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AOL's dial-up internet service killed with a final modem screech after 34 years — America Online goes offline this week, but other dial-up services still exist

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 10/04/2025 06:22 EDT

AOL's 34-year established dial-up service was finally shuttered this week. Read more ›

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Classic Snake game now playable in your browser URL address bar — JavaScript remake uses Unicode Braille characters to render the game

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Tom's Hardware · 10/04/2025 05:20 EDT

A new version of Snake, coded to run in your browser’s URL address bar, makes playing it on your old Nokia brick feel luxuriously high-res and futuristic. Read more ›

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Best MicroSD Express Cards for Nintendo Switch 2 in 2025 — the best cards on the market, benchmarked and ranked

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Tom's Hardware · 10/04/2025 05:00 EDT

We’ve carefully chosen the best microSD Express cards to meet the needs and budgets of all Switch 2 owners, based on our detailed lab testing. Read more ›

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Crazy Google Japan keyboard design switches keys for dials — the Gboard Dial Edition shows why the software team isn't allowed to design hardware

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Tom's Hardware · 10/04/2025 05:00 EDT

Google Japan’s Gboard team have designed and open-sourced a revolutionary new physical keyboard that boldly eschews keys in favor of dials. Read more ›

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Jeff Bezos envisions space-based data centers in 10 to 20 years — could allow for natural cooling and more effective solar power

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 13:47 EDT

Jeff Bezos envisions gigawatt-scale orbital data centers within 10–20 years, powered by continuous solar energy and space-based cooling, but the concept remains commercially unviable today due to the immense cost and complexity of deploying thousands of tons of hardware, solar panels, and radiators into orbit. Read more ›

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China to launch commercial underwater data center — facility expected to consume 90% less power for cooling

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 13:22 EDT

Chinese company Highlander will be the first to run a commercial underwater data center, serving state-owned companies off the coast of Shanghai. Read more ›

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Crucial's 20Gb/s X10 Pro 2TB external SSD is only $149 in this early Amazon Prime Day deal — rugged and portable USB-C storage for tech lovers

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 13:08 EDT

Crucial's X10 Pro 2TB puts large-capacity storage in the palm of your hand. Save $59 in this early Prime Day deal. Read more ›

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AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 13:02 EDT

As flash demand climbs and legacy DRAM supply lags, memory prices are rising across the board. Meanwhile, nearline HDD shortages are forcing hyperscalers to accelerate the adoption of QLC SSDs for roles once gated by cost, tightening both ends of the storage market. Read more ›

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BlackRock subsidiary buys up 78 data centers totaling 5 gigawatts in $40 billion deal — AI vendor Aligned added to company's portfolio

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 12:52 EDT

BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners set to buy out Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion. Read more ›

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Nvidia details efficiency of the NVFP4 format for LLM training — new paper reveals how NVFP4 offers benefits over FP8 and BF16

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 12:19 EDT

Nvidia has demonstrated that its NVFP4 4-bit floating point format — originally intended for inference — can be used for stable, large-scale training of LLMs with minimal accuracy loss, offering significant gains in compute and memory efficiency over both FP8 and BF16. Read more ›

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Samsung's 49-inch OLED gaming monitor drops to lowest-ever price — max out your GPU, not your credit card, for just $879

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 12:11 EDT

Amazon is offering the Samsung Odyssey G9 G93SC at a price of $879.99, representing a new all-time low. The gaming monitor typically retails for $1,599.99. Read more ›

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Qualcomm's big win over Arm could reverberate throughout the industry — ALA licensees could potentially develop custom designs without renegotiating terms

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 12:06 EDT

Qualcomm's legal victory over Arm not only secures its right to deploy Nuvia's custom CPU cores under its existing license but also sets a major industry precedent, weakening Arm’s control over licensing as it pivots toward designing its own CPUs. Read more ›

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Intel's next-gen Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids microarchitectures get official confirmation — Latest ISA reference doc details the P-Cores and E-Cores upcoming CPUs will use

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 11:44 EDT

Intel's upcoming client and server CPUs will use brand new core micro-architectures, as confirmed by the latest edition of the ISA reference doc. Nova Lake client processors will use Coyote Cove P-Cores and Arctic Wolf E-Cores, while Diamond Rapids workstation SKUs will use Panther Cove P-Cores. Read more ›

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High-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 11:07 EDT

Researchers from UC Irvine developed a way to capture vibrations from surfaces using high-quality mouse sensors and convert them into audio. Read more ›

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang frustrated by UAE AI chip delay, claims report — White House said to be pressing nation to finalize U.S. investments before chip deliveries are authorized

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 09:23 EDT

Nvidia cannot start shipping its AI chips to the UAE, as the country is reportedly yet to finalize its investments in the U.S. Read more ›

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Chip designer Jim Keller says Intel still has 'a lot of work to do' — would consider it for Tenstorrent AI chip production, already in talks with TSMC, Rapidus, and Samsung for 2nm tech

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 08:27 EDT

Chip design startup Tenstorrent has announced it'll work with TSMC and Samsung for its next-generation 2nm chips. It will also work with Japanese firm, Rapidus, and would consider Intel in the future, once it has a more defined roadmap. Read more ›

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Taiwan proposes strategic tech alliance with the White House — "Taiwan Model" would help companies invest easily in the U.S. to satisfy demands

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 08:15 EDT

The "Taiwan Model" has been proposed by a new delegation that seeks to form a high-tech alliance between Taiwan and the U.S., whereby the former will help its companies make investments in the U.S. to satisfy demands for expansion into the country. Read more ›

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GameStop promises to keep selling Game Pass Ultimate for $19.99 — company defies Microsoft's 50% price increase

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 08:11 EDT

GameStop says it will continue to offer Xbox Game Pass Ultimate at its old price of $19.99 after Microsoft raised the price by 50%. Read more ›

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How Nvidia's deal with Intel has been decades in the making — Years of rivalry culminated in an unexpected alliance

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 06:00 EDT

Nvidia and Intel are working on something few thought possible: A partnership so deep it could redraw the boundaries of the x86 ecosystem. Their new joint effort will see Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets integrated with Intel CPUs in a single package, using Intel's Foveros and EMIB technologies. Read more ›

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SiPearl unveils Europe's first dual-use sovereign processor with 80 cores — expected in 2027 for government, aerospace, and defense applications

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Tom's Hardware · 10/03/2025 05:19 EDT

SiPearl's Athena1 derives from Rhea, packs up to 80 Neoverse V1 cores, and is aimed at both civilian and military use. But will it be competitive in the second half of 2027? Read more ›

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