Hardware Stories for 2022

Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low 167
Archer Maclean, Commodore 64 Developer, Dies At 60 22
3D-Printed Self-Balancing Robot Brings Control Theory To Life 10
Washington State Power-Station Attacks Are Latest Assault on Grid 116
Phone Manufacturers: Please Give Us the Power Button Back 163
Google's Quest for Clean Energy Impeded by Small-but-Dominant Utilities in Some US States 53
Rust-GPU Project Now Supports SPIR-V Ray-tracing 17
Hotels Say Goodbye To Daily Room Cleanings and Hello To Robots as Workers Stay Scarce 159
Zimbabwe Has Banned the Export of Raw Lithium 147
A Modest Robot Levy Could Help Combat Effects of Automation On Income Inequality In US, Study Suggests 187
'Easily' Replaceable Batteries May Soon Be Required By EU Law 192
LastPass: Hackers Stole Customer Vault Data In Cloud Storage Breach 38
The Intel P-Series Was a Step Back 48
Raspberry Pi 5 Not Launching Until After 2023 83
Apple Scales Back High-End Mac Pro Plans, Weighs Production Move To Asia 33
Wind Power on Mars Can Power Human Habitats, Scientists Discover 86
New Nonprofit 'Flickr Foundation' Hopes to Preserve Its Billions of Photos For 100 Years 22
Samsung Ditches Samsung? New Team Formed for Building Its Own Chipsets 12
Power Line Bringing Wind Energy to the EU Planned That Crosses a 730-Mile Sea 72
Atomic Bomb Pioneer J. Robert Oppenheimer Cleared of 'Black Mark' After 68 Years 133
PineTab 2 Is Another Try At a Linux-Based Tablet, Without the 2020 Supply Crunch 36
France's Nuclear Reactor Has Been Delayed Again 141
Dutch Chip Equipment Maker ASML's CEO Pushes Back Against US Export Rules On China 66
15.5-Inch MacBook Air Expected To Launch In Spring 2023 24
Dell Concept Laptop Has Pop-Out Components, Disassembles Screwdriver-Free 68
Uber Eats Launches Robot Delivery Service in Miami 34
Rules On Liquids and Laptops To Be Eased At UK Airports From June 2024 80
Tim Cook Admits That iPhones Use Sony Camera Sensors 76
China Readying $143 Billion Package For Its Chip Firms In Face of US Curbs 26
UC Berkeley Launches SkyPilot To Help Navigate Soaring Cloud Costs 22
Robots Set Their Sights On a New Job: Sewing Blue Jeans 102
Raspberry Pi Inventory Improving, Could Reach Pre-Pandemic Levels In 2023 55
Meet Two Startups Bringing Robots to Restaurants 75
In Fusion Breakthrough, US Scientists Reportedly Produce Reaction With Net Energy Gain 184
WSJ: Europe, US Need Grand Bargain on Chips and EVs to Counter China 61
Linux Kernel Fixes Longstanding Bug in Its Handling of Floppy Disks 57
'The 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022' 60
Source Code for Adobe's PostScript Publicly Released 46
Will USB-C Charging Standard Bring Fewer Other Proprietary Parts and Less e-Waste? 116
Eight US Power Stations Have Been Attacked Since Mid-November 201
Why Raspberry Pi's New Hire Caused a Social Media Firestorm 206
General Motors Installs the First of 40,000 New EV Chargers 127
San Francisco Halts 'Killer Robots' Police Policy Following Backlash 106
Renewables Will Overtake Coal by Early 2025, Energy Agency Says 217
AMD Says Transistor Tech Will Keep Moore's Law Alive For 6 To 8 Years 40
'Germans Have Seen the Future, and It's a Heat Pump' 203
Becoming America's #2 Seller of Electric Vehicles, Ford Passes Kia in November 73
Huawei Teases a Smartwatch With Built-In Wireless Earbuds 4
PCI Standards Group Deflects, Assigns Blame for Melting GPU Power Connectors 130
Government Scientists 'Approaching What is Required for Fusion' in Breakthrough Energy Research 135
San Francisco Supervisors Vote To Allow Police To Use Robots To Kill 129
Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor Assets To Bring Zero-Knowledge Encryption To File Storage 12
Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor Assets To Bring Zero-Knowledge Encryption To File Storage 30
Rolls-Royce Successfully Tests Hydrogen-Powered Jet Engine 133
Epson To End the Sale and Distribution of Laser Printer 191
A Light-powered Catalyst Could Be Key For Hydrogen Economy 80
Europe's Biggest Battery Storage System Switched On 160
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91 16
San Francisco Police Seek Permission For Its Robots To Use Deadly Force 143
GPU Market Nosedives, Sales Lowest In a Decade 73
Android TV Will Require App Bundles In 2023, Should Reduce App Size By 20% 14
US Grants $1.1 Billion To Keep Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Open 133
TSMC To Bring Its Most Advanced Chip Manufacturing To Arizona 63
Debate at COP27: Nuclear Energy, Climate Friend or Foe? 273
Nvidia on Melting RTX 4090 Cables: You're Plugging It In Wrong 127
Microsoft, Meta and Others Face Rising Drought Risk to Their Data Centers 69
Chinese Takeover of UK's Largest Chip Plant Blocked on National Security Grounds 45
Ford CEO: 40% Less Labor To Build Electric Vehicles 162
Microsoft's Xbox Streaming Console 'Keystone' Was Pushed Back Because of Its Price 28
E-Bike Batteries Have Caused 200 Fires In New York 60
Apple Plans To Source Chips From Arizona Plant In 2024 39
Qualcomm Publishes, then Deletes, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 Announcement 10
The 'World's Largest Floating Wind Farm' Produces Its First Power 73
Scientists Manufacture Material in a Lab That Doesn't Exist on Earth 62
US Funds $3M Research Project Into Lithium-Free Rechargeable Battery Technology 87
Seagate Announces Dual-Actuator MACH.2 Drive - and Star Wars, Black Panther Themed Drives 47
Surface Pro 9 Teardown Reveals Modular Parts, Microsoft's 2023 Repair Plans 18
Tesla Opens Its EV Charge Connector In the Hope of Making It the New Standard 100
California Regulators Propose Cutting Compensation For Rooftop Solar 178
Amazon Introduces 'Sparrow' Robotic Arm That Can Do Repetitive Warehouse Tasks 33
Apple's AR Glasses Could Slip To 2026, Says Analyst 27
The Equipment Designed to Cut Methane Emissions is Failing 46
Smaller, Safer Nuclear Energy Reactor Designed by Utah Professor 209
Swedish Engineer Creates Playable Accordion From 2 Commodore 64 Computers 26
New Mac App Wants To Record Everything You Do - So You Can 'Rewind' It Later 41
AMD Unveils RDNA 3-Based Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT Graphics Cards 50
Apple Supplier Foxconn Partners With Saudi Wealth Fund To Build EVs 16
The World's First Offshore Floating Wind-Solar Pilot Goes Online 43
China's Submarines May Soon Be Powered By Lithium Batteries 93
Apple Gears Up To Launch Its Next Crop of Macs Early Next Year 19
Fires from Exploding E-Bike Batteries Nearly Doubled This Year in New York City 107
Arm Disputes Qualcomm's Claim It's Licensing Only to OEMs (Not Chipmakers) After 2024 45
TSMC Wants To Unleash a Flood of Chiplet Designs With 3DFabric Alliance 8
World's New Largest Wind Farm Could Power 13 Million Homes 81
Pebble, the OG Smartwatch That May Never Die, Updated To Work With Pixel 7 16
How a Redditor Ended Up With an Industrial-Grade Netflix Server 40
Smartphone Storage Space Is the New Turf War for Game Makers 51
Memtest86+ Is Back After 9 Years 60
The Linux Kernel May Finally Phase Out Intel i486 CPU Support 154
Hacktivists Breach Email System of Company Operating Iran's Nuclear Plant 25
The Difficulty of Creating a Laundry-folding Robot 75
Fast-Charging EV Batteries With Nickel Foil 193
Plans to Ban Solar Energy on England's Farmland Criticized by Landowners 193
Overclocker Breaks CPU Frequency World Record with Intel's Raptor Lake Core i9-13900K 50
The World's Largest Single-Phase Battery Is Now Up and Running 64
BMW Will Build a $1.7 Billion EV Battery Factory In South Carolina 25
Pixel Watch Teardown Shows Off 'Ugly' Insides, Gives Strong First-Gen Vibes 27
Lost Something? Search Through 91.7 Million Files From the 80s, 90s, and 2000s 57
China Dumps Dud Chips On Russia, Moscow Media Moans 227
Google 'Doubles Down' on Pixel Hardware, Cuts Google Assistant Support 29
Germany Pushes To Extend Lifespan of Three Nuclear Plants 199
Apple Bows To Pressure, Drops Plan To Buy Chinese Memory Chips 67
Datacenter Fire Takes Out South Korea's Top Two Web Giants 10
Chip Delivery Times Shrink in Sign That Supply Crunch Is Easing 33
FedEx Abandons Its Last-Mile Delivery Robot Program 32
Can DNA Help Us Store Data for 1,000 Years? 50
Bad DIMM on Linus Torvalds' Desktop System Moves Kernel Merges to His Laptop 188
Pine64 Announces 'Sub-$10, Linux-Capable' SBC - the Ox64 90
Sweden's Incoming Cabinet Says New Reactors Will Be Built 145
Greece Runs On 100% Renewables For the First Time On Record 104
Honda's New $4.4 Billion EV Battery Plant Will Be Built In Ohio 52
GM Created a New Energy Business To Sell Batteries, Solar Panels 17
Older Samsung Phones Are Blowing Up 57
New York Changes Gun Buyback After Seller Gets $21,000 For 3D-Printed Parts 277
Intel Plans Thousands of Job Cuts In Face of PC Slowdown 50
Westinghouse To Be Sold For $7.9 Billion In Sign of Nuclear Power Revival 88
Intel and Google Cloud Launch New Chip To Improve Data Center Performance 17
A Turbine Prototype Just Broke a 24-Hour Wind Power World Record 272
More Than 4 In 10 PCs Still Can't Upgrade To Windows 11 219
PC Shipments Are Still on the Decline - Unless You're Apple 99
United Airlines Hopes to Use Electric Planes for Flights Under 200 Miles By 2030 108
Intel Confirms Alder Lake BIOS Source Code Leaked 61
FBI Warns About Counterfeit Batteries 63
'In the Battle With Robots, Human Workers Are Winning' 84
UK Grid Operator: Plan For Three-Hour Power Blackouts In Event of Gas Shortages 110
Tesla Starts Production of Electric Semi Truck 95
Amazon Abandons Home Delivery Robot Tests in Latest Cost Cuts 25
Bloomberg: Investment In Renewable Energy Needs To Quadruple By 2030 102
Google Shows Off Wireless Charging Dock That Turns the Pixel Tablet Into a Smart Display 9
Boston Dynamics Pledges Not To Weaponize Its Robots 89
Amazon's Glow Goes the Way of the Fire Phone and Dodo 5
Big Tech, Banks, Government Departments Shred Millions of Storage Devices They Could Reuse 80
Google Unveils Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro Smartphones 45
Apple Asks Suppliers To Shift AirPods, Beats Production To India 55
Robots Are Making French Fries Faster, Better Than Humans 161
The Pixel 4 Hits End of Life After Three Years of Service 47
Nuclear Fusion Plant To Be Built On Site of Britain's Last Coal-Fired Power Plants 149
Universities Adapt To Google's New Storage Fees, Or Migrate Away Entirely 91
Walgreens Turns To Prescription-Filling Robots To Free Up Pharmacists 79
Netherlands Researchers Break the 30 Percent Barrier In Solar Cells 65
Why Toyota Isn't All-In On EVs 373
Tesla Unveils New Dojo Supercomputer So Powerful It Tripped the Power Grid 106
Blackout After Drone Food Delivery Crashes Into Powerlines 81
Elon Musk Unveils Prototype of Humanoid Optimus Robot 75
Musk Widely Expected To Unveil Humanoid Robot Optimus at Tesla's AI Day Later Today 104
Wind, Solar Fulfill 10% of Global Electricity Demand For First Time 270
Europe Braces For Mobile Network Blackouts 132
An All-Electric Passenger Plane Completed Its First Test Flight 102
Bipedal Robot Sets Guinness World Record For Robotic 100-Meter Sprint 32
Better Than JPEG? Researcher Discovers That Stable Diffusion Can Compress Images 93
Small Dongle Brings the HDD Clicking Back To SSDs In Retro PCs 117
Germany To Keep 2 of Its 3 Nuclear Plants Running Into April 188
All 50 States Get Green Light To Build EV Charging Stations 133
The Latest iPadOS 16 Beta Brings Stage Manager To Older iPad Pro Models 6
Intel and Samsung Are Getting Ready For 'Slidable' PCs 19
Intel's 13th-Gen 'Raptor Lake' CPUs Are Official, Launch October 20 45
A 20 Year Old Chipset Workaround Has Been Hurting Modern AMD Linux Systems 53
Belgium Shuts Down Nuclear Reactor For First Time 235
Gurman: New iPads and Macs Could Be Announced Through a Press Release, No October Event 44
Almost Half of Industrial Robots Are In China 68
When's the Best Time To Charge Your EV? Not at Night, Stanford Study Finds 190
'Moore's Law Is Dead,' Says Nvidia CEO 116
Nvidia Unveils Drive Thor, One Chip To Rule All Software-Defined Vehicles 56
iPhone 14 Pro Max Teardown Reveals Unused SIM Tray Area 25
Morgan Stanley Hard Drives With Client Data Turn Up On Auction Site 70
Germany's Blanket Data Retention Law Is Illegal, EU Top Court Says 20
Nvidia Announces Next-Gen RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 GPUs 178
Last Floppy-Disk Seller Says Airlines Still Order the Old Tech 61
China's Factories Accelerate Robotics Push as Workforce Shrinks 23
Bug in iPhone 14 Pro Max Causes Camera To Physically Fail, Users Say 66
Companies Make Progress in Using Silicon to Boost EV Lithium-ion Batteries 93
Ubuntu Aims To Support the $16+ Sipeed LicheeRV and Other RISC-V Boards 35
Meet the Man Who Still Sells Floppy Disks 113
Scientists Try To Teach Robot To Laugh At the Right Time 34
Intel Processor Will Replace Pentium and Celeron in 2023 Laptops 61
Five Years of Data Show That SSDs Are More Reliable Than HDDs Over the Long Haul 82
Extreme California Heat Knocks Key Twitter Data Center Offline 62
A 26-Year-Old Inventor Is Trying To Put Mirrors In Space To Generate Solar Power At Night 158
iOS 16 To Gain 'Clean Energy Charging' Option Later This Year 117
Uber Eats Will Begin Using Nuro Delivery Robots 20
Retbleed Fix Slugs Linux VM Performance By Up To 70 Percent 33
Intel Teases 6 GHz Raptor Lake at Stock, 8 GHz Overclocking World Record 55
How A Tiny Toad Could Upend a US Geothermal Project 101
Tesla Considers Building a Lithium Refinery for EV Batteries in Texas 86
Last Nuclear Reactor Stopped at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Plant 150
NASA Makes RISC-V the Go-to Ecosystem for Future Space Missions 54
Offsite Power Supply Destroyed. What Happens Next at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant 124
Nvidia's Flagship AI Chip Reportedly 4.5x Faster Than Previous Champ 14
Garmin Reacts To Apple Watch Ultra: 'We Measure Battery Life In Months. Not Hours.' 71
Asus Packs 12-Core Intel i7 Into a Raspberry Pi-Sized Board 30
US State of Virginia Has More Datacenter Capacity Than Europe or China 42
Korean Nuclear Fusion Reactor Achieves 100 Million Degrees Celsius For 30 Seconds 126
A Text Alert May Have Saved California From Power Blackouts 135
Apple Removes SIM Card Tray On All iPhone 14 Models In US 153
Apple Announces Apple Watch Series 8, SE, and Ultra 32
Germany Sticks To Nuclear Power Deadline But Leaves Loophole 192
Google Announces October 6th Event To Launch the Pixel Watch, Pixel 7 10
US Wants To Give Global Chipmakers a 25% Tax Credit On New Fabs 44
Will Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Mean Fewer Auto-Parts Manufacturing Jobs? 147
US Environmental Lead Says Advanced Nuclear Technology Critical to Decarbonize US and Japan 265
A Solar Firm's Plan to Build Off-Grid Neighborhoods in California 158
Can We Make Computer Chips Act More Like Brain Cells? 58
EU Wants Smartphones, Tablets To Be Repairable For At Least 5 Years 44
Lenovo Announces Consumer AR Glasses That Can Tether To iPhones 17
Intel Details 12th Gen Core SoCs Optimized For Edge Applications 6
Underwater Datacenter Will Open For Business This Year 71
Amazon Took All US Solar Rooftops Offline Last Year After Flurry of Fires, Electrical Explosions 90
US Officials Order Nvidia To Halt Sales of Top AI Chips To China 65
California Asks Residents Not To Charge Electric Vehicles 312
Japan Declares 'War' on the Humble Floppy Disk in New Digitization Push 85
Climate Crisis Forces China To Ration Electricity 152
Tesla Unveils New Virtual Power Plant In Japan 34
AMD Launches Zen 4 Ryzen 7000 CPUs 156
Honda Is the Latest Automaker Looking To Build a US Battery Factory 30
Elon Musk Says World Needs More Oil and Gas As Bridge To Renewables 245
Germany Orders Shutdown of Digital Ad Displays To Save Gas 117
YouTube Now Controls Its Hardware Roadmap 29
Soon Electric Vehicles Could Charge Faster Than Your iPhone 321
Walmart Lists a 30TB Portable SSD for Just $39. It's a Scam 122
Pine64 Touts Its RISC-V-Based Single-Board Computer and Soldering Irons 42
A Decade After Fukushima Disaster, Foes of Nuclear Power Reconsider 257
What's Stopping a Nuclear Fusion Revolution? Cost 192
Ukraine's Nuclear Plant Reconnected to Grid. Russia Accused of Intentional Shelling 124
Japan Signals Return To Nuclear Power To Stabilize Energy Supply 229
New Aluminum-Sulfur Battery Tech Offers Full Charging In Under a Minute 116
Google Pixel Sees Huge Sales Growth, Has 2% of North American Market 29
Apple's Repair Program Creates 'Excruciating Gauntlet of Hurdles', iFixit Says 63
Samsung Debuts the 990 Pro Series SSD With Big Speed and Efficiency Improvements 29
World's First Commercial Electric Seaplane Completes Short-Haul Flight 75
The Frontrunners In the Trillion-Dollar Race for Limitless Fusion Power 107
Will the World's Lithium Suppliers Slow Production of Electric Vehicles? 184
A Robot Quarterback Could Be the Future of Football Practice 25
The Problem of Nuclear Waste Disposal - and How Finland Solved It 146
After Signing US Climate Bill, Biden Plans More Executive Actions to Cut Emissions 90
Semiconductor Makers Scramble to Support New Post-Quantum Cryptography Standard 40
Vietnam Demands Big Tech Localize Data Storage and Offices 6
Lenovo Doesn't Like Framework's Circular Power Button 25
Tesla's Virtual Power Plant Had Its First Event Helping the Grid 74
Europe Is Seriously Considering a Major Investment In Space-Based Solar Power 166
Snap May Be a Camera Company, But Only Its Software Sells 5

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