The ROG Thor 3,000W Titanium III Edition 20 is part of this year's celebration of the Republic of Gamers brand, which Asus has used for gaming-focused peripherals and hardware since 2006. The ROG lineup tends to favor a bombastic, show-off style in its product design and marketing, and the newly...

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Internal documents reviewed by Reuters show that the company's Model Capability Initiative (MCI) is collecting interaction data across more than 200 apps and websites. The goal is to train AI systems to perform routine digital tasks autonomously. But exactly what the tool is collecting – and how far that collection...

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At Computex 2026, Intel shared more details about its Crescent Island GPU architecture, noting that it is designed specifically for agentic AI workloads. While conventional AI accelerators from Nvidia and AMD rely on expensive high-bandwidth memory, Intel's new chip uses consumer-oriented LPDDR5X DRAM and is designed to run in air-cooled...

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Andrew Kelley designed the Zig programming language in 2016 and still presides over the non-profit organization responsible for managing the project. In a recent interview on the developer-focused JetBrains podcast, Kelley said AI-based contributions have no value and will be discarded.

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The company is launching the laptop at a promotional price of $599 for students as part of a back-to-school offer that runs through September. After that, the starting price will increase to $699. That places it in direct competition with Apple's MacBook Neo, which has already helped define the budget...

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Writing in a post last week titled "Zero Evidence of AI-Related Job Losses," Sløk points to ADP employment data to support his conclusion. The report found that private companies added almost 110,000 people to their payrolls in April.

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The work, led by Chunlei Guo, a professor of optics and physics, centers on a specially treated surface known as superwicking black metal. The material is created by texturing a metal surface with femtosecond laser pulses, altering its structure at microscopic scales. This process gives the surface two key properties:...

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The Surface Laptop Ultra features a standard design, without the more experimental elements seen in earlier Surface devices. That means it does not include a removable display like the Surface Book series, nor an adjustable screen that can be moved forward or backward, as seen in the Surface Laptop Studio.

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The foundation of the system is its visual model, which Cheng trained on a custom mosquito dataset. To do that, he relied on a DSLR camera with a high-magnification zoom lens, capturing detailed images of mosquitoes for training data. That same camera setup serves as both the training tool and...

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MSI writes that its PC introduces the company's own agentic AI companion, LuckyClaw, which will be available from the machine's initial setup. According to the press release, it responds to natural speech commands, enabling seamless, hands-free control of performance profiles, MSI monitor settings, RGB lighting, and more. There's also the...

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Flight 236 left Newark Liberty International Airport on Saturday night en route to Palma de Mallorca but reversed course about an hour after takeoff.

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Ray Reconstruction is designed to replace the hand-tuned denoisers traditionally used in ray-traced and path-traced games.

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Molly Lynch of Hollins University and Michael Weselcouch of Roanoke College approached the problem less like programmers and more like experimentalists. Instead of recreating a traditional algorithm inside Minecraft – a process that typically involves building elaborate in-game logic systems – they leaned on probability and the game's existing mechanics...

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In Taiwan a few hours ago, Team Red revealed the return of the Ryzen 7 5800X3D for AM4 users, a cheaper Ryzen 7 7700X3D for AM5, and the global launch of the Radeon RX 9070 GRE.

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Ryan Shrout is a longtime technology analyst and industry veteran who has spent over two decades covering PC hardware, graphics, and semiconductors. He previously led technical marketing at Intel and was the founding editor of PC Perspective. He is currently President and GM at Signal65. You can follow him on...

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