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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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Researchers have built an experimental biocomputer that uses living bacteria to solve complex mathematical problems simultaneously.
Forget silicon chips and cooling fans for a moment, because the future of computing might actually be...
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Apple is anticipating even higher demand for its MacBook Neo next year and has told its suppliers to prepare for 16 million shipments, Digitimes reports. To put it into context, it's estimated that Apple shipped just shy of 8 million...
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Amidst an industry-wide surge in AI-generated games, game clones, recomps, and mods, Valve has added a few new requirements to its release checklist, the most notable of which is that a game needs to be played through the Steam launcher...
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After making some real gains in efficiency with Windows 11 26H2, Redmond isn't finished yet. Microsoft's Windows honcho Pavan Davuluri says that, after yesterday's updates, Windows 11 is 20% more responsive, offers 40% faster multitasking...
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We already know that users are relying on AI chatbots for obtaining information instead of conducting web searches, which has led to companies such as Reddit to lock their sites down behind logins. OpenAI’s latest claims might be an...
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AMD did it first, now it's NVIDIA's turn: RTX 50-series GPUs are expected to have sweeping price hikes of up to $500 over present MSRPs. So much for holiday cheer.
RTX 50 Price Hike in November from ChannelGate, China High-end model:...
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Time is money, and Best Buy is making a compelling case for a high-end smartwatch. As part of its deal of the day promotion, the retailer is slashing $250 off select Apple Watch Ultra Series 3 models, making the last-gen flagship more...
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Just when you thought nefarious hackers couldn't go any lower in their moral choices, a sinister wave of cyberattacks targeting blood plasma cold-storage freezers has struck Europe's healthcare sector,
During the night between November...
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