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WIRED has published a roundup of current discounts on power banks, highlighting the Sharge Shargeek 170, a translucent 24,000-mAh battery with Power Delivery support now priced at $110, down from $169. The device can charge up to three devices simultaneously, including laptops, and features a built-in display.
Concept art has surfaced showing alternative directions once considered for the Power Rangers franchise, including redesigned suits and a different arrangement of the Rangers' traditional color scheme. The designs were not used in the final production.
A new report from the Environmental Defense Fund and Atlas Public Policy finds that planned fossil fuel power capacity jumped from 5% of new US electricity projects in 2024 to 30% by mid-2026, even as electricity demand rises due to data centers, factories and EVs. The report notes solar and wind still generate more power than coal and that solar was the fastest-growing source added in 2024, but warns gas development could reach 68 gigawatts by 2030 if current trends hold.
Evidence, a business intelligence company backed by Y Combinator and other investors, announced it is hiring software engineers. The company says its open-source BI tool has amassed 7,000 GitHub stars and is used by startups, Fortune 100 firms, and government agencies, often replacing platforms like Tableau and Power BI.
Amazon, American Electric Power and X-energy announced plans to build a 960-megawatt nuclear facility using 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors at the site of a demolished coal plant near Terre Haute, Indiana. Amazon will be the first buyer of the plant's power, which AEP will operate, and it marks Amazon's second, and three-times-larger, commercial deal with X-energy following a 2022 agreement.
Startup Endurance Energy sailed roughly 300 miles off the Oregon coast last month to conduct a field test of its approach to harvesting geothermal energy from an underwater volcano. The company aims to eventually build a network of undersea power plants that tap heat from such volcanic sites.
A developer released a VBIOS editor plus Windows and Linux loaders that let GeForce RTX 30, 40 and 50 series owners run custom firmware without writing to the GPU's flash chip. On Windows the edited image is stored in the driver's registry key and loaded at GPU restart, while the Linux version patches Nvidia's open kernel modules to boot the GSP firmware from the custom image. The editor exposes controls such as power limits, voltage ceilings, clock offsets, current protections and fan settings, with examples including an RTX 5090 FE raised from a 600W to 700W power ceiling and an RTX 4090 pushed to 671W from 550W.
A fan named supermochi64 used the AI model Claude Opus 5.5 alongside GPU-based font testing to decode the long-illegible 32x32 pixel plaque text in Super Mario 64's castle courtyard. The method, which tested millions of font and word combinations against the texture, scored 'Eternal star / We hope so' as a far better match than the popular fan theory 'L is real 2401.' The analysis also identified the likely font as Palatino Bold Italic from Adobe's 1990 Mac release.
Amazon has agreed to fund a nuclear energy facility in Fairbanks, Indiana, developed with X-energy and American Electric Power, on the site of the retired Breed coal plant. The project would deploy 12 Xe-100 small modular reactors capable of generating up to 960 megawatts for the regional grid and Amazon's data centers, though no construction timeline or cost details have been released.
Several US nuclear power plants that had been shut down are being evaluated or prepared for restart, with utilities citing rising electricity demand. Data centers, particularly those supporting AI computing, are cited as a key driver of this increased power need.
Netgear routers display a range of colored and blinking lights on their front panels, covering functions like power, internet connectivity, and Wi-Fi bands. A new explainer breaks down what each indicator means, helping users distinguish normal operation from potential problems. The guide applies to both standard Netgear routers and the company's mesh Wi-Fi systems.
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY) is introducing the Power To The Players Act, which would direct the FTC to write rules guaranteeing that buyers of digital video games own more than a revocable license. The bill would also require games with online features to include offline modes that keep working after servers shut down. Torres cited 2K Games' decision to delist NBA 2K25 and shut its servers by January 2027 as an example of the problem he wants to fix.