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- Soaring Console Prices Pummel US Hardware Sales In Record Slump
- Best Back-To-School Laptops: Grade-A Picks For Every Student And Budget
- AMD Hits Record x86 Market Share To Cut Into Intel's Chip Lead In Every Segment
- Darth Vader Crashes City Council Meeting To Endorse Flock Surveillance
- Micron To Pour $10 Billion Into US Hub To Invent Post-DRAM AI Tech
- Wild Hardware Hack Brings Doom To A Vintage Canon DSLR Camera
- Microsoft’s Original Xbox Is Back As A Massive Mattel Brick Set
- GTA 6 Leakers Turn Up The Heat With Threats To Expose More Content
- How Intel's Pentium D Exposed A Chiplet Challenge That's Still Relevant Today
- Your Fire TV Is Getting Amazon’s Supercharged Alexa For Free
- Best Buy Members Save 50% On NFL Sunday Ticket: How To Get It For $234
- NASA's Swift Telescope To Plunge To Earth After Rescue Mission Fails
- HoverAir Versa Flies Past $230K Funding Goal While Dodging FCC Drone Ban
- G.Skill's $2.4M RAM Settlement Payouts Begin: Check Your Payment App
- Forget AirPods: Sennheiser Momentum 5 Adds Swappable Batteries
- Seasonic Debuts First Power Supply With Stringent 80 Plus Ruby Rating
- Raspberry Pi Built A Weird New Jig Tool To Flash Hardware Faster
- It Begins: Google Starts Pushing Out Strict New Sideload Rules
- Intel Core Ultra 9 4950K Benchmark Leak Shows Massive Nova Lake Gains
- Google Pixel 11 Series Review: The Experience Is The Upgrade
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All News for August 2026
U.S. video game spending tanked in July as soaring hardware prices and a rapid shift toward digital downloads crushed traditional retail sales, which haven't been this bad since 1995.
The gaming market faced a major slump last month...
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Remember when Billy Madison belted out, "Back to school, back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool!"? Sincere apologies if that earworm is now stuck in your head, but the back-to-school season has arrived (so long, summer!) and...
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The global PC processor market experienced an unexpected surge in the second quarter of 2026, with total x86 and Arm-based CPU shipments growing more than 10% sequentially to defy normal seasonal trends, according to fresh data from...
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Municipal public comment periods are usually home to standard local grievances, but a recent San Diego City Council meeting received an Imperial visit when Darth Vader stepped up to endorse Flock cameras and automated surveillance...
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Micron has announced a $10 billion commitment over the next decade to establish Micron Research Labs, a long-horizon research institution headquartered in Boise, Idaho. The new hub is designed to look well beyond today's standard DRAM and...
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Unusual Doom ports are a favorite oddity among many tech enthusiasts, and the latest arrival is Doom 550D, a port of the game that can run on certain Canon cameras thanks to the Magic Lantern open-source firmware for Canon EOS 550D, Rebel...
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Microsoft is celebrating the Xbox’s 25th anniversary and plans to release a limited edition Xbox Series X25 sporting the classic translucent green colorway that many fans fondly remember. The celebration isn’t stopping there, though, as...
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Grand Theft Auto VI has suffered from numerous major leaks lately, including the release of the game's full map just two days ago. As promised by the hacker responsible, CyberLeek, more game content has followed, which suggests this...
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How's your Throwback Thursday going? As it happens, we've got a perfect post for you today, thanks to former Intel Performance Architect François Piednoel. Posting on LinkedIn, Piednoel shared an anecdote about his days at Intel as part of...
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Amazon has made its upgraded AI Alexa+ assistant available to all Fire TV device owners in the United States free of charge, no Amazon Prime membership or any kind of monthly subscription needed.
This surprise gift from Bezos elevates...
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With the NFL preseason wrapping up next week, football fans are gearing up for the start of the regular season featuring a Super Bowl LX rematch between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. Ahead of the opening kickoff, Best Buy...
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A $30 million rescue effort has come to an end, dooming NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope to a fiery atmospheric reentry later this year. The observatory had previously suffered major attitude control malfunctions and went into an...
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Chinese quadcopter maker HoverAir (part of Zero Zero Robotics) might have managed to bypass the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) new restrictions on foreign-made drones, launching the HoverAir Versa as a DJI Pocket-like camera with...
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G.Skill has begun dispersing payments related to a class-action lawsuit settlement that was reached earlier this year. If you purchased a kit of G.Skill RAM within the past several years, check your email's spam folder and/or payment app...
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Sennheiser is taking direct aim at the disposable nature of wireless earbuds with its new flagship Momentum True Wireless 5. Priced at $299.95, the fifth-generation earbuds introduce user-replaceable batteries for both the earpieces and...
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Last May, CLEARresult, the agency that operates the popular 80 PLUS power supply certification program, unveiled the new 80 PLUS Ruby tier which drops down on top of the stack with the most stringent certification requirements yet. We...
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Raspberry Pi has announced the release of the Compute Module 5 Programming Jig, which is a “single-head provisioning system that programs your Compute Module 5 with an operating system and security configuration.” Pi users will be happy to...
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Advanced Flow, a new app sideloading option, is rolling out to certified Android 17 devices right now and Google's Android Community Engagement Manager Mishall Rahman has posted an extended guide / announcement to the r/Android subreddit...
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Hardware enthusiasts and regular HotHardware readers will already be well aware that we're eagerly awaiting the next-generation showdown between Intel's Nova Lake processors and AMD's Zen 6-based Ryzen CPUs, either very late this year or...
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Google Pixel 11 And Pixel 11 Pro XL - Image: HotHardware Google Pixel 11 Series - Starting At $899, Find It On Amazon Google’s Pixel 11 ($899), Pixel 11 Pro ($1,099), and Pixel 11 Pro XL ($1,299) improve upon last year’s...
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Newly released NASA orbital photos have revealed the final impact spot of the derelict SpaceX rocket stage on the Moon, offering scientists a better look at how artificial collisions can shape the lunar surface.
The Moon obtained a...
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The soaring costs of consoles and PC parts like memory, storage, and graphics cards are gut wrenching, and while we can point an angry finger at AI or corporate greed, at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. What does matter, now...
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