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Bambu Lab has started its Halloween Sale, with a collection of themed bundles, filament offers, Maker's Supply discounts, and CyberBrick deals. The sale period runs from September 28 to October 16. • Shop the Halloween Sale at Bambu Lab No, I don't know why it ends before Halloween either, but if you're pairing those deals with a Bambu Lab machine, I've picked out the top three 3D printers I'd buy based on our workshop tests. My top cheap 3D printer for beginners A1 Mini 3D Printer: $219 Despite being the cheapest of my three picks, the Bambu Lab A1 mini is a terrific choice if you're new to 3D printing. Its tiny footprint means it won't take up a lot of space and the full automatic calibration removes much of the manual setup. View Deal In his five-star review , our 3D printer expert Alastair said: "Boasting exceptional build quality and advanced features, it str...

Data center developer offers households $10,000 each in attempt to get huge campus approved Residents have called the payment a 'bribe', and list numerous concerns over pollution, water use, and property values Developer's chief marketing officer called the payment a "pretty radical and pretty leading-edge" idea Households in Hazle, Pennsylvania, were offered $10,000 each as part of a plan to help get a 1,300 acre AI data center built near the town - but it hasn’t gone exactly as planned. NorthPoint Development believed the scheme - which would cost $45 million - would help convince local residents to get on board with having the campus built, but many residents are calling the payment a “bribe” and have refused. The developers have also planned a further $120 million over the next 15 years through funding for community projects and the police department if the data center i...

Acemagic K5: 30-second review When this hardware first came to me, it was called the Acemagic KRON mini K5, but somewhere along the line it got rebranded as just the plain old K5. Built around Intel's Core 5 Processor 320, a chip better known by its original codename, Wildcat Lake. This is the interesting bit. It is Intel's first outing for the 18A process on a mainstream mini PC part, and that matters more than the modest core count suggests. Six cores split two ways sit at the heart of this silicon. Two performance cores handle the heavy lifting, while four efficient cores take on background tasks and keep power draw sensible. Turbo tops out at 4.6GHz, which is plenty for a machine this size. The headline figure is AI throughput. ACEMAGIC quotes 40 TOPS across the whole platform, with the NPU alone good for 16 TOPS and the Xe graphics core contributing up to 20 TOPS of its own. That put...

If you have years of photos, videos, backups and other large files, a 24TB external hard drive gives you an enormous amount of room to store them on, without having to install internal drives or resort to pricey paid cloud storage. Best for: Professionals who needs huge amounts of desktop storage for backups, photographs, videos and other large files without installing an internal drive. The deal: The Seagate 24TB Expansion External Desktop Hard Drive is now $690 (was $830) at Best Buy . Why it matters: A single 24TB drive provides enough capacity to store large archives and backups that might otherwise be spread across several smaller drives or hosted online. Today's best Seagate external HDD deal 24TB Expansion External Desktop Hard Drive: was $829.96 now $689.99 This external desktop hard drive provides 24TB storage, USB 3.0 connectivity, Windows and Mac compatibility, Toolkit backup soft...

Marlan Space and Loft Orbital announce $1bn program to grow the Altair AI Earth observation constellation from ten satellites to fifty The fleet, which is funded by money from a UAE-based investor, Marlan Space will leverage French AI lab Mistral AI's models onboard None of the first ten satellites (which are in production) have launched yet, with a stated timeline of five years for deployment French President Emmanuel Macron used the stage at recent the International Space Summit in Paris to announce a $1 billion program led by Abu Dhabi's Marlan Space and Loft Orbital. The cash infusion takes their Altair Earth observation constellation from 10 satellites to 50, with French AI company Mistral supplying the models that run onboard. The satellites will carry radar, optical and other sensors and are designed to interpret what they see before anything reaches the ground, sending an alert w...

AI models are becoming quickly outdated as they’re replaced with newer versions Most AI tokens are used on models available for less than four months Open-weight models are now more popular than closed AI models New data from Vercel’s AI Gateway claims AI models are becoming outdated faster than ever as new versions are introduced. Token spend is increasingly on newer models – most of which have only been available for the past three months – and as use increases, token price is dropping. Simultaneously, Vercel's report suggests the open-weight models are beginning to dominate, with the majority of tokens spent on the models with tunable options over the closed black box systems. A key example of this is Fable 5, Anthropic’s most capable model, which lost out to Anthropic’s own Opus 5 as well as OpenAI’s Astra. But upstart models, such as TypeSafe AI’s Jev, are also having an impact. Token pr...

Unlike most 3D printers available today, the FLSUN T1 arrived in a relatively flat box, which was in stark contrast to the tall machine in the images. However, after about an hour of building, sipping coffee and double-checking, the machine was ready to go. Nothing too tricky on the construction side, though I needed to double-check the screws after the first few runs to fix some print quality issues. Once the machine was complete and I stepped back, the T1 was instantly impressive and stood out from the other desktop 3D printers in the workshop. While Cartesian bed-slingers and increasingly CoreXY machines dominate the market, the T1 uses a Delta mechanism, with its print head suspended between three rapidly moving arms above a circular build platform. Prusa Research is one of the few other mainstream companies to still produce a printer of this style, but that model is aimed at the pro market w...