil, steel, and grain through the Kerch Strait to the Black Sea, but traffic has slowed to a trickle in recent days after Ukrain

U.S.-listed shares in Chinese conglomerate Alibaba rose 4% in premarket trading on Wednesday after confirming that its Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple systems in China. "Qwen will be integrated into Apple Intelligence experiences within iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionO

Maternal and baby care brand Promom has raised Rs 30 crore in a funding round led by Fireside Ventures. The fresh funds will be used to focus on product innovation, expand offerings across the broader maternal and baby care ecosystem while increasing accessibility for mothers acr

Elon Musk's Starlink releases smaller and lighter V5 residential kit — offers speeds of up to 375 Mbps and almost half the power consumption of V4 You're losing about 25 Mbps from its theoretical top speed, but most residential users probably won't notice this. The SpaceX satelli

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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