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- The Ten Best Of CES 2025: Hottest Products For The New Year
- Gemini AI Scores Major Deal To Make It Better At Delivering News Than Apple Intelligence
- Lexus Parks Beloved RC And V8-Powered RC F Coupes For Good Ending An 11-Year Run
- Microsoft Is Making It Easier And Possibly Cheaper To Repair Busted Xbox Consoles
- AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Alleged Specs Spotted At Online Retailer Ahead Of Launch
- Honor Magic 7 Pro Android Phone Flaunts A 200MP Camera For Stunning Photos
- ASRock Challenger Arc B570 GPU Review: Battlemage For Even Less
- LG's 2025 OLED TV Panels Crank The Brightness To Record Levels
- Watch Nintendo Switch 2 Finally Go Official In Its Design Showcase Trailer
- Nintendo Lawyer Discusses Game Piracy And Emulation Lawsuit Strategy
- Marvel's Rivals Is A Free-To-Play Juggernaut With Staggering First Month Sales
- A Warning For Millions Of iPhone Users: Beware Of This Text Phishing Scam
- NVIDIA Partner Unveils First 600W GeForce RTX 5090
- Razer's Zephyr Face Mask Fiasco Reaches $1M In Refunds From FTC Settlement
- NVIDIA RTX Blackwell In-Depth: Exploring The Heart Of GeForce RTX 50
- Motorola Unveils Moto G Budget Phone With Premium Features And Durable Design
- AMD Quietly Expands AM5 Chip Lineup With 6-Core Ryzen 5 7400F For Budget PCs
- Samsung's New Soundbars Bring The Boom With AI-Driven Audio And Retooled Subwoofers
- NVIDIA DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation: Every Game Supported Out Of The Gate
- AllState Runs Into Privacy Lawsuit Alleging It Secretly Tracked Millions Of Drivers
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All News for January 2025
For tech media like Hot Hardware, the new year means a plethora of new tech, as CES in Las Vegas kicks off just after the holiday. It's always exciting to see the new products and fresh announcements, but the multitude of reveals and unveilings can be tough to track, especially if you're at the show. If -- like us -- you're all about the latest
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Hard facts can be a problem for generative AI bots like ChatGPT and Google Gemini. Despite being fed a glut of digital information, AIs sometimes hallucinate complete nonsense. Google has forged a new partnership with the Associated Press that could help make Gemini a font of supposedly accurate news.
Google says...
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Lexus' RC may not be the most iconic or most memorable two-door in automotive history (unlike its own LC 500), but those who have experienced it praise its blend of luxury accouterments, smooth ride, mid-pack performance, and design that has aged rather well. For fans and admirers of the RC series, today marks a sad...
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Boss battles can be frustrating, but even more infuriating is when your game console gives up the ghost. I had this happen with an Xbox One X back in the day, and fortunately it was under warranty (and thus easy to have replaced). For those who are not so fortunate, Microsoft announced it is expanding its...
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With CES 2025 behind us, the GPU landscape is taking on some paths that are quite exciting. For example, NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series will release at the end of the month, with some stunning specs on display. AMD, NVIDIA's biggest competition in the enthusiast GPU space, so far has been quite elusive about its new...
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Honor is globally releasing the Magic 7 Pro slate phone initially to Europe and the UK, three months after China's rollout. As an Honor, the specs are expectedly impressive to take on the likes of Vivo, OnePlus, and Samsung. The Magic 7 Pro boasts a 200MP periscope telephoto camera, high-end display, 5,270mAh...
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ASRock Challenger Intel Arc B570: $219 MSRP Intel's even more cost-friendly Arc B570 Battlemage GPU brings strong feature support like XeSS 2 with frame gen and solid 1080p performance. Although, for just $30 more, B580 offers better performance-per-dollar value. Strong Feature Support Solid New Software Superior...
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LG has been heavily invested in OLED displays (even bendable ones) and, especially for gamers, a go-to brand when upgrading a living room TV. Now in a continued attempt to "consolidate its dominance in the premium TV market," LG Display has unveiled its 4th generation OLED TV panel with a major brightness boost along...
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After playing it coy for several months, Nintendo has finally outed the promised "successor" to its immensely popular Switch handheld game console. In a "first-look trailer," Nintendo showcases several design changes and officially reveals what the next-gen handheld will be called. Are you sitting down? The upcoming...
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Japan is a staunch ally of the United States and the two countries share many values. They don't agree on everything, though, and one of the most contentious areas between Japanese and American businesses is the matter of copyright. It may be hard to believe, but copyright law is much stricter in Japan than it is in...
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Marvel Rivals has managed to breakthrough in the cutthroat live service games space, even as some players complained about bots. It has become one of the most popular games on Steam, often finding itself in the top 5 most played games on the platform, while also finding an audience on consoles. This has led to Marvel...
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As threat actors get increasingly clever with thwarting security systems, staying informed about their tactics is important. A new report has surfaced that alerts iPhone users that cybercriminals have devised a technique to steal personal information by tricking them into turning off Apple's built-in iMessage phishing...
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The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series is fresh off its unveiling at CES 2025, and we're starting to see some exciting models. None are more exciting than the flagship GeForce RTX 5090, which packs a wallop and 32GB of VRAM. It also has a TDP of 575W, and board partners are pushing that to the limit.
Zotac, an NVIDIA board partner, confirmed
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The legal debacle over the Razer Zephyr mask is finally drawing to a close. A sizeable number of customers (Razer fans, likely) who bought into Razer's deceptive marketing and sales of its "N95 grade" Zephyr face mask will be entitled to full refunds thanks to a $1 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission...
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After months of rumors, speculation and leaks, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang officially unveiled the GeForce RTX 50 series based on the RTX Blackwell graphics architecture, during a mega-keynote address at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Las Vegas during CES 2025. For regular readers, the initial announcements weren’t a...
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Motorola has revealed the 2025 Moto G and Moto G Power budget smartphones. At $200, the Moto G is definitely wallet-friendly (and arguably better than your typical hand-me-downs), while the Power version packs some surprising features not often seen at the $300 bracket including an IP69 rating and a sizeable 5000mAh...
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On top of unveiling an onslaught of Ryzen processors at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, including an expanded lineup of 3D V-Cache models for desktops and laptops, AMD has been busy launching AM5 chips under the radar. The newest one is the Ryzen 5 7400F, which is poised to be its most...
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Whether it's down to scheduled model refreshes or feeling the heat of the competition, Samsung has launched the successor to the highly-regarded HW-Q990D 11.1.4 soundbar system with the HW-Q990F. We're not sure why it skipped "E," but regardless of the reason, fans have a few things to look forward to with the new...
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NVIDIA's major reveal at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week was, not unexpectedly, its GeForce RTX 50 series in both desktop and mobile form. Along with the new GPUs, however, NVIDIA also unveiled a new generation of its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology, now with Multi Frame Generation. At the...
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A lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accuses AllState and its data analytics subsidiary Arity of illegally tracking drivers without their knowledge or consent, as well as collecting and selling location data. According to the lawsuit, AllState accomplished this through "secretly embedded software" in...
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When we first heard about Bartlett Lake early last year, the leaks spoke of a promise of a series of P-core-only processors for LGA 1700 desktop systems. In July, well-regarded leaker Jaykihn (@jaykihn0 on Xwitter) clarified that "BTL-S" is actually a whole series of processors comprising everything from dual-core...
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Meta has responded to accusations regarding the deletion of links to Pixelfed, a decentralized social network similar to Instagram, which allows users to share and explore photos and send direct messages. Users have accused Meta of deleting links to Pixelfed on the Facebook platform. For instance, Bluesky user AJ...
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