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TechPixel 11 Pro XL's Fast Charging Needs a 21V PPS Charger—67W Alone Isn't Enough
Reaching the Pixel 11 Pro XL's 45W charging speed requires both a 21V PPS-compatible adapter and Super Fast Charging mode enabled. Based on measured differences between standard and dedicated charging modes, this article explains what to check after purchase.
ScienceNASA's Roman Space Telescope: How Its Wide-Field Design Will Hunt Planets and Measure Dark Energy
An explainer on the optics behind Roman Space Telescope's Hubble-class mirror and wide, repeated sky surveys, its approach to planet-hunting and dark-energy measurement, and what its technology means—and its limits—for future direct-imaging missions.
TechFederal Judge Strikes Down Pentagon's 'Supply Chain Risk' Designation of Anthropic
A U.S. federal court has ruled the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk unlawful and vacated it. Here's what the ruling rejected—and what's still unresolved in AI procurement contracts—based on primary court documents.
TechX Identifies 200,000 Suspected China-Linked Accounts, but Only 200 Targeted AI Power Debate
X identified a roughly 200,000-account "bot farm" suspected of ties to China. Only 200 of those accounts posted about AI and power policy, underscoring the need to assess scale and actual impact separately.
TechModder Gets Unreleased DLSS 5 Running in Skyrim, Exposing Limits of Retrofitting
A modder extracted a pre-release DLSS 5 runtime and ran it in Skyrim. Here's why the resulting image quality and frame rate changes can't be mistaken for official integration or final performance.
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TechIntel Says 14A Chip Process Is Improving Faster Than Expected
Intel says defect reduction on its upcoming 14A process is outpacing internal targets, with progress not seen since its 22nm node. Internal product design and customer capacity talks are advancing, but absolute defect rates and design wins remain unconfirmed.
TechSK hynix Breaks Ground on First US HBM Packaging Plant, Targets Late 2029 Mass Production
SK hynix has started construction on an HBM advanced packaging plant in Indiana, where Korean-made wafers will be stacked and tested for US customers. Mass production is now targeted for late 2029, about a year later than originally planned.
TechChess AI Sustains Board Complexity Longer Than Human Players, Study Finds
A network analysis of human and AI chess games found that AI tends to preserve complex attacking and defensive relationships on the board for longer than humans do. The correlation with playing strength was confirmed, but generalizing the finding to real-world decision-making remains untested.
TechKioxia and SanDisk Plan ¥5 Trillion Japan Investment Through 2032, Contingent on Government Support
Kioxia and SanDisk's planned ¥5 trillion Japan investment through 2032 hinges on four factors: a new Kitakami plant, joint-venture cost-sharing, 332-layer NAND technology, and government backing.
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ScienceSamsung Tackles a Low-k Etching Challenge That Japan's SAMCO Has Already Commercialized
Samsung Electronics has published a paper in JVST A on the challenges of extending atomic layer etching (ALE) — a technology with production experience since 2017 — into low-k material processing. This piece examines the technique's 90-degree vertical profile advantage, the new hurdle of chemical damage, and how it differs from Japanese company SAMCO's approach.
ScienceInterlune Recreates Solar-Wind-Weathered Lunar Soil in the Lab, Advancing Helium-3 Mining Plans
US company Interlune says it implanted helium into simulated ilmenite soil and reproduced heat-release characteristics matching Apollo lunar samples. The advance moves hardware development forward, but peer review and verification with actual helium-3 remain outstanding challenges.
ScienceCambridge Physicists Directly Image Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations Using Ultracold Atomic Gas
Cambridge researchers used an ultracold potassium gas to simulate a relativistic quantum field and directly image the spatial fluctuations present in its ground state. By suppressing thermal noise below 6 nanokelvin, the team isolated fluctuations intrinsic to quantum mechanics itself, though important caveats about the method remain.
ScienceTopological Light Structures Survive 270 Meters of Outdoor Atmospheric Turbulence With 98% Fidelity
By reading out geometric invariants from laser light scrambled by atmospheric turbulence, researchers successfully recovered topological information without any wavefront correction in a 270-meter outdoor experiment. Here's a look at the physics behind this proof-of-concept and the challenges that remain for practical communications.