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AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Listed for Sale on Chinese Black Market!
AMD will formally confirm the launch of its new Ryzen 7000 processors on August 29th with a subsequent release date being rumoured for September 27th. – In other words, while samples will currently be out there in the wild, they shouldn’t be in the hands of the general public just…
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Unreleased Intel i5-12400 Processors Hit eBay!
Officially speaking, Intel has not yet confirmed the launch of its Core i5-12400 processor. I mean, we all know it’s coming, and almost certainly at CES 2022 (which kicks off on January 5th), but in terms of an official rubber stamp? No. Intel is making us wait for that one!…
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Nvidia 3080 20GB Variant is Being Tested?!
Ever since their launch late last year, it’s not exactly been a secret that getting hold of an Nvidia 30XX graphics card, any one of them, has been difficult bordering on impossible. Well, not unless you’re willing to pay the extravagantly overinflated prices that scalpers are touting them for. –…
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MIT Develops Mobile Robot for 3D Printing Buildings
A group of engineers from MIT have been working on a project since 2011 that may soon find use in distant worlds such as Mars. It is a mobile robot, capable of 3D printing buildings and structures and it is able to do so within 14 hours. They call this…
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SpaceX Preparing to Fly Reused Rocket for the First Time
Most people believe that recycling is a good thing, especially if it means saving millions of dollars on materials and labor. This is one of the reasons why the impending launch of SpaceX’ rocket on March 30th is getting a lot of attention because it will verify whether SpaceX’ Falcon…
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Real-Life Iron Man Suit Can Lift 150kg
A home-made exoskeleton – built by an engineering student from Kerala, India, inspired by Iron Man’s metal exterior, and costing only £580 (US$750) to build – is capable of turning its wearer into an Olympic-level weightlifter. The suit, built by Vimal Govind Manikandan, a final year Mechanical Engineering student at…
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Marvel Launches Program For Female Scientists
When people talk about Marvel they are normally discussing either the comics, the movies or the characters that feature in or both of the former. With some of the largest movies released (and with them only seeming to increase in both size and reception) it is only natural that people…
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Australia To Teach Coding From Primary School
Every day we use computers if we use them at our fingers or just by buying something from a store or driving down the road. Technology is a big part of everyone’s lives these days, and this has been recognised by many countries pushing for STEM subjects (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics)…
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Miniature Robot Can Pull 2,000 Its Own Weight
A team of engineers from Stanford University in California have built a series of “MicroTugs”, tiny robots capable of dragging objects substantially heavier than they are, the strongest of which can pull up to 2,000 times its own weight, despite weighing only 12 grams. The robots’ pulling power comes from…
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Students Create Physical Feedback Glove for Virtual Reality
There is no doubt that in the past few years the virtual reality market has grown exponentially, with kits such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive looking to be released in the very near future, the new future of gaming is now nearly upon us. But one thing that…
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3D Printed Whiteboard Clock Writes Out Current Time
21-year-old software engineer Maurice Bos has built a mechanical clock that writes the current time on a whiteboard every minute, each time erasing the previous time. Bos, who works for Google in Zürich, built the clock using a 3D printed arm to grasp a whiteboard pen. The pen, receiving instructions…
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GCHQ Launches Kids Cryptography App
GCHQ, the Government Communications Headquarters of the UK, otherwise known as Britain’s NSA, has launched a an app targeted at kids with the intention of teaching them about cryptography. The organisation that spends most of its time circumventing encryption has decided to teach kids the basics of scrambling data from prying…
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Apple increasing iCloud Security in light of Celebrity Scandal
An ever-developing story, not long ago many celebrities have had nude photos and videos leaked all over the internet (see above), originating from popular image board website 4chan alongside self proclaimed “front page of the internet” Reddit. Since the release of this information, Apple has claimed there was no ‘leak’ in…
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Scientists Predict Top Speed of 1,800 mph From Prototype Maglev Train
Modern public transport as we know it is pretty fast if you chose the right service, but if you’re in quite a rush to get to that important board meeting on the other side of the States, simply put – you’re screwed. Over at the Southwest Jiaotong University in China,…
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Hitachi Commissioned To Build 45mph Elevator – 95 Floors In 43 Seconds Anyone?
If you’ve been lucky enough to head over to Las Vegas, there’s a strong chance that you would have experienced the speedy elevators that run up and down many of the major hotels across the city, but these are nothing compared to the even faster lifts in Taipei’s 101. From…
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