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Nintendo Switch 2 prices might climb due to tariff changes — US hikes Vietnam tariffs to 20%, up from 10% when the console launched

The US-Vietnam trade deal sets tariffs on Vietnamese goods at 20%, adding upwards pressure on the retail price of Switch 2 consoles.

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UK Royal Navy builds 'esports suite' loaded with gaming PCs onboard its newest warship — eight high-powered PC battle stations added to war room

The UK Royal Navy and British Esports Federation have collaborated on a "landmark" esports suite onboard the HMS Prince of Wales. The warship's esports facilities include eight Alienware computers, a console station, and enough LEDs to make a college dorm room blush.

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New Xfinity router motion-detecting feature stokes privacy fears — feature powered by Wi-Fi signals

Xfinity's new Wi-Fi Motion feature can detect movements in your home and share that data with you, not only by selling it to advertisers but also with government agencies without warrants.

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Starlink-powered drone narco-sub intercepted by Colombian Navy — boat was converted into a drone for uncrewed smuggling

The Colombian Navy intercepted a low-profile boat used by drug cartels for its smuggling activities, which is being tested to run remotely via Starlink.

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MIT team creates chip-based 3D printer the size of a coin, cures resin using only light — handheld 3D printing tech enabled by silicon photonics

MIT researchers have engineered a chip-based 3D printer that can create complex, programmable shapes out of resin in seconds. The tech utilizes silicon photonics and will eventually be iterated into a model that can fabricate full volumetric prints.

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Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from dormant Satoshi-era wallet

An OG Bitcoin investor has moved his stash of 80,000 BTC in an unprecedented transaction worth over $8 billion.

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Laser-engraved ceramic storage device that stores data for 5,000 years targets astounding 100 petabytes per rack by 2030 — 10X performance boost and 100,000 petabytes per rack also on Cerbayte's roadmap

Cerabyte's ambitious plans target 100PB per rack by 2030, rocketing to 100,000PB per rack by 2045.

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TSMC swats down claims it is delaying its Japan chipmaking plant to prioritize Arizona plants to avoid US tariffs — TSMC says US investments won't impact other regions

TSMC is reportedly slowing work on its second Japanese fab to accelerate buildout in Arizona in anticipation of possible U.S. tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, though the company maintains that its expanded American investments will not affect its projects in Japan and Germany.

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US reportedly plans to curb sales of AI GPUs to Malaysia and Thailand to prevent smuggling to China

The U.S. government is drafting export rules to require licenses for shipping Nvidia’s advanced AI GPUs to Malaysia and Thailand, aiming to block possible re-exports to China.

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Nephew of the ZX Spectrum inventor has created a handheld Raspberry Pi gaming console the size of a gift card — GamerCard features 4-inch square IPS screen and pre-loaded arcade games

GamerCard is a retro gaming handheld so portable than it's literally the size of a gift card, so you can now casually spend $170 at checkout.

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Bambu Lab Introduces free software to manage an unlimited number of 3D printers simultaneously — cloud-free LAN Mode Print Farm Manager program simplifies mass 3D printing

Bambu Lab introduces cloud-free farm management tool.

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Elon Musk's Optimus boast in doubt as humanoid robot production plans halted — Telsa’s projections for 10,000 robots in 2025 cast into doubt, according to supply chain sources

China-tech industry sources allege that 'unresolved hardware challenges,' will mean Optimus design changes.

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DDR4 prices are now so high that vendors have decided to start making it again — manufacturers want a slice now that it's more expensive than DDR5

A few smaller manufacturers are pushing back their plans to discontinue DDR4 production because of surging prices in the global market.

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New AMD Ryzen Threadripper smashes PassMark record — 9980X scores 147,481, making it the fastest desktop CPU ever tested, but only in multi-thread performance

Benchmark results for AMD’s 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 9980X show record-breaking multi-threaded performance, surpassing even the 96-core Threadripper Pro, but relatively modest single-threaded scores.

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Data reveals many GPUs are still selling for 50% more than MSRP — Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 are worst offenders

Gamers Nexus analyzed the GPU market, revealing that all GPUs sell above MSRP on average, with 8GB variants getting the smallest markups.

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This device uses a laser to shoot down 30 mosquitoes per second — LiDAR-guided 'Photonmatrix' has up to 6-meter kill zone, can gauge distance, orientation, and body size in 3 milliseconds

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Gamer turns 2012 Honda CR-V into Need for Speed Underground controller — laptop reads throttle input using OBD and a Python library, even the steering works

Forget expensive simracing setups with carbon fiber seats and podium racing wheels, this is what driving in games should look like.

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Lack of PCIe bandwidth can nerf RTX 5090 by up to 25% in content creation workloads — Puget data confirms performance hit when using older generations and fewer lanes

Puget Systems has tested a range of PCIe configurations for its GPU in different professional applications and found that lane generation and width can make a real difference.

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Elon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center — 1 million AI GPUs and up to 2 Gigawatts of power under one roof, equivalent to powering 1.9 million homes

Elon Musk's xAI is set to build million-GPU data center expected to draw up to 2 GW of power, prompting Musk to buy and import an entire power plant.

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Nvidia's newest top-tier AI supercomputers deployed for the first time — Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip systems deployed at CoreWeave

CoreWeave deploys first Dell GB300 cluster with Switch: Up to 1.1 ExaFLOPS of AI inference performance per rack.

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Samsung delays $44 billion Texas chip fab — sources say completion halted because 'there are no customers'

Sources cite that Samsung is delaying the launch of its Taylor, Texas, fab because the site lacks customers for its 4nm-class chip output.

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A project to bring CUDA to non-Nvidia GPUs is making major progress — ZLUDA update now has two full-time developers, working on 32-bit PhysX support and LLMs, amongst other things

ZLUDA has expanded its team and made steady technical progress in Q1: Expands support for LLM.c, attempts to bring back PhysX 32-bit.

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Nvidia RTX 50 Series appears in Steam Hardware Survey for the first time — represents 3.69% of cards, with the RTX 5070 leading the pack

Despite being out for a few months at this point, Nvidia's notorious RTX 50-series has failed to show up in Steam's internal stats — up until now, when they've finally appeared with a 3.69% share.

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Nintendo is restricting the Switch 2's USB-C port — most third-party docks and accessories won't work thanks to proprietary protocols

Nintendo is using custom communication protocols to limit compatibility with third-party docks and hubs

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Hong Kong scientists 3D printing organs for transplant patients — 3D-printed respiratory tissue combined with lab-grown mini organs in new procedure

Scientists at the University of Hong Kong have started experimenting with 3D printed organ technology to help burn victims.

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