Today's Hardware Pulse
Nvidia driver adds DLSS 5 profile options, hinting at next‑gen AI rendering
Nvidia's GeForce Game Ready driver 610.47 introduces three new profile settings—Enable DLSS NR override, Enable DLSS NR SL override, and Override DLSS NR presets—suggesting continued development of its upcoming DLSS 5 neural‑rendering technology. The earlier DLSS 5 reveal sparked debate over AI‑driven image alteration, after which Nvidia fell silent on the feature.
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By the numbers: Cyient Semiconductors raises $30M Series A
Resilience Is a Critical Link in West Africa’s Digital Economy
At the 2026 International Submarine Cable Resilience Summit, leaders highlighted that resilience has become an economic imperative for West Africa’s $800 billion‑plus economy. A March 2024 multi‑cable outage slashed internet traffic by over 50%, exposing the fragility of a digital sector that generates $100‑150 billion annually. The incident revealed that existing capacity alone does not guarantee continuity; fragmented permitting, uneven protection regimes, and limited repair assets drive costly downtime. Stakeholders now argue that coordinated policy and design standards are essential to transform submarine‑cable resilience into a regional public good.
PetPivot Announces $20 Off AutoScooper 11 & AutoScooper 12 Lite for Mother’s Day
PetPivot, a U.S. pet‑tech company, launched a limited‑time Mother’s Day sale offering $20 off its AutoScooper 11 and AutoScooper 12 Lite litter‑box robots from April 29 to May 10, 2026. Both devices automate litter cleaning without Wi‑Fi, apps, or subscription fees, emphasizing plug‑and‑play simplicity. The...
Walmart’s New Google TV Streamers Are Now Available for some as Wide Launch Nears
Walmart is preparing to roll out its new Onn 4K Pro streaming box and Onn 4K streaming stick powered by Google TV. The devices are now listed on Walmart.com for most shoppers, though the displayed prices—$59.88 for the box and $39.88 for the stick—appear...
Samsung Hints at New Flagship Camera Design
Samsung is apparently planning a camera redesign for the next flagships Picture is of the Xperia 1 VIII
TECH PROFILE: Kazakhstan’s HS-WIM Success Story with Intercomp
Kazakhstan has become a regional leader in high‑speed weigh‑in‑motion (HS‑WIM) enforcement by adopting Intercomp’s strain‑gauge strip sensors. After rigorous testing and certification, the sensors were installed on more than 100 lanes by 2025, initially in a semi‑automatic pilot in Astana....
Save over $150 on This Fantastic Elecoo Resin 3D Printer with 16K Resolution and a Tilting Vat — Saturn 4...
Elegoo’s Saturn 4 Ultra 16K resin 3D printer is on sale for $493 on Amazon, a 24% discount from its regular price. The machine pairs a 10.1‑inch LCD with a 11520 × 5120 pixel display, delivering 14‑micron resolution that rivals professional‑grade equipment. It...
Mapping Global Semiconductor Process Nodes in One Guide
#Technology #Newsletter #Semiconductor #Manufacturing #Node NLOG-301 | Semiconductor And Beyond Newsletter | The Semiconductor Node Map: https://newsletter.chetanpatil.in/p/semiconductor-and-beyond-newsletter-301
I Reviewed the Lenovo Yoga 7 Slim Ultra and It Almost Made Me Enjoy Windows Again
Lenovo’s Yoga 7 Slim Ultra is an ultra‑light 14‑inch Windows laptop weighing just 2.15 lb, equipped with a 2.8K OLED panel, Intel Core Ultra 7 355 processor, 32 GB LPDDR5X RAM, and a 75 Wh battery. The review praises its feather‑weight chassis and fast charging...
4 Smart Kitchen Gadgets that Actually Earned Their Counter Space
A growing number of smart kitchen gadgets are proving their worth beyond novelty. The Amazon Echo Show 8 serves as a Matter‑enabled Thread border router, centralizing voice control and device coordination. Moen’s smart leak detector monitors water, humidity and temperature, sending...
SpaceX Files FCC Application for Quad‑Band Starlink Gateway in Texas
SpaceX has submitted an FCC filing for a next‑generation Starlink gateway at its Bastrop, Texas manufacturing plant. The proposed station will use 40 quad‑band antennas with 1.99‑meter dishes, expanding spectrum use to Ka, V, E and W bands and paving...
Amazon's Trainium AI Chip Challenges Nvidia's GPU Dominance
Amazon Web Services is promoting its custom Trainium AI accelerator, which it says delivers roughly a 30% cost‑performance edge over Nvidia's GPUs. The move adds a new competitive dimension to Nvidia's long‑standing lead in AI hardware and comes as AWS...
Samsung Adds 25 Ikea Devices to SmartThings, Dropping Extra Gateway Requirement
Samsung announced that its SmartThings platform now natively supports 25 Ikea smart‑home products, eliminating the need for a separate Ikea gateway. The integration, built on the Matter‑over‑Thread standard, marks the first tangible outcome of the companies’ partnership announced at CES...
Remy AI Secures $650K Funding and YC Spot as Founder Shares Startup Journey
Oscar Brisset, 25, left his consulting role at BCG to co‑found Remy AI, an AI‑powered warehouse robotics startup. The company has raised more than $650,000 and landed a $500,000 investment as part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2026 batch, positioning it...
CISA Adds Four Actively Exploited Flaws to KEV List, Mandates May 2026 Fix Deadline
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced on Friday that four actively exploited vulnerabilities – affecting SimpleHelp, Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server and D‑Link DIR‑823X routers – have been added to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CISA set...
Extreme Stability in Ultrafast Nanomagnetism Aids the Development of Faster Data Storage
Physicist Johan Mentink and collaborators have, for the first time, visualized magnetic domain walls at nanometer and femtosecond scales using a tabletop extreme‑ultraviolet laser source. Their measurements reveal that domain boundaries remain remarkably stable even when the material is briefly...
Google Pixel Ruined Voice Typing on Every Other Phone for Me, but the Fix Is in Sight
Google’s Pixel phones deliver a markedly superior voice‑to‑text experience through a specially tuned Gboard that combines faster transcription, higher accuracy, and automatic punctuation. Competing Android devices, including Samsung’s, rely on a generic Gboard version that lacks these refinements, prompting users...
3D‑Printed Chainsaw Sword Works, Heavy, Showcased at Festival
Real world chainsaw - sword man is here and it works and heavy and 3D Printed. Love it. Printed by @polymaker_3d spotted at @rockymountainreprapfestival
RTX 4090 Sent for Repair Is a Sophisticated Fake with Laser-Etched VRAM and Core, 'This Is the Best Scam I've...
A used Asus ROG Strix RTX 4090 bought on eBay was revealed to be a factory‑level counterfeit. The GPU’s core and VRAM chips were shaved, stripped of original markings and laser‑etched with fake specifications, making the card appear genuine under casual...
SpeakOn’s Dictation Device Is a Good Idea Marred by Platform Limitations
TechCrunch reviewed SpeakOn, a $129 magnetic dictation pebble that attaches to an iPhone via MagSafe and works through an iOS‑only keyboard app. The device claims 10 hours of continuous dictation and 20‑day standby, but real‑world tests show limited microphone range (about...
The One Slack Message that Proved Our Elite Engineering Team Was Flying Blind
A Slack question asking "What are we actually running across both cloud environments?" revealed that the engineering team lacked a unified view of its multi‑cloud footprint. The organization was spread across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Cloudflare after years of ad‑hoc...
Micron‑scale Chip Projects Images Onto Sub‑egg‑cell Area
Engineers have created a 1-square-millimeter chip that can project a photograph onto an area smaller than the size of two human egg cells. This precise laser control could have applications in augmented reality, biomedical imaging, and quantum computing. https://spectrum.ieee.org/mems-photonics
Skylight’s 15-Inch Smart Calendar Is Down to Its Lowest Price to Date
Skylight has reduced the price of its 15‑inch Skylight Calendar 2 to $259.99, a $40 discount and the lowest price since launch. The device offers a brighter screen, faster performance, magnetic frames, and two‑way syncing with major calendar services such...
John Ternus Inherits Apple’s Unprecedented 10‑Category Roadmap
Power On: Tim Cook leaves new CEO John Ternus with a tailwind of an unprecedented 10 new product categories launching in the next few years. Cook launched three since 2011. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-04-26/new-apple-ceo-john-ternus-first-major-product-is-the-foldable-iphone-road-map-mofu521p
I Built a $0/API Local AI Lab With Two GPUs
The author built a home AI lab using two consumer GPUs—a 16 GB RTX 4080 SUPER and a 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti—providing 32 GB VRAM to run 27‑B and 35‑B Qwen models via llama.cpp and llama‑swap. By quantizing models and the KV cache, he achieves up...
DJI Avata 360 vs Antigravity A1: Why the Cheaper Drone Could Actually Cost You More
Tech Court compares DJI’s Avata 360 with Antigravity’s A1, highlighting divergent design philosophies. The A1’s foldable, sub‑250‑gram chassis targets portable, hobby‑level shooters, while the Avata 360’s heavier, non‑foldable build caters to professionals demanding robust durability and superior imaging. Camera specs...
Export Controls Drove Cheaper V4 via Algorithmic Hacks
Export controls working? Yes sort of and...no, because that constraint forced them to innovate on the algorithms side. They came up with algorithmic unlocks that let them train and run V4 at a fraction of the price, even with nerfed...
Bose SoundLink Flex Returns at 20% Off
Save 20% on the Bose SoundLink Flex on Amazon — a fantastic all-round Bluetooth speaker that's back to its Black Friday price. https://t.co/wxRkuanTgi
DeepSeek‑V4 Launches with Day‑0 Hardware‑optimized Inference Stack
DeepSeek announced Day‑0 support for its V4 model, a 1.6‑trillion‑parameter system with 284 billion‑parameter Flash component, paired with an open‑source stack—SGLang and Miles—built for hybrid sparse‑attention and FP4 expert weights. The stack targets Nvidia Hopper, Blackwell, Grace Blackwell, AMD GPUs and...
Google Unveils Pixel 10a at $499, Promises Ten Years of Updates
Google introduced the Pixel 10a, a $499 mid‑range phone that will receive ten years of Android security patches and OS upgrades. The launch also includes a commitment to supply original parts for a full decade, aiming to curb planned obsolescence.
Automated Injector Ensures Precise Medication for Transported Chicks
#Automated Injector Prepares Chicks for Transport with Precise Medication by @IntEngineering #TechForGood #Innovation #Tech #Technology https://t.co/zKLUopOU7J
Valve Steam Controller Leak Suggests $99 Launch Price
A video review posted online claims Valve's upcoming Steam Controller will cost $99 at launch. The leak, shared by a Reddit user and reported by Tom's Guide, has ignited discussion about Valve's pricing strategy and how the device stacks up...
Garmin Tactix 8: Unmatched Tactical Watch Performance
The Garmin Tactix 8 is the ultimate one-watch solution for tactical operators. With an unbelievable battery life and dedicated tactical features, there's nothing better on the market at the moment. https://t.co/DBZ8Vkd9i4
Taiwan Index Nears 40,000 Points as TSMC Boosts Rally
Taiwan's benchmark weighted index surged 1,218 points to 38,932.4 on Friday, edging close to the psychological 40,000‑point barrier. The rally was anchored by a 105‑TWD jump in TSMC shares, which alone contributed 838 points, while foreign investors poured roughly $3.8 bn...
Google Cloud Unveils Agentic Enterprise Stack and New TPUs at Next 2026
At its Las Vegas Next 2026 conference, Google Cloud introduced a suite of agentic‑focused services—including split eighth‑generation TPUs, the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, an Apache Iceberg‑based Agentic Data Cloud, and an Agentic Defense stack—supported by a planned $175‑185 billion capital spend...
KAIST Unveils DNA Bio‑Transistor at 2‑nm Scale, Pioneering Reusable Molecular Computing
KAIST announced on April 22 that a team led by Professor Yeongjae Choi built a DNA‑based bio‑transistor with a 2‑nm feature size, enabling a reset‑free molecular circuit that both computes and stores data. The breakthrough tackles the one‑time‑use flaw of prior...
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D Review: An Unbeatable Value Gaming CPU
The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D, released in early 2024 as a Micro Center exclusive, now sells online for about $250, delivering flagship‑class gaming performance at a sub‑$300 price. Its Zen 4 core with second‑generation 3D V‑Cache provides 102 MB of cache while staying under 70 W during...
Framework Laptop 13 Pro Vs. MacBook Neo: These Windows Rivals Are More Similar than Expected
Framework unveiled its Laptop 13 Pro, branding it as a "MacBook Pro for Linux users" with a $1,199 DIY price tag and a fully modular design. Apple’s recently released 13‑inch MacBook Neo, priced at $599, is being promoted as the most repairable laptop...
I Built a Retro Gaming PC for Less than $500 — Complete Guide to Hardware, Software, and How to Start...
The guide shows how to assemble a retro‑gaming PC for under $500 using an AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT APU, integrated graphics, and a curated parts list that totals $490.42. It highlights the suitability of the build for 8‑, 16‑ and 32‑bit emulators,...
Norwegian Exoquad Trike Revolutionizes Adaptive Mobility
Exoquad: Norway’s All-Terrain Electric Trike Redefining Mobility for Adaptive Riders by @sciencegirl #Innovation #EmergingTech #Technology https://t.co/D2K8mPmpUb
Emerging Markets Outperform Domestic Semis Across Timeframes
So much focus on the domestic semi story, but EM leads across many timeframes @wisdomtreefunds https://t.co/1QSy6mddK7
Commodore Backs Down over FPGA Firmware Lockdown — Firm Stops Trying to Block Third-Party Firmware Installs but Will Stand Firm...
Commodore announced it will no longer block third‑party FPGA firmware on its C64 Ultimate retro computer. The company will instead issue a disclaimer that any community‑installed firmware is at the owner's risk and will not be covered by free support...
RAM Prices Surge, Relief Unlikely Soon
Over the past week, we've suffered a whole lot more pain with RAM pricing, one way or another — and it's unlikely to get any better. https://t.co/rO8rLm352R
LG C6's Top Three Upgrades and One Drawback
The LG C6 looks to be a nice upgrade over the LG C5, so I've picked my three best upgrades and one area where it needs to improve. https://t.co/mrYaccHKi6
Forget Wimbledon, This Acemate Robot Is the Tech that Could Get Me Back Into Tennis
Acemate unveiled its autonomous tennis robot, a mobile ball‑launcher that can fire up to 60 mph with spin and variable height. The device uses a 4K AI‑powered camera to track players, offers real‑time coaching data via a Bluetooth app, and even...
US Startup’s Football-Sized Drone Draws NATO Interest
California‑based XDOWN showcased its Small Tactical Unmanned Drone (STUD) at a NATO facility in Romania, drawing interest from more than 500 senior military representatives. The hand‑launch, football‑sized system weighs 5.2 lb, reaches 165 knots, and can carry a 1.7 lb payload for ISR,...
Superior Controller Priced Like Inferior Switch Joy‑Cons
This controller does more than any other controller. Why shouldn't it be slightly more expensive? This actually makes it the same price as Switch 2 Joy-Cons, which are worse controllers in nearly every regard.
ThinKom’s Truck-Mounted Microwave Gun Fries Drones at U.S. Army Test
ThinKom Solutions demonstrated a truck‑mounted high‑power microwave (HPM) system at the U.S. Army’s Cross Domain Fires experiment, pairing its proprietary VICTS phased‑array antenna with Echodyne’s EchoShield radar to neutralize drones. The mobile platform, built on a standard pickup, showcases the...
Wild Hornet’s STING Drone Hits 10,000‑Unit Monthly Production, Sparking Defense‑Manufacturing Surge
Wild Hornet announced that its STING interceptor drone is now being manufactured at a rate of 10,000 units per month, priced between $1,000 and $2,500. The cheap, AI‑guided platform is designed to out‑pace Shahed attack drones, marking a rapid scaling...
FCC Bans Sale of Non‑U.S. Made Home Routers, Upending Global Networking Market
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has prohibited the sale of any new home router models that are not built in the United States. The ban, effective immediately, requires manufacturers to submit detailed on‑shoring plans or face exclusion from the U.S....
Geely Unveils China’s First Purpose‑Built Robotaxi, EVA Cab, at Auto China 2026
Geely Auto Group, together with AFARI Technology and CaoCao Mobility, revealed the EVA Cab robotaxi prototype at the Beijing Auto Show on April 24, 2026. The vehicle features a quantum‑grade AI electronic architecture, a 2,160‑line digital LiDAR and over 3,000 TOPS of in‑vehicle...