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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.
Karpenter replaces the legacy Cluster Autoscaler for GPU workloads on Amazon EKS by provisioning nodes dynamically through the EC2 Fleet API. It eliminates reliance on pre‑defined Auto Scaling Groups, allowing exact instance types like P4D to be launched on demand. The guide highlights common scaling mistakes—such as over‑constraining instance families and ignoring image pull delays—and offers best‑practice solutions including spot‑to‑spot consolidation, pre‑seeding images with EBS snapshots, and using the `do‑not‑disrupt` annotation. Together, these tactics boost GPU utilization while cutting costs and cold‑start times.
NetApp has refreshed its E‑Series portfolio with two all‑flash models, the EF50 and EF80, aimed at AI training, inferencing and high‑performance computing workloads. The new arrays claim a 2.5× performance increase, delivering over 100 GB/s read and 57 GB/s write throughput while...
Moody’s forecasts that the six largest U.S. hyperscalers will spend about $700 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, roughly six times the 2022 level. The spending surge is driven by exploding demand for AI compute capacity to train models and support...
UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has installed Sunrise, a new supercomputer built on AMD EPYC CPUs and MI 355X GPUs, delivering roughly 6 exaflops at 8‑bit precision and 50 petaflops at 64‑bit. Designed specifically for nuclear‑fusion research, Sunrise merges AI and high‑performance computing...
Neousys Technology unveiled the Nuvo-11160GC, a compact rugged edge AI computing platform targeting industrial and robotics markets. Powered by Intel Core Ultra 200S CPUs and supporting up to 150W NVIDIA RTX GPUs, it delivers real‑time AI inference within a -25°C...
Antigravity is offering a flat 20 % discount on its A1 8K 360 drone across all bundles, just weeks before a major April software update. The A1 remains the only consumer‑grade drone in the United States capable of true 8K 360...
Electronic shelf labels (ESLs) have moved from pilot projects to core operations, with Woolworths deploying roughly 17 million tags across more than 770 ANZ stores and Bunnings following suit. The digital tags allow prices to be updated centrally in minutes, opening...
Jensen Huang delivered a two‑hour, unscripted keynote at Nvidia’s GTC in San Jose, addressing roughly 30,000 attendees. He combined rapid technical detail with a Jobs‑style humor, even ending with a musical campfire number featuring robot singers. The presentation emphasized Nvidia’s...
IceWhale has launched pre‑orders for the ZimaCube 2, a compact personal‑cloud NAS built on 12th‑Gen Intel i3 and i5 processors. The system offers DDR5 memory up to 64 GB, dual 2.5 GbE Ethernet with optional 10 GbE, and two PCIe slots for GPUs or...
The MarkTechPost tutorial demonstrates how NVIDIA Warp lets Python developers write GPU‑accelerated kernels for scientific simulations and differentiable physics. It walks through environment setup, kernel creation for vector math, signed‑distance fields, particle dynamics, and a gradient‑based projectile optimizer. Performance tests show...
ASRock Industrial unveiled the AI BOX‑A395, a compact bare‑bone system built around AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 platform. The device combines a 16‑core Zen 5 CPU, integrated Radeon 8060S GPU, and an XDNA 2 NPU delivering up to 50 TOPS, all fed by up to 128 GB of 8000 MT/s...
In this episode, Michelle Martin and Ryan Huang dissect Nvidia’s bold $1 trillion AI revenue forecast, highlighting the shift to agentic AI, the demand for next‑gen Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips, and even Nvidia’s space‑based data‑center ambitions. They then pivot to Warren...
Beatbot unveiled the AquaSense X, a premium robotic pool cleaner paired with AstroRinse, the first self‑cleaning docking station that rinses the filter, empties debris and wirelessly charges the unit. Priced at $4,250, it ships on April 30 2026 and boasts 29 sensors, AI...
Visiting the NVIDIA GTC expo hall shows you why OpenAI is changing strategy. All the big booths are enterprise. Does this mean @sama is gonna give up his dreams of stealing Tim Cook’s lunch? The biggest news here is how NVIDIA is bringing...
WEKA announced the general availability of its NeuralMesh AI Data Platform (AIDP), an enterprise‑ready, composable storage solution built on NVIDIA’s AI Data Platform reference design. The platform promises to shrink AI project timelines from months to minutes by delivering high‑performance,...
Penguin Solutions unveiled the MemoryAI KV cache server, the industry’s first production‑ready key‑value cache built on Compute Express Link (CXL) memory. The appliance combines 3 TB of DDR5 with up to eight 1 TB CXL add‑in cards, delivering up to 11 TB of...
Meta has announced a renewed commitment to the jemalloc memory allocator, a component it has used for nearly two decades across its infrastructure. The company plans to modernize the codebase, reduce technical debt, and enhance features such as the hugepage...
$NVDA just dropped the biggest forward demand signal in semiconductor history. Jensen Huang disclosed at GTC 2026 that he sees at least $1T in Blackwell and Vera Rubin demand through 2027, up from $500B in forward visibility just 12 months...
Iran war chokepoints begin to cast doubt on global chip supply https://t.co/oHuurB7rl9 via @debbywuintaipei @ckyrious https://t.co/EFKkB6ppV0
Coda Octopus Group reported fiscal‑year 2025 revenue of $26.6 million, up 30.7% year‑over‑year, driven by a 30.5% jump in hardware sales and contributions from its newly acquired acoustic sensors unit. The company launched the ultra‑compact Echoscope NanoGen sonar and delivered the...
#TechTuesday. October 4, 1993. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer video gaming system was first released in North America by Panasonic. (Are You Not Entertained) #Vintage #Gaming #History https://t.co/w4QpligNKF
Nvidia announces Vera Rubin Space-1 chip system for orbital AI data centers “Orbital data centers have been an increasingly popular proposition as AI demand tests Earth's energy constraints.” https://t.co/fWrKyLiAij #SpaceEconomy https://t.co/SBqD6vmYbz
TORMAX UK installed its iMotion 1301 door drives to automate a pair of heavy, custom‑fabricated swing doors at the new V&A East Storehouse museum entrance. The gearless, high‑torque motors deliver smooth, silent operation while handling the doors' substantial weight and...
“Days after Chinese regulators approved…the world’s first invasive brain-computer interface device cleared for commercial use in patients, Shanghai announced three new research centers aimed at accelerating the technology’s development.” @SixthTone https://t.co/q1mrOAY82F
#WhosNext? Tea harvesters? This motorized tea plucking machine eliminates a lot of manual labor and as a result laborers. (GiGadgets) #AgTech #Automation https://t.co/saGtJTH3Dk
IDC has sharply lowered its 2026 PC market outlook, now forecasting an 11.3% decline in shipments, far steeper than the previous 2.4% drop. Tablet shipments are also projected to fall 7.6% amid persistent memory shortages, rising component prices, and ongoing...
Have a @Rakuten @Kobo eReader? Smart choice, it's quite as capable as an Amazon Kindle, with strengths all its own. But is it up-to-date with system software? Here's how to check (and update it, as needed): https://t.co/L67emcu2fa #rakuten #kobo #software...
NVIDIA GTC 2026: The Company That Made Sure You Knew Its Name Before You Needed Its Chips https://t.co/BQ4crizikL
Pasqal announced the integration of NVIDIA’s open‑source CUDA‑Q platform with its Quantum Resource Management Interface (QRMI), allowing quantum workloads to be scheduled through standard Slurm job queues. The coupling makes Pasqal’s neutral‑atom QPUs appear as native accelerators alongside CPUs and...
Jensen Huang forecasts $1 trillion in orders for Blackwell and Vera Rubin through ’27. The technical term for this is "a lot." https://t.co/0mqhlqtnzA
NVIDIA does it again. NVIDIA gives us more exponential multipliers, but not the one that could be 35x by itself. I suppose we can live with 5x out of existing infrastructure. 🙂 Here's a great Synopsis of the GTC Keynote:
At GTC 2026, NVIDIA and European rideshare firm Bolt announced a partnership to develop robotaxis across Europe. Bolt will leverage NVIDIA’s Cosmos, Omniverse, the Alpamayo autonomous‑vehicle model, and Drive Hyperion platform to turn its fleet data into a scalable learning...
NVIDIA unveiled the Vera CPU, the first processor engineered specifically for agentic AI and reinforcement‑learning workloads. The chip claims 50% higher speed and twice the energy efficiency of conventional rack‑scale CPUs, leveraging 88 custom Olympus cores and LPDDR5X memory. A...
The era of Physical AI requires us to solve the hardest problems in unpredictable conditions in real time. @KodiakRobotics is doubling down on its ability to do exactly that. We announced a collaboration with @nvidia today in which our next-generation driverless...
HPE announced a suite of next‑generation AI factory and supercomputing solutions co‑engineered with NVIDIA, featuring the first NVIDIA Vera CPU compute blades, Quantum‑X800 InfiniBand switches, and the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack‑scale system for trillion‑parameter models. The portfolio also adds the...
Schneider Electric, NVIDIA and AVEVA unveiled a suite of validated blueprints to design, simulate, build, operate and maintain gigawatt‑scale AI factories. The new NVIDIA Vera Rubin reference design confirms 480 VAC power distribution and 45 °C loop temperatures, while supporting MaxP/MaxQ operating...
I had a chance to speak with Josh Lipton at @YahooFinance about the biggest takeaways from today's @nvidia GTC event. At least two things stood out for me. One in Nemoclaw and it's potential to be used for...
Everpure unveiled three major announcements at GTC 2026, beginning with record‑setting AI storage benchmarks for its FlashBlade//EXA and FlashBlade//S500 platforms. The company introduced DataStream, an AI‑ready data pipeline that automates ingestion, anonymization, vectorization and indexing, complemented by the 1touch.io acquisition...
Physical AI gets its time in the keynote (as expected). I believe physical AI is going to be a meaningful growth driver for Nvidia starting in CY28. Today, only about 1% of Nvidia’s sales are used to deliver physical AI, which...
In case it helps here is a visual on how NVIDIA describes scale up, out, and across. https://t.co/BVhQbE17Qk
Siemens has launched the Fuse EDA AI Agent, an agentic AI platform that automates and optimizes electronic design automation across the full chip development lifecycle. The system targets the soaring complexity of modern SoCs, where design costs can exceed $300 million...
Inference doesn’t break on compute these days, it's GPU memory that's the choke. But Dynamo + VAST turns KV cache into a first-class, shareable system resource so GPUs stop redoing context. Cool stuff https://t.co/4v0Au4rcM5
Nvidia GTC 2026: @Nvidia’s hardware strategy goes beyond GPU in AI inference pivot https://t.co/1ZWled5xXB >> It takes a family of processors to build the #AIFactory. @LDignan is first out. #NvidiaGTC
Dell unveiled an AI Data Platform built with Nvidia that adds a four‑layer architecture and a new parallel file system called Lightning. Lightning delivers up to 150 GB/s per 1‑RU enclosure and can be stacked to achieve roughly 6 TB/s per rack,...
Hey, did you know you can run OpenClaw on the $59 @arduino UNO Q? Amazing. https://t.co/Nrl1lpBYdY
Enjoyed chatting with @CNBCOvertime on the $NVDA keynote while it was still going on inside. Paired up with @dylan522p. The $1T number got the highlights. Talked about the competition, as well. https://t.co/QwmyZ9SZRx
Synopsys announced a collaboration with Nvidia to create an open, secure, hardware‑accelerated agentic AI stack spanning from silicon design to system‑level applications. The stack leverages Nvidia GPUs and AI accelerators to deliver high‑performance inference and training for agentic models. In...
.@nvidia hand delivered a pre-production unit of the @Dell Pro Max with GB300 to my house. 100lbs beast with 750GB+ of unified memory to power the best open-source models in the world. What should I test first? https://t.co/fmHXIUr1NR
Iran Conflict Threatens Global Chip Supply Chain, Risks Higher Costs for TSMC - Bloomberg https://t.co/nu9qEGPpB0
Nvidia announced that its DGX Spark and DGX Station systems, paired with the NemoClaw software stack, now deliver a full‑stack platform for building and running autonomous AI agents. The solution is designed to support always‑on agents that can reason, plan,...
