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ASRock has introduced a new variant of its ASRock Taichi AMD RX 9070 XT. It's functionally similar to the company's existing Radeon RX 9700 XT, but this new card has a white colorway, with an added LCD display. The ASRock Taichi White AMD...
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Before we get started here, let's take a moment and explain the headline. You see, Rockstar's in a bit of legal hot water right now for terminating a group of employees in Scotland over purportedly leaking information about GTA VI into a...
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One of the bright spots for PC gaming in 2026 is the upcoming release of Valve’s Steam Machine, even if leaked pricing indicates it might not as affordable as many hoped. While official pricing is still unknown, the company shared in an...
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Another week, another NVIDIA industry rumor—and unfortunately, this one seems likely to be true, even if it may be worse for some end customers. If the reports are indeed true, NVIDIA will be focusing shipments of its GeForce RTX 5060 Ti...
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This year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has officially ended, and with the HotHardware crew back home, it's time to look back on the trip and highlight some of our favorite, stand-out products. As is usually the...
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Talk about a monumental security lapse: American retail giant Target has found its proprietary source code exposed on the dark web, as current and former employees close to the matter confirm the authenticity of the nearly 900GB data leak...
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NASA and the Department of Energy have officially embarked on an ambitious goal to plant a nuclear reactor on the Moon's surface by 2030, which when completed, will have enough output to power multiple lunar households for up to 10...
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Recent auditing by the folks at market research firm Omdia indicates that the PC market rebounded last year and finished the last quarter of 2025 especially strong. A likely reason for the strong finish is a rush to get ahead of looming...
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Google is accelerating its hardware timeline once again, according to new reports suggesting the mid-range Pixel 10a could arrive on retail shelves as early as mid-February 2026.
According to retail leaks, the Pixel 10a will be dropping...
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Acer has filed individual lawsuits against all three major wireless carriers in the United States, including AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. According to Acer, the three carriers collectively infringed on half a dozen U.S. patents "covering...
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There have been plenty of twists and turns in NVIDIA's ongoing efforts to resume AI chip shipments to China, the latest of which involves a de facto ban by Beijing. In what could be a move to bolster China's bargaining power, people who...
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Enthusiast sleuth Gray (@Olrak29_ on Xwitter) has been digging into the shipping logs again, and this time the rabbit hole leads straight into NVIDIA's long-rumored Arm ambitions for consumer PCs. This time around, he spotted a...
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GOG’s recent move to become an independent outfit saw the return of one its original cofounders, Michał Kiciński, and promised a continuation of the service its users know and love. Now, Kiciński is sharing what the company hopes to...
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Khadas' latest modular mini PC, the soon-to-launch Mind Pro, will be one of the first Intel Panther Lake-powered Mini PCs on the market. The Khadas Mind Pro is the latest in a series of hyper-compact mini PCs from Khadas, with the Mind 1...
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Chinese IP vendor Innosilicon, who we previously reported hitting 10 Gbps with LPDDR5X, has announced the first commercial delivery of its LPDDR6 memory controller and PHY IP, marking an early milestone in the rollout of the...
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President Donald Trump has announced a breakthrough agreement with Microsoft to shield American households from soaring electricity costs driven by the surging growth of AI server farms.
Over on Truth Social, the President declared...
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After months of speculation about what partner Apple would choose to work with to improve its floundering AI efforts, there’s finally an agreement in place between Cupertino and Google. The two companies have signed a multi-year deal that...
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Researchers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have identified a vibrant, rainbow-like shock wave surrounding a dead star that technically should not exist.
The object, a white dwarf designated...
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Every so often, the deal gurus at Woot serve up discounted iPhone models that have been refurbished with a 'Grade-A' rating and backed by a yearlong warranty. Now is one of those times. No, you won't find the iPhone 17 Pro Max (or any...
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Phishing scammers are getting really good at obtaining your personal information via a sophisticated method called Browser-in-Browser (BitB). To wit, a surge of Facebook BitB attacks are hitting unwitting users, but here's how to detect...
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Believe us when we say we're as tired talking about price increases in the consumer sector as you are of hearing about them. Unfortunately, the reality is we're collectively navigating unprecedented waters with uncertainties stemming from...
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To our surprise, CES came and went without a roll out of Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake Refresh processors that it's hinted about in recent months, though on hindsight it's probably because it wanted Panther Lake to have the spotlight all to...
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