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Frore Systemshas announced that it will demo a proof-of-concept Galaxy Book4 Edge 14 withAirJetsolid-state cooling technology atCES2025. The demo introduces a new approach to thermal management in thin and light laptops, addressing challenges such as heat dissipation and noise while maintaining device portability. If you haven’t heard of AirJet technology, it uses a solid-state airflow mechanism instead of traditional fans, offering efficient and silent cooling. Frore Systems reports that this technology can enhance laptop performance by up to 50% without increasing the device’s thickness or producing noise....

Sega Toys' latest “KIMIT Ragdoll” line of pet cat robot toys has been recalled less than two months after its February 29th, 2024 release date, per an official Kimitpress release. Japan Todayreportedon the existence of the released KIMIT Ragdoll White and Brown models on March 1st of this year, and pointed out that it was priced for ¥33,000 yen, which is roughly equivalent to $213 USD at time of writing....

Silicon Motion is already developing its first SSD controller for drives with a PCIe 6.0 interface. The new controller is called SM8466 and belongs to the MonTitan family of SSD controllers for datacenters andenterprise. Wallace C. Kou, chief executive of Silicon Motion made the short announcement of the company’s inaugural PCIe 6.0 SSD controller in his column forChinaFlashMarket.com. The CEO of SMI did not reveal many details about the company’s SM8466 PCIe Gen6 SSD controller, though we can make an educated guess that the chip will feature a PCIe 6....

On October 7, blogger and hardware modder David Buchanan released ablog postdetailing various efforts for low-cost Fault Injection solutions before showing off his ideal solution: a hard mod DRAM exploit with a resistor and a wire doubling as an antenna soldered to a specific DRAM pin (DQ26 and then DQ7). The antenna is sensitive enough for an unmodified lighter ignition to activate a forced memory error at the specific memory addresses corresponding to the DRAM pin, which doesn’t overly disrupt actual memory function since all original data is left intact....

According to software developerJeff Geerling, despite having a significantly higher power limit than regularSnapdragon X Elitelaptops, Qualcomm’s official dev kit for the CPU doesn’t show significant performance gains. The Snapdragon X Elite dev kit uses a mini-PC-like form factor, like the NUC and the Mac Mini, and can run Qualcomm’s flagship laptop chip with much more power than most laptops. More power allows for higher clock speeds, which translates into higher performance....

Startup Atum Works claims that its nanoscale 3D printing method can easily replace current production flows and reduce chip fabrication costs by 90%, according to a launch post onYCombinator. There is a catch though: its capabilities are outdated by 20 years for logic chips, but may be just fine for packaging, photonics, and sensors. Modern chips are like buildings: they have multiple floors, different types of blocks inside, and communications infrastructure....

Byran Huang, a senior high school student from the Phillips Exeter Academy, built a fully open-source laptop as his fall term senior project, and it took him just six months to finish it. He called itanyon_eand it features a 4K AMOLED display, a Cherry MX mechanical keyboard, and around seven hours of battery life. According to Huang, he wanted to build a laptop “that hits as many qualities of a modern commercial thin & light laptop—while trying to do as much from scratch as possible....

Supermicro CEO Charles Liang announced onX (formerly Twitter)that he will set up shop near xAI’s Colossus AI supercomputer to help Musk achieve his dream of one million GPUs. Liang said that he plans to establish “local operations/production, validation, service and support.” Although it has been previously reported thatElon Musk shifted $6 billion worth of AI server ordersfrom Supermicro to its competitors because ofits financial problems, it seems xAI still plans to order from the beleaguered server supplier....

Modern tablets incorporate a touch screen for easy navigation. But sometimes they cease to work and create problems. Many users reported that they faced an occasional unresponsive screen. It mostly happens when you use a tablet while on charge or due to high RAM usage. The tablet touch screen can completely stop working, or only some areas of the screen can be unresponsive. You may also encounter unnecessary zoom in and outs....

Using aRaspberry Pito monitor plant-related metrics is nothing new, we’ve even configured a platform for our own plants to message us viaTelegram using aRaspberry Pi PicoW. Today, we’re sharing a creation put together and shared by Redpepper known asAudrey IIIwhich has taken the idea of a talking Pi-powered plant to a new level. Audrey III is a totally interactive experience that lets you communicate verbally with the tomato plant. It’s important to note that Audrey III isn’t just a voice assistant strapped to a tomato plant, but rather it’s connected to the plant’s environment through a variety of sensors....

Having only reported on the low price of the recently released AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D just last week, the cost of this amazing value gaming CPU has dropped even further to a new lowest-ever price on Amazon. It’s not the latest generation of CPUs, but the 5000 series X3D range of processors are still some of the best-performing pure gaming CPUs available at this low price. With the affordable cost of AM4 motherboards and DDR4 RAM, the opportunity to build a fantastic-performing budget gaming rig is easily within reach....

The Commodore 64 Ultimate will be the first new hardware released under the auspices of the new management. This new home computer product is nowavailable for pre-orderstarting from $299, but shipping won’t happen until October at the earliest. For your cash, you will get a device which resolutely “isn’t a software emulator” but is built around an AMD Artix 7 FPGA, and is claimed to be compatible with “10,000+ original games, cartridges, and peripherals....

As one may be able to deduce by the years and names being thrown around, this attack’s choice of target was highly intelligent and the method of delivery exploited people’s existing fears of a terrifying new biological virus at a time when knowledge of regular computer viruseswas at an all-time low — much less an all-new form of malware meant to extort its victims. Compared to modern-day attacks, Dr. Popp’s rendition of ransomware is a little bit sloppy....