A Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 buyer in California found a box containing two cheap backpacks instead of the graphics card, which had been factory sealed.
An investigation revealed 31 other GPUs had also been tampered with at the same Micro Center store, suggesting thieves within the supply chain.
It is estimated the perpetrator(s) earned nearly $100,000 through the theft of the 32 GPUs.
Over the next 10 billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies have a 50:50 chance of colliding.
Early calculations did not factor in the mass of other nearby galaxies, resulting in the revised odds.
By then, Earth will be a blob of plasma orbiting dull old Sol, which will be in the process of becoming a red giant.
Robotics experts have claimed a Unitree H1 humanoid robot’s flailing arms while hanging from a test stand were due to a misguided negative Z-axis acceleration reading from a poorly suspended robot.
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