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Starlink-powered drone narco-sub intercepted by Colombian Navy — boat was converted into a drone for uncrewed smuggling

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Tom's Hardware · 07/05/2025 13:00 EDT

The Colombian Navy intercepted a low-profile boat used by drug cartels for its smuggling activities, which is being tested to run remotely via Starlink. Read more ›

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MIT team creates chip-based 3D printer the size of a coin, cures resin using only light — handheld 3D printing tech enabled by silicon photonics

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Tom's Hardware · 07/05/2025 12:56 EDT

MIT researchers have engineered a chip-based 3D printer that can create complex, programmable shapes out of resin in seconds. The tech utilizes silicon photonics and will eventually be iterated into a model that can fabricate full volumetric prints. Read more ›

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Satoshi-era Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years — 80,000 BTC originally bought for less than $200,000

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Tom's Hardware · 07/05/2025 11:22 EDT

An OG Bitcoin investor has moved his stash of 80,000 BTC in an unprecedented transaction worth over $8 billion. Read more ›

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Amazon Prime Day Best PC Case Deals 2025 — deals on Fractal, Lian Li, Corsair, and other cases

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Tom's Hardware · 07/05/2025 11:03 EDT

We've gathered the top PC case deals for housing your hardware. Read more ›

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US reportedly plans to curb sales of AI GPUs to Malaysia and Thailand to prevent smuggling to China

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Tom's Hardware · 07/05/2025 09:11 EDT

The U.S. government is drafting export rules to require licenses for shipping Nvidia’s advanced AI GPUs to Malaysia and Thailand, aiming to block possible re-exports to China. Read more ›

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TSMC swats down claims it is delaying its Japan chipmaking plant to prioritize Arizona plants to avoid US tariffs — TSMC says US investments won't impact other regions

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Tom's Hardware · 07/05/2025 08:51 EDT

TSMC is reportedly slowing work on its second Japanese fab to accelerate buildout in Arizona in anticipation of possible U.S. tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, though the company maintains that its expanded American investments will not affect its projects in Japan and Germany. Read more ›

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Laser-engraved ceramic storage device that stores data for 5,000 years targets astounding 100 petabytes per rack by 2030 — 10X performance boost and 100,000 petabytes per rack also on Cerbayte's roadmap

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Tom's Hardware · 07/05/2025 07:53 EDT

Cerabyte's ambitious plans target 100PB per rack by 2030, rocketing to 100,000PB per rack by 2045. Read more ›

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Grab a Crucial X10 portable SSD with a 30% discount — savings up to $182, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB models all on sale

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 17:39 EDT

During this Prime Day sale, Amazon offers competitive prices on Crucial's newest X10 portable SSD. Read more ›

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Samsung Odyssey G3 27-inch gaming monitor drops to all-time low $129.99 — $100 discount for a limited time on Amazon

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 15:25 EDT

Samsung drops the price of its value gaming monitor by $100, giving you a 180Hz refresh rate and 1ms response time for less than $150. Read more ›

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Save $350 on Apple's MacBook Air M1 13.3-inch laptop — discount lands within $20 of all-time low price

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 13:14 EDT

Apple's MacBook Air, powered by the M1 processor, is now available for $649, a $350 savings. Read more ›

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Nephew of the ZX Spectrum inventor has created a handheld Raspberry Pi gaming console the size of a gift card — GamerCard features 4-inch square IPS screen and pre-loaded arcade games

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 12:17 EDT

GamerCard is a retro gaming handheld so portable than it's literally the size of a gift card, so you can now casually spend $170 at checkout. Read more ›

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Bambu Lab Introduces free software to manage an unlimited number of 3D printers simultaneously — cloud-free LAN Mode Print Farm Manager program simplifies mass 3D printing

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 12:13 EDT

Bambu Lab introduces cloud-free farm management tool. Read more ›

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Elon Musk's Optimus boast in doubt as humanoid robot production plans halted — Telsa’s projections for 10,000 robots in 2025 cast into doubt, according to supply chain sources

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 12:06 EDT

China-tech industry sources allege that 'unresolved hardware challenges,' will mean Optimus design changes. Read more ›

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DDR4 prices are now so high that vendors have decided to start making it again — manufacturers want a slice now that it's more expensive than DDR5

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 11:10 EDT

A few smaller manufacturers are pushing back their plans to discontinue DDR4 production because of surging prices in the global market. Read more ›

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New AMD Ryzen Threadripper smashes PassMark record — 9980X scores 147,481, making it the fastest desktop CPU ever tested, but only in multi-thread performance

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 07/04/2025 10:56 EDT

Benchmark results for AMD’s 64-core Ryzen Threadripper 9980X show record-breaking multi-threaded performance, surpassing even the 96-core Threadripper Pro, but relatively modest single-threaded scores. Read more ›

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Nephew of the ZX Spectrum inventor has created a handheld Raspberry Pi console the size of a gift card — GamerCard features 4" square IPS screen and pre-loaded arcade games

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 09:44 EDT

GamerCard is a retro gaming handheld so portable that it's literally the size of a gift card, so you can now casually spend $170 at checkout. Read more ›

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The best Fourth of July 2025 deals —explosive deals on gaming GPUs, CPUs, SSDs, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 09:42 EDT

The best 4th of July deals spotted so far for the holiday weekend Read more ›

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Data reveals many GPUs are still selling for 50% than MSRP — Nvidia RTX 5090 and 5080 are worst offenders

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 09:01 EDT

Gamers Nexus analyzed the GPU market, revealing that all GPUs sell above MSRP on average, with 8GB variants getting the smallest markups. Read more ›

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This invention can use LiDAR to shoot down 30 mosquitoes per second with a laser — Photonmatrix range has up to 6-meter kill zone, can gauge distance, orientation, and body size in 3 milliseconds

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Tom's Hardware 1 place · 07/04/2025 07:38 EDT

A popular new crowdfunding campaign promises an all-in-one portable laser-driven mosquito killing machine for $498. Read more ›

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Gamer turns 2012 Honda CR-V into Need for Speed Underground controller — laptop reads throttle input using OBD and a Python library, no luck with steering

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Tom's Hardware · 07/04/2025 07:02 EDT

Forget expensive simracing setups with carbon fiber seats and podium racing wheels, this is what driving in games should look like. Read more ›

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