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- Xbox's Gorgeous Nocturnal Vapor Special Edition Controller Is Available For Preorder
- Space Junk Scare: Suspected ISS Battery Fragment Crashes Into Florida Home
- PCI Express 7.0 Draft Teases A Massive Bandwidth Uplift On Tap For 2025
- Do AMD Ryzen 3D V-Cache CPUs Offer Gaming Gains For Entry-Level Graphics?
- Discord Relents On Shunning Ads With A Rewards Program For Gamers
- Samsung Sounds Alarm Over Water Stress In Semiconductor Design
- How To Migrate Your Google Podcasts Subscriptions Before Google Kills The App
- Siri Getting Smarter? Apple Claims Its AI Model Runs Circles Around GPT-4
- ChatGPT No Longer Requires An Account If You Don’t Need These Features
- AMD Stealthily Drops New Ryzen Mobile CPUs For Budget Gaming Laptops
- Water On Mars? NASA’s Curiosity Rover On The Hunt For Alien Oasis
- FTC Issues Warning After Americans Lost $1.1B To Impersonation Scams In 2023
- Apple Just Declared This iPhone Model Obsolete And This iPad As Vintage
- AI Companions Coming To Xbox? Microsoft Tests Chatbot Integration
- Tekken 8 Gamers Are Hungry For A Waffle House Stage, Director Responds
- Gmail Turns 20 Years Old Today, Celebrates With New Security Rules
- Devil Comet Crashes Solar Eclipse Party In Rare Sinister Spectacle
- These Killer Samsung And LG Gaming Monitors Deals For April Fools' Day Are No Joke
- CDPR Exec Talks Microtransactions In Single-Player Games, Cyberpunk Movie And More
- Police Issue Warning To Motorists Over Hidden AirTags, What You Need To Know
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All News for April 2024
Xbox is adding a new color option to its Vapor series controllers, the Nocturnal Vapor Special Edition. The Vapor series features a swirl of colors that lead to a nice smokey effect, which also gives each controller its own unique pattern. So no two are exactly the same, Microsoft says.
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A Florida homeowner had what seems like a piece of space junk rip through his roof and go through two floors. He believes it's a piece from the discarded ISS battery pallet that NASA thought would completely burn up on re-entry. Thankfully no one was hurt and investigators are now trying to determine the origin of the...
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As of right now, the fastest PCI Express protocol available on consumer motherboards is PCI Express 5.0, which offers up to 128GB/s of bi-directional x16 bandwidth. While certainly fast, PCI Express 7.0 blows the bandwidth roof off the building with a huge 4X increase to 512GB/s, with PCI-SIG releasing a full draft of...
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It's been nigh on nine months since Jeff Kampman from Intel's Graphics Technical Marketing team raised the question: does AMD's 3D V-Cache actually help that much if you're not running a top-end graphics card? Well, we've been busy and haven't had time until just recently to get the testing done, but now we have and...
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When a platform introduces new advertisements, those ads can often be somewhat intrusive and drive users away. Discord is looking to avoid that, though, with its new advertising scheme, that will help boost the platform’s revenue. Rolling out in stages over the coming weeks, Discord Quests are a novel idea and are...
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Samsung Semiconductor is concerned about the future availability of water, which is necessary for making chips. While our planet is mostly water, Samsung points out that only about one percent of it is available for daily use. To make matters worse, that amount of available water is shrinking, due to what Samsung says...
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Google has a well-deserved reputation for killing products, and sometimes the users of those products are left in the lurch. There are still people upset about the death of Google Reader, for example. Google's latest end-of-life product won't elicit that kind of loyalty perhaps, but it's still a bummer to lose the...
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With the modern gold rush now coming in the form of AI, companies the world over are scrambling to interject these new technologies in their products. Apple, which controls a mighty ecosystem of hardware, is amongst those vying for an advantage in AI. To that end, Apple AI researchers have recently proclaimd that its...
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OpenAI has dropped the need for having to sign into an account in order to use its ChatGPT website, but there are caveats in doing so. The no-need to sign in way to access ChatGPT is currently rolling out to a select few markets, and will gradually become available worldwide.
ChatGPT has become a go-to method for...
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Not all processor launches are accompanied by tons of fanfare. The latest example of this is the addition of four Ryzen 7000 series mobile chip additions to AMD's product stack, none of which garnered a press release, blog post, or announcement of any kind. And interestingly, it really amounts to two new models, with...
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As NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover arrives at Gediz Vallis channel, scientists are intrigued with the possibility of finding clues about the history of water on the Red Planet. Gediz Vallis channel may have been home to an ancient and winding river, with potential evidence that would confirm how the channel was...
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The Federal Trade Commission is warning the American people to be on guard as threat actors are making use of business and government impersonation scams to do serious damage. The agency is reporting a combined loss of over $1.1 billion in 2023 due to these types of fraud, which is three times as much as what the...
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Apple has just added the iPhone 6 Plus to its list of "obsolete" and "vintage" products, which means the company has ceased support and parts supply for the phone. The iPad Mini 4 has also been designated as vintage, which means it's a step closer to the obsolescence grave.
As much as Apple products are seemingly...
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Artificial intelligence chatbots are coming to all the things, it seems, and evidently that includes your Xbox game console. While nothing has been announced, Microsoft revealed that it is indeed in the process of testing an AI chatbot for Xbox game consoles, with the focus so far on supporting gamers in a number of...
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If you're not from the American South, you probably have no idea about Waffle House. A regional chain of casual dining restaurants that opened in 1955, the company now has over 1900 stores in 25 US states. The key features of Waffle House are that the restaurants offer cheaply-priced and quickly-served diner food, and...
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Twenty years ago today, Google launched a new product that was initially thought to be an April Fools' Day prank. However, that was quite the opposite, creating Gmail, which would eventually come to have over a billion users with an unfathomable quantity of emails in their accounts. While the history of how Gmail came...
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As people prepare for the upcoming total solar eclipse, a rare and sinister sounding comet, nicknamed the “devil comet,” is crashing the celestial party. Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, also known as the “Mother of Dragons” comet, is now visible in the northern hemisphere night sky for the first time in around 70...
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Today is a day to be skeptical of everyone and everything (except HotHardware, of course!). It's also one of the most challenging days for technology journalists, as navigating legitimate news from April Fools' Day gags can sometimes be rather tricky. That said, we've rounded up some excellent gaming monitor bargains...
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Cyberpunk 2077 is one of those rare games that has followed PC gamers around like an old companion. It started off rocky with its initial release, tarnishing some of the hype that it built up. With constant improvements, the CD Projekt Red team polished the game like a fine jewel, getting it to a much higher level now...
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Vermont border authorities are alerting drivers returning from Canada that car thieves might be using Apple AirTags as a way to track vehicles down and steal them. If the police agency is saying that this is occurring often enough, it might be a good idea to start doing quick sweeps around your car if you're planning...
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Last month, Samsung announced that Galaxy AI would be integrated with Bixby, and now it appears the company wants to add generative AI to that list. New details surrounding Bixby comes from a high-ranking executive at the company, who says Samsung is looking for new ways to separate itself from the rest of the pack...
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Details for the design and color options for Motorola's Edge 50 Ultra have been leaked. The returning waterfall edge display is looking more refined in this new generation flagship, but it's the rear that has gone through quite a makeover. With these changes and the solid (rumored) specs, could the brand regain some...
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