The classic Snake game squeezed a lot of entertainment onto the basic screens that 90s style dumb phones used to rely on. However, a new version of Snake, coded to run in your browser’s URL address bar, makes playing it on your old Nokia brick feel luxuriously high-res and futuristic. Despite the cramped confines of the URL bar, though, developer Demian Ferreiro must be applauded for keeping the fast, and precise, yet frustrating gameplay of the original intact
Crazy Google Japan keyboard design switches keys for dials — the Gboard Dial Edition shows why the software team isn't allowed to design hardware

Google Japan’s Gboard team has designed and open-sourced a revolutionary new keyboard that boldly eschews keys in favor of dials. The so-called Gboard Dial Edition (machine translation) was devised as a novel and intuitive physical keyboard design, influenced by the seminal and decades-trusted rotary telephone input method.
Jeff Bezos envisions space-based data centers in 10 to 20 years — could allow for natural cooling and more effective solar power

Jeff Bezos predicts that within the next 10 to 20 years, extremely large-scale data centers will be constructed in orbit, where continuous access to solar power and relatively easy cooling could allow them to surpass Earth-based facilities in efficiency and cost, reports Reuters . However, building a data center in space will require a number of breakthroughs as it is commercially unfeasible today.
"One of the things that is going to happen in the next — it is hard to know exactly
China to launch commercial underwater data center — facility expected to consume 90% less power for cooling

Chinese company Highlander is building a server pod near Shanghai, where it will be submerged underwater to reduce the power consumption used by the facility for cooling. According to the South China Morning Post , Highlander is expected to sink the underwater pods in October. The servers will operate commercially, with state-owned institutions like China Telecom being among the first customers.
This isn’t the first underwater data center project; Microsoft concluded its own experiment off the coast of Scotland in 202
Crucial's 20Gb/s X10 Pro 2TB external SSD is only $149 in this early Amazon Prime Day deal — rugged and portable USB-C storage for tech lovers

It's that time of year again, when we are on the cusp of big tech sales from Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy, Walmart, and more. There have been quite a few early deals popping up on the radar beforehand, and yet again today, we have found another sumptuous deal on some excellent storage tech.
If, like me, you're constantly saving, installing, backing up, and just generally moving data all around the place, then you're
AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade

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Nearly every analyst firm and memory maker is now warning of looming shortages of NAND and DRAM that will result in skyrocketing pricing for SSDs and memory over the coming months and years, with some even predicting a shortage that will last a decade. The looming shortages are becoming increasingly impossible to ignore, and the warnings from
BlackRock subsidiary buys up 78 data centers totaling 5 gigawatts in $40 billion deal — AI vendor Aligned added to company's portfolio

Another day, another blimp with billions flying the skies of AI. Today's currency transfer comes from BlackRock subsidiary Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), an investment fund set to write a big check to buy out Aligned Data Centers, a large AI datacenter company. Bloomberg cites sources with knowledge of the deal and pins the amount at a tidy $40 billion.
Aligned may not be a household name in tech news, but according to its website, the company has 78
Nvidia details efficiency of the NVFP4 format for LLM training — new paper reveals how NVFP4 offers benefits over FP8 and BF16

When Nvidia began to disclose details about its new 4-bit floating point format — NVFP4 — earlier this year, it stated that while it is mainly designed for inference, it could also be used for AI training without significant loss in accuracy. Recently, the company released a paper describing how it managed to train a 12-billion-parameter model on a 10-trillion-token dataset using the NVFP4 format, with several supporting techniques, and achieved
Samsung's 49-inch OLED gaming monitor drops to lowest-ever price — max out your GPU, not your credit card, for just $879

Even with the best gaming PC, having a premium monitor makes all the difference for an enjoyable gaming experience. If you're looking for an exceptional OLED gaming monitor, the Samsung Odyssey G9 G93SC is now available at a fantastic new low price of just $879.99 at Amazon, which is up to 45% off the regular price .
Samsung equips the Odyssey G9 G93SC with a massive 4

