Paul Lilly
Paul is a seasoned geek who was first seduced into the world of computers and technology by the Commodore 64, and through the years he’s courted a number of OSes and platforms from DOS on up to the latest version of Windows. Having joined the HotHardware team in 2011, Paul is now a mainstay of the site covering the news beat and reviews, and resident wiseguy who keeps the mood light. He’s also an experienced freelance technology writer whose work has appeared in a number of online and print publications.
Opinions and content posted by HotHardware contributors are their own.
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Corsair is under the impression that it knows when Rockstar Games will release a version of Grand Theft Auto VI, one of the most anticipated games of all time (if not THE most anticipated title ever), will land on PC. During an earnings call to discuss fourth quarter results, Corsair's Vice President of Finance, Ronald van Veen, suggested
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Four score and seven years ago, our ancestors had no idea what it would be like to game on a massive monitor or have practically all of the world's information accessible on a handheld device. Some of you still don't, but good news—we found a bunch of deals on Amazon that are just in time for Presidents Day, so...
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Several early listings for custom GeForce RTX 5070 Ti models from NVIDIA's OEM partners have popped up at Micro Center and, spoiler alert, almost every single one (so far) is priced higher than the baseline $749 MSRP. The lone exception is a factory overclocked PNY GeForc RTX 5070 Ti that's listed at $750 (so...
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There are deals, and then there are DEALS. Well folks, when a retailer slashes the price of a product nearly in half and it's a real discount, it gets our attention. And so it goes with Amazon slashing 48% off the price of Samsung's Galaxy Book4 Pro laptop with a 14-inch 3K AMOLED display (model NP940XGK-KG2US) in the...
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For tech-savvy users (and everyone, really), it goes without saying that you should never click on links in emails willy-nilly. In light of a recent account hijacking campaign, however, YouTube has taken to X/Twitter with a warning to "be cautious" of phishing tomfoolery as it investigates bogus emails making the...
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Somewhat surprisingly, AMD barely mentioned its Radeon RX 9000 series at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, while rival NVIDIA trotted out no less than four desktop GeForce RTX 50 series GPUs and also four mobile variants. Well, the wait for more official details on AMD's first consumer RDNA 4-powered...
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So, you're one of the lucky few who managed to score a GeForce RTX 5090 or GeForce RTX 5080 without paying ridiculous (and greedy) scalper pricing, and now the question isn't so much 'Can it run Crysis 4?, but 'How well can it run Crysis 4?'. As much as we'd love to answer that question, it will have to wait. Crytek...
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Practically everything these days has an artificial intelligence (AI) angle to it, but when it comes to actually getting work done, it all boils down to what you're able to see on your display. Or multiple displays, as the case might be. If you could benefit from a second display, ASUS has finally announced retail...
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Apple TV+ is home to some of the best original TV shows and movies, such as "Ted Lasso" with the comedic chops of Jason Sudakis and an all-around charming cast, and the mind-melding "Severance" series starring the likes of Adam Scott, Patricia Arquette, and John Turturro. You may not know it, though, if you...
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As much as we're enamored by the high-end silicon (like the Snapdragon 8 Elite) that drives flagship smartphones, we're equally impressed by the gains we've seen in the more affordable mid-range segment over the past several years. To that end, Qualcomm today announced the arrival of its Snapdragon 6 Gen 4 mobile...
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Oh boy, I can hear the clanging of pitchforks and crackling of fire from torches over the notion that AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT will somehow challenge NVIDIA's flagship GeForce RTX 5090, which is a monster GPU and the fastest graphics card for gaming on the planet. But hear me out. In this context, I'm talking...
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Suffice to say, getting your hands on a GeForce RTX 5090 or even the GeForce RTX 5080 desktop graphics card has been a difficult task. If you to prefer to game on the go anyway, however, NVIDIA has good news to share. Preorders for gaming laptops powered by NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture will begin on Tuesday...
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When it comes to Apple's audio products, its AirPods lineup tends to command the lion's share of attention. That may change with the launch of the Powerbeats Pro 2. It's a Beats products, but it's owned by Apple. More importantly, they're the first earbuds from Apple (or an Apple division) to feature heart rate...
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China's DeepSeek made quite the splash late last month, both within the tech industry at large and by disrupting the US stock market, at least initially. In particular, DeepSeek's open-source R1 model made waves by challenging far more expensive AI solutions—the R1 model was reportedly built on a comparatively meager...
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How much do we like Google's Pixel 9 series? So much so that in our review roundup of the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL we anointed Google's flagship Android phone line with our Editor's Choice award, which is not something we hand out indiscriminately. We felt that way when the phones first launched at...
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Technology enthusiasts are not exactly known for the having the patience of Job, which is partially the reason why leaks and rumors typically fly haphazardly ahead of a new product launch. In this case, Nintendo's Switch 2 console is on the horizon, with a full reveal expected at the next Nintendo Direct event in...
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Look, you can't go wrong with a box of chocolates, bouquet of roses, and/or a sports jersey of your significant other's favorite team (especially if they're an Eagles fan, after last Sunday's dominant Super Bowl performance). And hey, we're not here to offer relationship advice. We do know tech, however, and if you...
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It's not too often that monitor makers transparently list where they sourced the display panel for any given model, though there are exceptions from time to time. One such exception is GameMax with the introduction of its new Vision GMX32UCDM, a 31.5-inch gaming monitor that's built around a third generation Samsung...
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In what just might be the most anticipated video game of all time, Grand Theft Auto VI remains on track to release this fall as originally scheduled, confirmation of which came in several mentions of the upcoming title in Take-Two Interactive's latest earnings release. However, there was no update on the status of a...
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After what amounted to a daylong outage across the globe, all PlayStation Network services are now back up and running. Sony confirmed as much in a mea culpa posted to X/Twitter from its official Ask PlayStation (@AskPlayStation) account, but both the explanation for the outage and the compensation offered have left...
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The severe shortage of GeForce RTX 5080 and especially GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards has NVIDIA's retail and hardware partners experimenting with ways to get a limited number of gaming GPUs into the hands of actual gamers. We saw this with Newegg, which implemented a quirky email lottery system, and now Zotac is...
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With the first (and still only) official Grand Theft Auto VI trailer sitting pretty with nearly 239 million views, 12 million 'likes', and nearly a million comments, it could be argued that the next GTA installment is not only the most anticipated game of 2025, but perhaps even of all time. That's a separate topic...
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