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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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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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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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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

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How one startup is using prebiotics to try and ease the copper shortage (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-15 | by Tim De Chant | get Prebiotics → | tags: copper, microbes, milshteyn

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How one startup is using probiotics to try and ease the copper shortage (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-15 | by Tim De Chant | get Probiotics → | tags: copper, microbes, milshteyn

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Amazon is buying copper harvested by bacteria for its data centers (theverge.com)

2026-01-15 | by Stevie Bonifield | get Bioreactor → | tags: amazon, bioleaching, centers

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The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-15 | get Data Center Copper → | tags: copper, data center, half

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Amazon buys first American-mined copper in a decade — Arizona mine to fuel AWS AI data centers in seismic two-year deal (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-15 | by Stephen Warwick | get AWS → | tags: carbon, copper, nuton

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Start-up plans to use terahertz radio frequencies for communication between servers instead of copper or optical connections — radio-based interconnections offer 1.6 TB/s using half the volume of copper (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Anton Shilov | get Terahertz → | tags: cables, copper, credit

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Start-up proposes scaled up AI data center 'active radio cable' connectivity — radio-based interconnections operating at millimeter-wave and terahertz frequencies offer 1.6 TB/s using half the volume of copper (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Anton Shilov | get Active Radio Cable → | tags: cables, copper, credit

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Fast GPU Interconnect over Radio (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-29 | by Samuel K. Moore | get NVIDIA Drive → | tags: cable, cables, center

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AI Data Centers Demand More Than Copper Can Deliver (spectrum.ieee.org)

2025-12-27 | by Samuel K. Moore | get Data Center → | tags: cable, cables, center

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Small Change, Big Questions: Here Are Five Things to Do With Your Pennies Now (cnet.com)

2025-12-19 | by See Full Bio | get Pennies → | tags: cent, coin, coins

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Pennies Are Getting Axed. Here's What to Do With Those 1-Cent Coins (cnet.com)

2025-12-15 | by See Full Bio | get Coins → | tags: cent, coin, coins

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Running on Empty: Copper (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-08 | by The Honest Sorcerer | get Battery → | tags: copper, demand, energy

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Pennies Are Over. So What Do We Do With Those 1-Cent Coins? (cnet.com)

2025-12-08 | by See Full Bio | get Jewelry → | tags: cent, coin, coins

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Why copper markets are feeling the pinch due to aggressive AI data center expansion — expansive buildout to demand 1.1 million tonnes of copper annually by 2030, close to 3% of global demand (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-05 | by Chris Stokel-Walker | get Copper → | tags: centers, copper, data centers

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If You've Still Got Pennies Left, Here Are Smart Ways to Use the 1-Cent Coin (cnet.com)

2025-12-03 | by See Full Bio | get Microchip → | tags: cent, coin, coins

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If You Still Have Pennies Left, Here Are Smart Ways to Use the 1-Cent Coin (cnet.com)

2025-12-03 | by See Full Bio | get Microchip → | tags: cent, coin, coins

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AI data-centre buildout pushes copper toward shortages, analysts warn — only 70% of 2035 demand could be met, 2025 deficit thought to be 304,000 tonnes (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-03 | by Luke James | get Datacentre → | tags: copper, megawatt, supply

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Critical Railway Braking Systems Open to Tampering (darkreading.com)

2025-11-19 | get Railway braking systems → | tags: cans, cans copper, cheap

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Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue (2024) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-18 | by Kevin Bowling | get Switchboard → | tags: able, cables, computing

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Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-18 | by Kevin Bowling | get Switchboard → | tags: able, cables, computing

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This startup wants to clean up the copper industry (technologyreview.com)

2025-11-03 | by Casey Crownhart | get EcoCycle → | tags: copper, metal, mines

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The Download: gene-edited babies, and cleaning up copper (technologyreview.com)

2025-11-03 | by Rhiannon Williams | get Gene editing → | tags: called, copper, edited

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Copper workers' experiments might have helped usher in Iron Age (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Jason Urbanus | get science reference book → | tags: copper, cranfield, iron

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A 3K-year-old copper smelting site could be key to understanding origins of iron (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Cranfield University | get How to Win Friends book → | tags: age, copper, iron

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Liquid Cooling Exhibits (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | by Chester Lam | get Microsoft Surface Pro → | tags: chips, cooling, copper