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- Intel Teases Alchemist Graphics Card In Arc GPU Gameplay Trailer At Game Awards Show
- NVIDIA May Release A GeForce RTX 3090 Ti And Two Other Ampere Cards Next Month
- Android And Microsoft Teams Bug Can Block Emergency 911 Calls, What You Need To Know
- FAA Issues Flight Restrictions As 5G Signals May Interfere With Aircraft Instrumentation
- Some Windows 11 Users Claim Microsoft's New OS Is Seriously Gimping SSD Speeds
- Sweet Gaming Chair Deals On Razer, Cooler Master And More Bring Up To $199 In Savings
- Oppo Find N Smartphone Aims To Relieve Pain Points Of Folding Form Factor
- DeepMind's Massive Gopher AI Language Model Can Have Surprisingly Natural Conversations
- Alleged AMD Radeon RX 6000S 6nm Refresh Inbound To Supercharge Gaming Laptops
- Watch SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Launch NASA's X-Ray Telescope To Study Black Holes
- Epic Lawsuit Over Apple's In-App Payment Rules Dealt A Last-Minute Blow
- Amazon Slapped With Huge $1.3 Billion Fine Following Antitrust Probe
- Google Gimps Huge Glupteba Botnet That Infects A Million Windows PCs With Malware
- Apple App Store Bests Google Play In Mobile Revenue As Consumer Spending Skyrockets
- Bowser Settles Nintendo Switch Hacking Lawsuit For $10 Million, Could Still Score Jail TIme
- Fortnite Is The First Game To Make An Epic Switch To Unreal Engine 5
- Apple M1-Powered MacBook Pro Owners Report Frustrating SD Card Reader Issues
- Looks Like NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3080 And 3070 Ti Are Getting Memory Upgrades Too
- Oppo Video Shows A Retractable Camera Like You've Never Seen On A Smartphone
- Stunning Moto Edge X30 Breaks Cover With Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 And Under Display Selfie Cam
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All News for December 2021
The discrete GPU race is currently a contest between just two major players, AMD and NVIDIA, but Intel is getting ready to enter the marathon very soon as well. Lest anyone happened to forget, Intel offered up a sneak peek of its upcoming Arc Alchemist graphics card during The Game Awards 2021 show, as part of a...
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Whether you will actually be able to find them in stock or not, NVIDIA is supposedly on the cusp of launching as many as three new GeForce RTX 3000 series graphics cards, including a GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. Should that come to pass, it would supplant the non-Ti version as NVIDIA's flagship consumer gaming...
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Do you have Microsoft's Teams installed on your Android 10+ phone? If so, make sure you are signed in—and if you can't or don't want to sign in, uninstall it immediately. Google and Microsoft have identified an issue in the Teams app that can break parts of recent versions of Android, including and most critically the...
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued an Airworthiness Directive for pilots in response to concerns that mid-band 5G wireless signals may interfere with aviation electronics. Under the new rule, pilots are forbidden from using auto-landing or certain other flight systems at low altitudes. The worry lies...
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Have you made the jump to Windows 11? While there aren't yet any "killer apps" for Microsoft's new OS, it's easy to understand (as a fellow enthusiast) the desire to try out the latest thing. Windows 11 brings along some important under-the-hood refinements for new and upcoming hardware, so in the near future it may...
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One thing we've learned over the years is not to skimp on creature comforts that affect our time sitting in front of a PC. Having a nice monitor and desk is a start, but don't forget your backside. Unless you're using a standing desk, a good chair is a necessity—it can make all the difference in the world after a long...
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Do you see a crease in the photo above? You shouldn't, because according to Oppo chief product officer Pete Lau (who is also the co-founder of OnePlus), that is one of the pain points of the folding smartphone form factor that Oppo set to address in developing its first-ever folding phone, the Find N.
Lau made the...
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When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and its ability to communicate with us mere mortals, Google has been paving the way with its DeepMind project. Its most recent findings come from a 280 billion parameter language model named Gopher.
The thought of an AI robot having natural conversations with humans has...
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We are not going to see a new generation of GPUs until next year, which will also usher in a third player, that being Intel and its Arc lineup. But while RDNA 3 (AMD) and Ada Lovelace (NVIDIA) are still off in the distance bit, AMD might be getting ready to refresh its laptop graphics lineup with RDNA 2 GPUs built on...
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched this morning carrying NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) that will explore the most extreme and mysterious objects in the universe. Those objects will include supernova remnants, supermassive black holes, and dozens of other high energy objects.
It feels like NASA is...
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Like a basketball player heaving a half-court shot as time expires, Apple scored a buzzer-beater of its own, but in a different kind of court. That would be the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit—it granted Apple's request for a permanent injunction on a previous ruling that required it to allow app...
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To borrow a phrase from the South, Amazon has grown too big for its britches. That alone is not worthy of a monumental fine, but according to the Italian Antitrust Authority, some of Amazon's business practices have unfairly harmed competitors (and by extension, consumers). As a result, it imposed a fine of around...
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Generally when we talk about "botnets" we're talking about networks of devices infected with malware that serve an unintended (and usually malicious) purpose for an unknown external agent, one who controls the network with a centralized "command and control" service. An example would be the Srizbi botnet, formed by...
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Mobile gaming and non-game app adoption and spending really took off in 2020. However, market trend started normalize in 2021, and worldwide consumer spending should reach $133 billion on in-app purchases, premium apps, and subscriptions. That includes spending on both the iOS App Store and Google Play, but Apple is...
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If you're not a video game pirate—or not a regular reader of HotHardware—you might be confused by that headline. It's completely true, though "Bowser" in this case refers not to the giant, spikey, fire-breathing turtle above, but instead to Canadian web developer Doug Bowser. Mr. Bowser pled guilty last month to...
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We have been patiently waiting for Unreal Engine 5 to manifest in an actual game ever since we saw a tech demo last year that left us slack-jawed and drooling. Well, the wait is technically over—surprisingly or not-so-surprisingly, depending on your vantage point, Fortnite is the first game to employ Unreal Engine 5...
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Many people were delighted when Apple returned the SD card reader to its latest MacBook Pro models. Unfortunately, there have been a number of complaints about the reader slot on the new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models not working as expected. In some cases, the SD cards crash and can't be accessed, while others...
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Hot on the heels of NVIDIA launching a refreshed GeForce RTX 2060 with 12GB of GDDR6 memory, which is twice as much as the original version, two other existing models appear bound for more onboard memory too. They include the GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, both of which are modern generation cards based on...
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OPPO shared a video of a smartphone showcasing a retractable camera ahead of its INNO Day 2021 event that is scheduled to begin on December 14. The retractable camera is housed on the back of the phone's body and appears to be water resistant.
Qualcomm recently shared its upcoming premium Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile...
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Motorola is having trouble containing its excitement at being the first to introduce a smartphone built around Qualcomm's recently introduced Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor. In anticipation of the launch, the company is teasing images and specs of the upcoming flagship phone, including the special edition variant you...
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A complaint filed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accuses Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, of "unlawfully deceiving millions of consumers" by not appropriately highlighting paid advertisements in a fast enough manner when searching for a product. And it does this on more than a quarter of its search results, the complaint
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NASA is looking into using nuclear fission to power a lunar base and future spacecraft to travel to Mars and beyond. If you happen to be good at nuclear fission, you also have an opportunity to score a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy for $5 million dollars.
It is no secret that NASA is working hard to...
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