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After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Jowi Morales | tags: centers, data centers, power

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TeamGroup G70 Pro 2TB SSD Review: Low latency meets affordable DRAM (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Shane Downing | tags: controller, drive, hardware

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HP OmniBook Ultra 14 review: Potent Snapdragon performance, great endurance, premium pricing (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-03 | by Brandon Hill | tags: hardware, image, omnibook

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Save $521 on this 4K-capable RTX 5070 gaming PC from CyberPowerPC, now just $1,349 — huge price drop for budget-friendly rig with impressive Intel Core Ultra 250KF CPU, 16GB DDR5, and 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-02 | by Ben Stockton | tags: deals, gaming, hardware

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Republican lawmakers urge federal agency to block imports of infringing TSMC chips as patent ruling nears — five asserted U.S. patents come from United Microelectronics Corporation (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-12 | by Luke James | get TSMC Chip Development Kit → | tags: apple, qualcomm, semiconductor

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Gaming PC deflects bullet shot through wall by neighbour, saving owner's life — criminal negligence charges for culprit who claims 'firearm was accidentally discharged by her dog' (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-11 | by Mark Tyson | get Bulletproof Gaming Laptop Sleeve → | tags: angelbabyzz, bullet, neighbor

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Levelplay shows off magnetically attached fans that are reversible, connect via pogo pins and USB-C – plus an AIO that trades a screen for a big knob (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-08 | by Matt Safford | get Magnetic USB-C Fan Kit → | tags: fans, hardware, plate

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Best of Computex 2026: Innovating despite disruptions (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-04 | by The Editors Of Tom'S Hardware | tags: hardware, intel, performance

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MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ brings Intel Arc G3 Extreme to handhelds — 8-inch, 120 Hz display and new ergonomic grips (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-03 | by Andrew E. Freedman | get MSI Claw 8 EX AI → | tags: claw, grips, hardware

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AMD says new EXPO ‘Ultra Low Latency’ DDR5 memory should be 'effectively the same price' as current kits — feature will work on existing chipsets, but will require new DIMMs (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-03 | by Jake Roach | get Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM → | tags: compared, expo, mcafee

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2TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSD and 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM is just $363 in this staggering Newegg 9850X3D bundle — $558 off this $1,200 AM5 haul includes an X870E motherboard and a cooler (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-12 | by Stephen Warwick | get Samsung 970 EVO Plus SSD → | tags: gaming, hardware, image

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PC novice hits the jackpot with free RTX 3090 PC from kindly neighbour — potent build features $1,500 GPU paired with liquid-cooled i9-10850K and Asus Maximus motherboard (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-20 | by Mark Tyson | get GPU → | tags: free, hardware, tom hardware

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Acer and Asus shut down support for PC and laptops in wake of patent dispute ruling, drivers and updates inaccessible to existing customers — German website finds a workaround (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-19 | by Bruno Ferreira | get GPU → | tags: german, german websites, germany

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Dell XPS 14 (2026) review: Two steps forward (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-17 | by Andrew E. Freedman | get XPS Laptop → | tags: dell, dell xps, hardware

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Corsair AI Workstation 300 review: Strix Halo sets sail in a compact and classy (but pricey) package (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-16 | by Jeffrey Kampman | get Corsair → | tags: ai workstation, hardware, image

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Turkish wedding party receives Nvidia RTX 5090, RAM necklaces, and Intel CPU for elaborate wedding gifts — A Turkish tech delight for the age of PC shortages (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-16 | by Mark Tyson | get GPU → | tags: bride, gold, groom

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Turkish wedding party receives Nvidia RTX 5090, RAM necklaces, and Intel CPU for elaborate wedding gifts — A Turkish tech delight for age of PC shortages (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-16 | by Mark Tyson | get GPU → | tags: bride, gold, groom

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Turkish wedding party receive RTX 5090, RAM and Intel CPU wedding gifts — A Turkish tech delight for the AI age (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-16 | by Mark Tyson | get RTX 5090 → | tags: bride, gold, groom

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Advanced Pentagon laser weapon shot down party balloons instead of drone by mistake, says report — airport shut down after Customs and Border Protection mistakenly believed it was targeting Mexican cartel drones (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-15 | by Mark Tyson | get Laser gun → | tags: laser, party, pentagon

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Living neurons integrated into modern AI processing, claims SF startup — biological computing power used to boost computer vision, generative video, and more (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-15 | by Mark Tyson | get Neuralink → | tags: biological, biological computing, computing

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WD Green SN3000 1TB SSD Review: A diamond in the rough (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-13 | by Paul Alcorn | get Green SSD → | tags: drive, endurance, flash

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MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z review: RTX 5090 Ti, anyone? (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-12 | by Jeffrey Kampman | get RTX 5090 → | tags: card, hardware, lightning

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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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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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One-third of consumers reject AI on their devices, with most saying they simply don’t need it — latest report highlights privacy fears and potential costs among other real-world concerns (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Ben Stockton | get Smartphone → | tags: devices, functionality, responded

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GMKtec Evo X2 AI Mini PC review: Compact Strix Halo Powerhouse (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-04 | by Charles Jefferies | get Strix → | tags: gmktec, hardware, image