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California bill would restrict 3D printer sales to state-approved models to prevent printing gun parts — joins Washington and NY on legal offensive

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 02/20/2026 06:20 EDT

California 3D printer control bill would restrict sale to DOJ-approved models Read more ›

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Seagate's enormous 20TB IronWolf HDDs are just $419, or $21 per-terabyte — large-capacity storage deal from Newegg is perfect for your NAS

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2026 07:19 EDT

Newegg's Presidents' Day dealon storage lists the 20TB Seagate IronWolf Pro for just $419 Read more ›

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LaserPecker LX2 review: Large scale dual laser cutter

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2026 07:00 EDT

Excellent cutting with the 40W diode and engraving with the 2W IR laser, let down by inconsistent positioning and measuring probe. Read more ›

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Turkish wedding party receive RTX 5090, RAM and Intel CPU wedding gifts — A Turkish tech delight for the AI age

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Tom's Hardware 2 place · 02/16/2026 06:45 EDT

A video from a Turkish wedding reveals a delighted bride and groom being showered with opulent PC tech gifts. Read more ›

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$5,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z gets killed in extreme overclocking attempt, thermal shock cracks the GPU core — MSI's 2,500-Watt XOC BIOS pushed too high a voltage to the core

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2026 06:20 EDT

In a sudden moment of thermal shock, a $5,000 RTX 5090 ended up cracking under pressure when too much voltage was pushed to the core at once. The dead card aided in achieving a world record in Geekbench 5 GPU Compute before, with the help of liquid nitrogen. Read more ›

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Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place

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Tom's Hardware · 02/16/2026 06:00 EDT

Western Digital's production for 2026 is completely earmarked for its top seven customers, with a few long-term agreements already in place for the next couple of years. Read more ›

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Grab this gigantic, 1600W 80+ Platinum power supply for just 33 cents per watt — Seasonic's Prime TX 1600W is down to just $532

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 11:44 EDT

Seasonic makes some of the best power supplies on the market, and its Prime TX-1600 is a great option for high-end builds. Thanks to the native PCIe 5.0 and ATX 3.1 compatibilty, it can easily power any component out there. It's fully modular, rated 80+ Platinum by Cybernetics, and features quite operation all in one solid package. Read more ›

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OpenClaw-fueled ordering frenzy creates Apple Mac shortage — delivery for high Unified Memory units now ranges from 6 days to 6 weeks

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 10:53 EDT

The Unified Memory architecture used by Apple Macs and MacBooks make it the ideal device for locally run agentic AI, driving demand for high-memory models and increasing order lead times to more than a month. Read more ›

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Chinese scientists 3D print tiny items in half a second using holographic light fields — scientists precision fabricate complex millimeter-scale objects in record time

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 09:45 EDT

A team of scientists have revealed a new technique for the super-high-speed 3D printing of complex objects. Read more ›

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Netgear Nighthawk M7 5G Wi-Fi 7 mobile hotspot review – Global eSIM marketplace is a game-changer

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 09:35 EDT

With a price tag of $499, the Netgear Nighthawk M7 isn’t cheap. However, it is unmatched in its ability to connect up to 32 devices and supports both physical SIM and eSIM. Read more ›

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You can now file your G.Skill class action claim, to get a cut of the $2.4 million settlement — deceptive marketing class action now accepting payout submissions

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 09:23 EDT

Angeion Group is calling for eligible customers to file a claim for the G.Skill class action settlement. The portal is open until April 7, 2026, giving affected people less than two months to submit a claim form. Read more ›

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Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months — ‘We’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks’

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 08:40 EDT

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman claims that AI models will become powerful enough in the next 12 to 18 months that they would start replacing humans in white-collar jobs like lawyers, accountants, project managers, and marketers. Read more ›

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Advanced Pentagon laser weapon shot down party balloons by mistake, says report — airport shut down after Customs and Border Protection mistakenly believed it was targeting Mexican cartel drones

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 08:20 EDT

A frighteningly farcical series of events involving laser weaponry, the FAA, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Pentagon has been retold by a trio of insiders talking to the WSJ. Read more ›

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M5Stack AI Pyramid charms with translucent, RGB infused tetrahedral shell and $199 price tag — but it is far more of an edge-AI appliance than a mini-PC

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 08:05 EDT

IoT specialist M5Stack has released an affordable, alluring, translucent, RGB-infused, tetrahederal mini-PC dubbed the AI Pyramid Computing Box. Read more ›

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DXRacer Martian Pro Red Triangle review: Built for the fans

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 08:00 EDT

The DXRacer Martian Pro is packed to the brim with features, and it comes with a price tag to match. But if you have the cash to burn, you’ll come out the other side a happy customer. Read more ›

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Cloud storage company releases its 2025 hard drive reliability report — overall Annualized Failure Rate drops to 1.36%, 21 percentage points lower than last year

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 07:57 EDT

Backblaze just released its annual drive reliability report, with the company getting a 1.36% annualized failure rate for 2025. It says that this is its best result since 2022. Read more ›

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Living neurons integrated into modern AI processing, claims SF startup — biological computing power used to boost computer vision, generative video, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 07:20 EDT

Startup raises $25m to boost its biological neuron-driven pathway to replace, or augment, silicon compute in AI. Read more ›

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MakerWorld launches Copyright Protection Program to help 3D designers fight stolen files being resold online — stamping out knockoffs is priority number one

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 07:00 EDT

The Bambu Lab MakerWorld Copyright Protection Program is a free service for MakerWorld Exclusive Designs and will fight IP infringement on any platform. Read more ›

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Weathr app turns the Linux terminal into a live weather display — background ASCII animated real-time weather show is powered by Open-Meteo

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 06:40 EDT

An open-source Rust-based app teleports real-time ASCII art-based weather animations into your terminal backdrop. Read more ›

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Notorious 'Archive Today' website allegedly leads bizarre DDoS campaign against security blogger — Wikipedia considers removing all links to the Archive

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Tom's Hardware · 02/15/2026 06:20 EDT

Wikipedia may remove links to Archive Today due to DDoS spat Read more ›

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Linux kernel 7.0 finally abandons the 28-year-old Intel 440BX chipset — driver removal marks goodbye to the legendary motherboard chipset

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 02/15/2026 06:00 EDT

Linux kernel 7.0 does away with 440BX EDAC driver Read more ›

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