This rugged Samsung tablet offers 8 years of Android updates and dual hot-swappable batteries

Samsung’s rugged tablet built for frontline industries has dual batteries and 5G support It includes a stylus, 8 years of Android updates, and can run without a battery First review praises long battery life, strong durability, and enterprise-ready hardware design Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro is a rugged tablet built for demanding work environments. Introduced…

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AMD’s budget server CPU just destroyed its old flagship, almost 3X faster and shockingly efficient

Benchmarks show AMD’s new EPYC 4005 series outperforming older eight-channel EPYC 7601 memory systems with just two DIMMs Performance-per-Watt improvements put AMD’s 4005 chip in a new league of server efficiency Grado proves newer design beats older bulk – less memory, lower power, yet more performance In an eight-year leap, AMD’s new EPYC 4585PX processor…

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Defying physics: This rare crystal cools itself using pure magnetism

Natural crystals fascinate with their vibrant colors, their nearly flawless appearance and their manifold symmetrical forms. But researchers are interested in them for quite different reasons: among the countless minerals already known, they always discover some materials with unusual magnetic properties. One of these is atacamite, which exhibits magnetocaloric behavior at low temperatures – that…

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Scientists capture real-time birth of ultrafast laser pulses

The Mamyshev oscillator (MO) is a type of fiber laser capable of producing high-energy laser pulses at a tunable repetition rate. It is a mode-locked laser which uses light travelling within a closed-loop cavity to produce laser emission. Harmonic mode-locking (HML) is an advanced form of mode-locking process where multiple laser pulses are produced within…

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Quordle hints and answers for Monday, July 7 (game #1260)

Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, July 6 (game #1259). Quordle…

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Netflix explains how it’s quietly upgraded the image quality of your favorite movies and TV shows – and it’s all about film grain

Netflix’s new AV1 Film Grain Synthesis tech boosts image quality It also reduces file size and improves streaming performance The tech has been rolling out to movies and TV shows since March 2025 Film grain is something of a ‘secret sauce’ that makes movies look, well, like movies. Go to the cinema and, while you’ll…

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