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Several energy providers are now asking New England customers to monitor their accounts for unusual activity or beware of potential scams following a third-party data breach earlier this month. Earlier this morning, HotHardware was made aware that an email had gone out from Eversource, a residential energy provider... Read more...
PC making giant Lenovo looks set to dip its toe in the turbulent new handheld Windows gaming device market. It is sure to make a big impact when it arrives due to Lenovo’s market presence, resources and influence. However, we only had a rough sketch of the upcoming device’s capabilities until now. Today, an extensive... Read more...
Intel's first Arc graphics cards were underwhelming on launch, and if you believed certain sources, the company was going to can the whole project as a result. Of course, that's not how things have played out—Intel has put considerable effort into improving those first Arc graphics cards, to the point that your author... Read more...
As gamers prepare for early access to the highly-anticipated Bethesda title Starfield, there are a few things to know before it launches players into the great unknown. Early access will be granted on the evening of August 31, 2023 for those who preordered the Premium Edition or the Constellation Edition, while all... Read more...
Beginning with the Pixel 8, Google is reportedly going to out-do Samsung for major OS updates, thus extending the lifespan of its Tensor-powered phones. It has been a long time coming and could finally bring it on par with Apple's end-of-life (EOL) support policy. Presently, Google's software update policy dictates... Read more...
Google has announced its release of Duet AI for Google Workspace which will supercharge Gmail, Google Docs, and more. Duet AI is designed to help users focus on what really matters while it handles the rest. Since Google's Duet AI was introduced, the company says thousands of companies and more than a million... Read more...
As much as we favor gaming monitors with ultra-fast refresh rates and other gamer-oriented amenities around these parts, we'd be remiss to mention to that video editors, photographers, and other creative professionals have specific needs when it comes to choosing a display. Samsung is hoping to meet those needs with... Read more...
It still feels like we're getting our feet wet with the latest-generation graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA, the former of which just expanded its lineup with the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT at Gamescom. Be that as it may, work has already begun on next-gen GPU solutions. To that end, it's said that... Read more...
PC gamers and power users sometimes sneer at Intel's E-cores because they aren't as fast on a single thread as the company's powerful P-cores. Demanding client tasks—like many operations in creative applications as well as, of course, games—tend to be single-threaded, or at least held up by a single slow thread. In... Read more...
Put simply, NVIDIA's Frame Generation technology, introduced with its Ada Lovelace graphics cards and DLSS version 3, offers an increase in visual fluidity with very little downside to gamers. Yes, there's an increase in input lag compared to playing the same game with anti-lag features enabled, but it's not much... Read more...
You may have seen protesters on social media and in the news sitting on roadways to block traffic, spraying buildings with paint, and now “coning” self-driving vehicles. This newest form of protest highlights not only how easy it is to disrupt a highly complex machine but also what kind of trouble these self-driving... Read more...
Gamers eagerly awaiting the official release of Bethesda's Starfield video game were given an unofficial online sneak peek recently by a 29-year-old man who is now facing criminal charges. Darrin Harris posted a 45-minute video of Starfield gameplay that has since been taken down. According to inmate records from... Read more...
We tried to tell you, dear readers: FromSoftware's latest release, Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon, is absolutely awesome. It stays true to the classic Armored Core gameplay and themes while integrating a few elements and ideas from the developer's more recent (and more popular) fantasy role-playing game franchises... Read more...
The Moon will be at its brightest and fullest as it passes by the ringed planet Saturn in the night sky this week. This is the second full Moon of August, making it the year's only Super Blue Moon. Saturn comes to opposition of Earth's Moon nearly every year. While it takes one Earth year for our home planet to... Read more...
It might be time to pour one out for the beloved Zenfone. ASUS has reportedly shuttered the Zenfone division for good and for no apparent stated reason. According to Taiwanese news outlet TechNews, ASUS has completely and abruptly dissolved its Zenfone division. Much of this internal restructuring involves... Read more...
Sparkle has posted a product page for an Arc A770 Titan OC Edition graphics card claiming it is the "best choice of the series." Time will tell if that is truly the case, but at the very least the card makes a strong case for the best Arc A770 option around—it sports a respectable overclock and does not skimp on VRAM... Read more...
It took a little while but Samsung has confirmed that it will indeed add a 4TB capacity option to its flagship 990 Pro solid state drive (SSD) series. That's great news for a couple of reasons, one of which is that the 990 Pro is compatible with the PlayStation 5. Additionally, these kinds of additions can help drive... Read more...
Between porch pirates and funny home videos, home security cameras are great for capturing those precise, important moments, whether it's a neighbor snagging a package, your mother-in-law being chased by a wild animal, or a UFO in the sky. With Amazon’s ongoing sale on Blink home security products, you can catch all... Read more...
With Apple's announcement of its iPhone 15 lineup just around the corner, leaks are once again suggesting that the higher-end Pro models are set to be the most expensive to date. The news comes at a time when global smartphone sales are on track to be the worst in the last ten years, according to Counterpoint... Read more...
School is back in session, or very soon if it's not in your area, and with it comes the need for new technology to do research, write essays, complete homework and so on. As such, Best Buy has some solid deals on a variety of laptops that will suit the needs of students of any age. Kicking things off, we have the... Read more...
Bethesda Games Studios is not a game company known for making little games. Both the Elder Scrolls series and the Fallout series consist of one massive open world after another, and even going back to the company's ancient history, The Terminator: Future Shock and Skynet games had extremely large maps with tons of... Read more...
SpaceX successfully test-fired its Super Heavy booster ahead of Elon Musk's space company's next Starship launch. The booster, designated as Booster 9, was static-fired at SpaceX's Starbase test site in Boca Chica, Texas. Starship met a dreadful fate on its inaugural test launch on April 20, 2023, as the spacecraft... Read more...
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