Heriot-Watt researchers have developed an advanced simulation tool that accurately predicts underwater landslides caused by offshore wind turbines.

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While it once scoffed at the possibility of offering an ad-supported tier, Netflix has since embraced the idea, with millions of users snapping up its “Standard with Ads” plan, garnering plenty of interest from Madison Avenue along the way. ...

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Last Updated on May 2, 2025 Where gaming is part of the equation, there are two clear midrange CPU choices for current-generation systems: the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X and the AMD Ryzen 7 9700X. While Intel has somewhat dropped...

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Apple plans to source over 19 billion chips from U.S. facilities in 2025 — including tens of millions from TSMC’s Arizona fab — while investing $500 billion to expand its American operations.

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Last Updated on May 2, 2025 The benefit of dual-mode monitors is the best of both worlds: super-fast refresh rates at lower resolution and the added detail required for top-res needs. Asus’ ROG Strix XG27UCG is a notable 27-inch...

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Digital twins are a rapidly advancing area in engineering, going beyond static models to continuously receive data from the physical world and make predictions that go on to affect that reality. They have applications in areas such as energy...

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Closing his eyes as he battled smoke wafting from fish-smoking kilns in front of him, Issah Amin put more wood into one of seven ovens at Chikombe beach, a fish-landing site on Lake Malawi.

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The Asus TUF Gaming T500 desktop comes with Intel's 13th-gen laptop chips paired with Nvidia's RTX desktop GPUs

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Semiconductor manufacturing is a fastidiously clean business. Components are washed multiple times to remove impurities, drawing on vast amounts of purified water and other chemicals.

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Last Updated on May 2, 2025 Over the past month or so, price hikes on gaming hardware and games have hit players around the world. First, Sony announced a price increase across its PlayStation 5 lineup, citing a “challenging...

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The best Windows Hello webcams add something your PC may lack: a quick, secure way to log in to your PC without a password. Wouldn’t it be nice if your PC just recognized you instead? That’s where a Windows...

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Last Updated on May 2, 2025 When it comes to modern gaming, it’s almost impossible not to mention the Dark Souls franchise. Its impact has been so massive that countless developers have tried to create their own version of...

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Last Updated on May 2, 2025 Final Fantasy XIV fans are a passionate group. Many of them not only spend countless hours getting their character to max level and carefully obtaining the perfect Glamour outfit, but some of them...

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A research team has developed the world's first next-generation betavoltaic cell by directly connecting a radioactive isotope electrode to a perovskite absorber layer. By embedding carbon-14-based quantum dots into the electrode and enhancing the perovskite absorber layer's crystallinity, the...

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A collaborative research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed an innovative laminated interface microstructure that enhances the stability and photoelectric conversion efficiency of inverted perovskite...

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Microsoft RDP allows users to log into machines using older, invalid passwords that have since been changed.

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Last Updated on May 2, 2025 With the Nintendo Switch 2 set to launch on June 5th and pre-orders already proving popular, Nintendo has officially updated its website to reconfirm which first-party Switch games will be getting free upgrades...

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It’s been a long wait, but developer Rockstar Games has finally announced the release date of Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA VI) in an official blog post. According to the announcement, the eagerly awaited game won’t be released until...

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Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition graphics card with 24,064 CUDA cores and 96 GB of memory benchmarked in Geekbench 6, fails to beat GeForce RTX 5090 with 21,760 CUDA cores.

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Last Updated on May 2, 2025 The launch of the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti was not without its controversy. In common with pretty much every card Nvidia has launched this generation, it faced some kind of backlash. Most of...

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