The best cheap tech you can grab this Amazon Prime Day — 13 bargains under $13 to improve your tech life

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Amazon Prime Big Deals Day is back, and we've compiled a list of 13 cool and budget-friendly gadgets and gizmos that you can still get for under $13.

We've got kits to fix PCs, cleaning kits for your filthy keyboard, a network switch, adapters, cables, and many more sub-$13 products that we found on Amazon. Best of all, we

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OpenAI and AMD announce multibillion-dollar partnership — AMD to supply 6 gigawatts in chips, OpenAI could get up to 10% of AMD shares in return

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OpenAI and AMD have announced a multibillion-dollar partnership that will see the companies collaborate on AI data centers powered by AMD processors. OpenAI has committed to purchasing 6 gigawatts of AMD chips, starting with the MI450 next year. That will be done either by purchasing the chips directly from AMD or through cloud computing partners. AMD CEO Lisa Su told the WSJ that the deal would generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue for AMD over the next five years.

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Incessant gamer reaches fabled edge of Minecraft map after more than 14 years — has been walking towards mythical 'Far Lands' at the edge of the map since 2011, covering 12,500km in-game

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Minecraft offers one of the largest worlds in any game, but it still has its limits. Earlier versions of the title top out at around 12.5 million blocks, after which the game glitches out, with a jagged, vertical wall, called ‘Far Lands’, appearing on the edge of the map. YouTuber and Twitch streamer kurtjmac decided to reach this mythical land on foot — no teleportation, cheats, or mods — which took over 14 years to finish

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Japanese tech giant deploys laser drones to protect chickens — drones are hoped to prevent the spread of avian flu

Japanese telecommunications and tech giant NTT has designed a laser drone system to protect poultry farms . NTT e-Drone Technology Co., Ltd worked closely with NTT East Japan Co., Ltd, and the government of Chiba Prefecture to develop a laser system to scare wild birds away from the farms (machine translation). The idea is to reduce or eliminate the spread of avian influenza from unwanted feathered visitors like crows and pigeons.

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Save over $1,200 on a RTX 4060 gaming laptop during Prime Day — pay less than half the normal price for the MSI Raider GE68HX

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If you look at the latest range of gaming laptops, you will notice that they still command a premium. So, going for a previous generation model can save you a good amount of money. One such option is the MSI Raider GE68HX from last year, which originally retailed at around $2,300. However, Newegg is offering a special discount which brings the price down to $1,079 which is a massive discount of over 50

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Ukraine’s rotating barbed wire drone barriers discovered by Russians — motorized barriers tear and slice the fiber-optic lines that jam-proof drones leave in their trail

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Remote control drones have added are a terrifying new dimension to warfare in the 2020s. However, a Ukrainian invention that is tangling the efforts of the invaders to hit targets with their kamikaze drones has been revealed by a Russian Vlogger, reports Militarnyi .

Fiber optic cable filled vistas

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Nintendo Switch 2 supports two different types of Nvidia DLSS — A second, 'light' version for upscaling beyond 1080p, along with the standard, PC-like CNN model

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The Nintendo Switch 2 is the only mainstream console that comes with Nvidia hardware inside, while Microsoft and Sony rely on AMD. Therefore, the Switch 2 supports Nvidia's proprietary DLSS technology that helps it upscale games to 1080p and beyond, which is crucial in a handheld with power constraints. It was long speculated that the version of DLSS present on the Switch 2 was unique and unlike the standard models available on PC, and Digital Foundry's latest

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Bitcoin rockets to all-time high of over $125,000 — rise fueled by increase in U.S. equities and interest in Bitcoin ETFs

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Bitcoin reached an all-time high today, when it hit $125,449.77 at 4:55 am UTC. Although it has since normalized to around $122,000, at the time of writing, this is still a greater than 20% increase in value from December last year, when the cryptocurrency broke the $100,000 milestone. According to Reuters , Bitcoin has been rising for

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Intel’s Core Ultra 5 225F is at an all-time low $170, making Arrow Lake more affordable ahead of Amazon's Prime Day sale

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Intel’s entry-level desktop processor from the latest Arrow Lake lineup has dropped to its lowest price yet of $169.86 on Amazon . The Core Ultra 5 225F originally launched at a recommended price range of $221-$231, before witnessing a price cut to $194.32 back in July . With this latest discount, customers are saving roughly $50 to $60, or better

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The age of silicon and software began 75 years ago with the patenting of the transistor

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75 years ago, the three Bell Labs scientists behind the invention of the transistor would, at last, have the U.S. Patent in their hands. This insignificant looking semiconductor device with three electrodes sparked the third industrial revolution. Moreover, it ushered in the age of silicon and software, which still dominates business and human society to this day.

The first working transistor had been demonstrated back in 1947, but it wasn’t until October 3, 1

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