Modder pumps liquid directly over bare GPU silicon via 3D-printed block — drops RTX 2060 Super load temps to 28°C despite initial leaks

The fearless TrashBench has been testing direct die water cooling of graphics cards and suffered most of the leaky nightmares you might expect.

Apple’s Watch shake-up is a subtraction. There is no cheap one this year.
Apple’s Watch shake-up is a subtraction. There is no cheap one this year.

Apple is in late-stage testing on three Apple Watch models for this autumn, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported: the Series 12 in Wi-Fi and cellular versions, plus the Ultra 4. He has not heard of a new Apple Watch SE planned for 2026. That absence is the…

Who Hits The Snow Jackpot In The U.S. During A Strong El Niño?

Who wins and loses in the U.S. when it comes to snow during a strong El Niño?

Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.
Amazon’s new Texas data centre could become America’s biggest single polluter. It will not touch the grid.

Amazon has confirmed it is investing in a large natural gas plant to power a data centre in Pecos County, Texas, a facility the New York Times reports could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States. Permits allow the p…

‘There’s never been a better time to be a Pokémon Go player’: 10 years on, VP of game development says there’s plenty still to come
‘There’s never been a better time to be a Pokémon Go player’: 10 years on, VP of game development says there’s plenty still to come

When it comes to mobile games, few remain culturally relevant for a decade and none have shadows that loom quite as large as Pokémon Go. Celebrating the game’s ten-year anniversary, the VP of game development tells us what comes next.

This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.

On this day in space! Aug. 9, 1976: Soviet Luna 24 sample return probe launches to the moon
On this day in space! Aug. 9, 1976: Soviet Luna 24 sample return probe launches to the moon

On Aug. 9, 1976, the Soviet space program launched its last moon mission. Luna 24 was a robotic sample return mission and the third of its kind.

Exploring ‘very low Earth orbit’: The world’s 1st air-breathing satellite thruster could soon get a test run
Exploring ‘very low Earth orbit’: The world’s 1st air-breathing satellite thruster could soon get a test run

Air-breathing electric propulsion could help satellites explore a new frontier, one that lies quite close to our planet.

Musk’s Terafab projected to be larger than the Pentagon, Apple Park, Mall of America, and Giga Texas, combined — all-in-one chip manufacturing facility visualized to show the project’s massive footprint

Elon Musk’s Terafab will have at least 100 million sq. ft of interior space, making it the largest such structure on Earth by a big margin. It seems that it will need this amount of space, though, for Musk’s ambitious plan of bringing multiple semiconductor manufacturing processes under one roof.

Myspace wants to sell you a feed without an algorithm. Brussels is about to make that mandatory anyway.
Myspace wants to sell you a feed without an algorithm. Brussels is about to make that mandatory anyway.

The Vanderhook brothers, whose company Viant Technology owns Myspace, have confirmed they intend to relaunch the platform. They made the announcement in a documentary titled Myspace, which premiered at Hot Docs in Toronto and also features co-founder C…