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Scientists might have accidentally discovered how lightning forms – from bending ice  TechSpot Flexoelectricity and surface ferroelectricity of water ice  Nature It Turns Out Bending Ice Produces Electricity, And This Could Finally Explain The Origin Of Lightning  IFLScience Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent  Phys.org Ice shows hidden ability to produce electricity when stressed: Study  Interesting Engineering Source link

August Steam survey: AMD loses CPU ground to Intel, top GPU changes again  TechSpot 32GB of RAM on track to become the new majority for gamers — Steam survey indicates shift could occur before the end of the year  Tom’s Hardware Most Steam users switched to an 8GB GPU this month but I’m not worried for the future of VRAM capacity  Club386 Source …

The rising cost of play: AAA games, consoles, and GPUs surge in cost  TechSpot Gaming consoles are becoming more expensive as they age for the first time in history — gamers blame tariffs for PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch price increases  Tom’s Hardware Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced  Ars Technica Why Are Games Getting More Expensive?  GamesHub Why are video games getting more expensive? …

Battlefield 6 drops ray tracing to prioritize performance at launch  TechSpot Battlefield 6 Has Deliberately Avoided Adding Ray-Tracing — Here’s Why  IGN Battlefield 6 dev says “a significant number” of users played the game below the minimum recommended specs, as EA points to the importance of weaker hardware  Eurogamer Battlefield 6 Won’t Have Ray Tracing at Launch, No Plans in Future (Exclusive)  ComicBook.com Battlefield …

Gen Z pushes back against smart glasses and cameras over privacy fears  TechSpot I went to a spa for a Brazilian wax — but I was shocked by what the worker was wearing  New York Post Smart glasses record people in public. The most online generation is pushing back.  The Washington Post Woman Goes to Get Brazilian Wax, Alarmed to Notice Waxer Is …

Quantum computers may arrive sooner as scientists bypass flawless chip requirement  TechSpot Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing: From Exploration To Execution  Forbes University of California, Riverside Researchers Simulate Fault-Tolerant Quantum Systems with Noisy Links  Quantum Computing Report Breathing room for quantum chips: Study shows noisy links can still scale systems  yahoo.com Linking Multiple Quantum Chips to Build Larger, More Reliable Quantum Computers  The Quantum Insider Source link

Nearly 40% of Nvidia’s revenue tied to two mystery customers, filing shows  TechSpot Nvidia’s top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker’s Q2 revenue  CNBC Nvidia says two mystery customers accounted for 39% of Q2 revenue  TechCrunch More than 50% of Nvidia’s data center revenue comes from three customers — $21.9 billion in sales recorded from the unnamed companies  Tom’s Hardware Over …

Windows 11 25H2 enters release preview with stable, incremental changes  TechSpot Releasing Windows 11, version 25H2 to the Release Preview Channel  Windows Blog Microsoft’s next annual update for Windows 11 is in Release Preview testing  The Verge Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 25H2  BetaNews Windows 11 KB5064081 update clears up CPU usage metrics in Task Manager  BleepingComputer Source link

Hacker’s intervention exposes Tesla crash records, shifts legal precedent  TechSpot Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it.  The Washington Post Tesla’s Lawyers File Motion to Throw Out $243 Million Verdict in Fatal Crash  The New York Times Tesla verdict rocked by hacker-recovered data in fatal autopilot crash case  WPLG Local 10 Tesla lawyers ask judge …

Performance woes in Unreal Engine 5 games are developers’ fault, says Tim Sweeney  TechSpot Epic Games CEO Reveals Why Nintendo Switch 2 Ports Are Having Performance Issues  vice.com Epic Games CEO Links Unreal Engine 5’s Optimization Issues to Developer Practices  80 Level Unreal Engine 5 performance issues are mainly due to devs not optimising properly, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says  Video Games Chronicle Epic’s …