Comcast turns Xfinity routers into home motion detectors — free Wi-Fi sensing feature tracks RF interference with zero extra hardware required
To appease concerns about privacy, Wi-Fi Motion is opt-in
Samsung’s fab roadmaps examined — Taylor, Pyeongtaek, and the yield woes behind a $16.5 billion Tesla deal
Divided across two countries and four campuses, Samsung’s fab roadmap runs from the Korean bases at Pyeongtaek, Hwaseong, and Giheung to the new U.S. site at Taylor.
The Daily Grind: Do you feel compelled to 100% complete MMO zones?
For certain types of people, an MMO zone is, at its essence, a very long checklist of things that must all be crossed off in...
Jason Kelce-led marketing campaign asks beer drinkers to send their pee to AI data centers — Liquid Death and Garage Beer skit claims ‘AI data centers waste millions of gallons of water’
Two indie brands join together in a viral ad campaign asking people to pee on computers. Taylor Swift’s brother-in-law, Jason Kelce, who co-owns one of the brands, stars in this humorous ad where he pees in a bottle and carries it to a post office to send to his AI data center of choice.
Beijing AI bar that offers unlimited free DeepSeek coding tokens with $1.50 drink haemorrhaging cash — ‘the bar is completely losing money, ‘ owner admits
An AI-themed bar in Beijing’s Zhongguancun tech hub hands out free, unlimited DeepSeek tokens with its drinks, running inference locally on two Nvidia DGX Spark mini-PCs.
Ajinomoto reportedly cuts critical chip packaging film supply to China by 30% as domestic substitutes race to qualify — ABF restriction comes following Beijing’s rare earth export curbs
Japanese chemical maker Ajinomoto has reportedly told customers in mainland China that it will cut the supply of ABF.
Snag AMD’s Ryzen 7 7700X3D with 16GB of RAM, motherboard, and a cooler for just $609 — save $124 on a B650 ATX board and Corsair Vengeance RAM for a new gaming build
Newegg’s combo deal pairs the gaming-centric Ryzen 7 7700X3D, Asus ROG Strix B650-A motherboard, and Corsair Vengeance DDR5 RAM for $609.99, plus a free 240mm AIO—an affordable way into AM5 amid the RAMpocalypse.
MicroSD card torture test writes 133 petabytes of data across 351 cards over three years — cards tested to failure reveal SanDisk as the outlier with 6 failures of the 7 tested
Matt Cole has been running hundreds of microSD cards through their paces, running them through thousands of cycles until they fail. The results are quite surprising, with both the winners and losers coming from some of the most unexpected brands.
ASRock X870E Taichi White Motherboard Review: A Taichi washed in white, now with 10 GbE
The ASRock X870E Taichi White updates the original with a cleaner all-white design and 10 GbE, and is the first ASRock board to feature all-white components. But pricing could scare away some users.
AI server boom funds $314 universal cash payout in Taiwan — President Lai Ching-te says the payout ensures the country’s AI windfall ‘can be shared by all,’ 11% GDP growth and $903B export surge finance $7.4B dividend
Taiwan will hand roughly $314 USD in cash to every resident next year as a boon for the island’s residents generated by the AI gold rush. The 2027 central government budget sets aside $7.4 billion USD for the dividend.