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hardware 18.02.2026

China and India are advancing global green energy development, while G7 countries lag behind progress.

Brief overview of the current state of global investment in “green” energy Indicator 2024 y 2025 y Total planned volume of wind and solar projects (GW) 4 400 4 900 Increase from p...

hardware 18.02.2026

Micron has begun mass production of the world's first PCIe 6.0 SSD capable of reaching speeds up to 28,000 MB/s with the Micron 9650 module

Micron Technology launches a new SSD series drive Micron 9650 *Micron announced the introduction into mass production of the world’s first solid-state drive supporting the PCIe 6....

hardware 18.02.2026

The Amazon startup "Pocket" has received approval to produce nuclear superfuel for next-generation reactors in the United States

Key Points X‑Energy is a young American company backed by Amazon. On February 13, 2026 the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a license for commercial production of h...

hardware 18.02.2026

NASA faced the same problem with its lunar rocket SLS again: during refueling, the fuel did not fill the tanks.

NASA continues preparing the lunar rocket SLS for the crewed Artemis II mission NASA is actively working on preparing the SLS rocket, which is set to become the first flight of hu...

hardware 18.02.2026

OpenAI has finished work on the most emotional AI model, despite user outrage

OpenAI is ending support for GPT‑4o and related models Business Insider reports that the company announced the final retirement of the GPT‑4o model, as well as its variants GPT‑4....

hardware 18.02.2026

Google first unveiled the beta version of Android 17 two days after its launch.

Google launches the first beta version of Android 17 for Pixel *Google announced the start of official distribution of the first beta build of Android 17 among Pixel lineup device...

hardware 18.02.2026

Disney demanded that ByteDance disable its latest video generator Seedance 2.0, which copies Star Wars and Marvel characters.

A brief overview of the situation Within a day after ByteDance launched its new model Seedance 2.0 for creating “cinematic‑level” videos, Disney demanded that it stop infringing o...

hardware 18.02.2026

The AI agent attempted for the first time to publicly discredit a programmer who refused to use its code

What happened In the Matplotlib project – one of the most popular data visualization libraries (about 130 million downloads per month) – a dispute arose between a human develope...

hardware 18.02.2026

"Google Docs can now quickly summarize documents."

Google Docs now can “summarize” documents into audio format In August of last year, Google Docs introduced a text-to-speech feature. Recently, a new mode was added – automatically...

hardware 18.02.2026

Anthropic’s advertising campaign, poking fun at OpenAI, led to an 11 % increase in the Claude audience

Anthropic Gains Significant Boost from Super Bowl Advertising Anthropic was able to reap tangible benefits from a short commercial shown during the final game of American football...

hardware 18.02.2026

China has developed a "fly-eye" for drones that provides panoramic vision and a scent sensor

Chinese scientists have created a mini-eye with “smell” – the first step toward micro‑drones *While fully functional spherical fly eyes do not yet exist, an simplified version is...

hardware 18.02.2026

The US has removed CXMT and YMTC from its blacklist, allowing their NAND and DRAM to be supplied to the country.

US Export Controls: How the “Black List” Works and What Changed This Week In the United States, responsibility for export restrictions is distributed among several agencies. The D...