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A defunct Russian satellite broke up this week, sending a cloud of dangerous debris zipping around Earth. Skywatchers identified more than 100 pieces of space junk spreading out from the satellite’s former location, causing astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) to shelter in various spacecraft, including the troubled Boeing …

It’s a sad day for computer enthusiasts the world over, as the Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle has announced it’s closing for good and will never reopen. The museum previously shut down due to COVID-19, and it’s now been confirmed it will not reopen. The museum was started …

It’s a busy time aboard the International Space Station (ISS), which usually hosts a crew of seven astronauts. With the extended Starliner demo flight, the count is up to nine with Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. NASA was happy to have the help as it planned a pair of spacewalks …

AMD announced revamped Zen 5 processors at Computex in May for desktop and mobile, but they won’t launch until July. Ahead of their auspicious debut, we now have our first deep dive into Zen 5 mobile, and it verifies AMD’s claim of an IPC (instructions per clock) gain over Zen …

Boeing’s troubled Starliner spacecraft was supposed to have returned to Earth weeks ago, but it’s still at the International Space Station (ISS), along with its crew. And that’s not changing anytime soon. NASA has announced that Starliner’s return flight has been delayed again until an unspecified date in July, giving …

One of the toughest aspects of working in a call center is dealing with customers who, for whatever reason, refuse to behave in accordance with the fact that the representative on the other end of the line is a human being. Beyond the immediate stress of dealing with an angry …

Nvidia’s value has skyrocketed in recent years, as each new technological trend seems tailored to boost its business. Case in point, GPUs are great for mining cryptocurrency, and the company sold a boatload of chips for this purpose during the crypto boom. Some Nvidia investors aren’t happy with how Nvidia …

In the 1980s and 1990s, the world’s governments came together in a rare show of cooperation to rid Earth’s atmosphere of certain ozone-depleting substances (ODSs). Used mainly in air conditioning and refrigeration, these chemicals had been proven to harm the ozone layer, or the stretch of ozone and other gasses …

Nvidia continues to cement its dominance of the discrete GPU market, according to a new GPU sales report for the first quarter of 2024 compiled by Jon Peddle Research (JPR). Overall, it was a bad quarter for graphics cards, which is typical since it follows the holiday period. Still, sales …

For the past year, we’ve all been sitting back and watching Nvidia’s stock price go to the moon. The company generates record-breaking quarterly revenues, with no signs of the money train slowing down because of how AI has taken over the global tech industry. Now, TSMC’s new chairman is saying …