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SMIC posted its first $3 billion quarter earlier this month, with revenue up 36.1% year on year, net…G.Skill pays out $2.4M settlement over misleading DDR4 and DDR5 speed marketing — buyers get $20 to $25 as vendor agrees to XMP and EXPO packaging warnings
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G.Skill, maker of some of the best RAM for PC gaming, has begun sending payments to claimants in the…Physical media nostalgia sees fundraisers flock to Blu-Ray Kickstarter — drive with 9-in-1 dock achieves 160x funding goal halfway through campaign
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A Blu-ray drive has got tech fans excited over on Kickstarter. This project has hit 160x the initial…Pine64 halts all Linux hardware manufacturing through at least mid-2027 due to shortages — memory crunch forces open-source maker to freeze SBCs, tablets, and phones
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Pine64 has stopped producing Linux devices entirely, announcing this week on its official Telegram…Get an astonishing OLED 5090 gaming laptop for $3,599, $800 off — Gigabyte Aorus Master 16 features a 24-core Arrow Lake CPU, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD
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If you're in the market for a potent gaming laptop, then the mobile RTX 5090 is as good as it gets.…Federal judge strikes down ATF 'ghost gun' rule for 3D printed parts — says restrictions violate Fifth Amendment and historical tradition of DIY gunsmithing
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Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas just shot down…Console modder builds working Switch 2 Joy-Cons inside original Wii Remote shells — motion-sensing controllers snap magnetically onto a Switch 2
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YouTuber Kouzex has transplanted the internals of a pair of Joy-Con 2 controllers into two original…Amazon delivery drone dumps Texas woman's parcel straight into her swimming pool — viral video surfaces the same week the company announces 500-city Prime Air expansion
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On the same week that Amazon announced plans to expand its Prime Air Delivery service to 500 more…Samsung raises advanced foundry prices by up to 15% as AI demand fills its 4nm lines, report claims — Chinese customers accepting the largest hikes
Aug 19, 2026, 12:15 pm By NULL
Samsung raised prices on new orders across its 4nm, 5nm, and 8nm foundry processes in July, with…China shifting massive AI data center complexes to rural provinces to tap surplus energy — ‘Eastern Data, Western Computing’ strategy has Chinese tech giants Huawei and Tencent building AI infrastructure Guizhou
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Beijing has been encouraging its tech giants to build data centers across the country as the central…Qualcomm retracts select Snapdragon C power efficiency benchmarks nearly a week after publication — updated slide removes idle apps and web browsing results
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Qualcomm has updated its benchmark slides for the new Snapdragon C chip targeting laptops as…You can now buy a delidded Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition for $1,403 — stripped dual-cache offering is $500 more expensive than regular version
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Thermal Grizzly has started selling its delidded version of AMD's already-excessive Ryzen 9 9950X3D2…Hacker leaks GTA VI gameplay and map to protest digital-only release — claims pre-orders are a legacy of physical game releases
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GTA VI is one of the most hotly anticipated games in history, but Rockstar’s decision to not…Google to stop making Pixel devices in China, report claims — India and Vietnam prime candidates for manufacturing shift owing to Beijing-Washington tensions
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In recent years, the largest electronics manufacturing services (EMS) and original design…Comcast turns Xfinity routers into home motion detectors — free Wi-Fi sensing feature tracks RF interference with zero extra hardware required
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Aug 19, 2026, 8:00 am By NULL
Divided across two countries and four campuses, Samsung's foundry roadmap runs from the Korean bases…Jason Kelce-led marketing campaign asks beer drinkers to send their pee to AI data centers — Liquid Death and Garage Beer skit claims 'AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water'
Aug 19, 2026, 7:55 am By
Data centers have become a hot topic uniting Americans recently, with over 70% opposing the building…Beijing AI bar that offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with $1.50 drink haemorrhaging cash — 'the bar is completely losing money, ' owner admits
Aug 19, 2026, 7:44 am By NULL
An AI-themed bar in Beijing's Zhongguancun tech hub hands out free, unlimited DeepSeek tokens with…Ajinomoto reportedly cuts critical chip packaging film supply to China by 30% as domestic substitutes race to qualify — ABF restriction comes following Beijing's rare earth export curbs
Aug 19, 2026, 7:40 am By NULL
Japanese chemical maker Ajinomoto has reportedly told customers in mainland China that it will cut…
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