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Valve Updates Steam Deck to Give Temperature Warnings (Better Late Than Never)
Around three weeks ago, we were in the middle of what was undoubtedly one of the worst heatwaves in recent memory. With temperatures hitting circa 40C across both the UK and Europe, put simply, for those of us who didn’t have air conditioning, we were sweating and feeling pretty miserable…
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Valve Warns that the Steam Deck Will Suffer in Hot (35C+) Weather!
Following the heatwave earlier this week (which although not as horrible right now, does still seem to be lingering), while it’s pretty clear that many of us organic creatures suffered during the much higher than usual temperatures, it shouldn’t be ignored that, by and large, technology products don’t like the…
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As Temperatures Soar, What Can You Do To Help Your PC?
On Monday and Tuesday this week (July 18th and 19th), temperatures in both the UK and Europe are expected to start absolutely soaring. And by soaring, we’re potentially looking at something up to or in excess of 40 degrees celsius. – Put simply, things are going to get hot. Like,…
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Watch Incredible Glass Explosion at 343,000 FPS!
We’ve all been told those tales about what not to do in the kitchen. One I will always remember is not to put glass in a microwave because the second the container cooled it would explode. Now it would appear that the Slow Mo Guys have come to prove all of…
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Why Teach A Robot To Feel Pain?
Robotics are coming along a long way with new developments creating everything from clothing based exosuits to electronics making factories, and with the concept of giant fighting robots soon to become a sport, what could possibly make the devices go terminator on us? I would say a good place to start…
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Bad Mirrors Set Solar Thermal Plant On Fire
When it comes to renewable energy there are a few options, from the power of the sea in tidal factories or the wind in a wind farm, your options are as numerous as the earth offers. An alternative to classic solar farms are the solar thermal plants, like the Ivanpah…
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How Many Laser Pointers Would You Need in Order to Kill a Human?
Scientists seem to have a lot of time on their hands if this is anything to go by, but hey ho, if you quite liked the idea of world domination while using a death ray, then this article is for you. A single laser pointer is not anywhere near powerful…
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Glass 3D Printing Technique Is Stunning
Recent years have seen the technique of 3D printing evolve from a niche concept to a mainstream phenomenon, which in turn has opened up a whole new horizon for product manufacturing. If you thought this was exciting, then be prepared to be blown away as a new development centres on…
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Watch: Solar-Powered Ray Can Melt Metal
Kevin Moore and Grant Reynolds from the Science Channel looked at one of their favourite childhood pastimes – burning things with the rays from a magnifying glass – and wanted to magnify it. They wanted to magnify the ray so much so that it could melt metal. So how do you get that much heat?…
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Extremely Thin Coating Could Keep Buildings Cool During Summer
How do you keep buildings cool? Right now, there’s not much you can do apart from crank the air conditioning and close the blinds – but thanks to some researchers from Stanford University, we could see a new solution cool things down considerably. The researchers are currently working on a…
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New Self Cooling Solar Panel Design Will Increase Efficiency
The last thing that comes into my mind when thinking about solar panels is how they are cooled, after all they are designed to have the sun shining on them for 65% of the day every day. Solar power cells need to stay relatively cool for the sake of both efficiency…
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Forget the T-800, MIT and Google’s Boston Dynamics Are Said To Work on T-1000 Robots
There have been talk of future robots resembling the T-800 model from the Terminator series for some time now. Yet, no company has even arrived close to a design, yet alone a prototype of such a robot. While we won’t see any T-800’s running around anytime soon, we might see…
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Two New World Records Broken With The ASRock Z97 OC Formula
It seems that ASRock’s latest motherboard, the ASRock Z97 OC Formula, was designed to break one world record after another. John Lam, a professional overclocker from HKEPC OC, has apparently used the motherboard and achieved what has been previously dubbed as ‘impossible’. John has used the ASRock Z97 OC Formula…
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Two Singapore Based Teams Create Heat Cloaking Device
Cloaking devices have always been a subject up for debate, either shape cloaking, thermal cloaking or any other type of cloaking device. Apparently, thermal cloaking has been a subject more people were interested in, and even brought forth from the imaginary realm to the real world. Two teams based in…
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