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The Download: investigating deaths at the US border’s “virtual wall” (technologyreview.com)

2026-09-21 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: ai hallucination, gemini, google

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Fully custom copper PC features upcycled blowtorch reservoir — antique wooden pedestal complements steampunk design hiding a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RX 9070 XT (tomshardware.com)

2026-09-19 | by Mark Tyson | get AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D → | tags: ryzen 7 9800x3d, radeon rx 9070 xt, copper cooling loop

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I’m so mad that I love Orion’s $2,195 AI mattress pad (techcrunch.com)

2026-09-18 | by Amanda Silberling | get Orion cooling mattress pad AI sleep system → | tags: orion sleep, ai mattress pad, harry gestetner

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Single-Phase Direct Liquid Cooling Is Proven for the Next Decade of Ultra-Dense Compute (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-09-16 | get Corsair iCUE LINK H150i liquid CPU cooler → | tags: single-phase direct liquid cooling, two-phase cooling, immersion cooling

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Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-09-11 | tags: hacker news, ai news, lenovo

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iPhone 18 Pro offers three times the cooling performance (9to5mac.com)

2026-09-09 | by Ben Lovejoy | get Razer Phone Cooler Chroma → | tags: iphone 18 pro, apple, vapor chamber

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Is there any benefit to restarting your PC regularly? (engadget.com)

2026-09-08 | by Max Miller | get Cooler Master NotePal X3 laptop cooling pad → | tags: restarting pc, windows, linux

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UGREEN’s new Qi2 power bank has cooling you can see, as well as feel (androidauthority.com)

2026-09-03 | get UGREEN MagFlo Qi2 magnetic power bank → | tags: qi2, ugreen, magnetic power bank

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Dyson’s new straightener has liquid cooling pipes to reduce hair damage (theverge.com)

2026-09-03 | by Andrew Liszewski | get Dyson Corrale hair straightener → | tags: dyson, corrale, airshower

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Motorless solid-state cooler uses heat to cool itself; could recycle processor heat into cooling — shape-memory alloy films could turn data center exhaust into refrigeration (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-31 | by Etiido Uko | get Noctua NH-D15 CPU cooler → | tags: solid-state cooling, shape-memory alloy, data center heat

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Grab the Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 OC for $629.99 — save $120 on this 16GB gaming GPU for reliable 1440p and 4K gaming (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-23 | by Kunal Khullar | get Asus Prime Radeon RX 9070 OC 16GB → | tags: asus prime, amd radeon rx 9070, rdna 4

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2 Sisters Started a Business That Soothes Babies. It Went Viral and Made $5.3 Million Last Year: ‘Living the American Dream.’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-20 | by Amanda Breen | tags: pacifier, joy williams, heating and cooling

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OK, can we actually cool data centers with our pee? (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-20 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: liquid death, data centers, water cooling

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How Swarming Jellyfish Overran Three French Nuclear Power Reactors (slashdot.org)

2026-08-15 | by Posted | tags: jellyfish, electricite de france, gravelines nuclear

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Gamer drops laptop temperatures by up to 15°C by switching from a wooden desk to a metal table (techspot.com)

2026-08-15 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: gaming laptop, metal table, cooling performance

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Hosting provider Namecheap is down after data center cooling failure (engadget.com)

2026-08-13 | by Anna Washenko | tags: namecheap, phoenixnap, cooling systems

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Modders give the Steam Machine a Radeon eGPU and water cooling, because why not (techspot.com)

2026-08-12 | by Daniel Sims | tags: steam machine, radeon rx 9070 xt, water cooling

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Modder pumps liquid directly over bare GPU silicon via 3D-printed block — drops RTX 2060 Super load temps to 28°C despite initial leaks (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: cooling, hardware, tom hardware

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This Kentucky family rejected a $26 million data center offer to protect their farmland (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: center, cooling, mason

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South Korea Records Its Highest Ever Temperature (slashdot.org)

2026-08-03 | tags: korea meteorological administration, yangsan, heatwave alerts

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In a Warming World, Air Conditioning Is a Necessary Evil. Or Is it? (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: passive cooling, air conditioning, climate change

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Modder der8auer builds 110cm 3D-printed chimney to passively cool Ryzen 7 9800X3D without fans, cuts temps by 19C — radically simple PC mod uses the 'stack effect' (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-31 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: der8auer, ryzen 7 9800x3d, chimney cooling

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You Are Entirely Unprepared for the Noise This Data Center Constantly Blasts at Neighbors’ Homes (futurism.com)

2026-07-28 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: data center, dowagiac, noise pollution

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California's largest AI data center is suing for access to 287 million gallons of Colorado River water a year (techspot.com)

2026-07-27 | by Rob Thubron | tags: ai data center, colorado river, imperial irrigation district

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Air conditioning is not enough to keep people cool — can scientists find an alternative? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-22 | by Fieldhouse | tags: air conditioning, passive cooling, heatwaves

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Der8auer converts $7,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z to custom water cooling, drops temps by 11°C (techspot.com)

2026-07-21 | by Kishalaya Kundu | tags: rtx 5090 lightning, water cooling, der8auer

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New Cooling Tech Could Pave the Way for Longer Smart Glasses Recording (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: xmems, microfan, ar glasses

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xMEMS unveils super tiny cooling fan that fits inside smart glasses (engadget.com)

2026-07-21 | by Gabriela Vătu | tags: xmems, xmc-1200, astra2

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PC modder bolts 5.5-pound aluminum heatsink to RTX 4060 — convection-only cooling seems to work fine in a testbench-style installation (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-21 | by Mark Tyson | tags: nvidia, rtx 4060, palit

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NVIDIA data center hardware is being cooled with water 'hotter than a hot tub' (engadget.com)

2026-07-20 | by Gabriela Vătu | tags: nvidia, rubin architecture, liquid cooling