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If you case you missed Nintendo's big announcement this week, the company's much-anticipated and oft-referenced Switch 2 console is finally official. However, what we got from Nintendo was a "first-look trailer" that showcased the upcoming...
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In theory, it is an incredibly awkward time to be shopping for a gaming laptop with NVIDIA having announced a new generation of mobile graphics chips. In practice, however, you can find some great deals as retailers looking to make room...
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Hackers are relentless and it's unsurprising. One successful exploit can give them access to a fortune. Thankfully, security experts are mostly on our side. Just three months ago, Microsoft security experts discovered a security flaw in...
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If you read the headline and thought "wait, what about PCIe 6?" then you must have missed when the spec was finalized back in January... of 2022. That's only three years ago, though, and it is true that PCI-SIG has been accelerating the...
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Though Apple Intelligence launched late last year, the company is still struggling to nail down core features that are part of its AI efforts. One of these features, notification summaries, is supposed to make it easier for users to digest...
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After what seems like a decade (because It almost was...) Nintendo has finally officially revealed its Switch 2 console. It draws a lot of similarities with the original Switch, with a few physical changes such as a larger size. Nintendo...
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A couple in Marshfield on Price Edward Island, Canada got a unique surprise on their Ring doorbell camera feed last year. While the owners were out on a walk, their camera recorded the once-in-a-lifetime sound of a meteorite hitting the...
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Though we're only midway through January (and just scratching the surface of 2025), it feels like the Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping season is now a distant memory. Be that as it may, there are always deals out there, even now with...
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OnePlus 13R - Priced At $599 The OnePlus 13R offers incredible performance, great battery life and a plethora of features, for a much lower price than competing phones. Bright, beautiful display Excellent performance Fast wired charging...
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Samsung's SDI battery and electronic materials manufacturing division may be prepping a new battery technology for the Galaxy S26 series. An unconfirmed (albeit reliable) report is stating that 2026 Samsung flagships could start using...
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NVIDIA is once again readying a special version of its flagship consumer graphics card for the Chinese market, which be called the GeForce RTX 5090D. As we saw with the GeForce RTX 4090D, a special version of the previous generation...
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Now that AMD's latest-generation Zen 5 processors have been on the market for a minute or two, the wait is on for the inevitable launch of a new round of Ryzen Threadripper processors. They're presumably coming, as evidenced by multiple...
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The gaming industry has taken a dip since the historic highs of the COVID lockdown era. The impending release of the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI, which has gamers searching high and low for any shred of information, is currently considered so big that it could potentially shock the...
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There is growing discontent among users with the way big tech companies like Meta and X have monopolized the social media scene. As a result, new platforms are emerging with the goal of challenging these major tech giants. Just three days...
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AMD briefed us on the Radeon RX 9070 series and the RDNA 4 architecture when going into CES 2025, but the company's brief 45-minute keynote completely skipped over the topic of graphics and GPUs, with nary a mention of the word "Radeon"...
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Sony is adding a solid set of new game titles for the month of January to its PlayStation Plus Game Catalog, for users who subscribe to the Extra and Premium tiers. The lineup includes one of the gaming giant’s crown jewels, a few indie...
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There's nothing quite like the guttural growl of a V8 at full song, especially in a modern Aston Martin. Even the British marque's baby Vantage sportster gets the spine tingling when your right foot goes deep into it. Last year, Aston...
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For tech media like Hot Hardware, the new year means a plethora of new tech, as CES in Las Vegas kicks off just after the holiday. It's always exciting to see the new products and fresh announcements, but the multitude of reveals and unveilings can be tough to track, especially if you're at...
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Hard facts can be a problem for generative AI bots like ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Despite being fed a glut of digital information, AIs sometimes hallucinate complete nonsense. Google has forged a new partnership with the Associated Press...
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Lexus' RC may not be the most iconic or most memorable two-door in automotive history (unlike its own LC 500), but those who have experienced it praise its blend of luxury accouterments, smooth ride, mid-pack performance, and design that...
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Boss battles can be frustrating, but even more infuriating is when your game console gives up the ghost. I had this happen with an Xbox One X back in the day, and fortunately it was under warranty (and thus easy to have replaced). For...
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With CES 2025 behind us, the GPU landscape is taking on some paths that are quite exciting. For example, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series will release at the end of the month, with some stunning specs on display. AMD, NVIDIA's biggest...
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