HARDWARE·July 30, 2026Nvidia's fastest graphics cards get US price increase at Best Buy, Amazon — Astral RTX 5080 now costs more than 5090's MSRP, flagship card now commands more than $4,300Tom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 30, 2026Intel licenses Atom-class x86 cores to startup — firm reportedly sharing RTL, enabling customers to build custom processors based on x86 general-purpose coresTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 30, 2026Foreign-made robot vacuums caught up in FCC robot ban — covers any ground robot over 4.4 pounds with a 200 kbps connectionTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 30, 2026Why you need a macro pad, even if you have a mouse with 19 buttons — from $10 mechanical numpads to multi-screen window managementTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 30, 2026A Mac mini server is running headless in my closet — it manages my photo library and handles my backupsTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 30, 2026Shipping container-launched cargo rocket promises 550-pound deliveries 750 km away in 15 minutes — $1.25M Air Force contract backs 'Rook' cargo rocket that flies into space to speed deliveriesTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 30, 2026$21 Nintendo Wii U upgrade lets you add TBs of storage to your console with an M.2 or SATA SSD — upgrade makes console slightly faster, but requires Homebrew and custom firmwareTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 30, 2026Legendary Windows developer codes Task Manager for the Mac, says Apple’s ‘Activity Monitor blows’ — Microsoft gave original Windows Task Manager dev permission to reference Windows XP source codeTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 30, 2026Gamers compress 80TB map of Minecraft's oldest anarchy server down to a 15TB download — custom .zvcr compression format and 28 bots map 1 million blocks on infamous 2b2t serverTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 30, 2026Firm that uses AI to locate ancient lost shipwrecks is hiring a literal pirate to salvage sunken treasure, paying up to $500,000 a year — AI mines 500 years of Spanish colonial records spanning 80 million pages to find undiscovered wrecks and lost cargoTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 30, 2026Pennsylvania town lists 43 specific demands to approve new AI data center project — developer calls local demands 'too difficult' as council slams response as 'approval by tantrum'Tom's Hardware
HARDWARE·July 30, 2026Microsoft says physical discs should not have stopped working during the Xbox outage, clarifies issue with entitlement checks that failed to read licenses correctly, update on the wayTom's Hardware
