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Eufy Omni C28 Robot Vacuum‑Mop Packs Premium Features at $810
The Eufy Omni C28 robot vacuum‑mop retails for £649 (about $810) and delivers high‑end specs such as 15,000 Pa suction, a self‑cleaning mop and LiDAR navigation. Its automated dock handles dust emptying, mop washing and drying, offering a full‑service cleaning solution for busy homes.
BenQ unveiled the MA270S, a 27‑inch 5K monitor aimed at macOS users and professional creators. The display offers a 5120 × 2880 IPS panel with 99 % DCI‑P3 coverage, HDR400, and a 70 Hz refresh rate, while integrating a Thunderbolt 4 port that supplies up to 96 W of power. BenQ’s Display Pilot 2 software automatically matches macOS color profiles, and the unit includes extensive connectivity, ergonomic adjustments, and eye‑care features. The monitor retails for roughly $1,030.
Oppo got its start as a maker of MP3 players in the early 2000s, and now it is a maker of premium cutting edge mobile products. At Oppo's Dongguan campus, all the previous products live on in this futuristic time...
OPPO has launched the A6s 5G smartphone in India, offering two memory variants priced between ₹18,999 and ₹20,999. The device features a 50 MP primary rear camera, a 6500 mAh battery with 45 W SUPERVOOC fast charging, and runs on MediaTek Dimensity 6300 SoC with...
Hexagon’s NovAtel has launched the GAJT‑AE3, a compact GNSS anti‑jam antenna aimed at airborne platforms. The unit is the first in the GAJT line to offer full multi‑constellation, multi‑frequency protection, creating up to seven nulls per band and providing multi‑jammer...
Scalvy and Valeo have completed a concept evaluation of Scalvy’s distributed Power Neuron architecture for electric‑vehicle powertrains under WLTC laboratory conditions. The modular platform achieved a peak inverter efficiency of 98.3 % at 10,000 RPM, kept motor temperatures below 62 °C and power‑device...
Toshiba introduced the TLX9920 photocoupler, a photovoltaic‑output device designed for automotive solid‑state relays (SSRs). It delivers 5,000 Vrms isolation, an 8 mm creepage distance, and operates from –40 °C to 125 °C. Qualified to AEC‑Q101, the component targets high‑voltage applications such as battery‑management systems,...
NVIDIA introduced the RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition, a single‑slot, passively cooled GPU delivering 10,496 CUDA cores, 32 GB of GDDR7 memory, and a 165 W TDP. The card targets enterprise workloads such as inference, virtual desktops, video encoding, and edge AI, offering...
At GTC 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced a new AI infrastructure outlook, targeting at least $1 trillion in orders for current and future AI chip systems by the end of 2027. This doubles the previous $500 billion forecast and reflects accelerating demand...
In this episode, Michelle Martin and AI‑investment specialist Alvin Chow dissect the $700 billion AI infrastructure spend, highlighting the massive CapEx by hyperscalers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle and the ripple effect across hardware, memory, storage and photonics suppliers....
India’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Communications and IT warned the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) that high GPU hardware costs, global supply‑chain delays, and the massive power‑water footprint of data centres threaten the country’s push for large GPU clusters....
Intel announced the Core Ultra 200HX Plus mobile processor family, including the 290HX Plus and 270HX Plus SKUs, in a press release today. The chips are built on an updated Arrow Lake architecture and target high‑performance laptops with discrete graphics....
Nvidia Corp. announced the BlueField‑4 STX reference architecture at its GTC developer event, unveiling a hardware blueprint for AI‑centric storage systems. The design, featuring the BlueField‑4 DPU, Spectrum‑X switches and ConnectX‑9 SuperNICs, is slated for partner shipments in the second...
On March 16, 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the Vera CPU, Rubin GPU and the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack at the company’s GTC 2026 conference. The new hardware stack is designed to handle tens of thousands of concurrent agentic AI instances across...
On March 16, 2026, Nvidia announced the Groq‑3 language‑processing unit and the Grace Vera CPU server at its GTC conference in San Jose. The new 3nm‑class inference chip, built on a $20 billion licensing deal with Groq Inc., is packaged in...
Nvidia $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang said today that they are gearing up to sell its H200 processors to customers in China 🇨🇳 according to CNBC’s @KristinaParts “We have received purchase orders, and we’re in the process of restarting our manufacturing,”...
"This is really the strongest memory supercycle I have ever seen. It reminds me of the last very robust one, in the 1990s, when personal computers began to really take off, but with AI, it seems it's even stronger this...
DeWalt is launching three new products in March 2026: a 20V Max XR brushless ratchet with interchangeable 3/8‑inch, 1/4‑inch square and low‑profile hex heads; an Atomic 20V Max brushless 1/4‑inch ratchet aimed at tight‑space work; and a ToughSeries Construction Jack Extension that adds 27 inches...
Nvidia unveiled its Vera Rubin and Groq 3 chips, promising ten‑times higher energy efficiency for AI workloads. Indian data‑centre operators now face a trade‑off: invest in costly, power‑saving GPUs or scale capacity with older, cheaper models. Analysts expect the sector’s power...
My son has walked 3 Lenovos to the death screen. lol. I confused one of them with my actual laptop (that I let him borrow) and thought he had blown it as well. I almost died. I’m so serious. BUT...
.@CoreWeave launches latest @Nvidia instances, adds Weights & Biases tools https://t.co/MH7YFtkal4 CoreWeave said its Nvidia HGX B300 instances, part of the Nvidia Blackwell Ultra platform, are generally available on its cloud infrastructure and said it will be among the…
The AI surge has spurred a new class of GPU‑first cloud providers, called neoclouds, that initially sold raw GPU capacity. Rafay’s Token Factory now lets these providers expose models as token‑metered APIs, turning infrastructure into a consumable AI service. Deep...
Jensen trying really hard to aikido the negative sentiment that DLSS 5 is post-processed "AI slop." Kind of wild that the term "generative AI" has become a liability for the company that literally coined the GPU revolution. https://t.co/O3dKFgsHDO
Cobalt Digital unveiled a robust 2026 NAB Show portfolio expanding its IPMX and ST 2110 ecosystem. The lineup introduces the 1RU blueCORE standalone processors, the PACIFIC compression line with dual SDI and ST 2110/IPMX outputs, and a hybrid satellite‑Internet mode meeting FCC...
Caterpillar will supply its G3500 natural‑gas generator platform to provide up to 2 GW of onsite power for the Monarch Compute Campus in West Virginia. The campus, owned by Nscale and linked to Microsoft’s AI workloads and NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin systems,...
Researchers at Skoltech and KTH have developed an ultrathin carbon‑nanotube black paint that absorbs terahertz radiation, addressing interference in emerging 6G photonic circuits. The coating, applied via aerosol chemical vapor deposition, can be tuned from 2 to 53 nm, with the...
igus unveiled the ReBelMove Pro, a modular autonomous mobile robot designed for rapid, code‑free deployment across industrial settings. The compact AMR reaches 6.5 mph, lifts 550 lb, and can tow nearly 2,000 lb while mapping 2,150 sq ft in under three minutes using LIDAR, 3D...
Nvidia unveiled an updated data‑center roadmap at GTC, introducing the Rosa CPU and the die‑stacked Feynman GPU architecture slated for 2028. The plan layers new Groq LPUs—LP30, LP35, and LP40—with NVFP4 support, while NVLink switches will debut co‑packaged optics for...
Apple’s Beats Studio Pro headphones have been slashed to $169.95, roughly $180 off the regular $349.99 price, as Amazon, Walmart and Best Buy promote the deal ahead of the retailer’s Big Spring Sale. The over‑ear model retains its long‑standing design but...
Jensen says Nvidia has received orders from Chinese customers for H200 GPUs, licenses from US gov't — H200 manufacturing restarting https://t.co/upKaT2fpBz
San Bernardino County Fire District is rolling out a Florida‑based Fire Neural Network (FNN) lightning‑detection system across its stations, delivering real‑time wildfire risk alerts within 40 seconds. The platform fuses lightning strike data with NOAA weather feeds to calculate a...
Jensen Huang says gamers are "completely wrong" about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash https://t.co/RgDOKPXfPL
System76 unveiled the Thelio Mira, a high‑performance Linux‑focused desktop featuring AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPUs and a redesigned, service‑oriented chassis. The workstation ships with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and offers GPU options ranging from an RTX 3050 to an RTX 5090, plus an AMD...
Ikea launched a low‑cost Matter‑over‑Thread smart‑home line promising universal compatibility, but users encountered frequent onboarding and connectivity failures across major platforms. Reports highlighted Apple Home struggling more than Google Home, while Ikea’s Dirigera hub required multiple firmware updates to improve...
At press q&a, Jensen Huang was asked if the $20 billion Groq deal meant Nvidia was slow to shift from AI training to inference. He replied, “First of all, you are looking at the inference king.” https://t.co/lnNoqtepBH
Kern County Public Health has deployed a new AI‑enabled, five‑lead portable electrocardiogram that delivers 12‑lead diagnostics to EMTs. Within weeks of the Feb. 1 rollout, Hall Ambulance EMTs used the device to identify a myocardial infarction in a home patient, enabling...
A maker dissatisfied with Google Nest Hub's limited media support built a custom smart display using a 3D‑printed enclosure. The enclosure houses a Google Home Mini and a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7, linked via Bluetooth and an $8 USB‑C splitter. By...
Groq rack is 8 LPU, 1 FPGA, 1 CPU, 1 BF DPU per tray and 32 trays in a rack.
Samsung Galaxy phones ship with powerful cameras, but default settings often limit their potential. By enabling the composition guide, selecting the sensor’s maximum resolution, reassigning volume keys to zoom, and manually adjusting exposure, users can extract noticeably better images without...
A paper titled “DiscoRD” from ETH Zurich and Rutgers introduces a rapid experimental method to determine the read‑disturbance threshold (RDT) of DDR4 DRAM chips. The authors measured hundreds of thousands of rows across 212 chips, building an empirical model of...
Vera CPU tray. 8 CPUs per tray total 256 CPUs per rack. 64 Bluefield DPU (still a CPU) per rack. No wattage disclosed yet for a full Vera CPU rack. Fully liquid cooled. https://t.co/6bbrZEGGuP
Groq board. FPGA (likely Altera) and CPU head node (likely Intel) and 8 Groq LPUs on top. Groq rack also on the right paired with VR NVL72. https://t.co/CM4ni9TDyX
Maxwell introduced a modernized cassette player that combines USB‑C charging and Bluetooth audio with classic tape playback. The sleek white unit offers 11 hours of battery life and tactile controls, but it cannot record or play non‑cassette media. Priced at $99.99,...
Lenovo announced three new servers at CES 2026 designed for AI inferencing at the edge, specifically targeting healthcare environments. The devices enable large language models to run locally on low‑power hardware, cutting latency and avoiding cloud round‑trips. By processing sensor and...
A new arXiv paper from the University of Austria and ETH Zurich benchmarks ultra‑low‑power edge AI processors across three architectures: the RISC‑V‑based GAP9, the ARM Cortex‑M55 STM32N6, and Sony's in‑sensor IMX500. The study evaluates latency, inference efficiency, energy use, and...
vCluster Labs unveiled vMetal, a bare‑metal management layer announced at NVIDIA GTC 2026, that lets IT teams automatically discover, provision, assign, upgrade and repurpose GPU‑equipped servers through a centralized control plane. The platform can attach physical machines to Kubernetes clusters...
Formal verification offers an exhaustive, mathematical approach to prove hardware designs meet specifications, complementing traditional simulation. Siemens’ white paper outlines best practices such as writing simple assertions, using assumptions to limit state space, and applying abstraction techniques like memory black‑boxing....
Nvidia announced CloudXR 6.0 now supports foveated streaming on the Apple Vision Pro, extending GeForce RTX‑powered graphics to the mixed‑reality headset. The cloud‑based solution streams high‑resolution visuals while dynamically allocating rendering resources to the user’s gaze, reducing bandwidth and latency....
Advantech and FORT Robotics announced the MIC‑735, an industrial‑grade edge AI system built on NVIDIA’s IGX Thor platform and powered by the IGX T5000 module. The solution embeds functional safety through NVIDIA Halos and FORT’s Nano Safety Controller Pro, delivering up to 2,070 FP TFLOPS...
Swiss ag‑tech firm Ecorobotix announced that it has sold 1,000 ARA ultra‑high precision sprayers worldwide over the past five years. The AI‑driven machines deliver a 6 × 6 cm treatment footprint, cutting herbicide use by up to 95% compared with conventional broadcast spraying....
Dyson has launched three new wet‑floor cleaning devices: the Spot+Scrub Ai robot vacuum‑mop at $1,200, the Clean+Wash Hygiene handheld cleaner at $500, and the compact PencilWash at $350. The Clean+Wash Hygiene consolidates its water tank and debris tray in the head and adds...
