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The First Nuclear Clocks Start Ticking
Two independent teams have closed the feedback loop on thorium-229, turning a long-promised nuclear timekeeper into an operating clock.
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Apple Requires Replacements for Failed AT&T iPhones
Apple’s updates aim to prevent iPhone 18 Pro Max cellular failures on AT&T. Devices already affected need replacement, the company says.
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Sony Brings AI Upscaling to the Standard PS5
QSSR arrives in Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei without requiring a PS5 Pro. Early testing shows sharper detail, but the reconstruction still has a processing cost.
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Alibaba’s AI Chip Bets on a 20-Gigawatt Cloud
Alibaba’s Zhenwu V900 chip is the sharp end of a much larger plan: a vertically integrated AI stack and more than 20 gigawatts of global data-center capacity by 2032. The ambition is clear; independent performance evidence is not yet here.
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Oura’s $2.2B IPO Leaves $6M for Growth
Oura and its shareholders may sell up to $2.2 billion of stock, but the smart-ring maker expects only about $6.2 million of its net proceeds to remain for ordinary corporate work after equity-award taxes.
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Googlebook’s Real Problem Is the App Shelf
Google’s first five Googlebooks are available to preorder from $899, turning its Android-and-ChromeOS desktop experiment into a real platform launch. The hardware looks ready; the much smaller catalog of desktop-ready Android apps is the test that matters.
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China’s New DRAM Process Still Has to Prove Itself
China’s CXMT says its fifth-generation DRAM platform is in mass production with 50% more gross dies per wafer. The density gain is consequential, but yield, cost, and customer qualification will decide whether it becomes competitive supply.
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Intel Stopped Paying Bug Hunters
Intel’s paid vulnerability program is suspended, and its replacement offers no bounties. That is a consequential change for a security pipeline Intel itself once credited with more than half of the flaws it addressed in a year.
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AI Chips Are Getting Too Big for the Old Sandwich
The next AI-chip bottleneck is not only transistor size. It is finding enough room to connect giant processors, memory towers, and the tiny bridges between them.
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The iPhone Finally Learned How to Open Like a Book
Apple’s first foldable iPhone uses matching inner and outer proportions, two batteries, and a vapor chamber. Now the hinge gets to meet real pockets.
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Your Lawn Mower Wants a Job Description
The latest smart-home pitch is refreshingly practical: fewer programs, fewer decisions, and a robot that knows the difference between grass and trouble.
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This Laptop Fired Its Fan and Grew a Bigger Screen
Lenovo’s latest concepts explore two useful extremes: a fanless ultralight and a laptop whose screen rolls from 14 to 17 inches.
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