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Dev creates selection of UEFI games you have to beat in order to boot your computer — 10-month project will shut down your PC if you lose

Dev creates a quintet of UEFI games with the premise of Win -> Boot, Lose -> Shutdown.

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Asus adds 64MB ROM to Strix Neo AM5 motherboards, following Gigabyte — capacity large enough to fit pre-installed Wi-Fi drivers

Asus has incorporated a 64MB ROM into its all-new Strix Neo AM5 motherboards to support future Ryzen releases. For now, though, Asus is using the extra capacity to hold an integrated Wi-Fi driver, handy for new Windows 11 installs.

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Steam Machine pricing soars past PS5 Pro and Xbox Series X in new retailer listing — 1TB SKU shatters $1,000 barrier

Czech retailer Smarty has listed Valve’s highly anticipated Steam Machine at $950 for the 512GB version and $1,070 for the 1TB model—both before taxes.

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This $2,000 Bitcoin mining water heater can pay for itself by slashing your energy bills, company claims — can rake in $1,000 a year in BTC, offset 80% of electricity and water costs

Superheat was at CES 2026 to showcase what it describes as “a water heater that pays for itself.” Instead of a resistive heating element, it warms your H2O with heat generated by a Bitcoin ASIC miner.

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Nvidia hires first-ever CMO, snatches former Google exec for the tough job of helping sell more chips — Alison Wagonfield spent nearly 10 years at Google building its Cloud project

As the AI hardware market is about to change, Nvidia is hiring its first chief marketing officer.

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Intel showed up for consumers at the 'Consumer Electronics Show;' AMD didn’t

At this year's CES, AMD felt like a dominant force, too focused on AI potential to talk about (or to) consumers. Intel looked more like a laser-focused startup, confidently pitching its Panther Lake chips to gamers, laptop users, and even robot makers.

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Meta inks deals to supply a staggering 6 gigawatts in nuclear power for data center ambitions — enough wattage to supply 5 million homes

The 6GW will come from various suppliers — both existing and upcoming — to deliver the estimated 1GW that Meta's Prometheus site will require in 2026, and the 5GW its Hyperion data center will need by 2028.

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Researchers turn spoiled milk into 3D printing materials — extracted proteins from dairy waste combined with polymers to create plastic alternative

This work turns what would otherwise be an agricultural liability into a potential input for advanced manufacturing.

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President Trump, Sec. Lutnick praise Intel after the launch of Panther Lake chips — says investment in company already bringing ‘tens of billions of dollars for the American people’

President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick went on their respective social media platforms to praise Intel and its CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, for the launch of the first chips made using the Intel 18A process node. They also said that it's another step towards the U.S. regaining its lead…

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Intel makes sharp reversal, is 'going big time into 14A,' says CEO Lip-Bu Tan — 'serve the customer well' remark hints at external client

Intel's CEO says he expects 'great momentum in terms of yields and IP' on the company's 14A process technology.

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Apple-1 ‘Prototype Board #0’ system is expected to fetch $500,000+ at a 50th Anniversary auction — and the firm’s first ever check is valued at the same amount

An auction featuring 191 lots of historic Apple Computer artifacts, some with estimates of $500,000+, has begun.

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Acemagic presents mini-PCs inspired by the NES and PlayStation 1 — retro shells conceal Ryzen AI 9 465, up to 64GB of RAM, and up to 4TB of SSD storage

Acemagic presents mini-PCs inspired on the NES and PlayStation 1

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SanDisk to double price of 3D NAND for enterprise SSDs in Q1 2026 — hyperscalers to pay top dollar for storage as AI continues to roll

Sandisk and other key suppliers of 3D NAND are projected to significantly increase prices of enterprise-grade 3D NAND memory in the coming months due to overwhelming demand from the AI sector.

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Audeze launches Maxwell 2 headset, with better spatial immersion and bass — plus, of course, improved AI noise-canceling mic tech

Audeze launched its new Maxwell 2 planar magnetic gaming headset at CES 2026, with improved audio and mic technology, and swappable side plates.

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Nvidia to demand full upfront payment for H200 GPUs from China customers, report claims — more than two million chips may have been ordered despite uncertain Beijing stance

Nvidia has reportedly imposed non-refundable, full upfront payment terms on H200 GPU sales to China-based clients to hedge regulatory risks as Chinese customers had ordered more than 2 million H200 units that the company yet has to make.

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MSI unlocks the full power of AMD CPUs with new MEG X870E Unify-X Max motherboard — premium Ryzen overclocking comes to AM5

MSI showcases the long-awaited MEG X870E Unify-X Max motherboard for Ryzen processors at CES 2026.

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Keyboard giant Keychron unveils new Nape Pro trackball with programmable buttons — low profile design promotes ergonomic scrolling without leaving your keyboard

Keychron's Nape Pro made an appearance at CES 2026.

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AMD claims Panther Lake has 'too much baggage' for handheld PC use — fights back after Intel jabs AMD for using 'ancient silicon' in its Z2 series APUs

AMD jabs Intel for calling its Z2 chips "ancient". Claims its Panther Lake mobile chips carry too much "baggage" for handheld gaming use.

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Cooler Master introduces the Aquagate MAX Retro Mini cooling unit — delivers massive cooling capacity up to 2,500 watts

Cooler Master showed off a desktop coolant distribution unit at CES 2026. This unit is designed to deliver 900 to 2,500 watts of cooling performance, letting users maximize the power of high-performance desktop systems.

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CES 2026 Day 2: Dell’s massive 52-inch 6K monitor, AMD unbothered by Intel’s new Arc B390 IGP, MSI PSUs guard against RTX 5090 meltdowns

Day 2 coverage from CES 2026 is here.

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Samsung and Intel co-develop 'SmartPower HDR' for Panther Lake OLED laptops, with up to 22% power savings — dynamic voltage control lowers power without sacrificing panel brightness

SmartPower HDR will use up to 22% less power, leading to 30-40 minutes of extra battery life on Panther Lake laptops. Co-developed by Samsung and Intel, this tech enables dynamic voltage control on OLED laptop screens where the panel only draws more voltage when explicitly needed for high-brightness HDR content,…

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Boxes of 100 server-grade DDR5 memory now cost as much as property in Shanghai in China spot market — single 256GB server sticks now over $5,700

In China’s spot market, vendors are quoting prices that put a box of 100 high-capacity DDR5 server memory modules at roughly 5 million yuan,

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Major Japanese electronics store begs customers for their old PCs as hardware drought continues — ‘we pretty much buy any PC’ pleads the Akihabara outlet

A major Japanese PC and electronics store is pleading with customers to sell it their old PC gear.

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China expected to approve H200 imports in early 2026, report claims — tech giants Alibaba and ByteDance reportedly ready to order over 200,000 Nvidia chips each if green-lit by Beijing

Beijing is reportedly allowing its tech giants to acquire H200 chips, even as the Chinese government is still deliberating how to go about balancing the AI processing needs of its AI tech giants and the local semiconductor industry.

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Patriot shows off opulent Viper Xtreme 5 Aurum RAM kit with flashy finish as prices surge throughout industry — company also showcases new SSDs and MicroSD Express card for Switch 2

Patriot showed off a host of its latest SSD and RAM kits at CES 2026, and the company also offered a sneak peek of its rapid DDR5-10000 RAM kit, which is currently under development.

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