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How To Safely Recycle Your Old USB Cables (engadget.com)

2026-08-01 | by Christine Persaud | tags: usb-c, recycling, copper

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GrapheneOS brings enhanced security and privacy to Google Pixel phones (techspot.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: grapheneos, google pixel, sandboxing

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These AT&T home internet plans are getting a $5 price hike (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: att, at&t internet, fiber

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Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-04 | by Una Hajdari | tags: calls, copper, country

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Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby nabs stakes in hot startups like Etched through Arizona connections (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-02 | by Marina Temkin | tags: etched, tsmc, copper sky capital

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Thieves Are Absolutely Loving All of These New Data Center Projects (futurism.com)

2026-07-01 | by Victor Tangermann | get Data Center Security Kit → | tags: data center, copper wire, ai chips

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Arcturus could halve the grid’s electrical losses using its nano-infused metals (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-30 | by Tim De Chant | get Nano-infused metal conductor → | tags: arcturus, carbon nanomaterials, electrical grid

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Arcturus could halve the grid’s electrical losses using its nano-infused copper (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-30 | by Tim De Chant | get Nano-infused Copper Wire → | tags: arcturus, copper, nanomaterials

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Cargo thieves target AI data center supplies in $1.3 million heists — $300,000 worth of copper wire and $1 million worth of equipment recovered outside Chicago (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-30 | by Jowi Morales | get Security Cable Lock → | tags: data center, cargo theft, copper wire

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They Grew Up in ‘Mortgage Families.’ Now These 21-Year-Olds Have Raised $4.1 Million to Put an AI Loan Officer Inside America’s Lenders. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-26 | by Logan Simmons | get AI Loan Officer Software → | tags: mortgage, copperlane, y combinator

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California says AT&T lied to FCC in attempt to shut off old phone network (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-17 | get AT&T Legacy Phone Adapter → | tags: att, california public utilities commission, fiber

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How these projects in North America and Latin America are innovating beyond their hemisphere (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-16 | get Smart Globe of Latin America → | tags: california, world changing ideas, food tech

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Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-15 | tags: copper transport, alzheimer's proteins, memory restoration

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There’s a looming copper shortage. This South Carolina startup wants to mine it from waste instead of ore (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-04 | get Copper Recycling Scrap Kit → | tags: red metals, copper shortage, electric cars

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AT&T Has Been Hit With an Unexpected Crime Wave. The AI Boom Has Something To Do With It. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-04 | by Jonathan Small | get AI Security Camera System → | tags: att, copper, at&t

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Trump amends steel, aluminum, and copper tariffs, offering farmers some relief (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-02 | get Steel Tariff Relief Kit → | tags: donald trump, steel tariffs, aluminum imports

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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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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