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Vast, a space startup company, has finalized a design to build the world’s first commercial space station that promises to deliver unparalleled comfort, productivity, and microgravity lab advancements. The US-based space habitation technology company unveiled its interior design features this week that will be part of...
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The expectation is that it will not be long before AMD unleashes its first Zen 5 processors for consumers with 3D V-cache bolted on, which as we've seen in the current and previous generation chip models, is a boon for gaming. While we wait, a purported Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor has found its way into a benchmark leak...
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Nintendo fans are hoping for a Switch 2 announcement, which could come any day now, though it probably won't until sometime next year. Instead of a next-gen console, however, Nintendo has something else up its sleeve and it's a bit mysterious. It's some kind of "Playtest Program" for Switch owners, and Nintendo is...
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At its Advancing AI event currently underway in San Francisco, CA, AMD announced an array of new products and technologies, and provided updates on other devices that have been revealed at various events over the last year. AMD talked about its Zen 5-based “Turin” EPYC server processors and new Ryzen AI PRO 300...
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AMD's cadence in laptop processors has traditionally followed a specific playbook: new consumer Ryzen parts come out, and then a few months later, the PRO versions of those parts hit the market for enterprise and commercial client devices. AMD has been marketing and selling PRO processors since at least the good ol'...
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At this point, AMD EPYC is certainly a brand which needs no introduction. AMD's dense server processors, based on its Zen 5 and Zen 5c core architecture, build on AMD's consumer PC origins to offer many-core solutions with huge compute resources and capabilities that continue to outstrip what people might have...
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Back in late 2021, Intel's 12th generation of desktop CPUs, codenamed Alder Lake, was a revelation. After years of mostly spinning its wheels and ceding performance crowns to rival AMD, Chipzilla was finally back on top. And aside from some modest refinements like faster memory support and expanding the number of...
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The Department of Justice (DoJ) is considering breaking up Alphabet’s Google in order to shake up its search dominance. The proposed remedies stem from a landmark ruling, which found Google had built an illegal monopoly, and would be the first breakup since AT&T in the 1980s, and the attempted breakup of Microsoft in...
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The Piper Sandler equity research group has published its yearly Teens Survey report showing what teens in the U.S. like to have, own, and consume. Apple continues its dominance with 87 percent of teens owning iPhones, with 30 percent intending to upgrade just for Apple Intelligence in the next few months, Nike is...
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a geomagnetic storm watch for the next two days that could produce an aurora as far south as Alabama, as well as having the potential of disrupting communications, the power grid, and satellite operations.
The Aurora Borealis, also known as the...
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It may have taken 14 years, but Rockstar Games this week finally announced that the original Red Dead Redemption game (released in 2010) was getting a proper port to the PC platform. And by "proper," we mean it will come several visual upgrades that didn't adorn the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch ports, such as...
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As the end of the year quickly approaches, new tidbits of information start to indicate what NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series may be like. While a 2024 release is unlikely, all hints point to a potential announcement at CES 2025 in January. One interesting rumor relating to VRAM is how the GeForce RTX 5080 will stack up...
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Move over AMD, Intel, and especially Qualcomm, and make room for MediaTek, which is rumored to be making a serious move into the PC space with an intriguing AI chip collaboration with NVIDIA. While nothing has been officially announced yet, it's notable that NVIDIA and MediaTek have teamed up before—NVIDIA's DRIVE...
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In the coming weeks, Prime Video customers in the United States will be able to subscribe to Apple TV+ through Amazon, as part of a streaming partnership between the online retail giant and Apple. The upshot is a consolidation of billing and access to streaming services, though before you get too excited, there's a...
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Amazon Prime Day 2024 is here (for the next couple of days, actually), and it just so happens to coincide with a project we've had on the back burner at HotHardware for months now. No, we're not talking about scouring the web for more tech deals. Instead, it has been far too long that my longtime friend, business...
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A new report details a startling discovery that Chinese state hackers accessed the networks of major US broadband providers, which were able to gain access to information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized wiretapping. The companies listed as being hacked include communications providers...
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Microsoft enjoys desktop dominance, but it just can't get mobile right. The company's most recent smartphone project is dead with the final update for the Surface Duo 2. The dual-screen phone has gotten the October 2024 security patch just in time for the end of support. There will be no further Android updates for...
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Panasonic has revealed the Lumix S 18-40 mm F4.5-6.3 lens, and in doing so has laid claim to the world's "smallest and lightest" zoom lens. While the Japanese camera brand is marketing the new lens as the "perfect partner" for its compact full frame Lumix S9, any full frame L-Mount cameras (Panasonic/Sigma/Leica) can...
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Summer may be over, but the Amazon Prime Day deals are just heating up. Bring the beats to any party with great deals on portable speakers from brands such as Bose, Marshall, and JBL.
Marshall Emberton II
Marshall is well-known in the speaker world for its superior sound and quality. The Marshall Emberton II...
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Practically every major PC hardware and software player is high on the artificial intelligence (AI) movement, with the latest processors sporting dedicated neural processing units (NPUs) and company's like Microsoft and its partners heavily promoting the Windows maker's Copilot initiative. Despite the AI push, as well...
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While NASA searches for signs of life on the Red Planet, its Curiosity rover has found new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life, to the inhospitable terrain it’s known as now.
Scientists believe there are signs that early Mars had an abundance of liquid water on its...
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We may have to drop our presumptions of the next OnePlus 13 being powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 SoC, folks. No, we're not talking about OnePlus ditching Qualcomm for MediaTek or UniSoc silicon. However, there is chatter that the OnePlus 13 may harbor a new Qualcomm chipset called the Snapdragon 8 Elite with...
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