Prusa Firmware Update Speeds MMU3 Filament Swaps
Prusa Research released firmware version 3.0.4 for the Original MMU3, trimming the average filament‑swap cycle from 52 seconds to roughly 42 seconds – a 20% speed gain. The update can shave up to nine seconds off each swap, translating into hours of saved time on complex five‑color prints that require hundreds of changes. Improvements stem from smarter motion planning, parallel idler disengagement, and predictive staging rather than new hardware. The upgrade applies to MK4S, MK3.9, MK3.5 and CORE One printers and is positioned as the last MMU3 enhancement before Prusa pivots to its INDX multi‑tool platform.
3 Reasons to Switch From Traditional Cables to Magnetic Charging Cables
Magnetic charging cables replace the traditional plug‑in connector with a detachable magnetic tip that stays in the device port, allowing one‑handed attachment and easy release. This design reduces friction, extending the lifespan of both the cable and the device’s charging...
Tesla Optimus Delayed as China Holds the Magnets
Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot is encountering production delays after China reclassified its actuator components as dual‑use technology, requiring export licenses and giving priority to domestic suppliers. The reclassification jeopardizes Tesla's access to rare‑earth magnets, which China supplies 90% of, and...
New Images of the 2nd-Gen Onn 4K Pro Leak Out with a Clear View of the Ports
New line‑drawings of Walmart’s second‑generation Onn 4K Pro streaming box reveal its port layout, confirming Ethernet, a full‑size USB‑A, and built‑in microphones. The device appears to retain the Google TV Streamer’s silhouette but adds a gray mesh top and a...
Orange Poland Starts New Smartphone Trade-In Offer
Orange Poland has launched a new smartphone trade‑in program available in its retail stores. The scheme accepts any handset that can power on, rewarding customers with a voucher starting at PLN 40 (about $10) toward a new device. For phones that...
VivoPower Receives Nasdaq Approval of Ticker “TEMB” For Planned Tembo Listing at a Targeted Valuation of $838 Million
VivoPower PLC announced Nasdaq’s approval of the “TEMB” ticker for the forthcoming Tembo Group N.V., the entity to be created through its merger with Cactus Acquisition Corp. I. The deal values Tembo at an indicative pre‑money equity of about $838 million,...
Kerlink Unveils M2 Wirnet iStation for Enhanced IoT and Edge Connectivity in Remote Footprints
Kerlink has launched the Wirnet iStation M2, a multi‑mode connectivity gateway that combines cellular, Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth and LoRa radios. The device is built in France and engineered for harsh, power‑constrained environments such as remote industrial sites. It targets core verticals including...
Zymtrace Secures $12.2M to Recover Billions in Wasted GPU Spend Through Autonomous Optimization
Zymtrace announced a $12.2 million funding round, including an $8.5 million seed led by Venture Guides, to scale its autonomous AI‑infrastructure optimization platform. The company’s eBPF‑based solution continuously profiles GPU and CPU workloads, automatically generating pull‑requests that fix bottlenecks without code changes....
OFC 2026: Marvell Launches Next-Generation CXL Switch, Enabling Memory Pooling to Break Through the AI “Memory Wall”
Marvell announced the Structera S 30260, a 260‑lane CXL 3.0 switch that enables rack‑level memory pooling for AI workloads. The device offers up to 4 TB/s aggregate bandwidth and works with Marvell’s Structera A accelerators, Structera X expansion controllers, and Alaska P retimers to provide disaggregated memory...
Revolutionizing Omnichannel Fulfillment with Always-On RFID: RFID Journal Case Study
International fashion retailers struggling with manual stock counts adopted PervasID's TrackMaster 3X always‑on RFID platform. The system provides continuous, item‑level visibility across store floors and stockrooms, delivering near‑100% read accuracy and one‑meter location precision. After deployment, retailers reported up to 50%...
How to Quadruple Your Steam Deck’s FPS With One Simple Plugin
The DLSS Enabler plug‑in brings Nvidia‑only DLSS4 multi‑frame generation to AMD‑based Steam Deck devices, delivering up to four times the original frame rate. Installation uses Decky Loader and simple DLL linking, allowing users to fine‑tune resolution scaling and choose upscalers...
Remote Access Configuration for Multiple Buildings
Contemporary Controls released an application note detailing how to configure its BASRTSX‑B and Skorpion IP routers for secure, scalable remote access across multi‑building BACnet networks. The routers’ Broadcast Distribution Table can store up to 50 BBMD peers, enabling BACnet/IP broadcast...
Tesla’s Newest “Folding V4 Superchargers” Are Key to Its Most Aggressive Expansion Yet
Tesla has introduced a folding V4 Supercharger that lets 33% more units fit on a single truck, slashing deployment time by half and cutting installation costs about 20%. The new V4 cabinet delivers up to 500 kW per stall for passenger...
NVIDIA Is Reportedly Preparing a GeForce RTX 5050 with 9 GB of GDDR7, Featuring More Memory and a Narrower Interface
Leaks circulating since early March suggest NVIDIA is developing a second RTX 5050 variant that swaps the current 8 GB GDDR6, 128‑bit memory bus for 9 GB of GDDR7 on a narrower 96‑bit interface. Benchlife’s March 5 and March 10 reports provide a detailed spec...
Pine64 FOSDEM 2026 Update Details PineNote and PineTab2 Progress
Pine64 used its FOSDEM 2026 showcase to reveal notable strides on the PineNote and PineTab2, including e‑ink video playback and functional camera support. The company demonstrated the PineNote running DOOM and a pre‑release QuillOS, while PineTab2 showed H.264 decoding and improved...
ASUS Armoury & HP WMI Drivers Add More Laptops Ahead Of Linux 7.0-rc6
The Linux 7.0‑rc6 merge introduces new ASUS Armoury and NB WMI driver support for several ROG laptops, as well as HP WMI driver updates for the Omen 16 series. These additions bring GPU switching, fan‑curve control, hot‑key mapping, and power‑profile exposure to the kernel....
Nvidia’s Shift From GPUs and AI ‘Inference King’ Economics
Nvidia’s GTC 2026 unveiled a strategic pivot from pure GPU dominance to a full‑stack AI inference platform that blends GPUs, its new Vera ARM CPU, and Groq LPUs. The company highlighted the NVL72 superchip system and the MGX ETL rack...
Bidirectionality Is the Obvious BCI Paradigm
The article argues that brain‑computer interfaces must evolve from one‑way readers to truly bidirectional systems that both decode and write native neural representations. It highlights recent advances in high‑density electrode arrays that approach synapse‑scale resolution, and suggests optogenetic organoids and...
Salute and Ecolab Target DTC Liquid Cooling Complexity in AI Data Centers
Salute announced a partnership with Ecolab to embed the latter’s Cooling‑as‑a‑Service (CaaS) into Salute’s Direct‑to‑Chip (DTC) liquid‑cooling operations. The joint offering streamlines management of the “tech loop,” the circulatory system that regulates coolant flow in AI‑focused data centers. By leveraging...
Altera and Arm Collaborate to Deliver Efficient, Programmable Solutions for AI Data Centers
Altera announced an expanded partnership with Arm, integrating its data‑center‑grade FPGAs with Arm’s new AGI CPU built on the Neoverse CSS V3 architecture. The joint solution targets AI‑focused data centers, offering low‑latency, highly flexible and scalable compute platforms. Leveraging Altera’s established...
VisionOS 26.4 Brings NVIDIA CloudXR 4K Streaming to Apple Vision Pro
Apple’s visionOS 26.4 update introduces native CloudXR 6.0 integration, enabling foveated 4K streaming of RTX‑rendered content to Vision Pro from a PC or cloud workstation. The system tracks users’ gaze and renders full resolution only where they look, dramatically cutting bandwidth while preserving...
Attabotics Launches Metal ASRS Bin to Mitigate Fire Risk
Attabotics introduced the Guardian bin, a metal‑based storage container designed to lower fire risk in automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS). The bin replaces combustible plastic with galvanized steel, contains leaked liquids, and improves fire‑suppression fluid distribution. Its flat‑pack design...
Electrically and Optically Controlled Silicon-Based Quantum Device Created by Simon Fraser University (SFU) Physicists
Simon Fraser University physicists, together with Photonic Inc., have demonstrated a silicon‑based quantum device that can be controlled both optically and electrically. The new diode nanocavity structure produces the first electrically‑injected single‑photon source using silicon T‑centre qubits, as reported in...
The Core Rules Of EV Charging Infrastructure Are About To Change
Upcoming regulatory revisions will reshape EV charging infrastructure by mandating automated, robot‑assisted stations that autonomous vehicles can navigate to themselves. The new rules emphasize rapid charging speeds, standardized connector designs, and integration with smart‑grid management to handle higher demand. Industry...
Meadow Is a Distraction-Light Phone with a 3 Inch Screen and Just a Few Apps
Meadow has launched a $449 ultra‑compact 3‑inch smartphone marketed as a distraction‑free secondary device. It ships with 6 GB RAM, 128 GB storage, a single 13 MP ultrawide camera, and a curated set of apps but no app store or social media. The...
Bell Canada Expands Sovereign AI Fabric with BUZZ HPC GPU Capacity
Bell Canada announced an expansion of its Bell AI Fabric through a partnership with BUZZ High Performance Computing, adding 6.5 MW of GPU‑accelerated capacity at the Merritt, British Columbia data centre. The new liquid‑cooled, high‑density GPU clusters will be operational within...
Dynamic VRAM in ComfyUI: Saving Local Models From RAMmageddon
ComfyUI has launched Dynamic VRAM, a memory‑optimization layer that shifts model weights onto GPU memory on demand, dramatically lowering system RAM consumption. The feature, available for Nvidia GPUs on Windows and Linux, eliminates out‑of‑memory crashes and speeds up model loading...
Advanced Packaging in the Semiconductor Industry
Advanced packaging is reshaping the semiconductor sector by enabling higher transistor density and heterogeneous integration through 2.5D, 3D, and fan‑out wafer‑level techniques. The global market is projected to exceed $30 billion by 2028, driven by demand for AI, high‑performance computing, and...
Fujitsu and University of Osaka Develop New Tech for Chemical Material Energy Calculations on Early-FTQC Quantum Computers
Fujitsu and the University of Osaka have unveiled a new technology that couples the third version of Fujitsu’s STAR quantum architecture with a novel molecular model optimization technique. The combined approach dramatically lowers the quantum resources needed for chemical energy...
CJ Tech: RGB Laser vs Phosphor Laser – Understanding the Difference
The article compares phosphor‑laser and RGB‑laser cinema projectors, explaining how each generates light and the resulting performance differences. Phosphor systems use a blue laser and a phosphor wheel, delivering up to 35,000 lumens with moderate color accuracy, while RGB units...
Alibaba XuanTie C950 – A Powerful, RVA23-Complaint 64-Bit RISC-V Core for Edge AI Computing
Alibaba unveiled the XuanTie C950, a high‑performance 64‑bit RISC‑V core built on a superscalar out‑of‑order microarchitecture. The chip can scale to eight cores running at 3.2 GHz and achieves a SPECint2006 score of about 70, a record for RISC‑V designs. It supports...
Air Arabia Debuts Panasonic Avionics Multi-Orbit IFC
Air Arabia, the UAE‑based low‑cost carrier, has begun operating Panasonic Avionics' Ku‑band multi‑orbit inflight connectivity (IFC) solution across its Airbus A320 family fleet. The system uses Gilat’s Sidewinder electronically steerable antenna to switch between Panasonic’s geostationary satellite network and Eutelsat...
RSAC 2026: Swissbit Sets Stage for Post‑Quantum Hardware Authentication
Swissbit AG announced at RSA Conference 2026 that its iShield Key 2 hardware security key now integrates HID Seos credential technology for physical access and will soon support face‑biometric verification with liveness detection. The company also unveiled an early‑stage iShield Key PQC...
RSAC 2026: Aewin Unveils AI Infrastructure
Aewin Technologies announced a new line of AI‑focused infrastructure at the 2026 RSA Conference in San Francisco. The portfolio includes high‑performance network appliances, tailored servers and a two‑phase direct liquid cooling system built around Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors. Flagship...
CloudFest 2026: Phison Expands Pascari Ecosystem in the EU to Accelerate AI Infrastructure
Phison Electronics announced the EU-wide rollout of its Pascari portfolio at CloudFest 2026, showcasing new Gen5 PCIe SSDs designed for AI and high‑performance computing. The company highlighted partnerships with platform makers AIC and InWin to broaden distribution of its Pascari...
CloudFest 2026: Toshiba to Showcase High-Performance AI and Petabyte-Scale Storage Solutions
Toshiba Electronics Europe will showcase petabyte‑scale, high‑performance storage solutions at CloudFest 2026, featuring live demos of 2 PB and 1 PB HDD‑based systems. The displays, built with partners Ugreen, Promise Technology and Microchip, highlight scalable NAS, AI‑optimized servers, and ZFS‑powered clusters. A...
CloudFest 2026: Pegatron Accelerates European AI Data Center Evolution with Next-Generation Server Portfolio
Pegatron unveiled a new high‑performance, liquid‑cooled server portfolio at CloudFest 2026, aimed at accelerating AI‑ready data centers across Europe. The flagship MS101‑2A1 combines dual AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs in a 1OU, 2‑node design, while the AS402‑2T1‑8H2 and RA4800‑64H2 deliver up...
Post-Silicon Validating an MMU. Innovation in Verification
A recent IBM paper extends post‑silicon validation to the memory management unit (MMU) using Cadence’s Threadmill bare‑metal exerciser. The method generates multi‑threaded, constraint‑driven tests that run indefinitely on first silicon, stressing TLB walks, page‑table updates, context switches and migrations. In...
RFID and PLM: The Missing Link Between Physical Assets and the Digital Thread
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems excel at tracking design, manufacturing and service data, yet they often lack a reliable link to the physical product. Embedding RFID tags on components provides a permanent, unique identifier that can be read without line‑of‑sight....
Data Centers Are Warfighting Infrastructure
Data centers are increasingly viewed as warfighting infrastructure after a 2025 DNS outage at AWS exposed critical vulnerabilities. The incident showed that a single cloud service failure can disrupt military logistics, intelligence, and real‑time decision making. Defense agencies now treat...
These 5 New Apple Products Combined Cost Less Than The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 7 commands a $1,999.99 price tag, but Apple’s 2026 product lineup delivers a comparable tech arsenal for less. The iPhone 17e, MacBook Neo, iPad 11, Apple Watch SE 3 and AirPods 4 together cost $1,925, or $1,805 with education pricing. This bundle provides a...
New TUF A14 Laptop Transformed Into a Giant Steam Deck with Powerful iGPU
Asus unveiled the TUF A14 laptop, powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max Plus 392 processor and Radeon 8060S iGPU, and configured for dual‑boot Windows 11 and Steam OS 3.9. The device can allocate 16 GB of its 32 GB unified memory to VRAM, delivering strong frame rates...
Why JetKVM Is a Total Game-Changer for Remote Access : Full 2026 Guide
The JetKVM is a hardware‑based KVM‑over‑IP appliance that lets IT teams control computers at the BIOS level, even when they are powered off or crashed. It streams full‑HD video at 60 fps with 30‑60 ms latency and supports virtual USB and ISO...
Advanced Deep Learning Interview Questions #4 - The I/O Starvation Trap
During a senior ML engineer interview at Meta, candidates are asked why training speed stalls after moving deep‑learning workloads to a large AWS GPU cluster. Although the expensive GPU instances launch correctly, the iteration rate does not improve. The hidden...
How Valve Finally Solved the Worst Part of PC Gaming on a TV
Valve’s Steam Machine re‑imagines PC gaming for the living‑room by marrying console‑style plug‑and‑play with the flexibility of a Windows‑based PC. The device uses Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) to power the TV, sound system and console together, while HDR support delivers...
Quixant IQON 3 and Air 3 AMD Ryzen Embedded 8000 Systems Target Casino and Arcade Gaming
Quixant unveiled two new industrial PCs, the IQON 3 and IQON Air 3, built on AMD’s Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7 PRO R8000 embedded processors. Designed for casino, sports‑betting and arcade machines, they can drive four 4K displays and include game‑specific hardware such as battery‑free MRAM,...
Meet the G6 Edge : UniFi’s Next-Gen Security Camera Is Here
Ubiquiti has launched the UniFi Protect G6 Edge camera line, featuring 1/1.2‑inch sensors, varifocal optics and long‑range infrared illumination for high‑resolution imaging in challenging lighting. The series adds integrated radar sensing and on‑device Edge AI that delivers semantic search, object...
RainbowLink-V2 Compact USB-to-Serial Converter Features 12V Output, Dual TTL, Isolated RS-485 and RS-232 Interfaces
DFRobot has launched the RainbowLink‑V2 USB‑to‑serial converter, offering four independent channels—isolated RS‑485, isolated RS‑232, and two TTL ports—in a compact 77 × 57 × 21 mm case. The device also provides on‑board power outputs of 12 V/800 mA, 5 V/2 A and 3.3 V/200 mA, eliminating the need for external adapters....
Fire Risks and Ugly Designs Are Stalling EV Charger Adoption
Community opposition is emerging as the primary barrier to electric‑vehicle charger rollout, with residents in New York, Bengaluru, Kuala Lumpur and other locales citing fire fears, unsightly designs, and loss of parking. Authorities in the U.S. and South Korea are even banning underground...
Taiwan Startups Showcase AI Capabilities at NVIDIA GTC 2026
Taiwan’s Startup Island SV Hub led a delegation of 16 AI startups to NVIDIA’s GTC 2026, highlighting the island’s shift from pure hardware manufacturing to full‑stack AI innovation. Two firms, MetAI and Spingence, earned spots in NVIDIA’s Inception showcase, while...