Tech
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Low-power AI could define the next era of global innovation
Building AI for an energy-constrained future
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Intel closes out RAMP-C production pilot that paid Nvidia and others to run test chips on 18A — program helped lay a path for secure domestic chip production on advanced processes
Intel is ready to produce sensitive chips domestically for defense customers
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NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess
We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet.
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China's Moonshot AI reportedly used Nvidia Blackwell chips for training Kimi K3 — company circumvented both U.S. export and Chinese import controls to acquire compute
The US gov't says Moonshot has purchased Blackwell systems and rented time on foreign clouds to help it train models.
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Power 50 2026 - All our finalists revealed
The nominations are in - so who will be your 2026 person of the year?
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Silent Hill: Townfall goes retro with analog horror
Silent Hill: Townfall is shaping up to be a great analog horror take on the series.
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Tech Industry
Discover more about Tech Industry with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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How cloud architecture is reinventing primary storage for the AI era
AI has sparked a race to build ever more powerful infrastructure
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The new HP Omen 16 Slim isn't actually that skinny, but it is a surprisingly good budget gaming laptop - if you can get it at the right price
It's all about the money, these days
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‘Construction sites are probably one of the hardest environments you could ask an autonomous system to operate in’: Are autonomy and robotics gaining momentum in the industry?
Automation must be rethought for the construction industry
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No, You Probably Shouldn’t Lease Your iPhone
With Apple Upgrade, the company is making it easier to pay for its products in monthly installments. Critics call it the “financialization of the affordability crisis.”
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI), chatbots, and machine learning: News, R&D, and more
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Retro Gaming
Discover more about Retro Gaming with insights from the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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What if I tried to use my guitar amp as the speaker for my hi-fi system? I tried really hard to make it sound anywhere near listenable and even broke a guitar pedal — here’s what I learned
A Line 6 Spider IV, a turntable, some speakers, an iPad, an overdrive pedal, loads of cables... what could go wrong?
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ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’
One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.
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How to Bring a Geothermal Well Back From the Dead
Startup Zanskar has created one of the most productive geothermal wells in the US at a power plant that had been in decline for years.
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Boomers Can’t Stop Gifting Their Grandkids AI-Generated Slop Books
Parents are getting fed up with garbled bedtime stories that feature characters based on actual photos of their children.
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Best Braun Coupon Codes: 15% Off
Unlock exclusive savings on Braun IPL, shavers, and grooming products. Find verified Braun promo codes and expert tips to maximize your discounts.
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They might have grown up online — but Gen Z are apparently far less likely to use antivirus, study finds
Gen Z needs the full lowdown on online safety
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Can smartwatches and glasses get smarter? Inside Qualcomm and MediaTek’s new wearable AI play
How new 3nm silicon from Qualcomm and MediaTek brings on-device AI to smartwatches and glasses — without killing battery life.
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'This format deserves better than a slow death': Someone made a 3D video app that can make 4K Blu-ray work on today's 3D headsets, and modern spatial video work on old 3D TVs and monitors — and there are plans to future-proof it for preservation of the 3D greats
An intrepid Redditor has built a 3D movie player that supports three different generations of 3D, with an eye to the future of TV and projector tech.
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Nvidia paid $20 billion for SRAM decode - AMD just partnered for it instead
A partnership to split inference
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A-10 Warthog wins unexpected lifeline as Congress blocks retirement plans
Congress moves to rescue the aging A-10 Warthog after Iran missions reignite fierce retirement battle inside the Air Force
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Quote of the day by Bill Gates: 'There's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it'' — downplaying Apple's foray into tablets
Microsoft's attempts to conquer the mobile devices market have long stuttered, with Bill Gates famously dismissing the iPad
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A 330 MW data center wanted to buy a farm, switch off the irrigation, and drink the difference — California's most powerful irrigation district said no, so it sued
The 287 million gallons are a rounding error. The precedent is not.
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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.
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NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, July 29 (game #1144)
My clues will help you solve the NYT's Connections puzzle today and keep that streak going
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A Typo Landed an Innocent Gamer in Prison for 18 Months
How much could a single underscore in a username really matter? Just ask Brandon Klayme, who served 18 months in prison before realizing how authorities arrested, charged, and convicted the wrong man.
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NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, July 29 (game #878)
My clues will help you solve the NYT's Strands today and keep that streak going
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Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, July 29 (game #1647)
My clues will help you solve Quordle today and keep that streak going
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I fixed my single-screen workflow with a Plugable 15.6-inch monitor — here’s the one USB-C rule to know
This 15.6-inch USB-C portable monitor turned my laptop into a two-screen setup with a single cable, as long as that cable goes into the right port
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I taught ChatGPT my reading taste — now it knows exactly what I should read next
I let ChatGPT analyze my bookshelf for better book recommendations
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Despite rising hate for Meta’s AI glasses my wife wouldn’t take her smart Oakley HSTNs off during our honeymoon — however privacy concerns created friction that needs to be eliminated ASAP
Smart glasses are excellent, but valid concerns are rising.
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Nvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance — but there's no room for OpenAI, Anthropic or Google
A response to the Hugging Face incident?
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Ukraine reveals home-built guided bombs with turbojet engines
Ukraine's new turbojet-powered guided bombs push domestic strike capability farther as precision weapons enter battlefield service
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'We'll talk in later seasons': How I convinced Chuck Lorre to correct Big Bang Theory's biggest mistake in future seasons of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
There's an obvious way that Stuart Fails to Save the Universe can rectify a Big Bang Theory so big that the creators publicly apologized for it — so I've asked them to make that change.
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Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign
For months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.
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I grilled the biggest robot vacuum brands about what's next for robovacs… and you should buckle up for a home robot takeover
They sweep, they mop, they vacuum, and some even clean themselves afterwards — so where's next for robovacs?
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Meta drops major climate pledge after a decade of membership, says it is still committed to renewable energy
What’s on your mind, Meta?
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TIL the CIA hid a movie camera in a Xerox machine — and trained a repairman to steal film right under KGB noses
The audacious story of the secret service, the Soviets, and the Xerox photocopier that caught on fire.
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Laura Loomer’s Reversal on Ukraine Stirs Up the MAGA Civil War
Donald Trump’s base has been increasingly spilt. Laura Loomer’s sudden embrace of Ukraine has only widened that divide.
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Jaguar makes epic 2100-kilometre journey across the Amazon | New Scientist
A jaguar that has been dubbed Gaspar traversed 2100 kilometres of the Amazon, crossing farms and roads. But why he set off on this mission is unclear
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‘Those two jobs need different physics’: Rebellions CEO says training and inference need different chips
Model training still needs flagship chips, but could inference get away with lighter chips?
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI has entered the singularity — two weeks after OpenAI models cheated a benchmark by hacking Hugging Face
OpenAI's incident report describes models burning inference compute to steal answers.
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Brave1 and the open source future of war
We take a look inside Ukraine’s real-time military tech pipeline
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Laptops
Laptop reviews, news and features, created for the hardcore PC enthusiast by the experts at Tom's Hardware.
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'There's a trend towards turning previously free AI features into paid ones' — is Windows 11 moving towards a subscription model? I fear that it is, and AI agents will be to blame
My biggest Windows 11 fear is AI agents — and that they could be a Trojan Horse for subscription fees in Microsoft's OS.
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Why Europe cannot let the AI sovereignty ship sail
Now is Europe's time to act