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Indianapolis politician's home shot at 13 times over data center dispute — police and FBI investigating 'isolated, targeted incident' after city councilor backed project

Background The home of Indianapolis City‑County Council member Ron Gibson was shot at on Monday, with the assailant leaving a note that read, “NO DATA CENTERS....

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Snag this 1440p iBuyPower gaming PC with a 7800X3D and RTX 5070 for just $2,049 right now — 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM and a 2TB SSD round off powerhouse specs, with an extra $200 off this custom-built AMD rig

!iBuyPower RTX 5070 gaming PC dealhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EkvftxWompsDJTd5ikSXtQ.jpg Image credit: Future / iBuyPower Overview A brand‑new, custom‑bui...

#gaming PC #iBuyPower #AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D #Nvidia RTX 5070 #DDR5 RAM #2TB SSD #hardware deal #PC build
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Broadcom to supply Anthropic with 3.5 gigawatts of Google TPU capacity from 2027 — Claude pioneer says its annual revenue run rate has passed $30 billion

Announcement Broadcom disclosed in a securities filinghttps://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001730168/000119312526144028/d87999d8k.htm that it will...

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Save up to $150 on Apple's brand-new M5-powered MacBook Air 13, now from just $949 — all models receive the biggest discount to date

!Tech Deals Coverhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/G4thSCuU9K85vwS7X7WdAK.jpg Image credit: Future Deal Overview Apple’s new 13‑inch MacBook Air powered by the...

#Apple #MacBook Air #M5 chip #hardware #laptop deals #discount #tech gadgets
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Intel reportedly in talks with Google and Amazon over advanced packaging — major customers could take advantage of EMIB-T later this year

!Intel logohttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mmPcxQxEVpUKNJBz8zqMnA.jpg Image credit: Getty / Justin Sullivan Intel is understood to be in active talks with Goo...

#Intel #advanced packaging #EMIB #Google #Amazon #AI processors #chiplet #semiconductor #data centers
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Electronics enthusiast begins breadboard-based Intel 386 system build — a large step up from their previous PC-XT and PC-AT breadboard projects

Overview Breadboarding Labs, known for its solderless‑breadboard retro computers, is now tackling a much larger project: a breadboard‑based Intel 80386 i386 PC...

#breadboard #Intel 386 #retro computing #DIY hardware #vintage PC #hardware hacking #PC-XT #PC-AT
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Amazon, Microsoft, and Google under investor pressure to disclose site-specific data center water and power consumption — more than a dozen shareholders ask for transparency ahead of annual investor meetings

!A rendering of Meta’s planned data center in Louisianahttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/86kbFvvukFJM8wvw3xN4nS.png Image credit: Meta Investor Pressure for Sit...

#data centers #water consumption #energy consumption #sustainability #Amazon #Microsoft #Google #investor pressure #cloud infrastructure
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Investors push Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to disclose data center water and power consumption — more than a dozen resolutions ask for transparency ahead of annual investor meetings

More than a dozen investors are pressuring Amazonhttps://www.tomshardware.com/tag/amazon, Microsofthttps://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft, and Alphabet's Go...

#Amazon #Microsoft #Google #data centers #water consumption #energy consumption #investor resolutions #sustainability #cloud infrastructure #climate impact
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Investors push Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to disclose site-specific data center water and power consumption — more than a dozen resolutions ask for transparency ahead of annual investor meetings

!A rendering of Meta’s planned data center in Louisianahttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/86kbFvvukFJM8wvw3xN4nS.png Image credit: Meta Investor pressure on data...

#Amazon #Microsoft #Google #data centers #water consumption #energy consumption #sustainability #investor resolutions #cloud infrastructure
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Intel's OEM-only Bartlett Lake CPU modded to run on consumer Z790 motherboard beats AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X3D in Cinebench multi-core test — Core 9 273QPE has 12 cores, 24 threads, and hits 5.4GHz

!Raptor Lake CPUhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/B4avSRi36yewaj7Wyj3k5Q.jpg Image credit: Intel A few days ago, we covered the modding efforts of kryptonfly, w...

#Intel #Bartlett Lake #CPU modding #Z790 motherboard #Cinebench #Ryzen 9 9900X3D #overclocking #benchmark #hardware
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US lawmakers aim to ban export of DUV chipmaking and etching tools to leading firms in China — bipartisan proposal would ban lithography equipment for Huawei, SMIC, and others

!SMIChttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5Mq4J9jfCyPqV9qsyhUWe8.jpg Image credit: SMIC Background A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has proposedhttps://baumgart...

#export controls #semiconductor equipment #DUV lithography #SMIC #Huawei #US legislation #chipmaking tools #China
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HP’s flagship Omen Max 45L with an RTX 5090 is on sale for $1,000 off — get a top-shelf 4K gaming PC with 64GB DDR5 and 4TB SSD for $5,499

!HP Omen Max 45L gaming PC dealhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9KLmwXup57zKJNDjuRs3i6.jpg Image credit: Future / HP Deal Summary HP is offering a limited‑time...

#HP #Omen Max 45L #RTX 5090 #gaming PC #sale #AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D #DDR5 #4TB SSD
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Get 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM for less than $200 when bundled with AMD's 9800X3D and X870-E motherboard — free liquid cooler and a copy of Crimson Desert to kickstart a top AM5 gaming build

!Newegg combo deal for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, 32 GB of Corsair RAM, and MSI X870E Carbon Wi‑Fi motherboardhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SbSG4ALS6NJVL2D3WD...

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Grab the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 32GB of RAM, and MSI X870E bundle and get free 240mm AIO and game — $350 total savings on combo bundle

!Newegg combo deal for the Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB of Corsair RAM, and MSI X870E Carbon WIFI motherboardhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/SbSG4ALS6NJVL2D3WDZS...

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80 different Microsoft Copilot products have been mapped out by expert, but there may be more than 100 — 'What happens when you name everything Copilot,' an AI consultant mapped out the myriad products

!How many Copilots do you need?https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/GMxo8Y3gv3zZpRRf2wbt5T.jpg Image credit: Microsoft's Copilot logo multiplied An artificial inte...

#Microsoft #Copilot #AI products #AI tools #product mapping #tech industry
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Linux devs start removing support for 37-year-old Intel 486 CPU — head honcho Linus Torvalds says 'zero real reason' to continue support

Perhaps it is time to send your 37‑year‑old Intel 486 system into retirement, at least as far as modern Linux is concerned. Phoronix reports that patches destin...

#Linux kernel #Intel 486 #legacy hardware #open source #kernel development #hardware support
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Nvidia's own DLSS 5 announcement video gets taken down by YouTube in Italy due to a copyright strike — local TV channel sent a copyright strike to every YouTube video for using the trailer it used for its own broadcast

!Nvidia DLSS 5https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/A5B8BfAZTyVWEpy5TRr3UY.jpg Image credit: Nvidia A local Italian TV channel sent a DMCA complaint that resulted i...

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AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 listed around $1,000 at several retailers across Canada and the UK — New flagship dual-cache CPU might demand a hefty premium

!The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition desktop chiphttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/nAeD47GQgXrkgnjvVEMHC9.jpg Image credit: AMD AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 entered...

#AMD #Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 #dual‑cache CPU #hardware #CPU pricing #tech news #Canada #UK #flagship processor
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UK confirms drone-killing DragonFire laser weapon for Royal Navy destroyers by 2027 —laser downs 400mph high‑speed drones, costs $13 per shot

DragonFire laser weapon to be installed on Type 45 destroyers by 2027 The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the DragonFire high‑energy laser weapon wil...

#DragonFire #high‑energy laser #UK Ministry of Defence #Royal Navy #Type 45 destroyer #drone defense #MBDA UK #laser weapon #military technology
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Get a 27' 1440p OLED monitor with a blazing-fast 240 Hz refresh rate for just $499 — LG's 27GS93QE-B is $400 off right now, features 1,300 nits of peak HDR brightness

!LG 27GS93QE-B OLED monitor on sale at Amazonhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RPYAbM892z2bZRfAh2LtaN.png Image credit: LG / Future Overview The ongoing compone...

#LG #OLED monitor #27-inch #1440p #240 Hz #HDR #monitor deal #display technology #hardware
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Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of OpenAI's $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center

!Iran threatens ‘complete and utter annihilation’ of $30bn Stargate AI datacenter in Abu Dhabihttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/T2QUyV4WzpQoi6VK9dASYb.jpg Image...

#Iran #IRGC #OpenAI #Stargate #AI data center #Abu Dhabi #geopolitical tension #AI infrastructure
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Researchers train living rat neurons to perform real-time AI computations — experiments could pave the way for new brain-machine interfaces

!Rat brainhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TwmURzYQNQL72NL92xzmcc.jpg Image credit: Getty Images A team at Tohoku University and Future University Hakodate in...

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Limited edition Atari wristwatches dip under $500 in 20% off sale — classic console inspired rainbow designs available in five colorways

Watchmaker Nubeo has put its Torrent Automatic Atari Rainbow Limited Editionhttps://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1584492&xcust=tomshardware_us_381477787296516132...

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Intel's upcoming Wildcat Lake low-budget CPUs leak out again — OEM confirms specs for Core 7 350, Core 5 320, & Core 3 305 in first retail product datasheet

Intel has been working on its Wildcat Lake CPUs for a while now, but recent leaks have finally revealed more details about the family. An OEM named Advantech ha...

#Intel #Wildcat Lake #CPU #Advantech #low‑power processors #Core 7 350 #Core 5 320 #Core 3 305 #hardware news #Geekbench
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Delisted Xbox 360 games briefly reappear on the Xbox Store — Microsoft prepares backward compatibility revival

!Xbox Controllerhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZhBQfin3Z9T8tGYAQY5RMj.jpg Image credit: Tom's Hardware Recent delistings and brief relists Several delisted X...

#Xbox #backward compatibility #Xbox 360 #Microsoft #delisted games #Xbox Store #cloud gaming #GDC 2026 #gaming news
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Steam starts gathering FPS data with latest client update — company to estimate framerates based on your hardware, Beta feature to focus on SteamOS devices

!Steam Deck OLED: Limited Edition Whitehttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/uZfnUqYYtgh66fyhhLr4sL.jpg Image credit: Valve Steam will start gathering FPS data base...

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Nvidia Pascal GPUs debuted 10 years ago today, best known for the GTX 1060 and GTX 1080 Ti — architecture kicked off with the Tesla P100

!GTX 1080 Tihttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mjCiu5HUHkyTer8tg8whLK.jpg Image credit: Nvidia Nvidia delivered “five architectural breakthroughs” with the launc...

#Nvidia #Pascal GPU #GTX 1080 Ti #GTX 1060 #Tesla P100 #graphics cards #hardware anniversary #GPU architecture
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Hobbyist builds a homebrew Intel 8086 ISA accelerator card — maker’s project improves integer multiplication on these retro systems by 250%

50‑year‑old hardware is slow, but hobbyists are trying to speed things up by building era‑appropriate accelerator cards. A prime example is @bradthx Brad on X,...

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Intel's upcoming 42-core Nova Lake SKU allegedly upgraded to 44 cores — New config frees up 6P+12E tiles that could trickle down as locked bLLC variants

!Alder Lakehttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/UCi5VauRSMvqwDqHJG7uqL.jpg Image credit: Intel Overview Following the recent launch of the Core Ultra 200K Plushttp...

#Intel #Nova Lake #CPU #desktop processors #core count #big last level cache #hardware leak
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Sequoia Capital shares founder’s 1977 memo for investing in Apple — initial $600,000 investment is worth $26.4 billion today, firm said it was ‘tough to do this deal’

Apple, founded in 1977 to sell hobbyist computers, is celebrating its 50th year and is now one of the most valuable companies in the world. In a recent post on...

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PlayStation 3 emulator makes Cell CPU 'breakthrough' that improves performance in all games — 'All CPUs can benefit from this, from low-end to high-end!' says RPCS3 devs

!RPCS3 PS3 emulator gets Cell CPU breakthroughhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2B49VVPMCywGwefsp6xqqn.png Image credit: RPCS3 via X.com Breakthrough in Cell CP...

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$1,700 liquid-cooled phone can run GTA V at up to 100 FPS, Red Dead 2 at 50+ FPS via emulation — Redmagic 11 Pro packs 24 GB of RAM and pulls more than 40W at peak load

!PC gaming on the Redmagic 11 Pro Golden Saga Editionhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/64UhQgsWLN9rTvsprZEhwG.png Image credit: ETA Prime on YouTube Android PC...

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Apple approves drivers that let AMD and Nvidia eGPUs run on Mac — software designed for AI, though, and not built for gaming

Apple has reportedly signed drivers for Nvidia eGPUs, allowing them to finally work on Apple silicon devices. Tiny Corp announced on its X posthttps://x.com/__t...

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Player defeats Darks Souls II using only poop — 42 hits of dung pie defeats the final boss

!Dark Souls IIhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Q6cwCRXN57ZWkb4jiizfRf.png Image credit: ymfah/YouTube Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin is arguably one o...

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LinkedIn is spying on you, according to a new 'BrowserGate' security report — scripts stealthily scan visitors' browsers for over 6,000 Chrome extensions and harvest hardware data

!LinkedInhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/S4CAxayvctKvjehGtVneQe.jpg Image credit: Shutterstock LinkedIn’s Browser Fingerprinting Script LinkedIn is injecting...

#LinkedIn #browser fingerprinting #Chrome extensions #privacy #data collection #security #Fairlinked report #BleepingComputer
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McDonald’s debuts one-finger gadget that lets you move your character to 'keep you in the game' while you chow down — Pro Gamer Menu's ‘Archie’ designed to keep you from being kicked for inactivity

!McDonald’s Archiehttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/n5HHtkrsa24zKsBKsCLtNj.png Image credit: McDonald's What is “Archie”? Gamers often get kicked for inactivity...

#McDonald's #gaming accessory #controller gadget #AFK prevention #Pro Gamer Menu #gaming hardware #player inactivity
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Unprecedented $450 price slash brings 27-inch 1440p 280 Hz OLED gaming monitor down to $399 — LG UltraGear OLED 27GX700A-B now at an unbeatable Price

!Deals post for the LG UltraGear OLED 27GX700A-B 27-inch OLED gaming monitorhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/sJjzCGkzbhx3VP3YV76Mhh.jpg Image credit: LG Deal O...

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Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones

!Amazon - AWS logohttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/83tohMm46WQCYhhbLZ9CT6.jpg Image credit: Getty Images Iranian strikes on AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dub...

#aws #data-center-outage #cloud-infrastructure #iran #missile-strike #middle-east #hard-down
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Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon declares “hard down” status for multiple zones

!Amazon - AWS logohttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/83tohMm46WQCYhhbLZ9CT6.jpg Image credit: Getty Images Iranian strikes on AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dub...

#AWS #data center outage #cloud infrastructure #Iran missile strike #Bahrain #Dubai #hard down status #service disruption #Middle East
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Modder uses Claude AI to rewrite BIOS so they can boot unsupported 12 P-core Bartlett Lake CPU in Windows on a Z790 motherboard

!Intel 12th Generation Alder Lake CPUhttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6dhScSyVh9hBM75rUoJ4qN.jpg Image credit: Intel After obtaining an OEM‑exclusive 12 P‑core...

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Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions — 'intelligent' update system uses machine learning to determine when a device is ready

!Windows 11 logo on blue bloom background.https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/696ThUkeRGRQegzxaqz24B.jpg Image credit: Microsoft Microsoft forces Windows 11 25H2...

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Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older Windows 11 OS versions — 'intelligent' update system uses machine learning to determine when a device is ready

!Windows 11 logo on blue bloom background.https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/696ThUkeRGRQegzxaqz24B.jpg Image credit: Microsoft Microsoft is force‑updating devic...

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'Every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch,' says Windows veteran reminiscing about company's past focus on speed — asserts that 'everything' was timed to ensure acceptable performance in the 1980s

!‘every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch’https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BpzGfP6ohJYZU9m4hPsCri.jpg Image credit: Getty Images A former president of Microso...

#Microsoft #Windows #software performance #engineering culture #historical tech #resource optimization
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Enthusiast installs Win 3.1X on bare metal Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti system using floppy disk drive, OS from 1992 running on 2025 hardware — Asus motherboard’s ‘classic BIOS’ functionality was instrumental to the feat

Installing Windows 3.1X on a Ryzen 9 9900X + RTX 5060 Ti System A retro‑computing enthusiast successfully installed and booted Microsoft Windows 3.1Xhttps://ww...

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Enthusiast installs Win 3.1X on bare metal Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti system using floppy disk drive — Asus motherboard’s ‘classic BIOS’ functionality was instrumental to the feat

A retro computing enthusiast has successfully installed and booted Microsoft Windows 3.1X on a modern system built around an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X Zen 5 CPU and an...

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New 'GeForge' and 'GDDRHammer' attacks can fully infiltrate your system through Nvidia's GPU memory — Rowhammer attacks in GPUs force bit flips in protected VRAM regions to gain read/write access

!GeForce RTX 3050 graphics cardshttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2LhaENkUnPZJGvkmiraM58.jpg Image credit: Nvidia Background In 2023 the first known Rowhammer a...

#GPU #Rowhammer #security #Nvidia #GDDRHammer #GeForge #VRAM #hardware vulnerability #GPU security
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Researchers 3D print robot the size of a single-cell organism — devices move and navigate even without a ‘brain,’ uses their shape and the environment to get going

!3D printed microbothttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WZjDpfCFRbvkCs7jXvZrk3.png Image credit: Leiden University Introduction Researchers from Leiden University...

#3D printing #microrobots #nanotechnology #Leiden University #micro‑scale robotics #bio‑inspired robots
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Level up your gaming setup with this Core Ultra 5 250K Plus bundle for $299 — save $60 with ASRock's rock-solid B860 motherboard

!Core Ultra 5 250K Plushttps://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/J2W9MT4Y7UeYPDbx6dy7Kb.jpg Image credit: Future Bundle Offer Newegg is offering a bundle that pairs the...

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