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Whether designing a window in an airliner or a cable conduit for an engine, manufacturers devote a lot of effort to reinforcing openings for structural integrity. But the reinforcement is rarely perfect and often creates structural weaknesses elsewhere.

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Discovering new, powerful electrolytes is one of the major bottlenecks in designing next-generation batteries for electric vehicles, phones, laptops and grid-scale energy storage.

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USB-C is the one connection to rule them all. Its popularity has made USB-C a common sight on new monitors. A USB-C monitor can act as USB hub, giving you additional ports for connecting various USB devices, but the...

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There are now a lot of choices when it comes to X870 motherboards, so if you are building a new AMD based system you can pick the model that best meets your…

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Amazon has begun what seems to be a very slow rollout for Alexa+, its new AI-enhanced version of Alexa. But if you’re looking for hands-on impressions from everyday folks who’ve actually tried the new Alexa, they’re curiously hard to...

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Skype was the last of the conferencing apps that focused purely on video and text chats, without the addition of dozens of features that are barely related to simply making calls over…

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Die shots of an Arrow Lake desktop CPU have been published online, revealing the inner design changes Intel has made to Arrow Lake, including its all-new chiplet (tile)-based design and improvements to the cache design.

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Researchers at the University of Tokyo developed a framework to enable decentralized artificial intelligence-based building automation with a focus on privacy. The system enables AI-powered devices like cameras and interfaces to cooperate directly, using a new form of device-to-device...

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On April 28, Spain experienced a widespread power outage that left millions without electricity for nearly a full 24 hours. While power has largely been restored, the cause of the failure is still under investigation. Early reports suggest that...

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The dual-screen NBook Fly now features an octa-core Xeon W-10885M, a marginal upgrade over the existing hexa-core i7-10850H, with both CPUs sharing the 5-year-old Comet Lake design.

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If you use Microsoft’s Authenticator app on your mobile phone as a password manager, here’s some bad news: Microsoft is discontinuing the “autofill” password management functionality in Authenticator. According to the announcement post (spotted by BleepingComputer), the transition will...

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You need antivirus software. Attacks on your PC keep getting more sophisticated, thanks to the help of AI. Even the tech-savvy and cautious can drop their guard at the wrong time or get tricked into exposing themselves to malware,...

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According to the latest rumors, Valve’s mythical Half-Life 3 isn’t just in development—it could even be released this year. The long-awaited game that’s basically been a meme for nearly two decades is allegedly in a fully playable state, reports...

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Humans' relationships with plants is largely utilitarian, serving our needs. We generally either eat them or make things out of them.

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Last Updated on May 5, 2025 An OLED monitor is the very top-tier when it comes to picture quality, but they can be expensive. Luckily, many of them come in QHD resolution and smaller screen sizes, meaning you can...

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The US Department of Justice wants to break up Google’s search monopoly. But while this might seem like good news for Google’s competitors, it could actually be harmful to some. For example, Mozilla now warns that it could result...

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