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- Scoring A Limited Edition Xbox Series X Halo Infinite Bundle Could Be Easier Than You Think
- HotHardware's Holiday Wish List: Gifts And Deals For Tech Geeks
- Huge Deal: How To Get Amazon's Echo Dot 3rd Gen For Just 99 Cents
- Cybersecurity Experts Share Disheartening Ransomware Threat Outlook For 2022
- Huge Swath Of Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake Laptop CPUs Detailed In Geekbench Listings
- A Look Inside A Massive RTX 3070 Mining Farm May Trigger You
- Can't Find A GPU? NVIDIA's GeForce NOW RTX 3080 Tier Just Opened For All Subscribers
- Peter Molyneux's Legacy Isn't Out Yet And Has Already Sold $53M In NFT Game Plots
- How To Score A Free Game Every 24 Hours Throughout December Starting With Shenmue III
- Maingear CEO Patents Gaming PC Innovation That Dramatically Simplifies Cable Management
- PC Memory Prices Are Projected To Drop And That Includes DDR5, But There's A Caveat
- NVIDIA's Alleged GeForce RTX 3080 Refresh Might Be A Bigger Upgrade Than Initially Thought
- NASA Perseverance Mars Rover Excites Scientists With Surprising Volcanic Discoveries On Red Planet
- Reddit Files For IPO And WallStreetBets Goes Bonkers
- OnePlus Buds Z2 Review: Solid ANC Earbuds For Under $100
- Minecraft Is The First Game To Hit 1 Trillion YouTube Views And Celebrates With An Epic Video
- IBM And Samsung Chip Breakthrough Could Allow Your Phone To Last A Week On A Single Charge
- Log4j Threat Worsens As Microsoft Warns Of Multiple State-Sponsored Hackers On The Warpath
- Holiday SSD Deals Bring Huge Storage Savings Up To 35 Percent Off Corsair, XPG And More
- Whoa, NVIDIA Is Giving Away Badass Matrix-Themed GeForce RTX PCs And Custom GPU Backplates
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All News for December 2021
Finding a current-generation game console in stock from a first-party retailer continues to be a difficult task. Even harder is nailing down a limited edition variant. Namely, the 'Xbox Series X Halo Infinite Limited Edition Bundle' that consists of a themed design in celebration of 20 years of Halo. However, you...
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As the holiday shopping season shifts into high gear, we at HotHardware wanted to share a few last minute gift ideas from our staff that should excite any enthusiast or mainstream tech users you have left on your shopping list. We know it has been a tough year for us geeks and trying to find the right gift for a loved...
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Amazon is practically giving away its Echo Dot 3rd Gen smart speaker with Alexa integration right now. Sort of, anyway. If you sign up for an Amazon Music Unlimited subscription, you can tack on the Echo Dot speaker for a mere $0.99. That's $39 below the speaker's MSRP (though current street pricing is around...
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Criminal ransomware distributors have evolved dramatically over the past few years. Operators that were once splinter groups or lone individuals have become highly sophisticated and organized. Security experts say it’s not getting any better, either. Rather, some say we’re in the “golden era of ransomware” and 2022...
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Intel's 12th-generation Core processors, codenamed "Alder Lake," have already been out for about a month—at least, if you're an enthusiast or power user. If you're looking for a small-form-factor NUC, laptop, or ultra-mobile PC, you'll have to be content with a last-generation CPU (or perhaps an AMD processor) until...
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If you’ve been maddened by the difficulty buying a new GPU, this may make it worse. One full-time cryptocurrency miner has offered a peek into his mining server farm, and it’s made up almost entirely of Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 GPUs.
Jaxson Davidson has offered a glimpse into “building 1/4” of his mining farm. In...
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A high-end graphics card may not be in Santa's bag of toys this Christmas, regardless of whether you ended up on the Nice or Naughty list. In lieu of a physical graphics card, you can rent one in the cloud through NVIDIA's GeForce NOW game streaming service. Even better, the preorder designation on its RTX 3080 tier...
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As NFT's and cryptocurrency continue to rise in both popularity and value, game developers are continuing to try and create games to capitalize on them. An unreleased game called Legacy from Peter Molyneux has already sold its majority of available NFT virtual land.
Transactions for in-game content is nothing new...
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Just as it had done last year, Epic Games is gifting players a free game each day for the second half of December, in celebration of the holiday season. It's also discounting a whole bunch of titles for its Holiday Sale 2021 event, with savings of up to 75 percent off. And on top of all that, it's spreading holiday...
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We recently became aware of Gigabyte's beautiful Aorus Project Stealth PC concept, with connectors and cable routing moved behind the motherboard deck, in what seemed to be a truly innovative gaming desktop design with better air flow and an easier build process. It appears, however, that Maingear patented the design...
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The introduction of Alder Lake has created demand among home consumers for newfangled DDR5 memory modules, but anyone hoping to score a kit will have to pay a premium (compared to DDR4). And that's before factoring in scalper pricing and bundles like the ones in Newegg's Shuffle program. There's some good news...
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When or if NVIDIA decides to introduce a refreshed GeForce RTX 3080 with more memory than the original SKU remains to be seen. However, if the upgraded graphics card does come to fruition, it might arrive with a beefier upgrade than just some additional GDDR6X slapped on, according to the latest unofficial rumor mill...
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover seeks to send back a treasure trove of geological goodies to scientists and geologists back on Earth. Its latest findings include a bedrock likely formed by red-hot magma that interacted with water during the evolution of the red planet.
NASA has been getting a lot of use out of its...
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Pretty soon you might be able to own a piece of Reddit, the hugely popular social news site, and also one of the most visited websites of any kind. Last night Reddit announced it is in the beginning process of going public, having filed a confidential initial public offering (IPO) with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
"The
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Since OnePlus introduced the original and excellent OnePlus Buds ($79) a year and a half ago, the company has launched two more pairs of TWS (true wireless) earbuds – the affordable ($49) OnePlus Buds Z, and the higher end ($149) OnePlus Buds Pro with ANC and wireless charging. Today we’re taking a listen to OnePlus’ fourth...
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There’s no argument that Minecraft is one of the most popular video games ever. Microsoft has capitalized heavily on that, but has also used the platform to offer free educational content to kids stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Minecraft is so insanely popular, in fact, that it’s broken a huge record...
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How cool would it be if your smartphone could last a week between charges instead of 15 hours? Thanks to a breakthrough announced by a joint effort between IBM and Samsung, that could be a reality soon.
In addition to bolstering its investment in the US, Korean-owned Samsung Electronics is working alongside IBM to...
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In case you weren't yet taking the Log4shell vulnerability in Apache's Log4J seriously, here's another reason to do so: threat actors associated with malware distributors, ransomware-as-a-service vendors, and even nation-states are actively exploiting the flaw. Bad guys are scanning the web en masse looking for...
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Santa may not have a graphics card in his sack of toys to deliver this year, but he might leave a video game or three under the tree. And as such, you might find yourself in the market for a storage upgrade. Games take up space, after all, and even game updates are getting bigger. Whatever the reason, if you need more...
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We adore giveaways, as should be obvious from the frequent ones we host ourselves. But we're not the only ones to award cool gear to lucky winners. To celebrate the release of The Matrix Resurrections next week, NVIDIA has teamed up with modders to gift three custom Matrix-themed PCs, as well a handful of snazzy...
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LG's upcoming line of Lifestyle OLED TVs are set to roll out at CES 2022 in more ways than one. The newest line of TVs from LG include a work of art and a TV made to make watching TV in your home a more mobile experience.
With screens reaching sizes larger than 70 inches and resolutions reaching an astonishing 8K...
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Samsung has begun sampling blazing-fast GDDR6 memory chips that are capable of operating at a breakneck 24 gigabits per second (Gbps) and for whatever reason, the company is not shouting about it from a mountaintop. It would certainly be justified—at that speed, Samsung's memory not only matches Micron's supercharged...
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