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Kennametal's Tungsten Carbide Print Is Reshoring at the Materials Level
Kennametal commercialized the first fully dense tungsten carbide grade for additive manufacturing at scale - the same lead-time problem a print farm solves small, done for industrial cutting tools.
Warcraft III's New Campaign Dodges the Reforged Question
Blizzard announced Warcraft III's first new campaign in 20+ years at BlizzCon - and quietly avoided saying whether it redeems or abandons the 2020 remaster.
Audacity 4.0's Real Feature Is the Qt6 Rewrite, Not Dark Mode
A 25-year-old open-source editor moved to Qt6 and rebuilt its interface from the ground up - and shipped it.
DeepSeek model string stops meaning what it says.
DeepSeek reroutes deepseek-v4-pro to its cheaper V4.1-Flash on Sept 14.
Valheim 1.0 Is Out. What Does 'Done' Mean for a Live Game?
Valheim hit 1.0 with the Deep North update, full crossplay, and a console launch.
A Melted 5090 Connector Is a Compute Story in Gaming Clothes
DLSS 5 pushed an RTX 5090 past 600W and melted a connector.
Isar Reached Orbit by Printing the Part It Couldn't Wait For
Isar Aerospace reached orbit on 3D-printed engine hardware.