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AMD Needs More 7nm Capacity Than GlobalFoundries Can Provide
AMD is sourcing 7nm from TSMC and GlobalFoundries because it expects to have more need for 7nm volume than GF can supply.

MIT Engineers Create Compression Bandage with Color-Changing Fibers
A team of engineers from MIT have developed a new compression wrap that tells you precisely how tight it is with the aid of color-changing fibers.

Star Citizen Unveils $27,000 Content Pack, Because of Course
Star Citizen's financial campaigns are back in the news, this time for a $27,000 pack that costs a bit less than your average new car.

Detroit: Become Human Delivers Some of the Best Digital Performances to Date
If nothing else, Quantic Dream knows how to grab attention. Even though this studio is best-known for turning mundane tasks like twisting doorknobs into game mechanics, there's a level of fidelity in its recent works that is undeniably eye-catching. And despite Detroit: Beyond Human stemming from a 2012 PS3 tech demo, this new release is still capable of surprising us.

The OnePlus 6 Is Good, but It Won’t Kill Any Flagship Android Phones
The company started by offering almost impossibly cheap phones with flagship-level specs — it cheekily called its second phone a "flagship killer." But now the $530 OnePlus 6 is encroaching on flagship territory itself.

Federal Authorities: Reboot Your Router to Stop Russian Malware
It is not uncommon that you might need to reboot your router because of some error or bug, but it's not often that you need to reboot it in the name of national security.

Review: Living With the Nuheara IQBuds Boost
New tech and new laws are combining to make hearing augmentation easier to get, as well as more affordable. We tested the Nuheara IQBuds Boost, one of the first examples of this new class of hybrid listening and hearing devices called hearables, on an extended road trip to Africa and back.

Dinosaur-Killing Impact May Have Superheated Earth’s Atmosphere for 100,000 Years
The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event didn't just kick off a short-term apocalyptic winter — it may have turned the planet's thermostat up dramatically for a hundred thousand years.

Facebook to Build Its Own Silicon for Real-Time Content Filtering
Facebook is reportedly going to start building its own hardware for content monitoring and real-time filtering.

Pluto Might Have Formed as a Giant Comet, Not a Planet
Anyone still smarting over Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet has a reason to perk up. There's some evidence that the planetoid didn't form through the standard process and may instead be the remains of up to a billion comets, smashed together.

2018 Chevrolet Equinox Diesel SUV Review: 42 MPG Highway Cruiser
Now more compelling as a compact SUV, the 2018 Chevy Equinox can go 600 highway miles between fill-ups on diesel. Key safety features are reserved for the Premium version, but no there's still adaptive cruise control.

Samsung Will Turn Off Millions of Displays at Once as Part of an Ad Campaign
Samsung has a great new idea for advertising its televisions: Make end-users think they're actually broken!