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Nuclear energy is having a moment, and three startups are at the center of it. New reactor designs have hit a significant milestone, with companies celebrating fresh builds coming online over the holiday weekend. But experts are quick to temper the excitement — meaningful energy delivery at scale remains years away, and the gap between prototype and power grid is still a wide one.
Shifting to the consumer side, if you are in the market for a laptop this back-to-school season, the Dell fifteen is drawing attention at five hundred fifty dollars. With sixteen gigabytes of RAM and a Core i-five processor, it stands apart from the flood of budget machines shipping with just four gigabytes — configurations that analysts say are nearly unusable for modern workloads right out of the box.
And for those who work across borders, Google's Pixel phones are not as universal as their branding might suggest. Hardware differences between American and international models affect everything from network band compatibility to certain software features, meaning where you buy your device could genuinely shape how well it performs wherever you end up using it.
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