Nvidia just released its second-quarter earnings for 2025, which showed the company breaking its sales records . This is great news for the AI GPU giant and its investors, but the quarterly report also showed a risk that the company is taking. Business publication Sherwood noted that nearly 53% of the reported revenue for the Green Team's Data Center division comes from just three unnamed customers, totaling about $21.9 billion in sales. This is broken down
AI converts ASCII game to real-time AI-rendered graphics – Thunder Lizard ASCII visuals transformed, but latency and consistency need improvement
Software engineer Jeff Schomay has been experimenting with techniques to transform game visuals using artificial intelligence-powered rendering. In a recent blog post, he shared screens from his Thunder Lizard “old-school ASCII RPG style game” and you can see various AI models reconstructing the title’s basic character-based visuals into far plusher full-motion graphics. However, there are quite a few compromises needed to achieve a ‘playable’ 10fps and 1ms latency AI visual enhanced game
Kioxia Exceria Plus G2 (2TB) review: Convex and compact
Tom's Hardware Verdict
Kioxia’s Exceria Plus G2 external drive is compact and feels premium, while delivering typical 10 Gbps SSD performance.
Pros
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Good sustained write performance
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Compact metal shell
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Two USB cables included+
Cons
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Real-world performance doesn’t stand out-
Enthusiast dunks 1080 Ti into car transmission fluid & runs overclocking experiments with a Dodge Journey transmission cooler as a radiator — DIY immersion cooling rig delivers 7% to 16% gains
Immersion cooling is typically associated with large-scale server environments where conventional air-cooled setups are insufficient. Efforts have been made to commercialize the technology, but, of course, enthusiasts wanting to push their hardware will not wait for any revolution—they'll push through to power their own breakthrough.
Such is the story of u/Tra5shL0rd on Reddit, who took to r/nvidia to showcase his crazy DIY immersion cooling apparatus, only
Lenovo is making a laptop with a rotating screen that swivels from portrait to landscape in real-time — "Project Pivo" gets leaked ahead of showcase next week
Lenovo, in its least surprising move yet, is working on a concept laptop with a rotating screen that can switch from a conventional landscape orientation to a portrait one, making it the ultimate doomscrolling machine. This leak comes courtesy of Evan Blass , a reliable name in the industry, who claims Lenovo is set to unveil this device next week in Europe at IFA. The video below was posted by ZDNet just a day after the initial leak.
Think of this as the spiritual successor to the
Apple iMac G3 made from Legos has a chance to become an official retail set — a fan-designed model needs 4,000 more signatures to be considered by Lego
The 1990s' most iconic blob, besides the Volkswagen Beetle, may soon be resurrected in brick-built form. A LEGO model of the Apple iMac G3 is up for consideration and fan voting on the LEGO Ideas website, where it is competing for a chance to become an officially licensed and commercially released LEGO model.
The Lego iMac is a 700-piece scale model of the original iMac G3, released in 19
Save hundreds on a MacBook this Labor Day, starting from just $999 with up to $300 off on upper-range models — Apple's latest laptops are on sale
This Labor Day weekend, treat yourself to a new laptop—but not just any laptop—instead, opt for one of the best work machines available today. Apple's MacBook is a go-to choice for reliable, recommended laptops that suit a wide range of users. With the advent of the M-series chips, they've become super competitive in terms of value as well. As such, we've rounded up some of the best deals on MacBooks
Core Ultra 3 205 flaunts 30% higher multi-core performance over Core i3-14100 in early benchmarks — extra E-cores seemingly contribute to uplift
Performance benchmarks surrounding Intel's upcoming entry-level Core Ultra 3 205 have surfaced, showing considerable multi-core improvements over Intel's current-gen Core i3. Spotted by Benchleaks on X, the new eight-core Arrow Lake-S CPU delivers 30% superior multi-core performance compared to the Core i3-14100 in Geekbench 6.
Benchleaks discovered two Geekbench 6 listings. One boasts a single-core result of 2,
Battlefield 6's modest system requirements open the doors to gamers of all budgets — six-year-old GPUs meet minimum recommendations
EA has just released the final hardware requirements for Battlefield 6 ( BF6 ), with the initial minimum and recommended specifications remaining largely unchanged. Nevertheless, the game's developers have just released the minimum, recommended, and ultra settings requirements for the game's gear.
You can still play BF6 even if you have ancient hardware, as the minimum requirement for 1080p@30 (Low) is just an Intel Core i5-8400
$175,000 computer server package acquired by mayor flagged as suspicious due to an apparent 1,300% markup
A recently elected mayor has brought to light a costly computer systems deal, which was signed, sealed, and delivered by their predecessor. On her Facebook page , Mayor Sally A. Lopez shares photos and documents confirming that her predecessor acquired a “10 million System Server Package.” Assuming we are talking Philippine pesos, that’s equivalent to about USD $175,000. However, the 16 systems look bargain-basement – at