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How the AI revolution is triggering a hardware arms race and pushing up prices
Look at the numbers involved in AI cloud investment and data center buildout, and the stats are astonishing. The Magnificent 7 tech companies – the biggest tech giants in the world – have collectively invested more than $100 billion in data centers and other infrastructure in the last three months alone. The majority of that…

Why the transceiver “arms race” is turning network engineers toward versatility
Skyrocketing data consumption The last few years have seen a tremendous amount of change in the mobile data world. Both in the United States and around the globe, data consumption is growing faster than ever before. The number of internet users continues to rise, from 5.35 billion users in 2024 to an estimated 7.9 billion…
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ModRetro Chromatic review: an arms dealer’s Game Boy is among the best ever made
If Lockheed Martin made a Game Boy, would you buy one? In the 1990s, I was among the kids who thought military aircraft were devastatingly cool. By then, Tom Cruise and Top Gun had long established the F-14 Tomcat and a pair of aviator shades as a fantasy for young men; I personally preferred the…