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Samsung’s offering up to $900 of trade-in credit toward its new phones (theverge.com)

2026-02-11 | by Cameron Faulkner | get Galaxy → | tags: applied, hardware, phone

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Our testing shows the Ryzen 7 9800X3D can match the pricier Ryzen 7 9850X3D with simple PBO settings — AMD's latest CPU can't leverage extra clock speed in games (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-11 | by Jake Roach | get Ryzen 7 9800X → | tags: credit, credit tom, hardware

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China's top chipmaker warns that rushed AI data center capacity could remain idle — SMIC chief says utilizing ballooning capacity 'has not been fully thought through' (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-11 | by Anton Shilov | get Smartphone → | tags: centers, china, data centers

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Save $458 on this AMD 9850X3D, X870 motherboard and 32GB of RAM bundle at Newegg — start your AM5 PC build for less than $800 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-11 | by Stephen Warwick | get Motherboard → | tags: credit, credit tom, gaming

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Samsung’s next Unpacked is confirmed for later this month (theverge.com)

2026-02-10 | by Allison Johnson | get Galaxy S → | tags: confirmed, hardware, phones

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My favorite Switch 2 controller is 30 percent off for today only (theverge.com)

2026-02-10 | by Cameron Faulkner | get Nintendo Switch Pro Controller → | tags: controller, gaming, hardware

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Jony Ive’s AI hardware is delayed to 2027 and won’t be called io (9to5mac.com)

2026-02-10 | by Ben Lovejoy | get Smartwatch → | tags: device, hardware, openai

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Jony Ives’ AI hardware is delayed to 2027 and won’t be called io (9to5mac.com)

2026-02-10 | by Ben Lovejoy | get Neuralink → | tags: device, hardware, openai

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Life support build: Breaking all the rules to build a productivity PC beast (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-10 | by Niels Broekhuijsen | get CPU → | tags: build, credit tom, hardware

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OpenAI Abandons “io” Branding for Its AI Hardware (wired.com)

2026-02-10 | by Maxwell Zeff | get Neural Network → | tags: device, filing, hardware

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OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware (wired.com)

2026-02-10 | by Maxwell Zeff | get Neural Network → | tags: device, filing, hardware

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John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-09 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Fiber Optic → | tags: carmack, fiber, tom hardware

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John Carmack muses using a long fiber line as as an L2 cache for streaming AI data — programmer imagines fiber as alternative to DRAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-09 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Fiber Optic → | tags: carmack, fiber, tom hardware

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Torvalds confirms Linux Kernel 7.0 is almost ready for release, bringing many performance improvements with it — desktop use and gaming may see boost, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS hopes to use as default Kernel (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-09 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Linux Kernel → | tags: gaming, kernel, performance

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Nvidia now produces three times as much code as before AI — specialized version of Cursor is being used by over 30,000 Nvidia engineers internally (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-09 | by Hassam Nasir | get Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) → | tags: code, cursor, nvidia

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3D printing with one of the world’s hardest Tungsten-based materials is now possible — material’s incredible hardness made it difficult to additively manufacture (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-08 | by Mark Tyson | get Tungsten Carbide → | tags: materials, melting, printing

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G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6000 C34 2x64GB Review: The Sweet Spot For 128GB (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-08 | by Zhiye Liu | get Trident → | tags: credit, credit tom, hardware

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I’d buy Google’s AI glasses over Apple’s AI pin any day (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-08 | get Google Glass → | tags: glasses, google, hardware

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Microsoft purges Windows 11 printer drivers, putting millions of devices on borrowed time — legacy printers face extinction as Microsoft stops distributing V3 and V4 drivers (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-07 | by Luke James | get Printer drivers → | tags: driver, drivers, hardware

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Snag this premium WD Black SN850 2TB for a mere $199 while it lasts — 2TB SSD hits lowest price in months (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-07 | by Kunal Khullar | get SSD → | tags: cache, deals, drive

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3D printing legend Josef Prusa takes emergency command of Printed Solid after CEO exit — Prusa holds the fort as successor hunt begins (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-07 | by Denise Bertacchi | get 3D printer → | tags: hardware, printed, printed solid

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Builder's dream PC case vanished from stores, so they 3D printed a masterpiece and shared the design — SFF case benchmarked, recreated to fit new GeForce RTX 50-series GPU (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-07 | by Jowi Morales | get Case → | tags: build, custom, design

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Minisforum MS-02 Ultra mini workstation hands-on — can it replace my hulking desktop PC that is 11 times larger? (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-07 | by Mark Tyson | get Mini PC → | tags: hardware, image, minisforum

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Asus ProArt PA32KCX 32-inch 8K professional monitor review: A reference for color, pixel density, and brightness (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-07 | by Christian Eberle | get Display → | tags: asus, color, credit

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3D-printed batteries aim to reshape energy storage in small devices (techspot.com)

2026-02-07 | get Smart Batteries → | tags: aerospace, aerospace hardware, aims

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Apple Is More Serious About AI Devices Than We Thought (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-06 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: acquisition, acquisition painting, ai hardware

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Valve's Steam Machine: How Much It Will Cost, When It Comes Out and More (cnet.com)

2026-02-06 | by See Full Bio | get Steam Machine → | tags: console, hardware, machine

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Valve Delays Steam Frame and Steam Machine Pricing as Memory Costs Rise (cnet.com)

2026-02-06 | by See Full Bio | get Steam Frame → | tags: frame, frame steam, hardware

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Noctua celebrates sending out its 500,000th CPU cooler mounting upgrade kit — milestone marks two decades of the free program (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Bruno Ferreira | get CPU Cooler Mounting Kit → | tags: cooler, coolers, hardware

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PNY CS2342 2TB SSD Review: High-Capacity TLC Performance In M.2 2230 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Shane Downing | get SSD → | tags: drive, drives, flash