DALLAS, TEXAS - JUNE 01: FIFA President Gianni Infantino holds the FIFA World Cup winner's trophy while speaking during the FIFA World Cup 2026 International Broadcast Center Grand Opening ceremony on June 01, 2026 in Dallas, Texas. (Photo by Sam Hodde/Getty Images)
Conceptual illustration of a thermotronic circuit integrated within an electronic circuit. The colored elements represent thermotronic components, including the quantum thermal transistors QTT1 and QTT2, while the grayscale elements represent the electronic circuitry, including transistors T1 and T2. Quantum thermal links act as local heat extractors for heat generating electronic elements, such as resistors R. This architecture illustrates how thermal management circuitry could, in principle, be positioned directly alongside individual electronic or optoelectronic components. Rather than relying on a single bulk cooling solution for the entire chip, each component could be coupled to a tailored thermal circuit that locally controls and redirects heat where it is generated. Credit: Schematic illustration created by the authors
Every electronic and optoelectronic device generates heat, and today that heat is managed almost entirely from the outside. Heatsinks, fans, cold plates and refrigerators are bulky exterior measures bolted onto a chip or package after the fact. They treat heat as a single averaged quantity to be removed in bulk, even though the heat is actually produced locally, component by component, deep inside the circuitry.
CHICAGO, IL - October 5: Fans watch Chappell Roan perform her debut album, "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess" at the House of Blues in Chicago, IL on Thursday, October 5, 2023. (Photo by Mary Mathis for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Manchester City on the verge of signing Ayyoub Bouaddi, Serie A interest in Arsenal duo Gabriel Jesus and Gabriel Martinelli, Real Madrid want Martin Zubimendi and Harry Kane target for Barcelona and Tottenham.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI - APRIL 26: A detail shot of the gloves of Anthony Smith after his final fight in the UFC after being defeated by Zhang Mingyang of China in a light heavyweight fight during the UFC Fight Night event at T-Mobile Center on April 26, 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri. (Photo by Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC)
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is reportedly considering dropping his eBay bid for a revised offer that could include a partnership between the two companies.
The latest update on the ongoing GameStop-eBay saga comes from Bloomberg. The site reported today that Cohen, who has been on a mission to acquire the online auction site since May 2026, is reportedly considering pulling his $56 billion offer in favor of a new angle.
The figure shows a space crystal in which several continuous time crystals (CTCs) are placed, indicated by the arrows. They get excited by a red laser beam. Within an area defined by the maximum range for the diffusion of electron spins, all time crystals are synchronized with one another. Credit: Alex Greilich
In January 2024, physicists at TU Dortmund University demonstrated a continuous time crystal in a semiconductor whose oscillations remained stable for hours. In a new study published in Nature Communications, Professor Alex Greilich and his team show that many such time crystals can form in the same material and synchronize their electron-nuclear spin oscillations.
First spotted by Eurogamer, ExplorEverythingOnce on the Battlefield subreddit claims to have received a full refund on Battlefield 6 from Steam support after 470 hours logged, well in excess of the platform's standard refund window of two hours within two weeks.
The recently concluded QuakeCon was a big one, marking the 30th anniversary of the game that started it all and, more notably, bringing id Software co-founders Adrian Carmack, John Carmack, Tom Hall, and John Romero together for the first time in a very long time.