Nathan Ord
Nathan Ord is a tech nerd through and through. Following any technology, from home and business applications to VR, anything is up his alley. Starting out as the family repair guy and local "tech expert" for those around him, he helped out wherever he could. Nathan came aboard HotHardware in 2020 and continuously enjoys what he does. In his free time, he enjoys volunteering, playing video games, and just relaxing with friends.
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Artificial intelligence is taking over the world, not literally, or rather, not yet anyway. However, the use of AI and machine learning is having a butterfly effect. Besides all the standard implications of AI taking jobs and concerns...
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Having your phone stolen is not just a hassle but can also lead to the compromise of your identity, finances, loss of cherished photos and videos, and access to your digital existence online. While there are many steps that you can take to...
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Artificial intelligence has been one of the buzzwords of the year, finding roots in numerous applications especially in the private sector with software features and large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. However, one of the things...
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Yesterday, we briefly touched on Palworld’s immense popularity, which was also drawing in some of the darkest and most vile parts of the internet. Despite that continuing, the immense growth has also continued, subsequently taking over...
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If you’ve been online and paying attention to feeds over the past couple of days and weeks, you might have noticed the explosive popularity of Palworld. This Pokémon-esque MMO is the game that Pokémon players have been wanting, and it...
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When the Apple Vision Pro went up for preorder on January 19th at an eye-watering $3,499, we knew it would not be an easy road ahead for Apple. Of course, the technology is rather cool, and the Vision Pro could bring a lot of advances to...
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Valve and its first-person shooter title Counter-Strike had a big year last year, with the launch of Counter-Strike 2 and the sunset of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. However, that might not be the biggest Counter-Strike news of the...
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CES 2024 brought a multitude of cool things, including the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Super Series of graphics cards to supplant some of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 baseline series. Though the GeForce RTX 4070 Super is already out, and we have...
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When it comes to security breaches, traditionally we expect that it is a company with poor security practices or simply struggling to keep up in the never-ending onslaught of threats online. However, the latest breach suffered by Microsoft...
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When one normally talks about a utopia or tech city like Google is working on, the end result is usually a failed experiment that had good intentions from the start but was not able to quite make it work. However, a team out of Solano...
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Botnet activities are usually sniffed out and found fairly routinely, but it seems that a previously unknown cybercrime gang named Bigpanzi has been laying low and getting away with it. New reports suggest that this gang has amassed a...
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Artificial intelligence features and tools are making their way into every facet of life, from your computer at home to search engines and productivity tools. With this advancement, there has been a growing concern that AI will be...
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This week, researchers have publicly disclosed nine security vulnerabilities affecting devices that use TianoCore’s EDK II, an open-source reference UEFI implementation. While this may sound like super technical speak, these...
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Windows has had some recent security issues, but Microsoft has gnerally been good about offering critical fixes. A problem comes when people don't actually apply those fixes to make their systems more secure. As such, TrendMicro has...
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Simply put, the Internet of Things is cool, but it's cooler still when configured correctly and built with security in mind. Unfortunately, that almost never happens. A much more likely story is something like what happened to Johnie on...
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Drop has often offered a plethora of cool products at reasonable prices historically, and the latest addition to this with The Lord of the Rings Rohan keyboard is certainly no exception. Coming in two color variations with matching LOTR...
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In 2021 the Framework laptop hit the market, revolutionizing the standard laptop model from being a one-and-done sort of deal to an upgradable and modular experience. Since then, the brand has expanded quite a bit. With several releases...
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The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has now come to a close, and as the HotHardware team make its way back home, it's time to reflect. This year we saw a plethora of new tech, from artificial intelligence applications to...
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It is unclear if the tech bubble is slowly deflating or if it is just a sign of the broader economy, but layoffs are seemingly the thing to do at the top of 2024. We have seen this with Google across several business units as well as...
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Over the past few months, AI has surged onto the market and devices of all sorts, like Microsoft’s push onto Windows with Copilot. As such, it is no surprise that AI is one of the hot topics of CES2024, but so far, not much has...
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Early in January, Bitcoin saw a healthy spike up to $45,000 following some excitement surrounding Bitcoin exchange-traded-funds. This trend has continued with some ups and downs in the middle, but regardless, people have been rather...
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On a normal flight, you might flip your phone to airplane mode and enjoy some content or go to sleep. That plan might change if the side emergency escape door gets blown off, depressurizing the plane in the blink of an eye at 16,000 feet...
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