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At Hot Chips 2026, Samsung is presenting Evolving HBM Base Die, a look at how the company wants to turn the base die of high-bandwidth memory into something far more capable than a passive interposer. We are covering this talk live, so please excuse any typos. Samsung Evolving HB

Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries met with President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner in recent weeks, signalling people close to the president may be preparing for at least one chamber of Congress to flip to Democratic control as the midterm elections loom. A person

Kicking off Hot Chips 2026 Day 0, which has become a big day in itself, Micron is talking about evolving memory architectures for AI. From what it can tell, Micron will be walking through how high-bandwidth memory and advanced packaging have moved to the center of AI system desig

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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Waymo gets a lot of attention for its fast-paced expansion. And for good reason; it see

Climber Laura completes 'full house' of 1,072 peaks around UK - Published It is a big day for Scottish climber Laura Baillie who has completed the "full house" of the UK's highest peaks. Reaching the top of Carn na h-Easgainn in the Highlands, the 38-year-old becomes one of an el

The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley. “When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to prioritize as a country is compromise,” Lang

You probably know by now that the AI models powering ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and other chatbots are trained on seemingly infinite databases of published works, containing hundreds of millions of books, online articles, academic papers, and basically anything you can find on the

China’s “Manned Space” program issued a terse announcement on Sunday regarding its much-anticipated Chang’e 7 lunar exploration mission. The agency stated: “In keeping with the principle of proceeding prudently and reliably, and ensuring absolute success, after a comprehensive as

Grab the Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 OC for $629.99 — save $120 on this 16GB gaming GPU for reliable 1440p and 4K gaming A recommended midrange GPU with 16GB of VRAM. Finding a good deal on a graphics card is currently near impossible, especially with the ongoing surge in DRAM and

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Self-driving Ford F-250 truck with shotgun-equipped drone-killing turret tested by US Army — autonomous system designed to blast fast-moving drones at between 10 and 100 meters range Project Sandhills 2.0 builds on an earlier project that produced the Lancer UGV, shared with Ukra

Nvidia reportedly warns biggest customers of 15% price hikes on AI servers — memory costs continue to soar Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell systems shipped from early 2027 affected. Nvidia has told some of its largest customers that the prices of servers containing its AI chips wil

Equal-weight ETFs are having a moment. The investing approach isn't new, but it has moved into the spotlight this year as many of the large-cap stocks that have driven a disproportionate share of core stock market index performance in recent years have lagged. Allocating to equal

Nvidia’s GB300-powered DGX Station desktop tower listed for nearly $100,000 online — Enterprise AI powerhouse now available to buy for mere mortals with lots of cash You can actually buy up to ten of them at once. Nvidia officially launched the latest DGX Station desktop at Compu

Robot boxing, football and sprinting at World Humanoid Games The second-edition of the World Humanoid Games is under way in China. The competition, which kicked off on Saturday, will run for five days and has already included a robot running faster than Usain Bolt's 100m sprint w

A small power plant in the U.K. was shut down for four days in July following a cyberattack carried out by hackers linked to Iran, The Telegraph newspaper reported Sunday. The paper said the incident happened around the time that U.S. authorities including the Federal Bureau of I

Fake GTA VI ISO circulates on the internet a few days after leak, internet sleuths claim 113GB download is padded malware — testers claim file is 99.99% empty zeroes with 50KB virus embedded Beware downloading unreleased pirated games folks. A GTA gaming enthusiast highlighted on

Plus the math that has to be true for AI to reach $600B in revenue: $100K of tokens per engineer, and 30% fewer engineers. A heavy week on 20VC x SaaStr with Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and Jason Lemkin: - SpaceX closed its $60B all-stock takeover of Cursor - Stripe bought O

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Modular pocket gimbal camera that transforms into a self-flying drone retroactively banned by FCC, certification revoked — Agency closes foreign UAS loophole on 230g HoverAir Versa The regulator said it granted the certification in error. HoverAir has pulled the Flight Kit for it

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Deco 7 Pro BE13000 performs well against its rivals, but be prepared to pay more to enable features that some routers provide for free. Pros - +Competitive hardware pricing - +Class-leading 6 GHz wireless performance, including under load Cons - -Subscr

Walk the halls of any major banking conference or listen in on a quarterly earnings call, and one topic keeps coming up: With the window for mergers wide open under the Trump administration, who will take a swing? After years on the sidelines because of regulatory restrictions, l

In August 2018, the then-president and now CEO of United Airlines Scott Kirby told a room of reporters at an aviation conference in Denver about the airline's big plans for the new Boeing 737 Max 10: lie-flat, premium seats and a host of profitable, transcontinental routes. The p

NEWARK, New Jersey — Scott Kirby says he doesn't believe in revenge. "Everyone thinks I do, but no, I don't," said the United Airlines CEO, whom American Airlines fired 10 years ago, when he was president of that carrier. "I compete aggressively." United announced it had hired hi

Group plans one-week PlayStation blackout to protest Sony’s plan to end physical game production — calls for players to turn off their consoles or log out of PSN from August 23 to 30 Can you stay away from your PlayStation for a week? Sony’s decision to end physical game producti

Humanoid robots shatter Usain Bolt's 100m record, hits 23.8 mph before crashing into foam pads — video shows Tiangong Ultra logging 9.39-second sprint before colliding with padded wall The finish line ending was quite epic, too. Two Chinese humanoid robots just beat the record of

Startup to use drones to keep clouds away from solar farms, 'Our ultimate goal is to reduce the intensity of severe storms and hurricanes' — chemical-free tech promises up to 30% power boost for $30 to $60 an hour How will these drones blow away clouds? Meteoric, a startup by two

Geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East and soaring bond yields weighed on global markets this past week. And investors are closely assessing the valuations of artificial intelligence stocks amid concerns about the sustainability of high spending on AI infrastructure. Despite

Tom's Hardware Verdict The Asus ROG Strix XG32UQWMS is nearly flawless and super flexible thanks to its frame rate boost and ELMB features. While not inexpensive, it is a great value among large OLEDs and has few, if any, peers. Pros - +One of the brightest OLEDs in its category

The first telegram arrived in Singapore on a Monday, sent from the city of Batavia in the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia). “Terrific detonations from Krakatau (volcanic island),” it reported. Soon afterward: “Stones falling. Village near Anjer washed away.” The wires c

Lucky shopper finds RTX 5080 for just $702 at Walmart — saves almost $800 compared to current retail prices Walmart clearance strikes again. Shopping for PC parts continues to be a nightmare, with skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and GPU prices paired with unpredictable availability. Howev