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Bye bye, Wi-Fi: How to add a wired network to your home without running Ethernet

Turn your cable outlets into high-speed internet ports with this simple, low-cost adapter - no rewiring required.

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AWS DevOps Agent helps you accelerate incident response and improve system reliability (preview)

New service acts as an always-on DevOps engineer, helping you respond to incidents, identify root causes, and prevent future issues through systematic analysis of incidents and operational patterns.

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This year’s most influential open source projects

From Appwrite to Zulip, Universe 2025’s Open Source Zone was stacked with standout projects showing just how far open source can go. Meet the maintainers—and if you want to join them in 2026, you can now apply for next year’s cohort.
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Caltech breakthrough makes quantum memory last 30 times longer

While superconducting qubits are great at fast calculations, they struggle to store information for long periods. A team at Caltech has now developed a clever solution: converting quantum information into sound waves. By using a tiny device that acts like a miniature tuning fork, the researchers wer…

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Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere

This giant bubble on the island of Sardinia holds 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. But the gas wasn’t captured from factory emissions, nor was it pulled from the air. It came from a gas supplier, and it lives permanently inside the dome’s system to serve an eco-friendly purpose: to store large amount…

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AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS re:Invent keynote recap, on-demand videos, and more (December 8, 2025)

The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges and unlock new opportunities. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2025 t…

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New and enhanced AWS Support plans add AI capabilities to expert guidance

Prevent cloud infrastructure issues before they impact your business with AWS Support plans that combine AI-powered insights with expert guidance, offering faster response times and proactive monitoring across performance, security, and cost dimensions.

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Accelerate AI development using Amazon SageMaker AI with serverless MLflow

Simplify AI experimentation with zero-infrastructure MLflow that launches in minutes, scales automatically, and seamlessly integrates with SageMaker's model customization and pipeline capabilities.

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New capabilities to optimize costs and improve scalability on Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Oracle

Manage development, testing, and production database workloads more efficiently with new features including Developer Edition support for SQL Server, M7i/R7i instance support with optimize CPU, and expanded storage options up to 256 TiB.

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AI Data Centers Demand More Than Copper Can Deliver

SummaryIn data-center terms, scaling out involves linking computers, while scaling up packs more GPUs into a computer, challenging copper’s physical limits.Copper cables face a phenomenon at high data rates at high data rates that necessitate wider wires and more power, complicating a data center’s …

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Amazon S3 Vectors now generally available with increased scale and performance

Scale vector storage and querying to new heights with S3 Vectors' general availability—now supporting up to 1 billion vectors per index, 100ms query latencies, and expanded regional availability, while reducing costs up to 90% compared to specialized databases.

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Announcing replication support and Intelligent-Tiering for Amazon S3 Tables

New features enable automatic cost optimization through intelligent storage tiering and simplified table replication across AWS Regions and accounts.

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How Antitrust Enforcers Helped Kill an American Innovator

If the goal of antitrust is to promote competition and protect consumers, then the iRobot saga should prompt serious reflection. Because this time, the cost was plain for all to see: The loss of an American innovator, its workforce, and its future.
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Scientists twist DNA into self-building nanostructures that could transform technology

Scientists have used DNA's self-assembling properties to engineer intricate moiré superlattices at the nanometer scale—structures that twist and layer like never before. With clever molecular “blueprints,” they’ve created customizable lattices featuring patterns such as honeycombs and squares, all w…

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This Valve Could Halve EV Fast-Charge Times

Fast, direct-current charging can charge an EV’s battery from about 20 percent to 80 percent in 20 minutes. That’s not bad, but it’s still about six times as long as it takes to fill the tank of an ordinary petrol-powered vehicle.One of the major bottlenecks to even faster charging is cooling, speci…

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How to Accelerate Radar Cross Section Simulations for Large Structures

Achieve accurate RCS predictions for electrically large aerospace structures in minutes instead ofhours using advanced approximation techniques on standard desktop hardware.What Attendees will Learn“Simulate smart, not slow” -- Extrapolation cuts 1-hour MoM runs to minutes.95%+ time savings -- Physi…

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Advice on Leading and Mentoring for Greater Innovation

In the modern era of rapid digital transformation, engineering leaders are expected to be more than project managers and technical experts. They need to be vision-setters, innovation enablers, and mentors shaping the next generation of talent.Leadership and mentorship, when paired with intention, do…

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Atomically Thin Materials Significantly Shrink Qubits

Quantum computing is a devilishly complex technology, with many technical hurdles impacting its development. Of these challenges two critical issues stand out: miniaturization and qubit quality.IBM has adopted the superconducting qubit road map of reaching a 1,121-qubit processor by 2023, leading to…

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8 ways to get more iPhone storage today - and most are free

Running out of iPhone space? Don't panic-buy a new phone or more iCloud+. Here's how to free up space fast.

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I took apart this cheap 600W charger to test its claims. What I found inside was not right

Some things really are too good to be true, like this GaN charger from eBay.