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This must-have miniature Macintosh retro dock gives your M4 Mac Mini a 1980s makeover — equipped with a 5-inch HD display and M.2 NVMe SSD slot

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Tom's Hardware · 05/02/2026 12:57 EDT

The Wokyis M5 Retro Dock Station will add USB ports, memory card readers, and an external SSD enclosure to your Mac mini while giving you a small '80s Macintosh on your desk. Read more ›

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Thermalright Wonder Vision 360 UB ARGB Black Review: Detachable 6.7-inch screen makes for unique possibilities

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Tom's Hardware · 02/19/2026 08:00 EDT

Thermalright’s Wonder Vision 360 UB ARGB features a unique ultrawide display with hundreds of customization options. We tested it with AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X CPU and included noise-normalized benchmarks. Read more ›

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Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware for the demo, claims 90% average accuracy

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Tom's Hardware · 02/19/2026 08:00 EDT

'Teleporting quantum information is now a practical reality,' says Deutsche Telekom, after a successful tech demo. Read more ›

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OpenAI aims to secure $100 Billion in latest funding round, reportedly aiming for an $800 billion valuation — Parties offering up cash include Nvidia, Microsoft, SoftBank, and more

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Tom's Hardware · 02/19/2026 07:43 EDT

OpenAI may be about to secure as much as $100 billion in funding, which will go some way to offsetting the $1.4 trillion is has pledged to expend over the next eight years. This round of investment is said to come from other major tech firms in the space, including Amazon, Nvidia, and Microsoft. Read more ›

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China’s AI build-out forces a rapid shift to liquid cooling — massive clusters put pressure on domestic suppliers to shift cooling methods

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Tom's Hardware · 02/19/2026 07:42 EDT

Dozens of Chinese companies have announced plans to expand into liquid-cooling systems as demand surges to prevent AI racks from overheating. Read more ›

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Save $110 on this Asus ROG Xbox Ally handheld, back at a record-low price — just $489.99 for this entry-level Steam Deck rival with 7-inch touchscreen, AMD Ryzen Z2 A CPU and 16GB RAM

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Tom's Hardware · 02/19/2026 07:27 EDT

A $110 saving on this Asus ROG Xbox Ally handheld brings it back down to record-low pricing on Amazon. Fitted with an AMD Ryzen Z2 A processor, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and a 7-inch IPS touchscreen, you can score this portable gaming rig for just $489.99 right now. Read more ›

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Pocket $510 in savings as Lenovo's Legion Pro 5 with RTX 5060 and 32GB of memory is slashed in price to just $1149.99 — a superb value gaming laptop

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Tom's Hardware · 02/19/2026 07:24 EDT

Pocket $510 in savings when you purchase Lenovo's Legion Pro 5 with OLED screen, RTX 5060, and 32GB of memory for only $1,149.99 Read more ›

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China brain computer interface outfit accelerates to human trials in quest to outpace Neuralink — mix of government backing and investor enthusiasm speeds time to market for NeuroXess

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Tom's Hardware · 02/19/2026 06:00 EDT

China could overtake the US in brain computer interface (BCI) technology leadership thanks to streamlined planning, regulatory approval, and financing. Read more ›

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A 16-year-old intern helped Netgear catch scammers in India for $800 — Culprits would pose as Netgear employees & sell fake support packages to customers

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Tom's Hardware · 02/19/2026 06:00 EDT

After scammers were successfully able to phish their way through Netgear customers for months, the company was forced to adopt a more unconventional cybersecurity measure: a 16-year-old intern named Wyatt. He was able to eventually lead the law firm to the source bank accounts of these scammers back in India. Read more ›

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Save $206 on a Ryzen 7 5800XT, 32GB of DDR4 Corsair RAM, and an Asus ROG Strix B550-F Gaming motherboard with this combo — start your AM4 PC for just $408

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Tom's Hardware · 02/18/2026 12:31 EDT

Get a decent DDR4 bundle for just $400. Read more ›

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Nearly half of PC gamers prefer DLSS 4.5 over AMD's FSR and even native rendering — Nvidia scores clean sweep in blind test of six titles

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Tom's Hardware · 02/18/2026 11:41 EDT

In a new blind test featuring six different games, users heavily preferred the image quality of DLSS 4.5 and crowned it as the best against FSR 4 and native rendering. Nvidia walked away with 48.2% of all votes, with native rendering scoring 24% and FSR coming in third place with 15% of the tally. Read more ›

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AI hyperscalers move to secure long-term uranium supply from mining companies — fuel required for nuclear plants to power future data centers

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Tom's Hardware · 02/18/2026 11:20 EDT

This deal will help AI hyperscalers secure the fuel they need for SMRs, avoiding getting hit by a shortage if demand spikes due to the massive power requirements of future data centers. Read more ›

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Over 80% of companies report no productivity gains from AI so far despite billions in investment, survey suggests — 6,000 executives also reveal 1/3 of leaders use AI, but only for 90 minutes a week

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Tom's Hardware · 02/18/2026 10:12 EDT

A survey of 6,000 executives reveals a significant productivity disconnect, where 80% of firms report no measurable improvement to operations with the use of AI, while a third of senior leaders only use the technology themselves for just 1.5 hours per week. Read more ›

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Elegoo Centauri Carbon 2 Review: A Four-Color Variant

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Tom's Hardware · 02/18/2026 10:00 EDT

Elegoo promised a color add-on, but instead gave us a whole new printer. Read more ›

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Nvidia sells off final Arm shares, but licensing deals will continue — $140 million stake sold, equating to 1.1 million shares

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Tom's Hardware · 02/18/2026 09:24 EDT

Nvidia has sold off the last of its shares in Arm Holdings, some six years after it attempted to buy the company outright for $40 billion, but was stopped by EU and UK regulators. The sale amounts to 1.1 million shares worth an estimated $140 million dollars. Read more ›

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Lenovo denies allegations of transferring data to China — class action lawsuit alleges company uses trackers to expose American behavioral data to ‘foreign adversaries’

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Tom's Hardware · 02/18/2026 08:06 EDT

A lawsuit says that Lenovo is tracking Americans visiting its website and exporting all the information to its Chinese servers. Read more ›

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Premium RAM bundle contains almost a whole PC as 128GB of G.Skill memory, 9850X3D, MSI X870E motherboard, and 4TB SSD is just $1699.99 at Newegg — the same price as buying the RAM by itself, saving you over $908

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Tom's Hardware · 02/18/2026 07:32 EDT

CPU, RAM, Motherboard, SSD, Cordless duster, and RPG game, all in one massive Newegg combo deal. Read more ›

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Save $600 on this RTX 5080-powered Alienware gaming PC, down to its best price in months — just $2,399.99 for 4K-capable rig equipped with a 24-core Intel CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD

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Tom's Hardware · 02/18/2026 07:12 EDT

This Alienware Aurora pre-built gaming PC is back down to near-Black Friday pricing right now, scoring you an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 GPU, 24-core Intel Core Ultra 285 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD for just $2,399.99, saving you a huge 20%. Read more ›

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Data storage Guinness World Record broken by QR code pixels measuring just 49nm — 1.98 sq micrometer size is smaller than bacteria, can only be read with an electron microscope

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Tom's Hardware 3 place · 02/18/2026 07:05 EDT

A collaboration between TU Wien and Cerabyte has established a new Guinness World Record for creating and reading the smallest ever QR codes. Read more ›

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$1,000 bought an RTX 5080 in November 2025, now it only buys an RTX 5070 Ti — report shows 15% average global price hike across Nvidia, AMD & Intel GPUs

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Tom's Hardware · 02/18/2026 06:40 EDT

Nvidia's RTX 5090 is the most overpriced GPU in the world, selling at 65% above its MSRP while AMD's RX 9070 XT saw the smallest price hike of just 7% worldwide. India has been hit the worse with extreme price surges, while Australia has been largely stable. On average, GPUs are now 15% more expensive around the world. Read more ›

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Meta will deploy standalone Nvidia Grace CPUs in production, with Vera to follow — company sees perf-per-watt improvements of up to 2X in some CPU workloads

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Tom's Hardware · 02/18/2026 06:20 EDT

As part of a broad partnership announced today, Nvidia says Meta will deploy its Arm-powered Grace server CPUs as standalone platforms in production data centers to boost performance-per-watt in certain workloads. Read more ›

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