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The Tech Download: How chip companies are looking to use light to solve this major AI bottleneck (cnbc.com)

2026-05-29 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get Optical AI Computing Kit → | tags: photonic chips, ai infrastructure, gpu connectivity

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This startup has raised $12 million to make liquid-metal circuit boards rewritable (techspot.com)

2026-05-28 | get Liquid Metal Circuit Kit → | tags: liquid-metal, electrowetting, iteracircuit

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What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable? (2021) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-25 | by Rohit Kumar | get High-Speed Ethernet DAC Cable → | tags: dac, qsfp+, copper cable

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What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-25 | by Rohit Kumar | get DAC Cable Assembly → | tags: dac, qsfp+, sfp+

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What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-25 | by Rohit Kumar | get High-Speed Ethernet DAC Cable → | tags: dac, qsfp+, copper cable

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Electronics buff hand-draws and etches custom PCBs at home — functional home-etched PCB runs a 3D-printed fume extractor fan (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-24 | by Mark Tyson | get 3D-Printed Fume Extractor Fan → | tags: pcb etching, altco, copper-clad circuit board

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Cooling copper plates could slash data center energy use by 90% (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | by Cell Reports Physical Science | get Copper Data Center Cooling Kit → | tags: copper cooling, 3d printing, data centers

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Custom-built passive water-cooled PC relies on convection chimney effect powered by triple-stacked radiators — 9800X3D build with RTX 5080 has no fans, copper, and radiator chimney, but struggles to keep temperatures down (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-19 | by Mark Tyson | get Water Cooling Radiator Kit → | tags: billet labs, passive water-cooled, convection chimney

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The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material (wired.com)

2026-05-17 | by Marta Musso | get Atomic Bomb Model Kit → | tags: trinity nuclear test, clathrates, calcium copper silicon

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Researchers Found an Innovative Way to Cut Data Center Energy Use (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-07 | get Energy-Efficient Data Center Cooling → | tags: data centers, cooling plates, energy efficiency

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Why the Next Big Tech Companies Will Look Like Commodity Traders (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-01 | by Anthony Milewski | get Commodity Trading Software → | tags: commodity tokenization, supply chains, physical assets

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Carbon nanotube wiring gets closer to competing with copper (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-23 | get Carbon Nanotube Wire Kit → | tags: carbon nanotubes, copper wiring, materials science

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Ceramic-like strength and metallic toughness in a bulk metallic glass (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-22 | by Cai | get Bulk Metallic Glass Sample → | tags: metallic glass, re-co-ta-b, copper mold casting

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Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-21 | get GrapheneOS Privacy Toolkit → | tags: grapheneos, copperhead, james donaldson

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Ex-Tesla engineer’s startup taps Pronto to help automate a copper mine (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-09 | by Sean O'Kane | get Mining Automation Kit → | tags: tesla, mariana minerals, pronto

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These startups both released groundbreaking induction stoves. Now they’re embroiled in a lawsuit (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-03 | get Smart Induction Cooktop → | tags: copper, impulse labs, induction stove

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Male octopuses guided through mating by female hormones (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-02 | get Octopus Mating Guide Book → | tags: octopus, harvard university, hectocotylus

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Fiber HDMI cables enable full-bandwidth 8K over runs up to 990 feet (techspot.com)

2026-03-29 | get High-Speed 8K HDMI Cable → | tags: fiber-optic strands, hdmi, active optical cable

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Copper and liquid cooling mods double MacBook Neo performance while cutting temps by 20°C (techspot.com)

2026-03-28 | get Laptop Cooling Pad → | tags: macbook neo, copper plating, eta prime

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MacBook Neo mods include copper and liquid cooling — temps drop and boost performance by up to 18% (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-27 | by Kunal Khullar | get MacBook Cooling Pad → | tags: macbook neo, apple a18 pro, thermal cooling

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Tech titans team up to form optical interconnect alliance to solve the AI buildout's big data bottleneck — Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom & more set sights on building PHY to break through the limitations of copper (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-13 | by Sayem Ahmed | get Optical Interconnect Kit → | tags: nvidia, amd, broadcom

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150 Years After the First Phone Call, We're Still Looking for 1-on-1 Connections (cnet.com)

2026-03-10 | by See Full Bio | get Phone → | tags: att archives, alexander graham bell, copper wire

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Audiophiles Fail to Hear Difference in Signal Passed Through Copper Cable, Banana, and Tray of Mud (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-18 | get Copper cable → | tags: difference, difference going, going

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Blind Listening Test Finds Audiophiles Unable To Distinguish Copper Cable From a Banana or Wet Mud (slashdot.org)

2026-02-17 | by Posted | get Audiophile → | tags: audio, audio copper, copper

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Audiophiles Can't Distinguish Audio Sent Through Copper, Banana or Mud (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-14 | by Jowi Morales | get Audio Transmitter → | tags: audio, listeners, pano

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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-14 | by Jowi Morales | get Audio cable → | tags: copper wire, diyaudio, banana

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Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck — following copper, power, DRAM, and NAND (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-03 | by Chris Stokel-Walker | get Microchip → | tags: industry, kewada, optical

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Rice University copper-aluminum filter can destroy "forever chemicals" 100 times faster (techspot.com)

2026-01-26 | get Copper-Aluminum Filter → | tags: chemicals, chemicals synthetic, coatings

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Scientists Investigating 2,000-Year-Old Artifact That Appears to Be a Battery (futurism.com)

2026-01-26 | by Frank Landymore | get Battery → | tags: artifact, battery, copper

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Amazon Is Buying America's First New Copper Output In More Than a Decade (slashdot.org)

2026-01-16 | get Copper Mines → | tags: amazon, centers, copper