Hardware Stories

Is the Iran War Driving a Surge of Interest in Electric Cars? 145
Remembering Zip Drives - the Trendy Storage Technology of the 1990s 148
Microsoft Increases the FAT32 Limit From 32GB To 2TB 74
Europe Has 'Maybe 6 Weeks of Jet Fuel Left' 349
UK Households To Be Urged To Use More Power This Summer As Renewables Soar 150
Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Can Now Read Gauges, Spot Spills, and Reason 89
Rivian's Illinois Factory Will Run On Recycled EV Batteries 42
Microsoft Reveals Major Price Increase For All Surface PCs 46
California Ghost-Gun Bill Wants 3D Printers To Play Cop, EFF Says 139
Thousands of Rare Concert Recordings Are Landing On the Internet Archive 41
Apple AI Glasses Will Rival Meta's With Several Styles, Oval Cameras 56
Robot Birds Deployed by Park to Attract Real Birds - Built By High School Students 23
How Good is Windows on Arm With Snapdragon X? 89
Hisense's New Backlit RGB LED TV 'a Shot Against OLED's Bow', and Includes a DP Port 41
Neuroscientist's AI-Powered Startup Aims To Transform Human Cognition With Perfect, Infinite Memory 75
Researchers Build a Talking Robot Guide Dog to Help Visually Impaired People Navigate 27
The AI RAM Shortage is Also Driving Up SSD Prices 52
Amazon May Sell Trainium AI Chips To Third Parties In Shot At Nvidia 10
Amazon Is Ending Support For Older Kindles 62
Apple and Lenovo Have the Least Repairable Laptops, Analysis Finds 57
Apple Faces 'Massive Dilemma' With Success of the MacBook Neo 149
Anthropic Reveals $30 Billion Run Rate, Plans To Use 3.5GW of New Google AI Chips 47
Teardown of Unreleased LG Rollable Shows Why Rollable Phones Aren't a Thing 44
'AI' Is Coming For Your Online Gaming Servers Next 35
Half of Planned US Data Center Builds Have Been Delayed or Canceled 64
Renewables Reached Nearly 50% of Global Electricity Capacity Last Year 114
Raspberry Pi 4 3GB Launches, Raspberry Pi Prices Go Up Again Due To RAM 45
Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due To SSD Shortage 50
World's Smallest QR Code - Smaller Than Bacteria - Could Store Data for Centuries 40
This Friendly Robot Just Installed 100 MW of Solar Power 55
Sony is Raising PlayStation 5 Prices Again, Between $100 and $150 45
NASA's First Nuclear-Powered Interplanetary Spacecraft Will Send Helicopters to Mars in 2028 22
Apple Discontinues Mac Pro 91
Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use 51
Melania Trump Welcomes Humanoid Robot At White House Summit 94
Arm Unveils New AGI CPU With Meta As Debut Customer 29
Trump Administration To Pay French Company $1 Billion To Stop Offshore Wind Farms 338
Elon Musk Announces $20B 'Terafab' Chip Plant in Texas To Supply His Companies 126
Amazon Plans to Test Four-Legged Robots on Wheels for Deliveries 20
Tesla's Upcoming Electric Big Rig Is Already a Hit with Truckers 179
Work From Home and Drive More Slowly To Save Energy, IEA Says 152
China Is Helping Drive Cuba's Solar Boom 151
New Windows 11 Bug Breaks Samsung PCs, Blocking Access To C: Drive 85
Nvidia Announces Vera Rubin Space-1 Chip System For Orbital AI Data Centers 147
Are Split Spacebars the Next Big Gaming Keyboard Trend? 58
Hydropower Line From Quebec Could Power a Million NYC Homes 108
'Pokemon Go' Players Unknowingly Trained Delivery Robots With 30 Billion Images 57
Sodium-Ion Battery Tested for Grid-Scale Storage in Wisconsin 135
The UK Will Invest Billions to Build a Nuclear Fusion Industry 74
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best All-Purpose RISC-V System on a Chip Family? 36
Uber Co-founder Travis Kalanick's Newest Venture? 'Gainfully Employed Robots' 59
America's First Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project Finally Finishes Construction 71
Are U.S. Utilities Trying to Delay Easy-to-Use Solar 'Balcony' Panels? 120
Gaming Site Editor Jailbreaks an Amazon Echo Show 10
Should Keycaps Use Text or Glyphs for Delete, Return, Tab, Caps Lock, and Shift? 76
Backblaze Hosts 314 Trillion Digits of Pi Online 67
Apple MacBook Neo Beats Every Single x86 PC CPU For Single-Core Performance 329
Strait of Hormuz Closure Triggers Work From Home, 4-Day Weeks In Asia 114
Reducing Europe's Nuclear Energy Sector Was 'Strategic Mistake', EU Chief Says 184
ASUS Executive Says MacBook Neo is 'Shock' to PC Industry 226
Intel Demos Chip To Compute With Encrypted Data 37
Samsung Wants To Let You Vibe Code Your Galaxy Phone Experience 34
Qualcomm's New Arduino Ventuno Q Is an AI-Focused Computer Designed For Robotics 25
Could Home-Building Robots Help Fix the Housing Crisis? 120
Robotic Surgery Performed Remotely on Patient 1,500 Miles Away 30
OpenAI's Former Research Chief Raises $70M to Automate Manufacturing With AI 22
As US Tariffs Hit EVs, Hyundai Discontinues Its Cheapest IONIQ 6, While Kia Delays EV6 adn EV9 GT 74
OpenAI's Head of Robotics Resigns, Says Pentagon Deal Was 'Rushed Without the Guardrails Defined' 56
Seagate Just Unleashed 44TB Hard Drives 46
First Solar Car Rolls Off Validation Assembly Line At Aptera 78
Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 66
Mac Studio 512GB RAM Option Disappears Amid Global DRAM Shortage 50
AMD Will Bring Its 'Ryzen AI' Processors To Standard Desktop PCs For First Time 27
US Tech Firms Pledge At White House To Bear Costs of Energy For Datacenters 62
Solar In Poor Countries Is Creating a Huge Lead Hazard 51
A Nuclear Reactor Backed By Bill Gates Gets Federal Approval To Start Building 76
Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' With A18 Pro Chip 147
Intel's Make-Or-Break 18A Process Node Debuts For Data Center With 288-Core Xeon 6+ CPU 40
Apple Launches New M5 Chips, MacBook Pro, and First New Monitors In Years 47
The 19th Century Silent Film That First Captured a Robot Attack 46
Apple Introduces iPhone 17e With MagSafe and A19 31
Japan To Ban In-Flight Use of Power Banks 48
Lenovo Unveils an Attachable AI Agent 'Companion' for Their Laptops 35
'World's Largest Battery' Soon At Google Data Center: 100-Hour Iron-Air Storage 37
Startup Plans April Launch for a Satellite to Reflect Sunlight to Earth at Night 53
Memory Price Hikes Will Kill Off Budget PCs and Smartphones, Analyst Warns 62
iPhone and iPad Are First Consumer Devices Cleared for NATO Classified Data 27
DVD Sales Decline Slows Sharply as Gen Z Discovers the Appeal of Physical Media 89
The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year 47
Quantum Algorithm Beats Classical Tools On Complement Sampling Tasks 34
Texas Is About To Overtake California In Battery Storage 168
ASML Unveils EUV Light Source Advance That Could Yield 50% More Chips By 2030 26
Researchers Develop Detachable Crawling Robotic Hand 32
Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums 51
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Boot Time? 137
OpenAI's First ChatGPT Gadget Could Be a Smart Speaker With a Camera 55
US Particle Accelerators Turn Nuclear Waste Into Electricity, Cut Radioactive Life By 99.7% 67
California's New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 123
Microsoft's New 10,000-Year Data Storage Medium: Glass 51
Apple Is Reportedly Planning To Launch AI-Powered Glasses, a Pendant, and AirPods 34
Micron's PCIe 6.0 SSD Hits Mass Production at 28 GB/s 30
Western Digital is Sold Out of Hard Drives for 2026 97
'I Tried Running Linux On an Apple Silicon Mac and Regretted It' 157
Rivian's Stock Spikes 27% After Reporting $144 Million Profit in 2025 45
Small Crowd Pays to Watch a Boxing Match Between 80-Pound Chinese Robots 37
Are CDs Making a Comeback? A Statistical Analysis 90
White House Eyes Data Center Agreements Amid Energy Price Spikes 40
New Raspberry Pi 4 Model Splits RAM Across Dual Chips 55
Why Is China Building So Many Coal Plants Despite Its Solar and Wind Boom? 71
Are Big Tech's Nuclear Construction Deals a Tipping Point for Small Modular Reactors? 71
The World's First Sodium-Ion Battery in Commercial EVs - Great at Low Temperatures 84
Free Bi-Directional EV Chargers Tested to Improve Massachusetts Power Grid 59
Moltbook, Reddit, and The Great AI-Bot Uprising That Wasn't 25
Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs 62
Starbucks Bets on Robots To Brew a Turnaround in Customers 106
Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K? 138
Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction 115
Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt 46
99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026 71
Nvidia CEO Denies OpenAI's $100B Investment from Nvidia is 'Stalled' 19
'Reverse Solar Panel' Generates Electricity at Night 34
UK's First Rapid-Charging Battery Train Ready For Boarding 72
Los Angeles Aims To Ban Single-Use Printer Cartridges 71
Fully Electric Vehicle Sales In EU Overtake Petrol For First Time In December 92
Microsoft's Latest AI Chip Claims Performance Edge Over Amazon and Google 18
Startup Uses SpaceX Tech to Cool Data Centers With Less Power and No Water 56
Washington State May Mandate 'Firearm Blueprint Detection Algorithms' For 3D Printers 123
Gasoline Out of Thin Air? It's a Reality! 122
The Case Against Small Modular Nuclear Reactors 146
Cheap Green Tech Allows Faster Path To Electrification For the Developing World 36
Solar and Wind Overtake Fossil Fuels in the EU 60
FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch On You 99
Apple Developing AI Wearable Pin 41
Energy Costs Will Decide Which Countries Win the AI Race, Microsoft's Nadella Says 60
A Second US Sphere Could Come To Maryland 42
China Consumed 10.4 Trillion Kilowatt-Hours of Electricity In 2025 - Double the US 182
Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe Last Year than Pure Gas-Powered Models 132
2026's Breakthrough Technologies? MIT Technology Review Chooses Sodium-ion Batteries, Commercial Space Stations 61
Two More Offshore Wind Projects in the US Allowed to Continue Construction 76
Biggest Offshore Wind Project In US To Resume Construction 55
Trump Wants Tech Companies To Foot the Bill For New Power Plants 72
Hard Drive Prices Have Surged By an Average of 46% Since September 43
New York Introduces Legislation To Crack Down On 3D Printers That Make Ghost Guns 156
Britain Awards Wind Farm Contracts That Will Power 12 Million Homes 86
Are QWERTY Phones Trying To Make a Comeback? 53
US Approves Sale of Nvidia's Advanced AI Chips To China 35
America's Biggest Power Grid Operator Has an AI Problem - Too Many Data Centers 61
Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans 42
Researchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane 58
China Tests a Supercritical CO2 Generator in Commercial Operation 44
China's 'Artificial Sun' Breaks Nuclear Fusion Limit Thought to Be Impossible 32
Meta Signs Deals With Three Nuclear Companies For 6+ GW of Power 28
Intel Is 'Going Big Time Into 14A,' Says CEO Lip-Bu Tan 24
AI Chip Frenzy To Wallop DRAM Prices With 70% Hike 92
Power Bank Feature Creep is Out of Control 148
Samsung's Rolling Ballie Robot Indefinitely Shelved After Delays 8
Nvidia Details New AI Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes 11
Intel Is Making Its Own Handheld Gaming PC Chips At CES 2026 17
Dell Admits It Made a Huge Mistake When It Abandoned XPS 48
Hyundai and Boston Dynamics Unveil Humanoid Robot Atlas At CES 38
SanDisk Says Goodbye To WD Blue and Black SSDs, Hello To New 'Optimus' Drives 30
As US Communities Start Fighting Back, Many Datacenters are Blocked 65
Are Hybrid Cars Helping America Transition to Electric Vehicles? 150
Furiosa's Energy-Efficient 'NPU' AI Chips Start Mass Production This Month, Challenging Nvidia 25
The US Effort to Break China's Rare-Earth Monopoly 142
New Tesla Video Shows Tesla Semi Electric Truck Charging at 1.2 MW 178
Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles Host, Dies At 87 19
NYC Inauguration Bans Raspberry Pi, Flipper Zero Devices 42
Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa 28
First Gaming Handheld With a Folding Screen 3
Researchers Make 'Neuromorphic' Artificial Skin For Robots 7
Russian Enthusiasts Planning DIY DDR5 Memory Amidst Worldwide Shortage 47
Up Next for Arduino After Qualcomm Acquisition: High-Performance Computing 26
How Will Rising RAM Prices Affect Laptop Companies? 53
Researchers Show Some Robots Can Be Hijacked Just Through Spoken Commands 25
Japan Votes to Restart World's Biggest Nuclear Plant 15 Years After Fukushima Meltdown 70
Nuclear Developer Proposes Using Navy Reactors For Data Centers 96
25.2% of Energy EU Used in 2024 Came From Renewables 29
Google Launches CO2 Battery Plants for Long-Duration Storage of Renewable Energy 75
EV Battery-Swapping Startup That Raised $330 Million Files for Bankruptcy 56
Riot Games Is Making an Anti-Cheat Change That Could Be Rough On Older PCs 57
North Korean Infiltrator Caught Working In Amazon IT Department Thanks To Lag 37
AI's Water and Electricity Use Soars In 2025 44
Video Game Hardware Sales Had a Historically Bad November In the US 74
Meta 'Pauses' Third-Party Headset Program 22
GitHub Is Going To Start Charging You For Using Your Own Hardware 47
Senators Count the Shady Ways Data Centers Pass Energy Costs On To Americans 53
Dual-PCB Linux Computer With 843 Components Designed By AI Boots On First Attempt 71
Utah Leaders Hinder Efforts To Develop Solar Energy Supply 72
Ford Ends F-150 Lightning Production, Starts Battery Storage Business 131
Electricity Is Now Holding Back Growth Across the Global Economy 75
Roomba Maker 'iRobot' Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years 100
America Adds 11.7 GW of New Solar Capacity in Q3 - Third Largest Quarter on Record 55
Trump Ban on Wind Energy Permits 'Unlawful', Court Rules 139
Startup Successfully Uses AI to Find New Geothermal Energy Reservoirs 50
The World's Electric Car Sales Have Spiked 21% So Far in 2025 169
How a 23-Year-Old in 1975 Built the World's First Handheld Digital Camera 28
More of America's Coal-Fired Power Plants Cease Operations 117
Germany Covers Nearly 56 Percent of 2025 Electricity Use With Renewables 161
Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices By 50% For DIY Laptops 30
Qualcomm Acquires RISC-V Chip Designer Ventana Micro Systems 17
RoboCrop: Teaching Robots How To Pick Tomatoes 30
Nvidia Can Sell H200 Chips To China For 25% US Cut 95
More Than 200 Environmental Groups Demand Halt To New US Datacenters 123
Idaho Lab Produces World's First Molten Salt Fuel for Nuclear Reactors 43
Can This Simple Invention Convert Waste Heat Into Electricity? 48
No Rise in Radiation Levels at Chernobyl, Despite Damage from February's Drone Strike 145
A 1950s Material Just Set a Modern Record For Lightning-fast Chips 14
Aptera's Solar-Powered EVs Take Another Step Toward Production 32
The AI Boom Could Increase Prices for Phones and Tablets Next Year 45
Meta Acquires AI Wearable Company Limitless 12
Why One Man Is Fighting For Our Right To Control Our Garage Door Openers 126
Plane Crashed After 3D-Printed Part Collapsed 99
RAM Is So Expensive, Samsung Won't Even Sell It To Samsung 87
New Homes In London Were Delayed By 'Energy-Hungry' Data Centers 58
The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library 27
After AI Push, Trump Administration Is Now Looking To Robots 79
After Nearly 30 Years, Crucial Will Stop Selling RAM To Consumers 116
Windows 11 Growth Slows As Millions Stick With Windows 10 116
Google's Vibe Coding Platform Deletes Entire Drive 95
How Bad Will RAM and Memory Shortages Get? 77
Robots and AI Are Already Remaking the Chinese Economy 47
Mexico Unveils Plans To Build Most Powerful Supercomputer In Latin America 22
Britain Plots Atomic Reboot As Datacenter Demand Surges 54
Mumbai Families Suffer As Data Centers Keep the City Hooked on Coal 23
Unpowered SSDs in Your Drawer Are Slowly Losing Data 79
Lenovo Stockpiling PC Memory Due To 'Unprecedented' AI Squeeze 10
Jony Ive and Sam Altman Say They Finally Have an AI Hardware Prototype 36
Arduino's New Terms of Service Worries Hobbyists Ahead of Qualcomm Acquisition 45
One Company's Plan to Sink Nuclear Reactors Deep Underground 113
Could High-Speed Trains Shorten US Travel Times While Reducing Emissions? 222
Engineers are Building the Hottest Geothermal Power Plant on Earth - Next to a US Volcano 37
Tiny 'Micro-Robots' in your Bloodstream Could Deliver Drugs with Greater Precision 30
Tech Company CTO and Others Indicted For Exporting Nvidia Chips To China 11
Meta Enters Power Trading To Support Its AI Energy Needs 12
HP and Dell Disable HEVC Support Built Into Their Laptops' CPUs 105
Apple N1 Wi-Fi Chip Improves On Older Broadcom Chips In Every Way 34
More Than 60 US and Canadian Police Units Now Use Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog 39
US Backs Three Mile Island Nuclear Restart With $1 Billion Loan To Constellation 74
Report Claims That Apple Has Yet Again Put the Mac Pro 'On the Back Burner' 22
Valar Atomics Says It's the First Nuclear Startup To Achieve Criticality 48
Electric Vehicle Sales Are Booming In South America 119
Some Americans Are Trying to Heat Their Homes With Bitcoin Mining 90
Are Data Centers Raising America's Electricity Prices? 71
Solar and Wind are Covering All New Power Demand in 2025 88
EV Sales Are Still Rising. They Have Not Slumped 126
Why Solarpunk Is Already Happening In Africa 130
A 'Peak Oil' Prediction Surprise From the International Energy Agency 73
Jack Dorsey Funds diVine, a Vine Reboot That Includes Vine's Video Archive 20
Russia's AI Robot Falls Seconds After Being Unveiled 112

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