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- Modder Pairs 3dfx And PowerVR Chips On One Board For The Ultimate Retro Graphics Card
- Security Firm Warns Of RedLine Malware Plucking Passwords Saved In Your Browser
- Samsung Is Rolling Out One UI 4 With Android 12 To These Galaxy Devices In The US
- ASUS Confirms Backwards Caps Are To Blame For ROG Maximus Z690 Motherboards Burning Up
- Apple iPhone 14 May Finally Bring The Display Upgrade Android Users Have Enjoyed For Years
- Alleged AMD Radeon Super Resolution Tech To Have A Key Advantage Over DLSS And FSR
- LastPass Claims Your Passwords Are Safe Despite Those Security Warnings It Sent
- Deck Out Your Xbox Series X And PS5 With These Deals On Controllers, Accessories And Games
- China Is Fed Up After Its Space Station Has To Dodge SpaceX Starlink Satellites Again
- Retailer Tips MSI GS77 Stealth Gaming Laptops Packing Core i9-12900H And RTX 3080 Ti
- LG Display's Next-Gen OLED EX Tech Fixes The Biggest Flaw Of OLED TVs
- The GeForce GTX 1650 Is The Best-Selling GPU On Amazon And Newegg And That Sums Up 2021
- Tri-Screen Device Patent Hints Microsoft Is Working On A Surface Trio Handheld
- Intel Alder Lake Core i5-12400 and Core i3 Models Show Strong Budget Performance In Benchmark Leak
- Microsoft Edge Is Getting A Games Panel, Here’s What It Does And How It Looks
- GameStop Teases PS5 And Xbox Series X Restock, How To Tip The Odds In Your Favor
- Lenovo Confirms A Third-Gen Moto Razr Is Coming With These Upgrades
- Xiaomi 12 Pro Comes Armed With Snapdragon 8 SoC And Ridiculously Fast 120W Charging
- Amazon Alexa Shockingly Issues Potentially Lethal Challenge To A 10-Year-Old
- Alleged Intel Arc Battlemage Details Suggest A High-End Battle Royale With AMD And NVIDIA
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All News for December 2021
Gather around kiddies for a tale of the bad old days. You see, once upon a time, PC gaming wasn't as unified as it is now. Graphics card vendors (and even individual graphics cards) had their own proprietary APIs, and sometimes games shipped as special versions for a given graphics card, complete with custom assets...
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Do you let your browser store logins for websites like Twitter, Facebook, or HotHardware? Well, you probably shouldn't. Not only does it let anyone who gets on your PC access your personal information, but it also opens you up to easy attacks from "info-stealer" malware.
South Korean cyber-security firm Ahnlab just...
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Samsung device owners have been waiting with bated breath to get a revamped One UI operating system for their Galaxy devices. Based on Android 12, the first official One UI 4 updates had already begun to roll out when Samsung had to bring it to a halt. Finally, though, Samsung has resumed its rollout. Samsung One UI 4...
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Update (12/29/21):
It's official—a reversed capacitor is the culprit. ASUS reached out to Hot Hardware and confirmed its preliminary finding, and provided a statement that it is sending out to customers. Here's what it says...
To our valued ASUS Customers,
ASUS is committed to producing the highest quality...
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Even though the iPhone 13 only recently launched, rumors surrounding Apple’s next smartphone have already kicked into high gear. A new report claims the Cupertino-based tech giant will launch four new handsets in 2022, some including a 120Hz LTPO display.
The information comes just days after LG announced it had...
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It used to be the case that when you started a PC game, it ran in a fixed render resolution, often decided before you actually entered the game. That's becoming less and less the case these days, as games move to various types of dynamic resolution upscaling methods. NVIDIA has its AI-powered Deep Learning Super...
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LastPass is telling its users that there is no evidence to suggest their passwords have been compromised, after previously sending out emails to some users stating their master passwords have been compromised. So what exactly is going on? According to LastPass, the email warnings were "likely triggered in...
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Congratulations to any of you who scored a PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, or Nintendo Switch OLED for Christmas. Finding one of those consoles in stock is the hard part. It's much easier to surround them with accessories and games, and if that's what you are looking to do, good news—there are a bunch of discounts to...
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China seems to be tired of its Chinese Space Station having to make evasive maneuvers in order to avert collisions with Starlink satellites. The nation has taken action by filing a formal complaint with the United Nations over two recent incidents.
Just over a month ago a Russian Anti-Satellite test (ASAT)...
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MSI is one the latest companies to cancel a physical presence at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week, however it now plans to host a couple of virtual events where it will announce new products. One of those figures to be a new GS77 Stealth laptop line. Ahead of the expected reveal, a retailer in France has...
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Call it a shortcoming or a flaw or whatever you want, but one of the biggest downsides of OLED TVs compared to mini LED panels is they simply don't shine as bright. That's the tradeoff for the superior picture quality that OLED tech typically delivers, with perfect black levels, vibrant color reproduction, and the...
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It has been nearly three years since the GeForce GTX 1650 released to retail, and yet a quick check of the best-selling graphics cards on both Amazon and Newegg shows that it tops the charts. How is it that a 34-month-old graphics card is the top selling GPU on two major online retail sites? Quite simply, it's a...
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Microsoft's dual-screen Surface Duo didn’t exactly wow consumers. The Surface Duo 2 may be a bit more popular, but it’s still not really groundbreaking or record-setting in terms of unit sales. Now, it appears the Redmond-based company is working on a new design for the Surface handheld. Instead of two screens, it may...
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They may not be as glamorous as the high-end Core i7 and Core i9 CPUs that we enthusiasts love, but Intel's Core i3 and mainstream Core i5 models certainly make up a much bigger portion of the market, at least by volume if not by dollar value. We haven't officially seen hide nor hair of the 12th-Generation (Alder...
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Microsoft has always been eager to keep users on its own browser instead of competitors’. Even after switching to Chromium-based Edge, the software giant still cannot maintain a lead in the browser war. A new panel found in the beta version of Microsoft Edge may help. The browser is getting a Games Panel, and we have...
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Don't blame Santa if you didn't wake up to a PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, or Nintendo Switch OLED on Christmas Day. Even the big guy in the bright red suit and an army of elves can only do so much in the face of a shortage. There's some good news, though—more restocks are on the way, giving you more chances to score...
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Foldable phones are a trend in smartphones that continue to see improvements and advances in technology. In a post on Weibo, Lenovo executive Chen Jin revealed plans of a third generation Motorola Razr foldable smartphone.
The first generation Motorola Razr smartphone was launched in 2019 alongside other first gen...
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After a flood of leaks, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has unveiled the Xiaomi 12 Pro and two other 12 series handsets. The two main models, Xiaomi 12 Pro and Xiaomi 12, are both powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, whereas the Xiaomi 12X is a toned-down variant with a Snapdragon 870 SoC underneath the...
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Amazon's Alexa responded to a 10-year-old girl's request for a challenge with 'A penny for your shocks?'. The revelation shared by the young girl's mother on Twitter has people talking about the possible dangers of a voice assistant without proper curation to the content it pulls from the web.
Alexa is just one of...
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Inside sources at Intel are apparently hyper-confident that the company's Arc graphics will prove a formidable opponent to AMD and NVIDIA, and yes, that includes at the top of the stack. That probably won't happen with Alchemist, which is targeting more mainstream performance levels, but Battlemage could be when Arc...
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Nobody wants to rack up bad karma, which should be reason alone not to pilfer movies from the internet via BitTorrent or whatever other means. But even disregarding the moral aspect or pirating movies and games, there's another reason not to engage in such behavior—you could end up with a malware infection. Some...
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Microsoft's list of known issues in Windows 11 is shockingly short, but among the myriad problems enumerated for the latest version of Windows is a new entry called "Applications using Win32 APIs to render colors might not work as expected."
It sounds monumentally disruptive—after all, virtually all of the...
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