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'A power bank for the AI era': China begins testing miniature, truck-mounted 10MW nuclear reactor designed to sustain massive data centers for decades without refueling while promising to make traditional dirty coal and diesel generators entirely obsolete

By Wayne Williams Published 30 April 26

Truck-mounted nuclear ‘power bank’ enters testing as China explores portable reactors capable of running AI data centers.

Chuwi surprises the market with Lunar Lake Intel Core Ultra 5 laptop — sub-1kg device boasts 'all-day battery life', 2.8K display, and 2-megapixel camera, but will its $800 price tag prove to be its Achilles' heel

By Wayne Williams Published 30 April 26

Chuwi surprises with new CoreBook Air laptop powered by Intel Core Ultra 226V processor delivering up to 97 TOPS of AI performance.

'The storm is here': Why you and your neighbors may be paying multibillion-dollar bill for AI data centers right now — but that may not last long as more US states join revolt against unjust 'socialist' approach to electricity bills

By Desire Athow Published 29 April 26

Exclusive The hidden cost of AI: How data centers are driving electricity prices higher across multiple states, affecting you and your neighbors.

'Battery-free, quiet, and inherently private' — These 3D-printed metal tags could change home and office tracking, turning penny-sized discs into smart devices using ultrasonic tech for maintenance-free monitoring without charging

By Wayne Williams Published 28 April 26

Researchers at Georgia Tech develop battery-free 3D-printed metal tags for smart tracking that use ultrasonic sound to record everyday actions.

Lenovo IdeaCentre Mini i5 Tower with Intel Core 5 210H hits its 'lowest price ever' — save £150 on this diminutive 1L mini desktop PC at Argos

By Wayne Williams Published 28 April 26

Lenovo’s compact 1L Mini i5 desktop pairs an Intel Core 5 210H processor with 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a 512GB SSD, all for £449.00.

Lenovo's Ryzen 7 laptop hits 'lowest ever price' of just £569 — and comes with 24GB DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD

By Wayne Williams Published 28 April 26

Lenovo’s IdeaPad Slim 3 pairs a Ryzen 7 processor with 24GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD for everyday productivity, study, and multitasking, all for just £569.

TEGNet can design thermoelectric generators

'10,000 times faster than a human scientist' — New AI tool designed ultra-efficient heat-to-electricity generators at lightning speed, a breakthrough that could slash the cost of energy harvesters and help enable cheaper, high-performance home heat pumps

By Wayne Williams Published 28 April 26

New AI-designed thermoelectric generators reach 9.3% efficiency and could make waste heat easier to harvest.

'The death of Top Gun' — Ukraine becomes the first to scale remotely operated interceptors that can score aerial kills from "thousands of kilometers" away while staying in bunkers as era of pilotless dogfighting and zero crew casualties takes to the sky

By Wayne Williams Published 27 April 26

Ukraine demonstrates interceptor drones controlled from distant bunkers capable of destroying aerial targets far beyond traditional engagement ranges.

Neurodivergent teacher uses dyscalculia "superpower" to recreate full-scale, whale-sized replica of world's first programmable digital computer — 21st-century ENIAC used almost 3,000 sq ft of cardboard and NASA's Artemis II may be his next big challenge

By Wayne Williams Published 27 April 26

Arizona students construct full-scale ENIAC replica, turning classroom into a whale-sized tribute to early computing history.

My top 15 Amazon Tech Week deals for a smarter office set-up — essential desk accessories from Logitech, Anker, Epson, and more

By Wayne Williams last updated 27 April 26

Upgrade your workspace with discounted webcams, switches, keyboards, stands and more, in Amazon’s Tech Week deals.

Unmissable 4TB SSD deal: The high-capacity Acer Predator GM6 hits speeds up to 7200MB/s — and it's under £320 in Amazon’s Tech Week sale

By Wayne Williams Published 24 April 26

Acer Predator GM6 4TB Gen4 NVMe SSD with speeds up to 7200MB/s is under £320 in Amazon’s Tech Week sale.

Business laptops from HP, Asus and Acer are all discounted for Amazon's Tech Week sale — here are my top three under £500

By Wayne Williams Published 24 April 26

Save serious money on Acer, HP and Asus business laptops in Amazon’s Tech Week sale with all three priced under £500.

The 'admirable' Acer Nitro V15 with Intel Core i7 processor and RTX 5050 graphics is the perfect cheap photo and video editing laptop — and it's under £620 in Amazon’s Tech Week sale

By Wayne Williams Published 24 April 26

The Acer Nitro V15 laptop delivers speedy performance for creative work and demanding tasks, and it’s currently under £620.

"Hackers can now launch massive 2Tbps attacks": Report reveals staggering 10x growth in botnet size with record-breaking DDoS incidents peaking for 40 minutes as multi-vector attacks grow in complexity and become harder to dismantle

By Wayne Williams Published 23 April 26

Largest botnet grows tenfold in a year as sustained 2Tbps attack signals growing scale of modern DDoS campaigns.

I found a £449 Lenovo mini PC deal for the office — the compact IdeaCentre Mini with Intel Core 5 processor and 16GB RAM gets a huge price cut in Amazon's surprise Tech Week sale but stock is running out fast

By Wayne Williams Published 23 April 26

The Lenovo IdeaCentre Mini Desktop delivers modern performance in a compact design, and it’s currently priced under £450.

Forget the cloud or pricey portable SSDs — back up your files restore classic disc backups to modern laptops with these budget DVD writer deals

By Wayne Williams Published 23 April 26

These budget DVD writers bring disc support back to modern laptops, and both are available at great prices right now.

A data center with racks of servers and lots of lights glowing

"Push them to the limit": MIT researchers almost double SSD performance 'for free' but only for data centers

By Wayne Williams Published 23 April 26

MIT software boosts SSD speeds by shifting data between drives in large storage clusters, but it's only for use in data centers.

AeroVironment LOCUST laser counter-drone system

The $5 Drone Killer: The Navy’s new 20kW LOCUST laser just proved its "unlimited magazine depth" on the USS George H.W. Bush — it neutralized multiple UAVs for a fraction of the cost of a missile, protecting the fleet from cheap enemy drone swarms

By Wayne Williams Published 22 April 26

New low-cost carrier-based laser system shows promise for defending US warships against drone threats, at $5 a pop.

"Inference requires infrastructure that is closer to users and more energy-efficient": Antimatter debuts global AI network built to bypass grid bottleneck with a 400,000 GPU roll out by 2030 across 1000 data centers

By Wayne Williams Published 22 April 26

Antimatter targets growing inference demand with global rollout of modular data centers designed to operate where electricity supply is already available.

"SIM-Farm-as-a-Service": How a Belarus-based network hijacked UK and US telcos to enable global fraud

By Wayne Williams Published 22 April 26

Investigation maps 94 SIM farm deployments connected to 35 mobile carriers including major UK and US networks.

"The way we move light": Tiny optical chips smaller than a grain of salt could save data centers billions

By Wayne Williams Published 22 April 26

New beam-steering chip smaller than a grain of salt could cut hardware demands in quantum computing and high-performance data centers.

Pulsar Fusion Sunbird first plasma with Krypton

"The future of space will look less like single-use expeditionary missions and more like a transport network": Pulsar Fusion's quest to build a nuclear fusion exhaust system for deep-space travel hits "first plasma" milestone

By Desire Athow Published 22 April 26

Exclusive Following a "first plasma" milestone, Pulsar Fusion outlines its ambitious plans for a nuclear fusion exhaust system for deep-space travel.

Researchers use DESI’s huge 3D map to study dark energy. Earth is at the center of this map, and every point is a galaxy

"5,000 tiny robot arms": How a humble telescope created the largest 3D map of the universe to help unlock dark energy's secrets

By Wayne Williams Published 21 April 26

The DESI project recorded data from 47 million galaxies and quasars and built a 3D map of the universe to help unlock dark energy's secrets.

“Essentially invisible:” How hackers 'trojan-horsed' QEMU virtual machines to bypass security and drop ransomware

By Wayne Williams Published 20 April 26

Hackers hide ransomware tools inside virtual machines using QEMU, allowing attacks to bypass security controls and remain largely invisible.

"100x faster than traditional tools": Scientists load quantum computer with first complete genome to crack biology’s 'impossible' puzzle — in time for World Quantum Day

By Wayne Williams Published 20 April 26

Scientists load a complete genome into a quantum computer, moving faster DNA analysis closer to reality.

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