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hardware 01.04.2026

China has identified an asteroid for study with a space probe exclusively for scientific purposes

China is preparing a new project to divert a hazardous asteroid Recently it has become known that China plans to change the target of its “kinetic impact” mission aimed at a celes...

hardware 01.04.2026

Spain has created "two-dimensional" solar panels that are perfectly suited for building facades

Ultra-thin solar panels from UPM researchers *Key result*: The Spanish group SyNC from the Institute of Solar Energy at Madrid Polytechnic University (UPM) has created prototypes...

hardware 01.04.2026

The Perseverance rover discovered an ancient river delta beneath the Martian surface.

Brief news summary NASA rover Perseverance used the RIMFAX ground‑penetrating radar to investigate the delta of an ancient river that flowed into a lake in the Yezero crater. By c...

hardware 01.04.2026

Samsung Electronics will raise its investment in expanding semiconductor production and R&D by 22%, reaching $73 billion.

Samsung Electronics announced a plan for investments in 2024‑25 The Korean technology giant had to disclose its plans after competing Micron Technology declared the need to sharpl...

hardware 01.04.2026

US regulators intensified scrutiny of Tesla's autopilot after nine crashes

New Requirements for Tesla Driver Assistance System The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has intensified its investigation into the “degradation detecti...

hardware 01.04.2026

Microsoft declined to make Copilot mandatory in the Windows 11 Start menu

Microsoft Postpones Mandatory Deployment of Copilot in Windows 11 At the beginning of the week, the company announced that it is temporarily canceling the plan for automatic insta...

hardware 01.04.2026

Apple decided to release an economical iPad with the A18 processor this spring

Apple has not announced a new base iPad with the A18, but plans remain unchanged In March the company launched a series of announcements that do not mention a base iPad model equi...

hardware 01.04.2026

Microsoft has unveiled the long‑awaited Windows update that will give users control over how updates are configured.

Microsoft Changes Windows Update Rules The head of the Windows group, Pavan Davuluri, announced that in the near future users will be able to “pause patch installations for as lon...

hardware 01.04.2026

The taskbar in Windows 11 will finally be movable, just like in Windows 10

Microsoft Reintroduces Taskbar Mobility in Windows 11 Microsoft announced that the next major update to the Windows 11 interface will restore the ability to place the taskbar not...

hardware 01.04.2026

In China, a method for cooling quantum processors without using rare helium‑3 was discovered

China Breakthrough in Ultra-Low Temperature Technology Chinese scientists have created a new rare-earth alloy based on europium, cobalt, and aluminum (composition EuCo₂Al₉). This...

hardware 01.04.2026

Microsoft acknowledged that the March update to Windows 11 disrupted access to Teams and OneDrive.

Problem Summary After installing the cumulative update KB5079473 (Patch Tuesday) in Windows 11, some services stopped working correctly with Microsoft accounts. This affected Team...

hardware 01.04.2026

Amazon plans to bring smartphones back to the market after twelve years with the failed Fire Phone.

Amazon Returns to the Smartphone Market: New Phone – Transformer In 2014 Amazon released the Fire Phone in an attempt to challenge Apple and Samsung. The company's most famous pro...