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Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking

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Tom's Hardware · 03/18/2026 06:33 EDT

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Bitcoin is so resilient it could survive as much as 90% of the world's undersea cables failing simultaneously — study reveals Bitcoin could still be very vulnerable to targeted attacks, however

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Tom's Hardware · 03/18/2026 06:00 EDT

Cambridge scientists have completed the first longitudinal study of Bitcoin’s resilience to network infrastructure disruption, with a particular eye on submarine data cables. Read more ›

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Intel's new Core Ultra 200HX Plus mobile CPUs include 290HX, 270HX Plus flagships — 8% faster gaming claims fall short of 15% boost promised by desktop Arrow Lake Refresh

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 16:59 EDT

No performance metrics for the 270HX Plus yet. Read more ›

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Nvidia updates data center roadmap with Rosa CPU and stacked Feynman GPUs — optical NVLink, Groq LPUs with NVFP4, and NVLink also on deck

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 16:42 EDT

Nvidia publishes 2026 – 2028 data center roadmap with Rosa CPU, Feynman GPU, optical NVLinks and Groq LPUs with NVFP4 and NVLink. Read more ›

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Jensen says Nvidia has received orders from Chinese customers for H200 GPUs, licenses from US gov't — H200 manufacturing restarting

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 16:18 EDT

This marks the first time that Nvidia's China supply chain has been back in motion since export restrictions froze shipments over a year ago. Read more ›

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Jensen Huang says gamers are "completely wrong" about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 15:29 EDT

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded to backlash against DLSS 5, saying artistic control remained with developers and that the AI works with existing geometry. Read more ›

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Nvidia launches DGX Station with its bleeding-edge GB300 Grace Blackwell Superchip — now available to order and will begin shipping in the coming months

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 14:00 EDT

Nvidia officially launches the DGX Station featuring a GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, 784GB of LPPDDR5X and HBM3e memory, and a 1,600-watt power rating. Read more ›

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End of an era for decades-old PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U as GameStop officially declares them retro — change means faulty or 'aesthetically unfortunate' consoles that can still power on are now accepted for trade-in

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 13:04 EDT

GameStop has declared that the Sony PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U are now officially retro consoles, with the change now allowing trade-in of any console that still powers on, even if they are faulty or "aesthetically unfortunate." Read more ›

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Nintendo Switch 2 update brings Handheld Mode Boost — unlocks higher resolutions and TV-mode performance for original Switch games

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 12:51 EDT

With the new Handheld Mode Boost feature, the Switch 2 can run games as if docked even in handheld mode, delivering better visuals and performance. Read more ›

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Examining Nvidia's 60 exaflop Vera Rubin POD — how seven chips underpin company's 40 rack AI factory supercomputer

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 12:25 EDT

Nvidia announced seven chips in full production at GTC 2026 on Monday, composing the Vera Rubin platform that the company intends to ship in the second half of this year. Read more ›

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We got a first look at Nvidia's DLSS 5 and the future of neural rendering at GTC — the results can be impressive, but there's work to do

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 11:33 EDT

Nvidia's DLSS 5 AI model uses a deep awareness of environmental lighting and how that light interacts with various materials in a scene to dramatically upgrade the appearance of games, and the results can be both impressive and uncanny. Read more ›

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Microsoft expects to commercialize MicroLED datacenter cables by late 2027 — expands Hollow Core Fiber deployment, promising 47% faster data transmission and approximately 33% lower latency

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 11:16 EDT

The technology, called MOSAIC, replaces lasers with inexpensive MicroLEDs and uses a fundamentally different architecture to transmit data inside datacenters. Read more ›

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Nvidia launches BlueField-4 STX storage architecture for agentic AI at GTC 2026

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 10:44 EDT

Nvidia announced BlueField-4 STX at GTC 2026 on March 16, a modular reference architecture for accelerated storage designed to address the data access bottleneck limiting agentic AI inference. Read more ›

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Grab 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM for just $111 in this epic Newegg combo with the 9850X3D — $1,020 bundle for an AMD gaming PC build includes an Asus X870E-E motherboard along with a free mouse and game

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 09:05 EDT

Another fantastic Newegg combo deal has combined the eight-core AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D with 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM and an Asus ROG Strix X870E-E motherboard for just $1,019.99, making the RAM effectively just $111 in this build. Read more ›

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South Korean company following ChatGPT management advice forced to backtrack by court — Krafton improperly ousted Subnautica developer bosses to dodge $250m bonus payout

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 09:01 EDT

Gaming company forced to backtrack by court after AI-driven plan to dodge $250m bonus payment backfires. Read more ›

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Precision Hall-Effect controls and a 45% saving on Razer's latest Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition game controller — get yours for just $54 in this limited-time sale

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 08:50 EDT

Razer's Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition game controller, with Hall-Effect thumbsticks, is 45% off in this Woot deal. Read more ›

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Airflow enthusiast 3D-prints 15 tiny fans to fit inside a custom, domed Noctua NF-A12x25 frame — bizarre 'Fanhattan Project' cools the CPU just as well as a regular fan

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 06:28 EDT

Have you ever wanted to use a fan that's more than three times as loud as the other option while providing the same performance? If you answered in resounding joy, then this project is exactly what you've been looking for. A YouTuber 3D-printed a fan that's actually made up of 15 tiny fans, fit inside the frame of a regular 120mm fan modelled after the Noctua NF-A12x25. Read more ›

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Nvidia demonstrates Rubin Ultra tray, the world's first AI GPU with 1TB of HBM4E memory — new chips will slot into Kyber racks

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 06:20 EDT

Nvidia shows off its next-generation Kyber rack-scale solution to be powered by Rubin Ultra GPUs with four compute chiplets and 1 TB of HBM4E memory per package. Read more ›

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Global chip supply chain under threat as US-Iran conflict enters third week — Strait of Hormuz blockade is days away from crippling Taiwan's semiconductor industry

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 06:20 EDT

Taiwan imports almost all of its energy and requires large amounts of LNG to sustain its electrical grid. That grid is then used by local chipmakers — like TSMC who is responsible for making most of the world's high-end chips. Fabrication for these chips requires helium, which Taiwan also imports and right now, the Iran-U.S. conflict has made it difficult to acquire both. Read more ›

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Enthusiast reverse engineers world’s smallest HDD to access data with help from an old Nokia N91 and OpenClaw — open source USB bridge unlocks 0.85-inch mechanical Toshiba drive from 2004

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Tom's Hardware · 03/17/2026 06:00 EDT

Maker Will Whang designed the MK4001MTD USB Bridge to facilitate the use of the world’s smallest (0.85-inch) mechanical hard drives, originally released by Toshiba in 2004. Read more ›

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