Tom's Hardware Aug 31, 3:40 PM

Motorless solid-state cooler uses heat to cool itself; could recycle processor heat into cooling — shape-memory alloy films could turn data center exhaust into refrigeration

German and Japanese researchers demonstrate a heat-driven elastocaloric cooler that uses shape-memory alloys to turn waste heat into cooling.

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Tom's Hardware Aug 31, 3:26 PM

Save $240 on a four-item gaming build combo from Newegg – $1,113 buys a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of Corsair DDR5 RAM, a Gigabyte X870E Motherboard, plus a free 240mm AIO and AMD game bundle

This Newegg 3-item bundle pairs the fast, gaming-focused Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM and a Gigabyte X870E Aorus Pro board fo...

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Tom's Hardware Aug 31, 2:52 PM

Jensen Huang and Lisa Su snubbed by TIME’s 2026 list of top 100 AI leaders — Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck, among others, make the list as ‘Architects of AI’ inexplicably not listed

Nvidia’s sole representative on the fourth annual TIME100 AI is its head of sustainability, who sits alongside Paris Hilton and Ben Affleck.

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Tom's Hardware Aug 31, 2:35 PM

Nvidia's latest driver update breaks mVolt+ overclocking functionality — Nifty, open-source app allowed users to increase the power limit to 700W on their RTX 50-series GPUs without hardware mods

Overclocking utility mVolt+ seems to have been blocked by the latest Nvidia driver update, hard crashing the moment you try to adjust the core power limit. H...

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Tom's Hardware Aug 31, 2:30 PM

xTool F2 Ultra UV dual laser engraver review: So cool it’s hot

xTool’s new F2 Ultra UV cuts and engraves with cold UV light.

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Tom's Hardware Aug 31, 11:55 AM

Key Nvidia and Intel supplier raided over alleged China origin fraud — Unimicron faces probe over PCB origin washing, risk of 40% U.S. tariff penalty

Taiwanese prosecutors are investigating Unimicron, one of the world’s largest PCB and chip substrate makers and a key supplier to Nvidia, Intel, Google, and ...

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Tom's Hardware Aug 31, 10:30 AM

China's CXMT beats Western chipmakers to announcement of LPDDR6 mass production — Xiaomi smartphones to debut industry’s first LPDDR6 chips

CXMT claims to be the first to mass-produce LPDDR6 memory. Yet, for a niche phone.

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Tom's Hardware Aug 31, 10:00 AM

Diehard Asus customer gets RMA denied for a cheap 2.4 GHz headset receiver despite spending more than $30,000 with the brand — firm refuses to send a cheap dongle, then relents after social media backlash

Asus refused to replace a loyal customer's wireless headset receiver because accessories are apparently not covered under warranty. The customer was not happ...

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Tom's Hardware Aug 31, 9:30 AM

Man uses robot vacuum to covertly record his wife's affair, wins divorce settlement but gets sentenced to prison for making an illegal recording — Husband lands behind bars after counter-suit over privacy rights

A Taiwanese man sued his wife for having an affair using recordings from a robot vacuum to prove his case. He won, but got sued by the wife for infringing on...

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Tom's Hardware Aug 30, 6:08 PM

Speedy 34-inch 240 Hz ultrawide OLED monitor now $600 off — LG UltraGear 34GX900A-B only $599.99

The LG UltraGear 34GX900A-B packs a fast 240 Hz OLED panel and 3440 x 1440 resolution into an immersive 800R curved display, now available for 50% off.

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Tom's Hardware Aug 30, 4:30 PM

DLSS 5 mod brings next-gen tech to old Ampere GPUs, but frame rates are horrible — most games tank to single digits, high-end GPUs can hit up to 40 FPS in some cases

DLSS 5 now runs on Ampere GPUs thanks to a patched DLL, but performance is expectedly poor for the most part. You can get up to 30-40 FPS in edge cases with ...

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Tom's Hardware Aug 30, 2:49 PM

SpaceX starts in-house turbine blade manufacturing to boost gas-powered generator output for Elon's AI data centers — new manufacturing strategy cuts generator delays by 18 months

Turbine blades and vanes are among the most complicated turbine engine parts to build, with processes taking as long as 60 to 90 weeks. Because of this, Musk...

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