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We're still waiting for Intel to formally introduce its next-generation Nova Lake-S lineup, which is rumored to crash the desktop party with up to 28 cores initially before eventually culminating in a 52-core monster gaming CPU with gobs...
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This is the season of savings and rather than wait for Black Friday, Best Buy is hosting an "Early Black Friday Deals and Doorbusters" sales event this weekend. There are all kinds of markdowns across the retailer's vast selection of...
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As the cost of GPUs, memory, and storage keeps going up, PC enthusiasts could be forgiven for calling the current hardware market highway robbery. But in California, the expression took a more literal turn after thieves made off with half...
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Another major The Legend of Zelda series release, another major emulation advancement made seemingly just so PC players aren't forced to accept Nintendo's hardware limitations. This time it's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake...
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A lot of people have said a lot of crazy things about the performance of AMD's Zen 6 CPU core. Absent third-party benchmarks, it's difficult to take the data we have about EPYC Venice at face value, and that's before we even consider that...
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Microsoft continues to refine the Xbox experience as it aims to provide a familiar interface for gamers regardless of what platform a player happens to be using. It’s an effort that began earlier this year with the refresh of the Xbox...
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Who says you should go big or go home? Not ASUS, which has unveiled a pint-sized graphics box for gamers and creators who want to flex more GPU muscle without lugging around a full-size desktop PC. This isn't the 1990s anymore and LAN...
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Earth has adopted a new second moon, though it won't be staying very long. Meet 2026 QQ8, a pint-sized asteroid that our planet’s gravity reeled in earlier this year. So no, it's not some dramatic, glowing second orb hanging in the night...
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Nothing can ruin a house party quite like a portable speaker igniting into a fiery blaze. Such is the risk that lithium-ion batteries sometimes face, and it's the reason why Bose has issued a voluntary, massive recall affecting more than...
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Just when you thought Tesla’s stainless-steel angular wedge-on-wheels couldn't generate any more drama, Elon Musk declared on social media that the company is "winding down production of the Cybertruck at Gigafactory Texas" in 2027 to make...
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If you remember the summer of 1979 (or just wish you did), get ready to clear some space in your gadget drawer. Sony has revived the iconic MDR-3 headphones, those featherlight, foam-padded classics that originally shipped with the very...
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Given the lingering shortage of memory and storage components combined with rising supply-side costs, it's fair to wonder if Nintendo will end up issuing a second round of price hikes for its popular Switch 2 console. As much as we'd like to
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It's been a while since we at HotHardware covered a major cyber-attack from Russian state-sponsored cybercriminal group APT29 (aka Cozy Bear, etc), but today they're once more in the news for a spooky no-click malware campaign that targets...
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Sony is preparing to increase investment in its next-generation PlayStation platform even as the PS5 approaches the 100-million-unit milestone. During its latest earnings call, Sony CFO Lin Tao confirmed that next-generation research and...
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AMD and Microsoft have collaborated to produce an official port of AMD's FSR 4.1.2 upscaling to Xbox Series X|S consoles, a move that will allow Xbox console developers to seamlessly implement AMD's machine learning-based scaler (either the
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Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service is about to get more accessible as the company is now rolling out a preview that allows players to use either their phone or the recently launched Nano controller to play their games. This upgrade...
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Discord is at the cutting-edge of social media and instant messaging platforms in terms of features and customization, but its weak optimization is finally getting addressed with a full Rust programming language rewrite. Currently, Discord...
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Well-known enthusiast and occasional leaker HXL dropped something interesting on Xwitter this week: a photograph of what appears to be a Microsoft presentation presenting Windows as "the home for hybrid intelligence." This push for "hybrid...
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Shopping for tech stopped being fun the moment widespread component shortages drove up pricing on memory, storage, and every product that relies on those crucial components. While no relief is in sight—the memory shortage is expected to...
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OpenAI just dropped the details on a massive, automated cyber experiment that ran a specialized AI model against the Linux kernel and in the process, found and fixed nearly 1,000 vulnerability loopholes.
By setting loose a multi-tiered...
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New data from the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter suggests that Mars might not be entirely geologically dead under the surface after all, pointing instead to a planet that is simply dormant.
Sure, Mars boasts some of...
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Watch out Samsung and move over Apple, because Motorola is coming out swinging with its new Signature 27 (first revealed in September), a premium Android smartphone that makes a serious play for flagship supremacy. Or in Motorola's own...
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