Diehard Asus customer gets RMA denied for a cheap 2.4 GHz headset receiver despite spending more than $30,000 with the brand — firm refuses to send a cheap dongle, then relents after social media back
An ardent Asus customer who's bought over $30,000 worth of the company's products recently had his brand loyalty put to the test.…
Lucas (u/lucaslucaalucas123) wanted a replacement for the 2.
4 GHz wireless receiver that came with his ROG Delta II KJP gaming hea…
He took to Reddit to express his disappointment and was met with a hop…
Man uses robot vacuum to covertly record his wife's affair, wins divorce settlement but gets sentenced to prison for making an illegal recording — Husband lands behind bars after counter-suit over pri
In a strange turn of events under Taiwanese law, both parties in a judicial contest lost against each other.…
A man sued his wife for having an extramarital affair and used footage…
He ultimately won the lawsuit and was awarded a healthy ~$19,000 USD i…
The courts ruled in her favor, forcing the man to pay a fine equal to …
Advanced Cooling Technologies Address the Automotive Heat Challenge
Historically, vehicle cooling architectures were engineered almost exclusively around internal combustion engines (ICE), cabin climate controls, and basic electrical systems.…
Key Takeaways: Photonics changes chiplet design from a placement problem into a multi-physics co-design problem because thermal, mechanical, electromagnetic, and optical effects interact bidirectionally.…
The closer optical chiplets move to compute silicon, the more bandwidt…
Chip architects should start with traffic patterns, system architectur…
Optical chiplets promise a way out of the bandwidth, power, and reach …
Speedy 34-inch 240 Hz ultrawide OLED monitor now $600 off — LG UltraGear 34GX900A-B only $599.99
OLED gaming monitors have become increasingly affordable in recent years, as the technology has matured in addition to the growing competition among major brands.…
If you’ve been saving up to make the jump to an ultrawide OLED monitor…
With an original listed price of $1,200, it is currently on sale and c…
DLSS 5 mod brings next-gen tech to old Ampere GPUs, but frame rates are horrible — most games tank to single digits, high-end GPUs can hit up to 40 FPS in some cases
Nvidia's upcoming DLSS 5 neural rendering tech leaked earlier this week through a pre-release version of the DLL inside NBA 2K27 (which is in early access).…
The community quickly got it working on RTX 50-series GPUs, some of th…
Now, thanks to rapid development in the RenoDX Discord server, the DLL…
Go deeper with TH Premium: GPUs(Image credit: Noctua)Desktop GPU Roadm…
SpaceX starts in-house turbine blade manufacturing to boost gas-powered generator output for Elon's AI data centers — new manufacturing strategy cuts generator delays by 18 months
Electricity supply in the U.S.is a limiting factor preventing AI data centers from coming online as quickly as possible.…
Because of this, many projects are turning to portable natural gas tur…
This has driven demand for turbines, so Elon Musk said on X that Space…
Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers(Image credit: Microsoft…
DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books — team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans
Around 2015, a trio of Pakistani friends took it upon themselves to digitize a large number of out-of-print books in Urdu, many of them lithographs — they call it the Ibteda Digital Library.…
They did it for the love of the language, with no budget or support, b…
However, eventually one of the trio came up with a finely-tuned machin…
The project certainly stands in contrast to the current practice of la…
Adata Urban Tapsafe 2TB review: Solid-state storage you unlock with your phone
Perhaps as a result of AI hyperscaler demand soaking up all the cutting-edge flash, external storage makers in recent months have seemed to focus less on speed and more on adding unique and helpful features.…
We saw this with Sharge's Disk Pro and its built-in hub, Orico's Book …
Adata seems to be playing a similar game with its latest drive, the Ur…
The Urban Tapsafe external SSD is quite compact, about the size of a l…
Poor liquid metal application almost destroys Asus Zephyrus M16 laptop, eats through the processor lid — paste replacement triples framerates, drops temps, and eliminates hard crashes
Asus has been putting liquid metal on mobile dies used in its laptops for a few years at this point.…
Liquid metal as a TIM has its place, but it's a highly inconsistent so…
Such was the case with u/nicknickmeetnick, whose Zephyrus M16 gaming l…
Turns out, the instability came from an issue born from the factory — …
Modders solder power cables directly to RTX 5090 PCB to eliminate notorious melting 16-pin connector — bare-board Galax HOF card pulls 600W under chiller cooling
Ever since the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 launched (and the RTX 4090 before it), reports of the card burning down have been commonplace in the community.…
The culprit behind the GPU's incendiary nature is the 16-pin power con…
so what if we got rid of it in the first place?
That's what Brazilian YouTuber TecLab did in their latest experiment —…
US military uses high-energy lasers to shoot down three Mexican cartel drones over the southern border — narcos suspected of using UAVs for surveillance and reconnaissance to support illegal activitie
The U.S.military shot down three drones that were suspected of operating for Mexican cartels earlier this week.…
According to CBS News, the uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) were destro…
Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) between Tuesday evening and Wednesday mo…
"Cartel networks are increasingly employing unmanned aircraft systems …
Molecular Dynamics Study Explains Aluminum Dopant Activation In 4H-SiC (TU Wien, Silvaco)
Researchers from TU Wien and Silvaco Europe published a technical paper titled “The influence of implantation conditions on dopant activation in Al-implanted 4H-SiC: A MD study applying an Al potential fitted to DFT barriers.…
” Abstract Excerpt: “The non-monotonic dependence of Al dopant activat…
We present a molecular dynamics (MD) study of Al implantation in 4H-Si…
5 × 1014 cm−2, to describe how implantation temperature and dose gover…
Cycle-Level Simulator for Distributed GPUs For AI Workloads (Purdue)
Researchers from Purdue University published a technical paper titled “Architecting the Next Generation of Asynchronous, Distributed GPUs for the AI Era.…
” Abstract Excerpt: The paper presents a “cycle-level simulation frame…
It also reports validation against physical silicon, including a “99% …
Intrinsic Polarization Superjunctions Boost GaN-On-Silicon Power Devices (EPFL)
Researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) published a technical paper titled “Intrinsic polarization superjunctions in III-nitride heterostructures for efficient power electronics.…
” Abstract Excerpt: “III-nitride semiconductors combine a wide bandgap…
Their lateral architecture also enables monolithic integration on cost…
However, electric-field crowding, as well as surface and buffer trappi…
M3D 6T SRAM With BEOL Pass-Gates at 2nm (Georgia Tech, Synopsys)
Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Synopsys published a technical paper titled “A Process-Aware Hybrid Si/IGO Monolithic-3D 6T SRAM with BEOL Pass-Gates for the 2nm Node.…
” Abstract Excerpt: The paper proposes “a monolithic-3D (M3D) 6T SRAM …
It also reports that the resulting cell “achieves a 25% footprint redu…
Hybrid HBM-HBF Architecture in LLM Inference (University of Oxford)
Researchers at the University of Oxford published a technical paper titled “Hardware-Managed Heterogeneous High-Bandwidth Memory and Flash in LLM Inference Systems.…
Researchers at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Stanford University published a technical paper titled “Intracavity Laser Wavelength Tuning by a Programmable Forward-Only Silicon Photonics Interferometer Mesh.…
” Abstract Excerpt: “We exploit a recently proposed concept for a prog…
This filter integrates forward-only interferometer meshes together wit…
Predicting Post-Route PPA from Macro and Standard-Cell Placements (U. of Alberta)
Researchers from University of Alberta published a technical paper titled “PPAPlace: Differentiable Cross-Stage Objectives for Chip Placement Optimization.…
” Abstract: “Macro placement significantly affects a chip’s post-route…
Most placement methods optimize half-perimeter wirelength (HPWL) as th…
However, recent benchmarking shows a near-zero correlation between HPW…