Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has sung the praises of Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra, describing it as “so beautiful” and “incredible”. Speaking at a developer event in London, Huang outlined the development process that went into building the hardware powering the new product, which is the first Microsoft device powered by an Nvidia chip. “This…

WindBorne’s weather balloon fleet secures a potential $49 million Air Force contract The military has ordered $1.7 million in data so far WindBorne operates about 700 balloons collecting atmospheric measurements worldwide WindBorne Systems has secured a potential $49 million US Air Force agreement, allowing the military to purchase atmospheric measurements gathered by autonomous balloons worldwide….

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Zotac Magnus One Ultra’s Core Ultra 7 265 delivers 20 cores and speeds of up to 5.3 GHz Nvidia rates the desktop RTX 5080 at 1,801 AI TOPS for artificial intelligence workloads The desktop GPU features 10,752 CUDA cores, 336 Tensor cores, and 84 RT cores Zotac has released a compact desktop computer built around…

Recent data published by Counterpoint Research paints a bleak picture of the smartphone industry as it stands today. Q3 2026 (that’s the period between July and September) marked the lowest Q3 for smartphone sales in 14 years, with challenger brands like Oppo, Xiaomi, and Vivo all experiencing declines in market share versus the same period…

Microsoft will make Maia its main inference engine at multi-gigawatt scale, following Google and Amazon into in-house silicon Microsoft’s upcoming Maia 300 trades a modest 36% compute gain for 2.5x Maia 200’s memory bandwidth, betting on memory-bound decode, with production in 2027 Hyperscalers supply just over half of Nvidia’s data center revenue at a 75%…

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