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Grab the ultra-fast Elegoo Centauri Carbon 3D printer for just $285 right now, saving you $128 — limited-time sale price nets you a fully enclosed Core-XY printer built for beginners and enthusiasts

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 10:47 EDT

The Elegoo Centauri Carbon, one of our all-time favorite 3D printers, is on sale for a limited-time only, down to just $285. Read more ›

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YMTC plans two additional Wuhan fabs, report claims — Phase 3 crosses 50% domestic tooling threshold

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 10:31 EDT

China’s Yangtze Memory Technologies plans to build two fabs beyond the Phase 3 plant that it’s due to complete in Wuhan this year. Read more ›

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Bambu Lab X2D review: Improving a fan avorite

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 10:00 EDT

Bambu Lab’s first 3D printer, the X1, gets an overhaul. Read more ›

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Alienware AW2726DM 27-inch QHD 240 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor review: A price breakthrough for desktop OLED

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 09:00 EDT

Alienware smashes price barriers with the AW2726DM. It’s a 27-inch QHD QD-OLED with 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, and wide gamut color with an opening price of just $350. Read more ›

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Our experts review your astonishing PC builds and setups in Rig Rundown — from wall-mounted setups to a system packed inside of a 1:6 scale RC car

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 08:38 EDT

We go through user-submitted PC builds and crown a winner in the inaugural Tom's Hardware Premium Rig Rundown results Read more ›

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News outlets are blocking Wayback Machine from archiving their pages — 23 outlets concerned AI companies might abuse fair use and use it to train their models

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 08:27 EDT

Many major news outlets are blocking the Wayback Machine's crawler from archiving their pages, despite using the tool for their reporting. Their primary concern is that AI tech companies are breaking fair use and training their models on publicly available data. Read more ›

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Mark Zuckerberg reportedly working on AI clone of himself — Meta insiders claim 3D photoreal animated Zuck will be able to engage with employees on his behalf

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 08:24 EDT

The very top job at Meta may periodically be delegated to an AI replica of Mark Zuckerberg. Will anyone notice? Read more ›

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Score a massive $700 off this 4K-ready Lenovo gaming PC with an RTX 5070 Ti, now just $1,899 — epic Legion Tower 5i pre-built ships with a 20-core Intel CPU, 32GB DDR5 and a 2TB SSD

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 08:00 EDT

Save a massive $700 on this Lenovo Legion Tower 5i gaming PC with an Intel Core Ultra 265F CPU, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti GPU, 32GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and a 2TB NVMe SSD, all for just $1,899.99. Read more ›

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Pay $1349.99 for Gigabyte's Aero X16 laptop and save $300 on this 32GB beast with RTX 5070 graphics — outstanding battery life a bonus

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 07:43 EDT

Gigabyte's Aero X16 packs 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, and a powerful Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU all for $1349.99 in this Best Buy deal. Read more ›

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Veteran Windows dev shows off AI running on 47-year-old PDP11 with 6 MHz CPU and 64KB of RAM — 'gloriously absurd' project runs transformer model written in PDP-11 assembly language

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 06:45 EDT

Ancient 6 MHz ‘PDP11 can train a neural network’ says veteran dev. Read more ›

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Half of all US employees now use artificial intelligence at work, crossing landmark threshold for first time — Gallup data shows daily and weekly usage hitting all-time high of 28% in Q1 2026, with 65% feeling positive about its impact on productivity

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 06:40 EDT

50% of American adults in employment use AI at least once a year, with 28% using it daily or weekly, according to a new Gallup survey. While AI-focused companies are seeing huge disruption, 65% of those employees felt positive about its individual impact on their productivity. Read more ›

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China has spent 3.6 times more than the US on chipmaking subsidies over the past decade — $142 billion and counting, easily outweighs CHIPS Act

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 06:20 EDT

Semiconductor industrial policy spending in China totaled around $142 billion between 2014 and 2023, roughly 3.6 times higher than the $39 billion committed in the United States over the same period. Read more ›

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FAA approves military use of drone-killing laser weapons in US airspace — decision comes after it was decided ‘systems do not present an increased risk to the flying public’

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 06:00 EDT

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has decided to give carte blanche approval to the military’s use of laser weaponry to shoot down suspected errant drones in US airspace. Read more ›

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Nvidia says AI cuts 10-month, eight-engineer GPU design task to overnight job — company is still 'a long way' from AI designing chips without human input

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Tom's Hardware · 04/14/2026 05:52 EDT

Nvidia widely uses AI for different stages of the chip design process, though it admits that AI is a long way from designing chips completely autonomously. Read more ›

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Small Missouri town ousts half its city council after $6 billion AI data center approval — petition calls for mayor's removal as frustration (and violence) over AI data centers mounts

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 15:55 EDT

Voters in Festus, MO ousted half of the city's council members following the approval of a $6 billion data center project. Read more ›

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New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 14:42 EDT

Researchers have discovered a way of probing a microchip processor's individual transistors while it is working with terahertz radiation. Read more ›

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Intel's Nova Lake CPUs gear up to seize AMD’s 3D V-Cache gaming throne — early leak points to up to 52 cores, blazing DDR5-8000 support, and massive 175W TDP

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 13:17 EDT

VideoCardz shares the alleged preliminary SKU list for Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 400S (codenamed Nova Lake) processors. Read more ›

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Acer Predator GX850 SFX power supply review: Solid electrical performance with good efficiency

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 09:00 EDT

Solid engineering from FSP delivers reliable power in compact form, though pricing and acoustics present practical challenges. Read more ›

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NZXT to cough up $3.45 million over 'predatory' Flex PC rental scheme in RICO class-action settlement — in-debt customers to get up to $5,000 of relief, eligible renters to be granted ownership

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 08:41 EDT

The company allegedly engaged in just about every kind of deceptive business practice possible, and even targeted children. Read more ›

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Bulbous 15x fan PC case side panel dubbed the ‘Superdome’ lowers temps by 20 degrees — $600 worth of Noctua fans arrayed in 3D-printed structure

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Tom's Hardware · 04/13/2026 08:13 EDT

A TechTuber has constructed a bulbous 15x fan PC case side panel as a cooling experiment. It seems to do a good job. Read more ›

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