Hardware Stories for 2024

Is the Uranium Fuel Proposed For Small Modular Nuclear Reactors a Weapons Risk? 81
Dutch Police Test AI-Powered Robot Dog to Raid Drug Labs 24
Is Nuclear Power in America Reviving - or Flailing? 160
As America's Solar Power Surges, Wind Power is Struggling 70
HP CEO: Printed Pages Are Down 20% Since Pandemic 77
World's Largest Solar Farm Goes Online In China 86
Apple Is Working On LLM-Powered Robots, Report Says 42
Google Can Keep Your Phone If You Send It In For Repair With Non-OEM Parts [UPDATE: Changing Policy] 148
Solar Passes 100% of Power Demand In California 270
The Raspberry Pi 5 Gets an AI Upgrade 47
AMD Blows Up Its Laptop CPU Numbering System 20
8BitDo's Reimagining of IBM's Model-M Keyboard Draws Reactions Online 70
A Simple Fix Could Double the Size of the U.S. Electricity Grid 201
Vehicle Electrification Could Require 55% More Copper Mines in the Next 30 Years 152
Electric Car Sales Keep Increasing in California, Despite 'Negative Hype' 209
HP's MicroLED Monitors Stack Together Like Legos 26
Windows 11's New Recall Feature Has Been Cracked To Run On Unsupported Hardware 53
Battery-Powered California Faces Lower Blackout Risk This Summer 80
Apple Puts iPhone Durability Ahead of Easy Repairs, Exec Says 74
Wind and Solar Saved the US $250 Billion Over 4 Years, Report Finds 171
Data Centers Could Use 9% of US Electricity By 2030, Research Institute Says 27
Arm Says Its Next-Gen Mobile GPU Will Be Its Most 'Performant and Efficient' 29
A Robot Will Soon Try To Remove Melted Nuclear Fuel From Japan's Destroyed Fukushima Reactor 56
How China's 1980s PC Industry Hacked Dot-Matrix Printers 99
Company will Convert GM's Electric Vans into Speedy Mobile Superchargers for Fleets 145
America Has One Public Charger for Every 20 Electric Cars 131
Pew Research Finds 64% of Americans Live Within Two Miles of a Public EV Charger 196
Technical Issues' Stall MLB's Adoption of Robots to Call Balls and Strikes 39
China's Blistering Solar Growth Runs Into Grid Blocks 51
Germany Has Too Many Solar Panels, and It's Pushed Energy Prices Negative 305
Spotify Is Going To Break Every 'Car Thing' Gadget It Ever Sold 65
ASML and TSMC Can Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan 135
California Exceeds 100% of Energy Demand With Renewables Over a Record 45 Days 155
Gordon Bell, an Architect of Our Digital Age, Dies At Age 89 6
HP Resurrects '90s OmniBook Branding, Kills Spectre and Dragonfly 53
Microsoft Launches Arm-Powered Surface Laptop 28
Robot Dogs Armed With AI-aimed Rifles Undergo US Marines Special Ops Evaluation 74
WD Rolls Out New 2.5-Inch HDDs For the First Time In 7 Years 63
In a Milestone, the US Exceeds 5 Million Solar Installations 159
Hugging Face Is Sharing $10 Million Worth of Compute To Help Beat the Big AI Companies 10
US Regulators Approve Rule That Could Speed Renewables 23
Could Atomically Thin Layers Bring A 19x Energy Jump In Battery Capacitors? 27
Father of SQL Says Yes to NoSQL 75
Are Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Costly and Unviable? 215
The People Who Won't Give Up Floppy Disks 96
'Tungsten Wall' Leads To Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough 45
Google Cloud Accidentally Deletes UniSuper's Online Account Due To 'Unprecedented Misconfiguration' 52
Texas Spot Power Prices Jump Almost 100-Fold On Tight Supply 127
Is the Era of Stickers In Apple Boxes Coming To an End? 57
Renewable Energy Passes 30% of World's Electricity Supply 153
Apple Announces M4 With More CPU Cores and AI Focus 66
Ten Years Ago Microsoft Bought Nokia's Phone Unit, Then Killed It As a Tax Write-Off 82
Finding Land for US Wind Farms Might Be Easier Than We Thought 81
Lithium-Free Sodium Batteries Exit the Lab, Enter US Production 138
A New Battery Warns Parents if Their Child Has Swallowed It 244
Dropbox Says Hackers Breached Digital-Signature Product 12
China Launches World's Largest Electric Container Ship 94
America's Wind Power Production Drops For the First Time In 25 Years 110
G7 Reaches Deal To Exit From Coal By 2035 148
Motherboard Makers Apparently To Blame For High-end Intel Core i9 CPU Failures 57
Austria Calls For Rapid Regulation as It Hosts Meeting on 'Killer Robots' 38
America's First Big-Rig Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in California 131
A Coal Billionaire is Building the World's Biggest Clean Energy Plant - Five Times the Size of Paris 79
Plunge in Storage Battery Costs Will Speed Shift to Renewable Energy, Says IEA 100
Why Are Laptops Moving to Soldered RAM? 219
Behold the World's Largest 3D Printer 31
The 'Ceph' Community Now Stores 1,000 Petabytes in Its Open Source Storage Solution 25
45 Drives Adds Linux-Powered Mini PCs, Workstations To Growing Compute Lineup 8
Honda To Spend $11 Billion On Four EV Factories In North America 137
TSMC Unveils 1.6nm Process Technology With Backside Power Delivery 44
Seagate Joins the HDD Price Hike Party, Blames AI for Spike in Demand 37
Apple Reportedly Developing Its Own Custom Silicon For AI Servers 30
Updating California's Grid For EVs May Cost Up To $20 Billion 116
Lenovo First To Implement LPCAMM2 in Laptop 20
Framework Won't Be Just a Laptop Company Anymore 29
Flame-Throwing Robot Dog Now Available Under $10,000 115
What Comes After OLED? Meet QDEL 49
California Is Grappling With a Growing Problem: Too Much Solar 338
AI Needs So Much Electricity That Tech Companies Are Getting Into Energy Business 50
What Happened After Amazon Electrified Its Delivery Fleet? 204
Is Rivos Building an RISC-V AI Chip? 10
How a Renewable Energy-Powered Bitcoin Startup Helps Electrify Rural Africa 66
The Legendary Zilog Z80 CPU Is Being Discontinued After Nearly 50 Years 80
Data Centers Are Turning to an Old Source of Power: Coal 58
Ubuntu 24.04 Yields a 20% Performance Advantage Over Windows 11 On Ryzen 7 Framework Laptop 63
Is 8GB of RAM Enough For a Mac? 465
Boston Dynamics' New Atlas Robot Is a Swiveling, Shape-Shifting Nightmare 57
Framework's Software and Firmware Have Been a Mess 18
A New Generation Is Uncovering the Tiny Doodles Left By Engineers On Old Microchips 25
Boston Dynamics Retires Its Hydraulic Humanoid Robot 19
California Exceeds 100% of Energy Demand With Renewables Over a Record 30 Days 215
California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery 169
Canonical Says Qualcomm Has Joined Ubuntu's 'Silicon Partner' Program 8
Fusion Experiment Demonstrates Cheaper Stellerator Using Creative Magnet Workaround 41
Could a New Charge Double the Service-life of Li-Ion Batteries? 88
Calpine's California Battery Plant Is Among World's Largest 29
Huawei Building Vast Chip Equipment R&D Center In Shanghai 18
Intel Axes 13th Gen Core i5, i7, i9 K-series CPUs 33
Walmart Will Deploy Robotic Forklifts in Its Distribution Centers 22
We Never Agreed To Only Buy HP Ink, Say Printer Owners 116
Amazon Owes $525 Million In Cloud-Storage Patent Fight, US Jury Says 38
Hackable Intel and Lenovo Hardware That Went Undetected For 5 Years Won't Ever Be Fixed 62
AI Hardware Company From Jone Ive, Sam Altman Seeks $1 Billion In Funding 52
Intel Says New Gaudi 3 AI Chips Top Nvidia H100s in Speed and Cost 32
Intel Investigating Games Crashing On 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 Processors 35
Google Announces Axion, Its First Custom Arm-based Data Center Processor 22
San Francisco's Light Rail To Upgrade From Floppy Disks 113
One of Disneyland's Longest-Running Attractions is Ditching Fossil Fuels 99
US Energy Department Announces 'Blueprint' for Slashing Emissions From Buildings and Reducing Energy Use 76
US Invests $20 Billion More to Finance Clean-Energy Projects 86
SK Hynix To Build $3.87 Billion Memory Packaging Fab In the US For HBM4 and Beyond 13
Trudeau Pushes 3D-Printed Homes To Solve Canada Housing Crisis 174
Cinephiles Rallying To Physical Media 110
Rickroll Meme Immortalized In Custom ASIC That Includes 164 Hardcoded Programs 9
PCIe 7.0 On Track For a 2025 Release 29
Apple Reportedly Exploring Personal Home Robots 71
India Hydropower Output Records Steepest Fall In Nearly Four Decades 69
'Smart Devices Are Turning Out To Be a Poor Investment' 155
Bill Gates Says Texas Shows America's Clean-Energy Future 120
Are State Governments Slowing the Build-Out of America's EV Charging Stations? 120
Half of Russian-Made Chips Are Defective 64
Michigan Nuclear Plant Aims To Be First Ever To Reopen In US 109
Oregon Governor Signs Nation's First Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans Parts Pairing 139
Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event For June 10 24
As AI Booms, Land Near Nuclear Power Plants Becomes Hot Real Estate 77
This Startup Wants to Fix the Housing Market - with Robots 78
California's Successful Dam-Removal Project Continues 120
World's First Nuclear Fusion-Powered Electric Propulsion Drive Unveiled 56
Intel Prepares For $100 Billion Spending Spree Across Four US States 18
Nvidia Reveals Blackwell B200 GPU, the 'World's Most Powerful Chip' For AI 65
Pi Calculated to 105 Trillion Digits. (Stored on 1 Petabyte of SSDs) 95
Can Interlune Mine Helium-3 on the Moon? 67
First Large Offshore US Wind Farm Delivers Power To Local Grid 99
Mercedes is Trialing Humanoid Robots For 'Low Skill, Repetitive' Tasks 33
Caffeine Makes Fuel Cells More Efficient, Cuts Cost of Energy Storage 40
FTC and DOJ Think McDonald's Ice Cream Machines Should Be Legal To Fix 66
Your Next Pair of Walmart Pants Could Be 3D Woven 38
Pentagon Scraps $2.5 Billion Grant To Intel 38
Apple Developed Chip Equivalent To Four M2 Ultras For Apple Car Project 61
Over 15,000 Roku Accounts Sold To Buy Streaming Subscriptions, Devices 25
'Now Fusion Has a Chance': New MIT Research Claims Fusion Power's 'Practicality' Has Been Proven 90
Study Finds That We Could Lose Science If Publishers Go Bankrupt 66
AMD Stops Certifying Monitors, TVs Under 144 Hz For FreeSync 49
Is America Running Out of Electrical Power? 267
New 'Water Batteries' Are Cheaper, Recyclable, And Won't Explode 73
Amazon Pays $650 Million For Nuclear-Powered Data Center 68
Oregon OKs Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans the Blocking of Aftermarket Parts 75
HP Wants You To Pay Up To $36/Month To Rent a Printer That It Monitors 138
Ford EV Owners Can Now Charge On Tesla's Network 65
Intel Puts 1nm Process (10A) on the Roadmap For 2027 35
US Judge Halts Government Effort To Monitor Crypto Mining Energy Use 90
China Breakthrough Promises Optical Discs That Store Hundreds of Terabytes 38
Hacker Uses Raspberry Pi and AI To Block Noisy Neighbor's Music 93
'Every PC Is Going To Be an AI PC' 102
Bezos, Nvidia Join OpenAI in Funding Humanoid Robot Startup 11
Would You Use a Laptop with a Transparent Screen? 92
Are Corporate Interests Holding Back US Electrical Grid Expansion? 133
Scientists Create DVD-Sized Disk Storing 1 Petabit (125,000 Gigabytes) of Data 113
Texas Just Got a New 1.1-Million-Panel Solar Farm 93
US Court Stalls Energy Dept Demand For Cryptocurrency Mining Data 103
15 Million Toshiba Laptop Adapters Recalled Over Burn and Fire Risks 20
India's Plan To Let 1998 Digital Trade Deal Expire May Worsen Chip Shortage 6
Humane's AI Pin is Slightly Delayed 8
Engineers Use AI To Wrangle Fusion Power For the Grid 69
Microsoft's Gaming CEO Says Xbox Won't Go All-Digital Just Yet 78
Zuckerberg: Neural Wristband For AR/VR Input Will Ship 'In the Next Few Years' 30
Why Are California's EV Sales Dropping? 315
What Happens After Throughput to DNA Storage Drives Surpasses 2 Gbps? 35
OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Has New(ish) Data Corruption Bug 16
Could Solar Water Heaters Become Popular Again? 123
Microsoft Teases Next-Gen Xbox With 'Largest Technical Leap', New 'Unique' Hardware 51
Sam Altman's $7 Trillion Chip Dreams Are Way Off the Mark, Says Nvidia CEO 21
Backblaze's Geriatric Hard Drives Kicked the Bucket More in 2023 51
28-Ton, 1.2-Megawatt Tidal Kite Is Now Exporting Power To the Grid 65
Chernobyl's Mutant Wolves Appear To Have Developed Resistance To Cancer 76
Nvidia is Forming a New Business Unit to Make Custom Chips 13
New Hutter Prize Awarded for Even Smaller Data Compression Milestone 22
Fusion Research Facility's Final Tritium Experiments Yield New Energy Record 61
Deep Abandoned Mine In Finland To Be Turned Into a Giant Gravity Battery 131
TSMC To Build Second Japan Chip Factory, Raising Investment To $20 Billion 44
Report Reveals Decline In Quality of USB Sticks, MicroSD Cards 71
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Tries Out Inventory Work, Gets Better At Lifting 16
Crypto Mining Company Loses Bid To Force Canadian Utility Company To Provide Power 88
Scientists Have 3D Bioprinted Functioning Human Brain Tissue 51
YouTube Says a Vision Pro App Is 'On the Roadmap' 21
Is the US Space Force Researching Space-Based Solar Power? 38
GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids 179
Across America, Clean Energy Plants Are Being Banned Faster Than They're Being Built 200
'Linux Foundation Energy' Partners With US Government on Interoperability of America's EV Charging 21
James Cameron Loves Apple's Vision Pro. But Will It Be Addictive? 127
Over 2 Percent of the US's Electricity Generation Now Goes To Bitcoin 106
Linus Torvalds Has 'Robust Exchanges' Over Filesystem Suggestion on Linux Kernel Mailing List 121
IEA Lowers Renewables Forecast For Clean Hydrogen 34
Key Rugged Phone Manufacturer Shuts Down 30
Google One is About To Hit 100 Million Subscribers 34
Apple Vision Pro Review Roundup 80
Raspberry Pi Is Planning a London IPO, But Its CEO Expects 'No Change' In Focus 40
Japan Will No Longer Require Floppy Disks For Submitting Some Official Documents 45
Could America's Rooftop Solar Industry Be On the Verge of Collapse? 158
How You Can Charge Your EV If You Don't Own a House 186
Lamborghini Licenses MIT's New High-Capacity, Fast-Charging Organic Battery Tech 81
Apple Might Have Sold Up To 180,000 Vision Pro Headsets Over Pre-Order Weekend 108
What's the Solution to Gridlocked EV Chargers? 426
Hans Reiser Sends a Letter From Prison 181
Do Electric Vehicles Fail at a Lower Rate Than Gas Cars In Extreme Cold? 216
Revolutionary 'LEGO-Like' Photonic Chip Paves Way For Semiconductor Breakthroughs 7
'For Truckers Driving EVs, There's No Going Back' 153
Ceph: a Journey To 1 TiB/s 16
US Government Opens 22 Million Acres of Federal Lands To Solar 106
OpenAI Ceo Sam Altman Is Still Chasing Billions To Build AI Chips 11
Researchers Claim First Functioning Graphene-Based Chip 4
US To Ban Pentagon From Buying Batteries From China's CATL, BYD 17
Japan's SLIM Probe Lands On Moon, But Suffers Power Problem 17
30TB Hard Drives Are Nearly Here 74
Sam Altman Says AI Depends On Energy Breakthrough 105
80 Years Later, GCHQ Releases New Images of Nazi Code-Breaking Computer 79
BMW Will Employ Figure's Humanoid Robot At South Carolina Plant 91
'A Groundbreaking Study Shows Kids Learn Better On Paper, Not Screens. Now What?' 130
Apple Again Banned From Selling Watches In US With Blood Oxygen Sensor 75
'Student Should Have a Healthy-Looking BMI': How Universities Bend Over Backwards To Accommodate Food Delivery Robots 125
China's Chip Imports Fell By a Record 15% Due To US Sanctions, Globally Weaker Demand 49
World's First Floating Offshore Wind Farm To Be Taken Offline For Up To 4 Months 142
Can Pumping CO2 Into California's Oil Fields Help Stop Global Warming? 83
The Global Project To Make a General Robotic Brain 23
Chinese Company Announces Mass Production of Small Nuclear Battery With 50-Year Lifespan 172
Wind Turbines Are Friendlier To Birds Than Oil-and-Gas Drilling, Study Finds 80
America Cracks Down on Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Facilities 36
Micron Displays Next-Gen LPCAMM2 Modules For Laptops At CES 2024 28
CES PC Makers Bet on AI To Rekindle Sales 15
White House Unveils $623 Million In Funding To Boost EV Charging Points 101
A Huge Battery Has Replaced Hawaii's Last Coal Plant 122
Quantum Computing Startup Says It Will Beat IBM To Error Correction 39
HP Built Printer Ink Monopoly With Forced Dynamic Security Updates, Lawsuit Says 30
Samsung Debuts World's First Transparent MicroLED Screen Is At CES 2024 30
Discontinued and Unreleased Microsoft Peripherals Revived By Licensing Deal 46
Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 40 SUPER Series 40
Lithium Extraction Gets Faster and Maybe Greener, Too 67
America's First Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project Finally Begins Generating Electricity 43
Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China 29
Google's DeepMind Unveils Safer Robot Advances With 'Robot Constitution' 12
Qualcomm's New VR Chip Competes Directly With Vision Pro, Much Cheaper Headsets 26
Japan To Test Datacenter Powered By Reused Hydrogen Fuel Cells 9
DVD Resurgence To Prevent Films From Disappearing 131
Oldest-Known Version of MS-DOS's Predecessor Discovered 70