HARDWARE·May 10, 2026Former Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game engines — 'The Immense Engine' developer sees opportunity for AI agents to 'do the work of ten or fifteen people'Tom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 10, 2026China's Hanyuan-2 debuts as the 'world's first' dual-core quantum computer — 200-qubit claims incredible power efficiency, but lacks critical performance benchmarksTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 10, 2026AI data center project secretly sucked 29 million gallons of water over 15 months before being detected by residents complaining about low water pressure — officials refuse to fine builders of massive 6.2 million-square-foot facility over unauthorized water useTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 10, 2026Tiny credit card computer includes eInk screen and is just 1mm thick — Muxcard is powered by the ESP32-C3 microcontrollerTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 10, 2026AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D faceoff — How far does dual cache take you?Tom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 10, 2026AMD’s legendary K5, its first independently designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — the 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burdenTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 10, 2026Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to ‘Go (Bleep) yourself’ over its threatened lawsuit against enthusiast — Right to Repair advocate offers to pay the legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developerTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 10, 2026AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effectsTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 10, 2026$200 'socketed' Nvidia AI GPU for servers hacked into a PCIe card with custom PCB and 3D-printed cooling — modded Tesla V100 SMX data center GPU runs AI LLMs and is more efficient than many modern midrange offerings in AI inferenceTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 10, 2026NASA pushes Mars helicopter rotors past the speed of sound for the first time ever — next-gen “SkyFall” aircraft's rotors hit 3,750 RPM, ten times faster than normal helicoptersTom's Hardware
HARDWARE·May 10, 2026Ukraine’s new AI-guided laser destroys Shahed suicide drones in seconds from 3.1 miles away — also useful for demining operations, trailer-mounted Tryzub system is in final stages of testingTom's Hardware
