Make Spring Break Travel Easy With These 50% Off Smart Glasses
AI Translation Smart Glasses are now 50% off, dropping to $99.99 from $199.99, targeting spring travelers. The wearable supports two‑way translation in 155 languages and doubles as a 4K camera, photo‑translator, and media controller. Its built‑in microphone, speaker, and long‑life battery with magnetic quick‑charge make hands‑free communication seamless. The discount positions the device as an affordable, all‑in‑one travel companion for international trips and cruises.
You Can Now Buy a DIY Quantum Computer
Barcelona‑based Qilimanjaro has unveiled EduQit, a DIY quantum‑computer kit that bundles a superconducting qubit chip, a dilution refrigerator, and the necessary microwave control electronics in a flat‑pack format. The company markets the system as a relatively affordable entry point for...
Xbox Series X Transformed Into a Gaming PC with 3D Printed Components, Low-Profile RTX 5060, and NUC 12 Extreme
Enthusiast PhaseTech has converted an Xbox Series X into a fully functional gaming PC by installing an Intel NUC 12 Extreme compute card, a low‑profile Gigabyte RTX 5060 GPU, a 600 W Flex ATX PSU, and a 120 mm exhaust fan. Custom 3D‑printed brackets and a...
Screenless Wearable Fills Out Your Gym Card for Strength Training
Former Tesla engineers have launched Fort, a screenless fitness band that automatically records strength‑training reps, sets, and rest intervals. The device uses an inertial measurement unit and heart‑rate sensor to recognize more than 50 exercises and provide real‑time form feedback...
Intel ARC Battle Mage Owners Thread. IGPU Counts Too.
A user‑run test suite on an Intel ARC B580 (Onix Odyssey) paired with a Ryzen 5600X3D shows mixed results across modern titles. Ray tracing performance is erratic, prompting most gamers to disable it and rely on XeSS and Frame Gen for smooth frame...
Perciva 5D Camera: Occlusion-Free 3D Vision for Industrial, Retail, and Robotic Imaging
Teledyne e2v introduced the Perciva 5D camera, a short‑range 3D vision system that combines 2D imaging and depth mapping in a single CMOS sensor. The device uses angular‑sensitive pixel technology and an on‑board neural‑processing unit to deliver real‑time, occlusion‑free depth maps...
Converge Launches P5-B Data Center in Pampanga
Converge ICT Solutions opened a P5‑billion, 12‑megawatt data center in Angeles City, its largest facility to date. The Tier III‑certified site occupies 5,000 sq m and can scale to 36 MW as demand grows. It already serves banks, logistics firms, local governments and several...
RAKSHAK: A Blockchain-Integrated Smart Belt for Trusted Emergency Response and Secure Real-Time Safety Communication
The RAKSHAK Smart Belt is a wearable safety device that combines IoT sensors, GPS, GSM, and blockchain to send verified distress alerts. It targets high‑risk users such as women, children, seniors, and military personnel, delivering real‑time location and video data...
Amazon Is Selling a 2-in-1 Laptop and Tablet for only $76 Ahead of Its Big Spring Sale
Amazon is offering the Gleeso A10L 2-in-1 laptop‑tablet for $76, a 42% discount off its regular $130 price, ahead of its Big Spring Sale. The device runs Android 15, features up to 20 GB RAM, 64 GB storage expandable to 1 TB, and...
My GPU Was Running in Low-Performance Mode for Months — One Setting I'd Never Noticed Was the Reason
The article reveals that Windows' default Power Mode—typically set to Balanced or Best Power Efficiency—throttles CPU and GPU performance. By switching the Power Mode to Best Performance, the author experienced immediate gains: smoother frame rates in games, faster video editing,...
Designing Better 2D Electronics: Addressing Anisotropic Conductivity to Cut Contact Resistance
University of Michigan engineers have introduced an exact analytical model that accounts for anisotropic conductivity and realistic geometry in vertical contacts to 2D thin‑film materials. The framework replaces traditional isotropic approximations with a Laplace‑based field solution, eliminating the need for...
This Fresh-From-CES Roborock Is Serving Life on Easy Mode—And Now I’m Spoiled Beyond Belief
Roborock unveiled its Qrevo Curv 2 Flow at CES, a premium robot vacuum‑mop priced at $999. The unit combines 20,000 Pa suction, a 167 °F self‑heating mop, and a multifunctional dock that empties, refills and dries automatically. Advanced AI obstacle recognition, LiDAR mapping across...
Wheatstone to Demo Mix Engine, Virtual Console at NAB Show
Wheatstone will demo two new products at the 2026 NAB Show. The VMX mixing engine provides a single backend for multiple LXE, Glass, Strata consoles and WheatNet IP facilities. The VML virtual broadcast console runs in any HTML5 browser on...
Edge AI Is Pushing Enterprise Infrastructure Beyond the Cloud and Into Factories, Ships and Stores
Edge AI is moving beyond centralized clouds into factories, ships and stores, driven by new hardware and platform solutions. Zededa unveiled its Edge Intelligence Platform to simplify secure, large‑scale AI deployment at the edge. Nvidia’s IGX Thor processor adds enough...
Micron’s CEO Warns: AI Laptop Prices Are About to Soar—And It Won’t End Soon
Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra warned that AI‑powered laptops will see sharp price increases as memory requirements jump to 64‑128 GB, far above the 16‑32 GB baseline for traditional laptops. A surge in AI workloads has driven NAND and DRAM demand beyond current...
Kioxia Eyes GPU Memory Stack with High-Bandwidth Flash Push
Kioxia announced the GP Series, a high‑IOPS SSD built on Gen 2 XL‑Flash, targeting GPU servers with dramatically faster data access. The drive, packaged in an E1.S PCIe 5 enclosure, aims for 10 million IOPS by 2026 and 100 million random‑read IOPS by 2027....
DJI Flip Now Cheaper than Many Beginner Drones
DJI has slashed the price of its Flip drone to $309, making it the cheapest option in its lineup and undercutting many entry‑level competitors. The controller‑free bundle runs the aircraft via the DJI Fly app, while optional controller bundles remain...
Nvidia Has an OpenClaw Strategy. Do You?
At Nvidia’s GTC keynote, CEO Jensen Huang projected $1 trillion in AI‑chip sales by 2027 and urged every company to adopt an “OpenClaw” strategy, positioning Nvidia as the backbone of AI, autonomous vehicles and entertainment. The accompanying TechCrunch Equity podcast dissected...
Cleaning up Rail Grinding
RailTechnology has launched its Silent Track (ST) rail‑grinding system, a spark‑free, water‑efficient solution designed for confined urban tunnels. The electric‑powered unit uses oscillating, water‑cooled abrasive stones to achieve full rail coverage in a single pass, eliminating diesel engines and hydraulic...
Canadian Companies Make Their Case at Nvidia’s GTC Conference
At Nvidia’s GTC in San Jose, several Canadian firms announced AI‑focused collaborations leveraging Nvidia hardware. Cohere unveiled custom large‑language models optimized for Nvidia’s DGX Spark, while Kepler Communications detailed its satellite constellation powered by 40 Jetson Orin modules for on‑orbit...
SK Telecom (SKM) Strengthens Global Tech Leadership Through AI Data Center Collaboration
SK Telecom announced an MOU with Schneider Electric and Supermicro at MWC26 to develop a turnkey AI data center solution. The partnership will deliver pre‑fabricated modular units that combine AI servers, power, and cooling into a single block, cutting construction...
Bias- and Temperature-Dependent Noise Measurements to Investigate Carrier Transport at the Tellurium Interface (POSTECH)
Researchers at POSTECH have identified contact‑origin trap‑assisted tunneling as the dominant source of low‑frequency noise in ultrathin (5 nm) tellurium field‑effect transistors at room temperature. Temperature‑dependent 1/f noise measurements reveal that cooling to 100 K suppresses trap activation, restoring the carrier‑number‑fluctuation (CNF)...
Fresh Season, Fresh Tablet: TCL NXTPAPER 14 Gets a Prime Price Cut
TCL has slashed the price of its 14.3‑inch NXTPAPER tablet to $359.99 for Amazon Prime members, a 23% discount. The device combines a 2.4K anti‑glare display, T‑Pen stylus with 4096 pressure levels, 256 GB storage, 8 GB RAM, and a 10,000 mAh battery...
Texas Instruments Pushes 800V Power Architecture to Tackle AI’s Looming Energy Bottleneck
Texas Instruments announced a push toward 800‑volt power architectures to meet the exploding energy needs of AI‑driven data centers. By moving from legacy 48 V systems to 800 V, TI aims to cut copper usage, lower losses, and improve power density as...
I Tested the Beginner-Friendly Anycubic Kobra X - a 4-Color 3D Printer That's Surprisingly Good
The Anycubic Kobra X launches at $299, bringing native four‑color FDM printing to the budget segment. It features a 260 mm cubic build volume, a 3.5‑inch touchscreen, and speeds up to 600 mm/s with AI‑assisted first‑layer detection. The open‑frame design keeps the...
Early Amazon Deals on Radar Detectors—Get a Head Start on Spring Discounts
Amazon’s upcoming Big Spring Sale, scheduled for March 25‑31, is already featuring early discounts on popular radar detectors. Prices for models such as the Escort MAX 360c, Uniden R3 Extreme, and Watutu RAD1000 have been cut by 7‑40%, offering significant savings...
Early Deals on CarPlay Upgrades at Amazon's Big Spring Sale
Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, running March 25‑31, features early discounts on a variety of plug‑and‑play Apple CarPlay screens for pre‑touchscreen vehicles. Discounts range from 14 % to 41 % and include models with dash cams, backup cameras, and built‑in streaming apps. The sale...
Former Newspaper Building in Kansas City Eyed for 20-Story Data Center Development
Revitalization Unlimited, a Miami‑based historic‑preservation fund, plans to replace the 1900‑era Western Newspaper Union building in Kansas City with a 20‑story, 30 MW data center. The 142,085 sq ft tower would feature natural‑gas fuel cells and ground‑floor retail, demolishing the existing 29,990 sq ft structure....
WSL Graphics Driver Update Brings Better GPU Support for Linux Apps
Microsoft released version 4 of the dxgkrnl graphics driver for WSL 2, adding compute‑only GPU support, multiple virtual GPUs per VM, and DMA‑fence buffer sharing. The update targets Linux workloads on Windows, including large‑language‑model inference and other GPU‑intensive tasks. Meanwhile, WINE 11...
Ukraine Says Its 'Red' Team Forces Beat NATO's 'Blue' Team Forces in Every Combat Scenario During Recent Naval Drone Drills
Ukraine’s red team, equipped with home‑grown Magura V7 naval drones, won all five combat scenarios in a NATO‑led drill off Portugal. The exercise simulated attacks on ports, convoys and a frigate, demonstrating the drones’ ability to conduct ISR, mine‑countermeasure and...
OpenLight Receives First Volume Production Orders Tower’s PH18DA InP-on-Silicon Photonic Platform
OpenLight announced its first volume production orders for the PH18DA indium phosphide‑on‑silicon photonic platform, developed with Tower Semiconductor. The orders, placed by NewPhotonics, target 800 Gb/s and 1.6 Tb/s AI‑focused data‑center links, marking a shift from prototype to manufacturing‑ready deployment. The PH18DA...
UGREEN 65W 4-Port USB-C Charger Drops to $32.99 for Prime Members
UGREEN has reduced the price of its Nexode 65W GaN USB‑C wall charger to $32.99 for Amazon Prime members, down from $39.99. The charger packs three USB‑C ports and one USB‑A port into a compact, fold‑able design, delivering up to...
Storage Ticker - 20 March
The March 20 Storage Ticker roundup highlighted a wave of enterprise‑focused innovations, from Broadcom’s world‑first post‑quantum‑safe Emulex SecureHBA to Alation’s outcome‑based metadata governance automation. AI‑ready storage gained traction as Cloudian earned Nvidia‑certified foundation status and Denodo added a Lakehouse accelerator...
Intelligent Infrastructure: How AI Is Transforming OTNs
Huawei unveiled its AI‑powered fgOTN solution at MWC Barcelona 2026, positioning optical transport networks as intelligent infrastructure rather than passive pipelines. The platform embeds AI across transmission, sensing, and operations, enabling real‑time fibre‑based monitoring, native quantum key distribution, and autonomous...
NVIDIA DGX Station Systems Available At Last GB300 and GB200 Workstations For Your Desktop
NVIDIA has begun shipping its DGX Station workstation, built around the Grace Blackwell GB300 platform with a 72‑core Grace CPU and B300 Blackwell Ultra GPU. The system ships with 252 GB of HBM3e memory—about 12% less than the original 288 GB spec—and a 1.6 kW...
Duos Deploys Second Edge Data Center in Amarillo, Texas
Duos Edge AI has installed its second containerized edge data center in Amarillo, Texas, on Potter County land adjacent to the region's largest colocation facility. The 300 kW pod is slated to become fully operational in the coming months, expanding the...
Major SteamOS Update Adds Support for Steam Machine, Even More Third-Party Hardware
Valve released the SteamOS 3.8 preview, adding initial support for the upcoming Steam Machine and expanding compatibility with both AMD and Intel platforms. The update upgrades the OS to an Arch Linux base, kernel 6.16, and a Wayland‑enabled KDE Plasma desktop. It...
Beeks Launches New GPU-Powered Dedicated Server Package Theia
Beeks Group plc has launched Theia, a GPU‑powered dedicated server package aimed at capital‑market firms. The offering pairs enterprise‑grade GPUs with high‑frequency CPUs, low‑latency connectivity, and secure hosting in the LD4 and NY3 financial data centres. Theia targets workloads such...
New Report Suggests the Nintendo Switch 2 Is Getting a New Version, but You Might Not Be Able to Get...
A new report cites Nikkei that Nintendo plans a Switch 2 revision featuring a user‑replaceable battery, but only for the European Union initially. The change is driven by the EU Battery Regulation, which mandates portable devices allow battery swapping by July 31 2026....
Buying a 4TB NVMe SSD Is the Best PC Investment I’ve Ever Made
The author upgraded to a 4 TB Crucial T700 PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD, which delivers real‑world sequential read/write speeds around 12,400 MB/s and 12,000 MB/s. The drive boots Windows 11 in 4.77 seconds and reduces game load times to between five and twelve seconds across a...
Kuka Expands KR Cybertech Range with New Mid-Payload Robots and Controller
Kuka has added two mid‑payload robots to its KR Cybertech line, offering 25 kg and 35 kg capacities while keeping the same compact footprint. The models feature a redesigned IP67‑rated wrist for higher rigidity and precision, and both are AI‑ready and ISO 10218:2025 compliant....
SoftBank’s Son Says Ohio Data Center to Be $500 Billion Project
SoftBank Group announced a $500 billion data‑center campus in Ohio, touted as the United States' largest construction project. The initiative aims to create a hyperscale AI compute hub by co‑locating servers, renewable‑energy links, and edge nodes. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick...
City of Los Angeles Awards GMV $43 Million Contract to Continue Partnership
The City of Los Angeles has awarded GMV a $43 million contract to extend its role as the technology partner for the DASH and Commuter Express services through 2030. The agreement will upgrade more than 400 buses with GMV Hub, an...
AI Factories, Security Flaws, and Workforce Shifts Define This Week in Tech
Nvidia dominated GTC 2026, branding data centers as trillion‑dollar AI token factories and unveiling the Vera Rubin seven‑chip stack that promises up to 35× higher inference efficiency. The week also saw a wave of security alerts, from the DarkSword iOS...
Royal3D’s Interlayer Control System Targets Industrial 3D Print Quality
Royal3D has introduced the Interlayer Control System (ICS), a thermal monitoring solution that tracks nozzle temperature across XYZ coordinates in real time for industrial 3D printers. Using a 160 × 140 pixel infrared camera, the system logs interlayer temperatures, allowing operators to spot...
AI Data-Center Power Density Could Inspire Standardized IEC Infrastructures
Siemens and Rittal have announced a strategic partnership to create standardized, modular power‑distribution solutions for AI‑focused data centers. The collaboration targets the rapidly rising power densities that now exceed 100 kW per rack and could surpass 1 MW by 2030, introducing a...
Intelligent Infrastructure Monitoring: From Sensors in the Track to Decisions in the Control Room
Rail operators are adopting intelligent infrastructure monitoring to capture real‑time condition data from turnouts, ballast and other critical assets. voestalpine Railway Systems’ zentrak portfolio demonstrates a modular, multi‑sensor architecture that feeds raw signals into advanced analytics, including hybrid physics‑based and...
Samsung Confirms Galaxy S26 Will Get AirDrop Support via Quick Share ‘Soon’
Samsung confirmed that its upcoming Galaxy S26 smartphones will receive AirDrop compatibility through Google’s Quick Share feature, delivered via a software update. The rollout will begin with the S26 series and then extend to other Galaxy devices, though exact timelines remain...
I Stopped Using Wireless Earbuds for Work Calls the Day I Tried This Setup
The author abandoned AirPods for work calls after repeated Bluetooth glitches and switched to a simple wired setup: monitor‑built speakers for playback and a Blue Yeti USB microphone for input. The new configuration eliminated connection failures, unexpected device hand‑offs, and...