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Latest News - July 2021
- Google Pixel 5a Mid-Range Phone Visits FCC Ahead Of Rumored Fall U.S. Launch
- Grab The OnePlus 8 For Just $369 And AirPods Pro At $189 With These Hot Deals
- Microsoft's New Windows 11 Bug Bash Could Earn You Some Neat Rewards
- CDPR Teases Cyberpunk 2077's Biggest Update Yet For PC And Consoles
- Here's Qualcomm's Fully-Loaded Snapdragon For Insiders Phone Built By ASUS Launching In August
- 2.5 Geeks: Important Happenings For DIY Tech Enthusiasts, Gaming PC Giveaway Hints And More!
- Dodge Teases Its First Electric eMuscle Car Shredding All 4 Tires In Glorious Smoky Burnout
- AMD's Radeon RX 6600 XT Navi 23 GPU Launch Is Reportedly Just Weeks Away
- Commell LE-370 SBC Packs Tiger Lake CPU, PCIe 4 And GbE 2.5 Into Tiny Package
- OnePlus Responds After Getting Busted For Throttling Performance In 300+ Android Apps
- AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution And The Problem With Pixel Peeping
- Microsoft Wants To Add ML-Based Upscaling To DirectX For Xbox And Windows Games
- Ubisoft Announces Assassins Creed Infinity To Spearhead Interconnected Live Game Platform
- OnePlus Nord 2 5G Smartphone Powered By MediaTek Aims To Be A Flagship Killer
- Former President Trump Files Lawsuits Against 'Un-American' Bans From Facebook, Twitter, And Google
- NVIDIA Deploys Cambridge-1 As UK's Fastest Supercomputer For Health Research
- Intel Recruits Revered Skylake Architect Shlomit Weiss To Lead Client CPU Development
- Bungie's New Destiny 2 3.2.1 Update Brings Some Controversial Gameplay Changes
- Microsoft Rushes Out Mandatory Windows Patches For PrintNightmare Exploit, Update ASAP
- President Biden Orders FTC To Enact Consumer-Friendly Right-To-Repair Policies
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All News for July 2021
Although the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro are the most highly anticipated smartphones coming from Google this year, the company also promised to deliver a new mid-range smartphone for consumers. After a rumor claimed that the Pixel 5a was canceled for this year, Google quickly made the surprise decision to confirm months...
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The OnePlus 8 is again on sale for those looking for [last year's] flagship performance at a reasonable price. The OnePlus 8 debuted initially with a $699 price tag, which has been on a steady decline ever since the OnePlus 8T and OnePlus 9 family arrived.
The phone is being sold directly from OnePlus today for $369...
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We are all cautiously optimistic (or at least hopeful) that Windows 11 will arrive to PCs without a hitch. That is never a given when a new operating system comes out, and even though Windows 11 is more akin to a major Windows 10 update, it would not be surprising if some bugs came along for the ride. That is where...
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CD Projekt Red was unable to make good on many of the promises made before the launch of Cyberpunk 2077. While the team has been working hard to improve the game, some of these promises remain unfulfilled. Many players have wondered whether or not CD Projekt Red (CDPR) will ever release a DLC for the game. Luckily...
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It is finally here, the first Snapdragon-branded smartphone, designed by ASUS with premium features from head to toe. Called the Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders, the handset falls decidedly into flagship territory, with a price to match (more on that in a moment). Interestingly, however, it rocks Qualcomm's regular...
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Biden's FTC order for right to repair, NewEgg building PCs from your personal parts wish list, the fastest SSD on the planet and pointless pixel peeping with AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution - All of this and a some hints of our next Gaming PC giveaway on this episode of HotHardware's 2.5 Geeks...
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When we think about the electric vehicle revolution, Dodge is probably the last brand that comes to mind. After all, Fiat-Chrysler is famous for throwing epic Hemi V8 engines into just about anything with four wheels, including the 797 horsepower Challenger SRT Hellcat and the 710 horsepower Durango SRT Hellcat.
The...
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Rumors abound on a pair of upcoming graphics card from AMD, namely the Radeon RX 6600 XT and Radeon RX 6600, both of which briefly appeared on PowerColor's website earlier this week. Their launches are inevitable—it's only a matter of time before AMD fleshes out its RDNA 2 lineup with more affordable cards. But when...
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We're suckers for intriguing single-board PCs here at HotHardware, and a new entry just scurried past our news desk. Built by Commell, the LE-370 draws attention due to the amount of power it offers and the features that it packs into a relatively small footprint.
For starters, the LE-370 forgoes a miserly Arm-based...
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OnePlus' behavior with its smartphones running OxygenOS came under scrutiny earlier this week. According to a new report, the company's flagship OnePlus 9 Pro has its performance throttled – on purpose – in hundreds of popular Android apps.
AnandTech performed an exhaustive investigation into the throttling behavior...
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The biggest news to come out of AMD in recent weeks is no doubt the release of FidelityFX Super Resolution, which is supported across multiple Radeon GPU generations as well as as number of competitive NVIDIA products. In a nutshell, FidelityFX Super Resolution, or FSR, is a hardware vendor-agnostic technology that...
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NVIDIA first introduced its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) upscaling technology with the GeForce RTX 20 Series GPUs in late 2018, which was improved upon with DLSS 2.0 in April 2020. More recently, AMD debuted its competing FidelityFX Super Resolution tech, which provides similar performance benefits over running...
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As time goes on, the Assassin’s Creed paradigm shifts with every decision the Ubisoft team makes, such as those with Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Now the team is beginning to look to the future and has realized that “the decisions [they]’re making for the franchise now will impact its future for years to come.” As a...
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No longer a rumor, OnePlus has confirmed it is launching a Nord 2 smartphone with 5G connectivity, though it will not be rocking a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset like the first iteration. Instead, this will be the first OnePlus device to feature a MediaTek system-on-chip (SoC). Perhaps equally surprising, OnePlus is...
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Today, former President Donald Trump announced that he would be filing lawsuits against three of the biggest names in tech: Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Serving as lead plaintiff in the class-action suits, he claims that he has been “wrongfully censored” by the companies after his ban.
As reported by the...
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Though it has been more than a few weeks, and we have long since passed the end of 2020, the U.K’s most powerful supercomputer is now operational. Powered by NVIDIA hardware, the Cambridge-1 is a $100 million, 400 petaflop beast of a computer that ranks “among the world’s top 50 fastest computers and is powered by 100...
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Industry veteran Shlomit Weiss is returning to Intel to lead the company's full range of chip development and design—the entire CPU silicon gamut, in other words. Weiss brings with her over three decades of experience in the semiconductor space, much of which was spent at Intel (28 years) before leaving for Mellanox...
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Bungie recently dropped a fairly major update to Destiny 2. While the update contains the usual list of fixes, there have also been some changes that have received mixed reactions from fans. Destiny 2 players should expect some changes to the damage capabilities of weapons like shotguns, hand cannons (120 RPM), Exotic...
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As if fussing with a printer is not maddening enough, a recent Windows Print Spooler exploit called 'PrintNightmare' left users vulnerable to remote code execution attacks. Not cool. Fortunately, Microsoft has made rather quick work of rolling out an out-of-band patch, which is being sent out via Windows Update (or...
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Advocates of a consumer's right to repair their electronics and other equipment without negative repercussions from the manufacturer will be happy to know what the US government is up to—President Joe Biden plans to sign an executive order instructing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to write up rules in favor of...
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When people build a PC, they typically find themselves at either Amazon or Newegg while looking for parts online. However, Newegg is now offering professional PC assembly through its PC Builder site to save users time and trouble.
Newegg believes that there is an untapped market of customers who would rather have a...
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When we think of Lotus, we imagine sports cars engineered to be as light as possible and are absolute beasts when it comes to handling. They might not overpower your senses with brutal acceleration or top-end performance, but you'll be hard-pressed to find better corner carvers.
This is why the announcement of the...
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