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The United States has turned on its first nuclear reactor in nearly seven years, with the new nuclear plant providing power for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses.

The unit 3 reactor at Plant Vogtle near Waynesboro, Georgia, began commercial operations on Monday following its preliminary testing in March, which it passed. According to reports, the reactor is generating approximately 1,110 megawatts of energy which officials estimate is enough to power 500,000 homes and businesses.

CNBC notes that the last time a nuclear reactor was switched on to pump power into the electricity grid was in October 2016, when the Tennessee Valley Authority began using the Watts Bar Unit 2 reactor located near Spring City. Before the 2016 reactor event, the last time a reactor was switched on was in May 1996. Georgia Power CEO Kim Greene said in a statement that the Unit 3 reactor will begin delivering electricity to customers within the next 60 to 80 days.

The rebranding of Twitter may have excited many users, but not all are stoked to see the iconic blue bird fly away and be replaced with a standalone X.

The Elon Musk-led effort to rebrand Twitter into the Tesla CEO's vision of creating an "everything app," has angered many users, and now we are starting to see those users taking review sections of the internet to voice their disdain. In particular, reviews and ratings are starting to pop up on the US App Store, with hundreds of users review bombing the app with one-star reviews and nasty comments.

Data acquired from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower indicates nearly 70% of all iOS reviews since July 24 of the newly renamed X app have been one-star reviews, compared to 50% in the previous two weeks. It's obvious that these review bombings are in retaliation to the recent rebranding, as many of the comments from the users demand that the "bird" is returned. Other comments include, "What is X?," "Good app gone bad," and "ugly".

After announcing the tragic news that NASA lost connection with the iconic Voyager 2 satellite, the space agency has re-established communications, and they are up and working again.

The iconic satellite was launched in 1977 and is since been exploring interstellar space, sending radio signals back to Earth from its distant position of 12.3 billion miles away. On July 21, the space agency lost connexion with Voyager 2 as a command instructed the satellite to move its antenna just two degrees in the wrong direction, severing communications with Earth.

While the situation seemed dire since the satellites antenna was no longer sending or receiving data, the space agency remained steadfast as a protocol has been set up that initializes Voyager 2's antenna to regain connection with Earth in the event that Mission Control operators can't get in contact with the satellite.

The one-of-one Magic: The Gathering "One Ring" card has been found and sold to rapper Post Malone for an astonishing $2.6 million

Brook Trafton was the lucky individual that pulled the extremely rare "One Ring" Magic: The Gathering card. Trafton identified that he had the card in July and that he acquired it from a booster pack. For those that don't know, the "One Ring" card is part of a "Lord of the Rings" crossover set that merged J.R.R Tolkien's legendarium with the Magic: The Gathering universe.

Unlike the other versions of the One Ring card, the ultra-rare version was that was sold to Post Malone has text that is featured entirely in black speech, the language of Mordor. According to enthusiasts of the Hasbro tabletop game, the chances of pulling the ultra-rare card are 0.00003%. As for the bids for the card, a card shop owner in Buffalo, NY offered $1 million, which was then out bidded by a $2 million offer from Spain.

James "MrBeast" Donaldson has filed a lawsuit against the company that he used to get MrBeast burgers out into so many stores.

MrBeast partnered with Virtual Dining Concepts to create what is commonly referred to as ghost kitchens, which are then used to fulfill orders of MrBeast Burgers. So, here's how it works. In 2020 MrBeast Burgers could only be ordered online, and once an order is placed, a verified ghost kitchen accepts the order and completes it. Each of these ghost kitchens are equipped with all of the ingredients/equipment to create MrBeast Burgers, and the venture was an incredible one during the pandemic as it kept many struggling businesses afloat.

However, not all went to plan, or at least that's what we are finding out now. According to MrBeast's lawsuit, which claims that Virtual Dining Concepts, a Florida-based company, has prioritized rapid expansion over delivering high-quality products. The lawsuit claims that Virtual Dining Concepts has not paid MrBeast and was unable to keep the quality to an appropriate standard, with many customers reporting receiving their burgers with raw meat, burnt, containing bugs, and much more.

Officials from the Australian Space Agency have confirmed the origins of a mysterious object that washed up on a Perth shore.

The mysterious object was found a few weeks ago and left onlookers confused before it was reported to local authorities that stood guard while an analysis was conducted. The object washed up on Green Head Beach in Western Australia, And immediately spectators began to theorize that the object was a piece of space debris.

Now the theories can be put to bed as the Australian Space Agency has taken to its X account to announce that the object was "most likely" debris from an "expended third-stage of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle". Notably, the medium left launch vehicle is operated by the Indian Space Research Organisation, and the third stage was jettisoned at approximately 264 miles above sea level.

The lawsuit between Elon Musk's X social media platform and the non-profit called Center for Countering Digital Hate has just heated up.

The lawsuit again on Monday when X filed against the non-profit over an article that it published that claimed X is failing to regulate hate speech on its platform, saying that 99% of hate speech posts from Twitter Blue users aren't removed. The CCDH alleges in its article that it tracked 100 hate-speech-centered tweets from Twitter Blue users and monitored them for four days. After those four days, only one was removed, leading to the "99%" figure.

Musk's legal team filed a lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate over the article, claiming the publication cherry-picked data to back up its claims and that the platform has reason to believe the organization and its operations are funded by X's competitors - essentially saying the Center for Countering Digital Hate is bought by X's competitors and is being used to publish smear campaigns that are driving away advertisers.

Elon Musk has taken to his X account to inform the public that he is pushing for creators to get more money from their posts.

The social media platform owner took to his X account on August 3 to ask the public to support creators by subscribing to their accounts. Musk asked if individuals that can afford to support creators should do so, as people from every corner of the world post incredible content on the platform and that these people should be rewarded for the content that they post as only a few hundreds dollars a month could be life changing.

Musk went on to say that previously it was announced that X would be keeping nothing for the first 12 months of a subscription, then 10% after the 12 months. Now, The social media platform will be keeping nothing forever, until the payout exceeds $100,000 then the 10% tax will kick in.

A room-temperature superconductor would be a massive and seismic breakthrough for energy production, transport, and technology - from quantum computing to CPUs sitting on a desktop generating and dissipating energy and heat. The story of the LK-99 superconductor is causing quite a stir, and it's not hard to see why.

On July 22, physicists in South Korea published two papers claiming they have produced the world's first room-temperature superconductor made with readily available and cheap materials, dubbed LK-99. The room-temperature part is important because superconductors exist; they simply require extremely low temperatures to operate.

For example, the SCMaglev train in Japan can reach speeds of 311 mph via a superconducting niobium-titanium alloy that is cooled to minus 452 degrees Fahrenheit. And with that, it's no wonder that LK-99 has been met with widespread excitement and skepticism. Imagine a high-end CPU or GPU in your gaming PC operating without power loss. Let alone tens of thousands in an AI environment.

The idea of putting a high-end gaming PC underwater is a fairly out-there idea, but being able to use a natural body of water to cool a GeForce RTX 4090 and Intel Core i9 13900K is something we didn't know we had to see. Thanks to the YouTube channel DIY Perks, the idea of building a submersible gaming PC was realized through a series of smart design choices. And it looks stylish, too, with some serious BioShock vibes.

Per the video, the GeForce RTX 4090 (a Zotac model) is paired with the high-end Intel CPU in a build contained within a water-tight acrylic cylinder. And there are no shortcuts; the build even includes three 4TB Crucial T700 SSDs for a whopping 12TB of storage and a high-end 1000W power supply.

With components under load drawing over 800W of power, using a water-tight acrylic cylinder makes you wonder exactly how this is being cooled. With a detailed breakdown of each component and the design process, we see the construction of a fully closed-loop water-cooled system attached to a copper frame that surrounds the PC - which is then cooled by a natural body of water.

Motherboards that look good usually cost a lot more than your budget off-the-shelf black offerings, and ASRock is looking to change that with the launch of its first all-white motherboard range for Intel and AMD platforms in the Micro-ATX form factor.

Although the company says these are "all-white," they feature some stylish black and silver connectors and flourishes - but we'll give them a pass because they look very cool.

All-white PC components are popular right now, as highlighted by our recent look at the stylish new ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Taichi White 24GB. For ASRock's new all-white motherboards, the new look applies to three models; two for Intel CPUs and one for the AMD AM4 CPUs.

According to a new report (over at VideoCardz), AMD is preparing to launch a new pair of single-slot budget-friendly workstation GPUs with the AMD Radeon Pro W7600 and W7500. Graphics cards with an entry-level price tag, the USD 599 AMD Radeon Pro W600 is set to feature the full Navi 33 GPU with 32 Compute Units and 20 TFLOPS of peak single precision FP32 performance.

With a power rating of 130W via a 6-Pin connecter and 8GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus (18 Gbps), the specs for the Radeon Pro W600 line up with the desktop Radeon RX 7600 that AMD launched earlier this year - albeit using 35W less energy.

AMD Radeon Pro W7500 is even more efficient, with a 70W power rating, a cutdown of 28 Compute Units, and 12 TFLOPS of peak single precision FP32 performance. With an entry-level price tag of USD 429, the hardware could be similar to what ends up in a Radeon RX 7500 desktop graphics card - if Team Red chooses to release an entry-level option in the near future.

Getting a brand new 4K TV in 2023 is an exercise in setting things up via connecting multiple devices - especially if you own one or more videogame consoles. Multiple HDMI 2.1 inputs that can handle a 4K 120Hz signal with HDR are a must for modern lounge-room displays - and LG's OLED range is no different.

However, LG's latest signature OLED TV presents an experience "completely free of cables" outside of connecting up power. LG notes that its Zero Connect Box is the world's first wireless solution to handle real-time video and audio at 4K 120Hz (including Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos). It is "a new, hassle-free way of managing cables and connected devices," according to the announcement.

The only catch is that the Zero Connect Box is limited to the 97-inch LG SIGNATURE OLED M (model 97M3), currently only available in South Korea. The company plans to roll out the flagship display to the North American and European markets later this year.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is inbound for the PS4 and Xbox One, those who haven't yet bought a current-gen console will doubtless be pleased to hear.

TechRadar spotted this exciting revelation in an EA earnings call (for Q1 24), in which CEO Andrew Wilson let us know the good news.

Wilson commented that: "Thanks to the strength of this legendary franchise and community demand, our development team has committed to bringing this Jedi experience to PS4 and Xbox One."

AMD's RX 7900 XTX has been out for a long time now, and yet this GPU has only just appeared on the Steam hardware survey - and it's the only RDNA 3 graphics card to achieve this feat.

In Valve's latest survey for July, the RX 7900 XTX sneaks onto the rankings at the bottom of the table, gaining a 0.17% share in terms of all the GPUs used by Steam gamers. In other words, roughly 1 in 500 gaming rigs have the RDNA 3 flagship.

As noted, no other RX 7000 graphics cards have managed to creep onto the GPU rankings in the survey. Mind you, there aren't many others - just the 7900 XT, and the RX 7600, although the latter is a very new release. Whereas the 7900 XTX and XT have been out since December 2022, so have been around for over seven months now.

NASA has announced some tragic news, the space agency has unfortunately lost connection with the iconic Voyager 2 satellite located more than 12 billion miles away from Earth.

NASA announced on Monday that it has lost connection with the iconic satellite that was launched in 1977, as the interstellar probe stopped sending and receiving information after NASA instructed it to shift its antenna. NASA's instructions were initialized last week and moved Voyager 2's antenna just two degrees away from Earth. Since then, or more specifically, July 21, the space agency has been unable to get into contact with the space probe.

For those that don't know, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are space probes designed to explore interstellar space, the region of space between stars. Currently, Voyager 1 is approximately 15 billion light years away from Earth, while Voyager 2 is 12.3 billion light-years away from Earth. Each of the spacecrafts carry a Golden Record with Earth sounds, pictures, messages, etc - all of which is designed to provide basic communication to extraterrestrial life if the probes come into contact with such lifeforms.

Google Assistant already reins supreme when it comes to virtual assistant software, beating the likes of Apple's Siri and Samsung's Bixby, but what if Assistant was combined with AI?

This combination of pairing virtual assistants and AI is hardly a surprise, and really only seemed like a matter of time before companies behind these virtual assistants integrated a Large Language Model (LLM) into their software to supercharge products such as Assistant, Siri and Bixby.

Now we are starting to hear to the first murmurs of companies pivoting toward this exact future with an internal Google email obtained by Axios reveals Google is dedicating many employees to work on integrating an AI into Assistant, starting with the mobile version.

The excitement around Baldur's Gate 3 is rising, as the RPG is now about to be released - it's out tomorrow, in fact - but that launch could be a less than ideal affair on Steam, at least in one respect.

We've just heard that players who've preordered the game on Steam will not be able to preload Baldur's Gate 3 on their PC, and it's a big old download to have to sit through for launch day.

The install size is around 122GB, in fact, which amounts to a lot of drumming of fingers for those who don't have an ultra-fast broadband connection.

A few months back, it was revealed that World of Warcraft Classic is getting an official hardcore mode - where if you die, that's it, you are dead, no rezzing - and now the servers are about to go live.

Blizzard tells us that Classic Hardcore realms are opening on August 24, just a few weeks from now (as PC Gamer spotted).

The company reminds us: "Face Azeroth's dangers in WoW Classic's Hardcore realms and see just how far you can go. You only have one life to live, and the Spirit Healers won't be there to whisper sweet nothings and send you back out into the world of the living when you die."

Google Chrome is the dominant power in the browser world, a fact of which we're all very aware - but you might be surprised to hear that Chrome recently lost a surprising chunk of its lead over the likes of Safari and Edge (its main two rivals) - albeit this month has seen a partial recovery.

This is going by recent stats on browser adoption from analytics firm Statcounter (so add a pinch of salt, naturally, as we can only read so much into info from a single source).

The market share stats for July 2023 show that Chrome has recovered just over 2% of its share, and is now up to 63.32% according to Statcounter.