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* A recent report suggests Nvidia has informed its partners of GDDR6 and GDDR7 memory kit price increases * This means retailers may increase the prices for RTX GPUs using GDDR6 and GDDR7 memory * The potential price hike and one user's dual-GPU setup both highlight the importance of hardware preservation
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* Key specs for the Google Pixel Watch 5 have just leaked * They suggest the device could use the same chip Google has used for years * The RAM might be boosted by 50%, though If you’ve been eyeing up the Google Pixel Watch 5, you might want to think twice
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Despite the noise around frontier AI models, most of the non-tech economy still runs on spreadsheets, manual lookups, and legacy systems. This is even more so the case in automotive repair, where the gap between what AI promises and what it actually delivers costs the industry real money. The global
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In Brief 6:36 AM PDT · July 24, 2026 OpenAI on Thursday said it has updated its ChatGPT desktop app to add support for ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to talk to the app to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computer. The new feature taps OpenAI’s new
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Intel nearly made a mockery of Wall Street estimates by blowing past expectations with $16.1 billion in second-quarter revenue, fueled by what company CEO Lip-Bu Tan called "unprecedented demand" for AI hardware. In doing so, Intel's revenue growth surged 25% year-over-year, which is the biggest
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Emergency Solar Hand Crank NOAA/AM/FM Radio4 / 5Very good pros and cons * Competitively priced emergency radio * USB-C/solar, and hand crank charging * It's a good radio -- great reception, loud, clear speaker, decent runtime. * No earphone jack * Hand cranking takes a LONG time! * Power bank feature is
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Gravis Robotics, an ETH Zurich spinout, fits autonomy kits to excavators. A tie-up would extend Masayoshi Son’s robotics buying spree from the factory floor to the building site. SoftBank is weighing a deal for Gravis Robotics, a Swiss startup that fits excavators and diggers with the sensors and software
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* Microsoft has contacted LG regarding a McAfee pop-up served via the monitor maker's app (which in turn is installed by Windows Update) * As an 'immediate next step' LG has disabled this pop-up * However, there are still issues to address around the automatic installation of the LG
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Some New York students and teachers will be returning to classrooms outfitted with an uncanny-looking — and potentially unwelcome — AI-powered assistant come September. The Salamanca City Central School District, located roughly 60 miles south of Buffalo, signed a $57,590 contract (PDF) with robotics startup Realbotix to introduce AI tools and
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A new memory cartoon is waiting for me. When I open the app, I see a multipanel strip called Big Little Moments. It appears as soon as I plug the Looki AI device back in to recharge, after almost a month not wearing it. It shows moments of me at
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If you need a compact desktop without sacrificing everyday performance, the right mini PCs offer brilliant value. Best Buy has cut the price of the Geekom A5 as part of its 'Black Friday in July' sale. Normally priced at $539, the A5 is currently available for just $369,
