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What if you could take the benefits of solid-state speaker drivers — specifically, their extreme thinness and lack of moving parts — and bring them to cooling fans? That's what xMEMS aims to do with its new XMC-2400 µCooling (microcooling) chip. It's a 1mm-tall solid-state fan on a chip that can actively cool extremely thin devices like smartphones and tablets. Based on the same MEMS (Micro



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Nvidia will soon let you link an Xbox account to its GeForce Now streaming service to enable automatic sign-in for supported games. Starting on August 22nd, the new account linking feature will mean you only need to sign-in and link an Xbox profile once so that it’s stored for all future GeForce Now sessions.

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Nvidia is bringing its full set of G-Sync features to monitors that won’t need a proprietary G-Sync module. Nvidia is partnering with MediaTek to integrate all of its current and future G-Sync features into MediaTek scalers, eliminating the need for a dedicated G-Sync module.

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Atari has a treat for those of you sitting on a cache of Atari 7800 game cartridges — a new compact recreation of the classic home console complete with backward compatibility. The company has teamed up with Plaion to announce the Atari 7800 Plus, which comes equipped with an HDMI port to connect to modern televisions, alongside support for both Atari 2600 and



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The author has had a lazy eye her whole life.
  • I have a lazy eye, and kids used to call me names.
  • I've learned to put a positive spin on it, and I highlight features that I like.
  • But as an adult, I still feel insecure sometimes.

"Are you looking at me?" It was a question I was asked often as a kid. One eye would inevitably drift off and out. That was until I learned how to



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The European Commission today approved €5bn in German state aid to support TSMC’s chip plant in Dresden — its first in Europe. Dubbed European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC), the fab is a joint venture between the Taiwanese chip giant, the Netherlands’ NXP, and Germany’s Bosch and Infineon. TSMC will own 70% of the factory, while the European chipmakers will each have a 10% equity



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"Breaking Bad's" Walter White, Skyler White, and Walter White Jr., are part of the AMC Collection on Netflix. Will anyone notice the "AMC" part?
  • Netflix wants you to think of things you see on Netflix as Netflix shows and movies.
  • The people who license those movies and TV shows wish you thought of them as NBC shows, or Disney movies, or whatever.
  • A new deal with AMC Networks shows you



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An Italian Coast Guard vessel during the search and rescue operation after the superyacht Bayesian, which capsized off the coast of Sicily.
  • Angela Bacares, the wife of the missing tech tycoon Mike Lynch, spoke to Italy's La Repubblica.
  • She described how the yacht she was traveling on with Lynch "tilted" before sinking.
  • Bacares' daughter and Lynch are among the people who were on the



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Ukrainian mortar unit firing in the direction of Toretsk, Ukraine, on August 18, 2024.
  • A Ukrainian commander says Russian soldiers are advancing in eastern Ukraine due to dwindling ammo.
  • He partly blamed Kyiv for sending resources to sustain the Kursk operation, per the Financial Times.
  • At least 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been redeployed to Kursk



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Kanokporn Tangsuan died in October 2023 from anaphylaxis after eating at a restaurant at Disney Springs at Walt Disney World.
  • A doctor died from a severe allergic reaction after eating at Disney Springs in Florida last year.
  • Her widower sued, but Disney said he couldn't take it to court under the T&Cs of a Disney+ free trial.
  • Disney has now reversed