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IRGC-linked media outlines plan to tax and control undersea internet cables in the Hormuz Strait — Iran's mouthpiece calls for a cut of $10 trillion of transactions that pulse through the cables daily

IRGC-linked media outlines plan to tax and control...

2 days ago 7

How Apple Pay Works

How Apple Pay Works

2 days ago 8

Portable 40mm launcher kills drones by firing 6.5-feet-long steel chains at 80 m/s — German researchers' low-tech mechanical 'bola' outshines textile drops quadcopters without lasers or EMPs

Portable 40mm launcher kills drones by firing 6.5-...

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InfinityFree web hosting review

InfinityFree web hosting review

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Namecheap web hosting review

Namecheap web hosting review

2 days ago 11

These bookshelf speakers just replaced basically every part of my hi-fi set-up in one fell swoop — after months of testing, I really appreciate the Edifier M90's sheer range of connectivity

These bookshelf speakers just replaced basically e...

2 days ago 18

Rivals season 2 review: Jilly Cooper bonkbuster is still as steamy as ever — but troubling tensions take over in first three-episode release

Rivals season 2 review: Jilly Cooper bonkbuster is...

2 days ago 17

I’ve been testing controllers for half a decade, and not a single budget option has impressed me like the 8BitDo Pro 3

I’ve been testing controllers for half a decade, a...

3 days ago 16

AMD's excellent Radeon RX 9070 with 16 GB of VRAM hits all-time low pricing — PowerColor Hellhound variant is 23% off list price

AMD's excellent Radeon RX 9070 with 16 GB of VRAM ...

3 days ago 17

MIT researchers revive 40-year-old triangular zipper concept now made possible by 3D printing, creates shape-shifting robots and deployable structures — 3D-printed 'Y-Zipper' turns floppy tentacles into rigid beams in seconds

MIT researchers revive 40-year-old triangular zipp...

3 days ago 17

Former Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game engines — 'The Immense Engine' dev sees opportunity for AI agents to 'do the work of ten or fifteen people'

Former Epic director is building a European rival ...

3 days ago 17

Cricut’s $99 craft cutting machine helped me feel creative again

Cricut’s $99 craft cutting machine helped me feel ...

3 days ago 11

China's Hanyuan-2 debuts as 'world's first' dual-core quantum computer — 200-qubit claims incredible power efficiency, but lacks critical performance benchmarks

China's Hanyuan-2 debuts as 'world's first' dual-c...

3 days ago 11

3DMakerPro Toucan 3D Scanner review: All-in-one 3D scanning

3DMakerPro Toucan 3D Scanner review: All-in-one 3D...

3 days ago 8

AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine massive 6.2 million-square-foot facility over unauthorized water consumption

AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million ...

3 days ago 15

Tiny credit card computer includes eInk screen and is just 1mm thick — Muxcard is powered by the ESP32-C3 microcontroller

Tiny credit card computer includes eInk screen and...

3 days ago 11

AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden

AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-design...

3 days ago 11

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D faceoff — How far does dual cache take you?

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D faceoff — ...

3 days ago 12

Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to ‘Go (Bleep) yourself’ over its threatened lawsuit against enthusiast — Right to Repair advocate offers to pay the legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer

Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to...

3 days ago 14

AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects

AI data centers face increasing complaints about i...

3 days ago 12

Vivo’s X300 Ultra has the best cameras in any phone

Vivo’s X300 Ultra has the best cameras in any phon...

3 days ago 9

$200 'socketed' Nvidia AI GPU for servers hacked into a PCIe card with custom PCB and 3D-printed cooling — modded Tesla V100 SMX data center GPU runs AI LLMs and is more efficient than many modern midrange offerings in AI inference

$200 'socketed' Nvidia AI GPU for servers hacked i...

3 days ago 10

NASA pushes Mars helicopter rotors past the speed of sound for the first time ever — next-gen “SkyFall” aircraft's rotors hit 3,750 RPM, ten times faster than normal helicopters

NASA pushes Mars helicopter rotors past the speed ...

3 days ago 12

Ukraine’s new AI-guided laser destroys Shahed suicide drones in seconds from 3.1 miles away — also useful for demining operations, trailer-mounted Tryzub system is in final stages of testing

Ukraine’s new AI-guided laser destroys Shahed suic...

3 days ago 11

BenQ RD280UG review: A monitor that makes 3:2 displays cool again, and I love the built-in lighting

BenQ RD280UG review: A monitor that makes 3:2 disp...

3 days ago 11

The Division Resurgence proves that looter-shooters can work supremely on phones — and it’s converted me to being a mobile gamer

The Division Resurgence proves that looter-shooter...

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I spent 10 days testing the iFi GO Link 2 — and this little DAC delivers an enormous audio upgrade for your phone or laptop audio at a great price

I spent 10 days testing the iFi GO Link 2 — and th...

4 days ago 20

FCC reverses course, allows software updates for foreign-made drones and routers until 2029 — agency says blocking security patches could create cybersecurity risks

FCC reverses course, allows software updates for f...

4 days ago 18

Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power grid upgrade bill for out-of-state AI data centers — state complains to federal energy regulators, says additional cost breaks ‘ratepayer protection pledge’ promises

Maryland citizens slapped with $2 billion power gr...

4 days ago 17

IceWhale ZimaBoard 2 mini NAS review

IceWhale ZimaBoard 2 mini NAS review

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Cloudflare cuts 20% of its jobs due to AI, and its stock takes a 19% spill — 1,100 jobs disappearing as company increased usage of AI sixfold over past months

Cloudflare cuts 20% of its jobs due to AI, and its...

4 days ago 9

I spent two weeks with the OnePlus 15R, and it's forever raised my expectations for smartphone battery life

I spent two weeks with the OnePlus 15R, and it's f...

4 days ago 9

Save $290 on this Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5, Samsung 9100 Pro 1TB combo from Newegg — $949.99 bundle includes free 750W power supply and one-year VPN subscription

Save $290 on this Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB DDR5, Sams...

4 days ago 12

Ugreen DXP4800 Pro 4-bay NAS review: A subtle upgrade from the Plus model, yet these changes have significant implications for this network-attached storage device

Ugreen DXP4800 Pro 4-bay NAS review: A subtle upgr...

4 days ago 11

Nextorage NEM-PAC 2TB SSD Review: A solid, PS5-ready workhorse

Nextorage NEM-PAC 2TB SSD Review: A solid, PS5-rea...

4 days ago 12

Best budget gaming laptops of 2026: The best cheap laptops we've tested and benchmarked

Best budget gaming laptops of 2026: The best cheap...

4 days ago 11

Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as a British research firm labels them a 'loophole' — one app developer saw downloads surge by 1,800% in just the first month after the UK's Online Safety Act took effect

Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as...

4 days ago 15

Testing Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry tech — VRAM-reducing tech a leap forward for path-traced rendering

Testing Nvidia's RTX Mega Geometry tech — VRAM-red...

4 days ago 13

Commodore Amiga-emulating TheA1200 retro computer delayed nearly half a year by ‘global chip shortages’ — Retro Games Ltd says it will use the extra time to finesse the software

Commodore Amiga-emulating TheA1200 retro computer ...

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Supermicro-tied execs used Thailand government entity to ship Nvidia AI GPUs to China — report alleges Chinese web giant Alibaba received restricted servers

Supermicro-tied execs used Thailand government ent...

4 days ago 21

Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90% off by using stolen credentials, model substitution, and harvesting users' prompts and outputs for resale as AI training data — 'transfer stations' operate through proxy networks that harvest user data

Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90%...

4 days ago 19

Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996

Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — L...

4 days ago 16

FlexiSpot C7 Morpher review: An office chair that blends into every other, but perhaps that's the point

FlexiSpot C7 Morpher review: An office chair that ...

4 days ago 28

The Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub monitor is the kind of display I always wished was possible, and now it's in my office

The Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub monitor is ...

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Apple reportedly strikes deal for Intel to make some of its chips — two tech giants reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to make processors for Cupertino

Apple reportedly strikes deal for Intel to make so...

5 days ago 19

I tested the DJI Osmo Mobile 8P — and DJI has fixed the one thing holding its smartphone gimbal back

I tested the DJI Osmo Mobile 8P — and DJI has fixe...

5 days ago 15

Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 by $50 starting in September — Console will soon cost $499, but you can avoid the price hike if you buy now

Nintendo is raising the price of the Switch 2 by $...

5 days ago 19

Windscribe VPN review 2026: seriously fast with features to match

Windscribe VPN review 2026: seriously fast with fe...

5 days ago 14

Windscribe Free VPN review – a fast, but clunky, free VPN solution

Windscribe Free VPN review – a fast, but clunky, f...

5 days ago 15

North Korean fake remote worker scam lands two Americans 18-month prison sentences for hosting laptops — US firms unknowingly shipped laptops to “employees” who secretly worked from overseas via remote desktop, generating $1.2 million for Pyongyang

North Korean fake remote worker scam lands two Ame...

5 days ago 19