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hardware 21.02.2026

Wavepiston will build a unique wave power plant in Barbados with a capacity of 50 MW, which does not yet exist anywhere in the world

Introduction A little over thirty years ago, the Danish company Wavepiston created an innovative modular system capable of simultaneously converting ocean wave energy into electri...

hardware 21.02.2026

Neuralink, a Chinese company, announced its first results: the patient was able to control a cursor in just five days after implant placement.

Chinese startup NeuroXess demonstrates rapid progress in brain implants NeuroXess’s new implant allows people with paralysis to control a computer cursor “by the power of thought....

hardware 21.02.2026

An engineer created a 10‑gram robotic bird that can spin up to 31 km/h and is controlled via a smartphone

French engineer Edwin Van Rymbek presented the new ornithopter drone “Strel” > *“Strel” (Swift) – a compact and lightweight aircraft capable of mimicking the flight of real birds...

hardware 21.02.2026

Scammers have infiltrated the Google search engine and are offering users fraudulent bank operator numbers.

How Scammers Use New “AI Reviews” from Google With the growing capabilities of artificial intelligence, Google's main service is changing its output format: instead of familiar li...

hardware 21.02.2026

In Europe a new investigation has been launched regarding the indecent posts made by the AI bot Grok on the X network

Irish regulator launches large-scale investigation into X chat‑bot Grok *According to the Financial Times*, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the start of a maj...

hardware 21.02.2026

China has developed a three-dimensional holographic printer that fully prints models in less than a second

Chinese scientists have revolutionized 3‑D printing: an entire model is printed in half a second Printing on ordinary 3‑D printers often takes hours, sometimes even a full day. Su...

hardware 21.02.2026

Ford warns that car prices will rise when the AI memory cyber-crisis reaches the automotive industry

Short summary The memory shortage caused by shifting capacity to AI chip production is already starting to be felt in the automotive industry. Ford CFO Sherri House warned of a po...

hardware 21.02.2026

Graphics cards have risen in price by about 15% since November, with the most noticeable gains coming from the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5090.

GPU Market: Price Dynamics from November 2025 to February 2026 PlatformCountryMinimum price (November)Minimum price (February)% ChangeNvidia GeForce RTX 5070 TiUSA$1,000$1,250+25 ...

hardware 21.02.2026

Pentagon threatens a harsh response from Anthropic for banning the use of Claude in surveillance and autonomous weapons systems

Brief about the situation U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is considering ending all business ties with Anthropic—a leading AI developer—and labeling it a “supply‑chain thre...

hardware 21.02.2026

Diablo III continues to attract millions of players even after 14 years since its launch, reports Blizzard.

How Diablo III Continues to Live On Despite New Releases Despite Blizzard releasing *Diablo II: Resurrected* and *Diablo IV*, the head of the Diablo Legacy department, Matthew S...

hardware 21.02.2026

Users are complaining about frequent outages of the social network X, with thousands of people reporting them.

Participants of the X network began experiencing access denial to the site at 16:00 MSK (8 am Eastern Time). At that same moment reports appeared about Cloudflare outages, which ty...

hardware 21.02.2026

The following Intel Xe Next GPUs will be geared toward artificial intelligence rather than gaming tasks

Intel Announces New Graphics Development Strategy * Key point: the company plans to release new GPUs based on an architecture they call “Xe Next.” These chips will follow the alre...