Today's Hardware Pulse
Nvidia driver hints at progress on next‑gen DLSS 5
Nvidia’s latest GeForce Game Ready driver (610.47) adds three new DLSS profile options, indicating continued work on DLSS 5 neural‑rendering technology. The earlier DLSS 5 reveal sparked debate over AI‑driven image alteration, and this driver update provides the first concrete sign of advancement.
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By the numbers: Cyient Semiconductors raises $30M Series funding
How to Choose the Right UPS for a Smart Home
A UPS is essential for keeping a smart‑home network alive during power interruptions. Rather than sizing solely by wattage, the article advises selecting a unit based on the runtime needed for core devices such as routers, hubs, switches and cameras. For most installations, an 850‑1000 VA UPS provides enough battery capacity to bridge short outages and allow graceful shutdowns of larger equipment. The piece also compares lead‑acid and lithium‑ion models, highlighting lithium’s longer life and lighter footprint despite higher upfront cost.
Minnesota PUC Approves Utility Battery Program While Deferring VPP Decisions
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved Xcel Energy’s CapacityConnect Phase 2, authorizing up to 200 MW of utility‑owned battery storage. The order obliges Xcel to submit a technical and financial benefits evaluation within 180 days and detailed distributed‑resource estimates by November 2027. While...
How Remote SIM Management Is Transforming Industrial IoT Operations
Remote SIM management platforms give industrial IoT operators a centralized dashboard to activate, deactivate, and monitor cellular SIMs without field visits. By leveraging eSIM/eUICC standards, firms can steer networks, manage APNs, and receive real‑time alerts, cutting downtime and service costs....
LoRa Alliance Lays Out Its Case for LoRaWAN as a Mainstream ‘Massive IoT’ Connectivity Layer
The LoRa Alliance is rebranding LoRaWAN from a niche LPWAN to a mainstream, plug‑and‑play connectivity layer for massive IoT. It frames LoRaWAN as the “fourth pillar” of global wireless, alongside cellular, Wi‑Fi and Bluetooth, emphasizing open standards and unlicensed spectrum....
Emobi and DIMO Deliver Customized Plug & Charge-Enabled EV Charging for Fleets
Emobi and DIMO have introduced a Plug & Charge‑enabled device that lets electric‑vehicle fleets use ISO 15118 digital certificates without automaker‑issued credentials. The solution, built on Emobi’s JustPlug platform and DIMO’s aftermarket bridge device, issues fleet‑level certificates directly to vehicles, bypassing firmware updates...
Read the April 8, 2026 Issue of Radio World
The April 8, 2026 issue of Radio World features an Audio Processing Buyer’s Guide and showcases new gear from Angry, Aqua, DHD, Lawo, Omnia, Orban, Thimeo, Wheatstone, and WorldCast. It also examines industry dynamics such as the surge in non‑commercial educational (NCE) stations,...
Intellian Unveils Future Military and Aerospace Antenna Technologies at Satellite 2026
Intellian Technologies showcased a suite of next‑generation antenna solutions at Satellite 2026, highlighting a 2.4 m fly‑away antenna that can simultaneously operate on X‑band and Mil Ka‑band for communications‑on‑the‑pause missions. The company also previewed an L‑band antenna family for UAVs and USVs, a...
Closing Care Gaps with Wearables
American College of Cardiology (ACC) Chief Innovation Officer Dr. Ami Bhatt warned that wearable devices that flag disease risk must do more than alert users—they need to steer patients toward appropriate care pathways. As wearables become capable of detecting early...
Bluefin Pairs With Agile on a Ticketing Point-of-Sale Service
Bluefin Payment Systems has expanded its partnership with Agile Ticketing Solutions to include the PAX A35 Android point‑of‑sale terminal, adding support for EMV, NFC, magstripe and QR code payments. Agile will also offer the PAX A77 device through Bluefin accounts,...
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Motorola’s Next Razr Ultra Leaks in Wood-Grain and Purple-Blue Colors, and I Can’t Wait [Gallery]
Motorola’s upcoming Razr 70 Ultra—global counterpart to the US‑bound Razr Ultra—has been spotted in two fresh color finishes: Cocoa Wood and Orient Blue Alcantara. The renders, shared by leak site OnLeaks, suggest a slightly thicker chassis than earlier CAD images and omit...
Is the Space Industry Too Dependent on a Small Group of Semiconductor and Electronics Suppliers?
The space sector relies on a handful of semiconductor and electronics vendors, not the broader global chip market. Radiation tolerance, long‑life qualification, and stringent testing shrink the usable pool to a few trusted names such as Microchip, Renesas, Teledyne and...
Invisibility‑Cloak Tech Boosts Optical Switching in Data Centers
The same technology that could be used to create “invisibility cloaks” has applications in data centers, speeding up optical switching. https://spectrum.ieee.org/optical-metamaterials-ai-data-centers
Meta’s Ray-Ban Glasses Are the Only Wearable Tech I Actually Want to Wear
Meta’s Ray‑Ban Stories smart glasses blend seamlessly into everyday wear, looking like ordinary sunglasses while offering hands‑free photo capture, open‑ear audio, and a built‑in voice assistant. Reviewers note the devices reduce the urge to pull out a phone by eliminating...
BDI to Show SNMP Remote Control and Channel Expander
Broadcast Devices Inc. (BDI) will unveil the IOX-24S SNMP Remote Control and Channel Expander at the NAB Show. The rack‑mount unit combines 24 relays, 24 status inputs and eight analog inputs, functioning either as a standalone SNMPv2 remote controller or...
Anthropic Secures Multi-Gigawatt TPU Deal With Google, Broadcom
Anthropic has signed a multi‑gigawatt agreement with Google and Broadcom to secure next‑generation TPU capacity, with roughly 3.5 GW slated for deployment beginning in 2027. The deal expands Anthropic’s previously announced $50 billion domestic compute investment and reflects a shift toward utility‑style...
Nothing Phone (3a) Lite Price Hiked Across All Variants
Nothing has raised the price of its Phone 3a Lite in India by ₹3,000 (about $36) for every configuration, effective April 6, 2026. The 8 GB + 128 GB variant now costs ₹24,999 (~$300), while the 8 GB + 256 GB version is priced at ₹23,999 (~$289). The device retains its MediaTek...
Apple's MacBook Neo Is Reportedly Close to Selling Out Which Has Got Me Thinking About Why We Can't Have More...
Apple’s newly launched MacBook Neo is selling far beyond its five‑to‑six million unit target, prompting concerns that the company could run out of A18 Pro chips before the planned A19‑based refresh arrives. The Neo’s chips are binned down to five GPU cores,...
The reMarkable 2 Remains One of the Best Paper-Style Tablets Around, and It Just Scored a Rare Discount at Best...
Best Buy is offering a $70 discount on the reMarkable 2, lowering the price to $499. The tablet includes the Marker Plus digital pen and a Polymer Weave Book Folio at no extra charge. It features a 10.2‑inch e‑ink display, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB storage,...
A Jumping Digital Time Display Is Quite the Watch Flex
Swiss luxury watchmaker A. Lange & Söhne released the second‑generation Zeitwerk, a mechanical wristwatch that mimics a digital display by jumping hour and minute discs each second. The piece draws its aesthetic from Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes’s 19th‑century Dresden opera‑house clock, a design that...
Is a $30,000 GPU Good at Password Cracking?
The article tests whether a $30,000 AI‑grade GPU can outpace a high‑end consumer card in password cracking. Using Hashcat, Specops benchmarked Nvidia's H200, AMD's MI300X, and the RTX 5090 across MD5, NTLM, bcrypt, SHA‑256 and SHA‑512 hashes. The RTX 5090 consistently delivered...
Samsung’s Secret Weapon: Why the Galaxy Z Fold 8 ‘Wide’ Is a Game Changer
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and a new wide‑variant that keeps the proven M13 OLED panel while expanding the screen to a tablet‑like 4:3 aspect ratio. The wider design improves multitasking, media playback and split‑screen usability, and One UI 9.0...
When Data Centers Go Dark (DDCU 5/7)
The post forecasts that between 2028 and 2030 a data center will run for 90 consecutive days without any on‑site personnel, with AI making roughly 90% of operational decisions. Robotic fleets will autonomously swap hardware, clean sensors, inspect cooling systems,...
(Podcast) The Rebound 593: In These Troubling Times
The Rebound 593 podcast, sponsored by Sonos’s new cross‑platform client, dives into three hot tech topics. Hosts debate whether Apple will eventually release a foldable iPhone and examine how the early success of the MacBook Neo could pressure supply chains....
USPS to Shift some Volume as It Installs New Sortation Equipment
The U.S. Postal Service is installing new package sortation equipment at several processing facilities this month, temporarily rerouting volume to alternate sites during the transition. The upgrades raise daily processing capacity to about 88 million packages, up from 60 million, and add...
The Flywheel That Eats Itself (DDCU 6/7)
The DDCU architecture introduces a self‑reinforcing flywheel that channels 20 % of infrastructure profit into DCXPS Ventures, creating captive customers and fueling further compute expansion. Unlike traditional data‑center operators that wait for external demand, DDCU’s model builds demand internally. Projections show...
Raspberry Pi Prices Rise, Yet Projects Remain Impressive
Raspberry Pi not cheap anymore due to the hike of memory. Yet all these are pretty cool projects.
Invest in Data Center Supply Chain, Not Just Builders
Clip from My 2025 @GeoInvesting convo with @Mike10947310 (MultiBagger Mike). Gives shoutout to @citrini. “I tend to focus on 2nd order beneficiaries of large trends, like data centers getting built out. Am I interested in whoever is building the data centers,...
Design of Foldable iPhone Confirmed by Dummy Sets
Tech journalist Sonny Dickson released exclusive dummy units of a foldable iPhone, confirming Apple is actively developing a folding handset. The mockups feature a squarer hinge and a horizontal flip mechanism, aligning with earlier speculative designs. The presence of production-ready...
VDURA Says 30 TB QLC SSD Capacity Now Costs 22.6x More than HDD
VDURA’s Flash Volatility Index shows that by Q1 2026 a 30 TB QLC SSD costs 22.6 times more than a comparable 30 TB HDD, up from 4.9× a year earlier. Prices for 30 TB QLC SSDs surged from $2,450 to $15,121, a 517% increase, while...
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[OFC 2026] Part 4 of 5: 400G/Lane and 1.6T Coherent: Two Fronts, One Power Wall
The OFC 2026 session highlighted two parallel scaling tracks in datacenter optics: 400 Gb/s per lane IM‑DD and 1.6 Tb/s coherent pluggables. Six papers mapped the current technical state, concluding both paths are brushing against fundamental physical limits without any live link...
AI Build‑Out to Spark $1T Infrastructure Spend by 2029
IDC: AI capacity build out drives $1T in infra spending by 2029 - 15X growth since 2023 https://t.co/YrrNmy8LTe
Alibaba Launches Data Center with 10,000 of Its Own Chips as China Ramps up AI Push
Alibaba and China Telecom have launched a new AI‑focused data center in Guangdong, powered by 10,000 of Alibaba’s in‑house Zhenwu semiconductors. The facility, owned and operated by China Telecom, is designed for training and inference of massive AI models and...
NVIDIA Jetson Powers Real-Time AI on Lunar Spacecraft
$FLY 🤝 $NVDA “Integrating the NVIDIA Jetson platform into Firefly’s Elytra spacecraft enables autonomous, on-orbit AI processing that transforms raw lunar imagery into actionable insights in real time.” 🚀🌖 https://t.co/Uk3IGXn8jp https://t.co/nqePqTPMlk
Nexperia China Shifts to Local Wafer Supply, Targets Full Localization by 2026
Nexperia’s China unit is transitioning to fully domestic wafer sourcing, ending reliance on its Dutch operations. The move follows European wafer export restrictions introduced in October and aims for complete localization by the second half of 2026. Production currently runs...
Quantum Computers Could Crack Bitcoin by 2030, Experts Warn
Google researchers and Nobel‑winning physicist John M. Martinis say a cryptographically‑relevant quantum computer could break Bitcoin's elliptic‑curve signatures within minutes, potentially as early as 2030. The findings revive a long‑standing debate over whether Bitcoin can upgrade to post‑quantum security before a...
The Case for Infrastructure Sovereignty
Enterprises are increasingly pulling workloads from public clouds back to on‑premise bare‑metal servers to slash operating costs and regain performance control. High‑profile adopters such as GEICO and 37signals report multi‑million‑dollar savings, while market analysts forecast the bare‑metal segment will grow...
SiMa.ai Secures Strategic Investment From Micron to Scale High-Performance, Power-Efficient Physical AI
SiMa.ai announced a strategic investment from Micron Technology to accelerate its high‑performance, power‑efficient Physical AI solutions. The deal deepens collaboration on tightly integrated compute‑memory architectures, embedding Micron’s LPDDR5X memory into SiMa.ai’s Modalix MLSoC platform. Customers can now purchase SiMa.ai system‑on‑modules...
Iran‑Linked Hackers Exploit Rockwell Automation PLCs, Disrupt U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Federal agencies including the FBI, CISA, NSA and DOE issued a joint advisory that Iranian‑affiliated advanced persistent threat actors are exploiting Rockwell Automation’s Allen‑Bradley programmable logic controllers. The activity has already caused operational disruptions and financial loss across energy, water,...
Samsung Raises DRAM Prices by About 30% for Q2 Across All Segments
Samsung Electronics announced a roughly 30% price increase for all DRAM products in the second quarter, following a dramatic price surge in Q1 that doubled average rates. The cumulative effect pushes DRAM prices to about 2.6 times the levels seen...
TO-247 Package: Complete Guide for Power Semiconductor Devices
The TO-247 is a JEDEC‑standard through‑hole package engineered for high‑power semiconductor devices such as MOSFETs, IGBTs, and diodes. Its large metal tab and low thermal resistance enable current handling above 100 A and voltage ratings up to 1700 V, making it ideal...
Delta Showcases Integrated Automation and Smart Charging Solutions for Intralogistics Applications at MODEX 2026
Delta showcased its integrated automation and smart charging solutions at MODEX 2026, unveiling the Delta Automation Technology Platforms that combine machine vision, motion control, drive, networking, and power infrastructure into a single architecture. Live demonstrations featured the D‑BOT DC08 collaborative robot working...
Why Google’s TurboQuant Algorithm Is Disrupting the AI Memory Chip Market
Google’s TurboQuant algorithm compresses large language models by up to six times and accelerates processing as much as eightfold, delivering the same accuracy with far less memory. The technology combines PolarQuant and a Quantized Johnson‑Lindenstrauss routine to cut inference costs...
Export Controls Separate H200 From Vera Rubin Supply Chains
Export Controls: National Security Tool or Industrial Policy Lever? H200 exports do not pose a meaningfully trade off against newer Vera Rubin due to distinct supply chains. Yes, have been saying this for some time, fully debunks this TP.... https://t.co/WJlqCYF9zG
Samsung Fabs Memory Gold
Samsung Electronics reported a preliminary first‑quarter 2026 operating profit that surged 755% year‑on‑year, driven by soaring high‑bandwidth memory (HBM) prices. Revenue jumped 68% to ₩133 trillion (about $88.5 billion), while operating profit reached ₩51 trillion (roughly $37.9 billion). The profit outstrips Micron’s total quarterly...
AI-Powered Binoculars Promise Smart Night-Time Discovery
Hong Kong startup ScoPix has launched a Kickstarter for its Starlight‑AI Night Vision Binoculars, which combine low‑light imaging with on‑device artificial intelligence that can recognize wildlife, objects and landmarks in real time. The device uses a Starlight‑grade CMOS sensor, 850‑nm...
Volumez Veers Towards Agentic AI Data Infrastructure
Volumez, once known for ultra‑fast block storage, is pivoting to an agentic AI data‑infrastructure platform. The startup now touts more than 13 TB/sec bandwidth, dwarfing rivals that cap out below 2 TB/sec. The strategic shift has coincided with the departure of several...
Pedal to Bare-Metal Kubernetes, Nutanix Forges NKP Metal
Nutanix announced NKP Metal, extending its Nutanix Kubernetes Platform to run Kubernetes directly on bare‑metal servers. The dual‑native architecture lets containers and virtual machines coexist under a single management console, preserving Nutanix’s automation, lifecycle, and data‑service capabilities. NKP Metal targets...
Fender Elie Review: Handsome Speaker/Amp Hybrids with Excellent Clarity
Fender Audio, a Fender-owned brand operated by Riffsound, launched the Elie 6 and Elie 12 portable Bluetooth speakers priced at $300 and $400. Both models feature retro designs, physical controls, and a rare ¼‑inch/XLR combo input with 48 V phantom power,...
Czech Radiation Chips on Artemis II Bring ISS Experience
Czech sensor firm ADVACAM is flying six Hybrid Electronic Radiation Assessor (HERA) chips on Artemis II to measure cosmic‑ray exposure for both astronauts and Orion’s electronics. The detectors build on ISS‑tested Timepix technology and will validate the spacecraft’s shielding during the...
Russians Hijacking Routers for Cyber Spying
Russian GRU’s 85th Main Special Service Center has been hijacking vulnerable home routers, notably TP‑Link devices, since at least 2024 by exploiting CVE‑2023‑50224. The actors reconfigure DHCP/DNS settings to route traffic through their own resolvers, enabling man‑in‑the‑middle attacks that capture...