In an era where digital transformation depends on uninterrupted access to hardware, an unlikely source of value is emerging—your old servers. As the global tech industry faces rising tensions over trade tariffs and the tightening grip of rare earth supply chains, companies like Microsoft and Western Digital are leading innovative efforts to recover critical materials from decommissioned data centre hardware.

Imagine seeing a colour that no human has ever seen before—a hue so unique, it doesn’t exist in nature and cannot be described using existing language. This is precisely what a group of researchers in the United States claim to have achieved. Through a remarkable experiment involving precise laser stimulation of the human retina, the scientists believe they may have revealed a new perceptual phenomenon: a colour they’ve dubbed “olo.”

A technological revolution is brewing—not in Silicon Valley, but in Shenzhen, China’s bustling tech hub. Spearheaded by an alliance of over 50 Chinese tech giants including Huawei, Tencent, TCL, HiSilicon, and major state-backed research institutions, this movement isn’t about smartphones, processors, or AI (this time)—it’s about cables.

If you’re using AI tools like ChatGPT, there are a few things you should not say.