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Latest News - January 2023
- Astronomers Detect A Record-Breaking Signal From A Distant Galaxy With Cosmic Secrets
- Gigabyte Blows The Top Off DDR5 To Set A Scorching-Fast 11GHz Overclock Record
- HotHardware And Lenovo CES 2023 New Year, New Gear Giveaway Winners Announcement!
- EU Expected To Join NVIDIA, Google, Sony And FTC In Opposing Microsoft's Activision Deal
- Apple Launches New MacBook Pros and Mac Mini Powered By Potent M2 Pro And Max Silicon
- Researcher Claims Windows 11 Secure Boot Is Broken On Hundreds Of MSI Motherboards
- HOT Samsung Storage Deals Up To 63% Off SSDs And More Are Too Good To Miss
- New Ookla Report Shows T-Mobile Asserting Its Dominance Over Rivals Verizon and AT&T
- Samsung Unveils An Intelligent 200MP Camera Sensor Ahead Of Galaxy S23 Ultra Launch
- Hubble Space Telescope Captures A Surprise Visitor Streaking Across A Distant Galaxy
- Dell's CAMM Is Coming For Your SO-DIMM Laptop Memory And JEDEC Is On Board
- NVIDIA's Revised AD103-301 GPU For GeForce RTX 4080 Poses Nude For The Camera
- AMD Discloses 31 New Ryzen And EPYC CPU Vulnerabilities And Security Patch Strategy
- Samsung Teams With iFixIt To Extend DIY Repair Program To More Galaxy Phones And PCs
- Intel Arc A770, RX 7900 XT And RTX 4080 DirectStorage Battle Ends In A Surprise Victory
- Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad And Mac Devices Tipped For Game-Changing Display Upgrades
- AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.2 Busts Ghosts And Cleans Up Blurry Game Pixels
- OnePlus 10 Phones Are Up On Great Deals Now, Ushering In The OnePlus 11
- Wyoming Lawmakers Are Gassed-Up Over Bill To Pull The Plug On EV Sales By 2035
- NASA’s Butterfly Nebula Shot Foreshadows Our Sun Burning Out In A Blaze Of Glory
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All News for January 2023
Astronomers utilizing the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India, have detected a signal with a lookback time of a phenomenal 8.8 billion years. The radio signal originated from the most distant galaxy so far at a specific wavelength known as the 21 cm line. This is the first instance a radio signal of this...
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Gigabyte and its in-house overclocker, HiCookie, just set a new world record for the fastest DDR5 memory speed ever achieved. The official record to beat, as recognized by a validated HWBOT listing, now stands at 11,135MT/s, or 11,135MHz if you prefer the more common albeit technically incorrect way of listing the...
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With the electronics wonderland that is the Consumer Electronics Show, better known as CES 2023, now behind us, it's time to announce the lucky winners of our "New Year, New Gear" giveaway with Lenovo!
We had four prize packs lined up for this year's CES 2023 New Year, New Gear Giveaway – 1 (one) ThinkBook Plus...
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This whole Microsoft-buys-Activision deal is looking less and less likely by the week. Last week, NVIDIA and Google spoke up against the purchase, and the week before that, Microsoft had to revise its response to the FTC to remove remarks that recommended the outright destruction of the commission. Now, a new...
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Apple is rolling out the hits today. Fans of the company's compact desktops have a new Mac Mini over which to salivate, and the portable crowd can "ooh" and "ah" at the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro units. Inside, you'll find a new generation of Apple's custom silicon in the form of the M2 Pro and M2 Max (above)...
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Among the requirements for installing Windows 11 are two security features: Trusted Platform Module (TPM) version 2.0 and Secure Boot. As we’ve documented before, it’s possible to sidestep these requirements and force a Windows 11 install or upgrade anyway. Microsoft even published a registry hack to give users this...
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We often talk of upgrades for CPUs, GPUs, and RAM in terms of relative value, but the biggest driver of savings is usually in the storage space. Whether you are considering an upgrade to your SSD, finally swapping out that spinning platter, or maybe you just need some faster or better portable media, Samsung is...
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Ookla released its Q4 report for 2022, and it showcases T-Mobile's continued dominance in the mobile operator space. T-Mobile led the pack by a large margin in Q4, with a median download speed of 151.37Mbps. This is an impressive increase over the mobile carrier's Q3 speed of 116.14Mbps. Verizon was a distant second...
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Samsung gives a sneak peek at things to come, as it announces its latest 200-megapixel image sensor, the ISOCELL HP2. The announcement comes just a couple of weeks ahead of the company's Unpacked 2023 event, and seems to confirm the rumors of a 200MP sensor coming to the high-end Galaxy S23 Ultra.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an intruder in one of its images as the space agency attempts to fill in the gaps of the Milky Way. When the project was first proposed, 75% of all the Milky Way nearby neighbors had been imaged by Hubble. The project aims to use the gaps between longer Hubble observations in...
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The next time you purchase a laptop, gaming or otherwise, you might be surprised to discover that it's rocking a different type of memory module than you're used to seeing. While the majority of laptops up to this point have employed traditional SO-DIMM (Small Outline Dual In-Line Memory Module) sticks, Dell's CAMM...
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A photo of a graphics card PCB with an NVIDIA AD103-301 GPU installed has been shared on a Chinese language tech forum. The image is clear enough to make out the GPU model number moderately easily and, if genuine, shows the PCB in a new breed of GeForce RTX 4080 graphics cards on the way from NVIDIA’s partners.
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Hardware vulnerabilities are never fun, especially when actively exploited in the wild. Forward-looking companies try to get ahead of bad actors by encouraging responsible disclosure and awarding bug bounties. AMD has worked with security researchers who recently found numerous desktop and server/data center...
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It was almost four decades ago when the Beastie Boys exclaimed, "You have to fight, for your right, to paaaaarrrty!" Fast forward 37 years and consumers are instead fighting for their right to repair their own electronics without proprietary roadblocks and arbitrary restrictions imposed by manufacturers. The good news...
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DirectStorage is out! No, seriously—DirectStorage 1.1, which can drastically accelerate game asset loading time, is already released and available for developers to use. Unfortunately, there aren't actually any games that take advantage of DirectStorage yet, which is why PCGamesHardware.de had to use a synthetic demo...
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In a continued effort to design more components in-house, Apple is nearing the launch of its own microLED displays. The first device to receive one of the in-house screens is reported to be the Apple Watch Ultra toward the end of 2024, with the iPhone expected to follow a few years after.
Apple began devising how...
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When we initially looked at the second generation of AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution technology, we came away impressed. It was a tremendous upgrade over the spatial upscaling method used by the original "1.0" version of FSR, and we recommended using it when you're severely GPU-limited and don't have alternatives...
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The start of a new year is the start of a new generation of devices. For savvy consumers, this means there are discounts to be found on the great devices of generations past, for those who want to put in the legwork. Who wants to do all that work, though? Well we did, so if you're in the market for a new mobile phone...
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You've probably seen numerous reports of US states moving to restrict the sale of internal combustion engines and encourage the shift to electric vehicles. It's become so common you might have misread the above headline, but it's no typo—lawmakers in Wyoming are actually considering a measure that would phase out EVs...
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New research indicates that something is awry within the Butterfly Nebula, also known as NGC 6302. A team of astronomers at the University of Washington found "dramatic changes in the material within the wings," after comparing two pictures captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2009 and 2020. The team shared...
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The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), a government organization that sells alcoholic beverages within Ontario, Canada, has published a statement notifying customers of a cybersecurity incident affecting the retailer’s online store. According to this statement, unknown threat actors managed to compromise the...
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Intel has released yet another black edition CPU for China, the Core i7-14790F, and if you've never seen any of these China-exclusive chips, you'd probably assume they're more or less the same as what other countries get. However, that's not quite the case, as the 14790F is substantially different from the regular...
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