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- Alienware's Awesome 34-Inch QD-OLED Monitor Hits An All-Time Low At $288 Off
- Google DeepMind Releases A Handy Tool To Detect Text Written By AI
- Hyundai Recalls Nearly Every Nexo SUV Over Fire Risk From Hydrogen Leaks
- Is The Vision Pro A Flop? Apple Reportedly Scales Back Production In A Big Way
- Cryorig Unveils Monster XX CPU Cooler With 300W TDP Capacity And It's Gigantic
- A Headless Halloween Comet Will Meet Its Fiery Doom This Week And You Can Watch
- Lenovo Legion Go Next-Gen Gaming Handhelds Break Cover With Ryzen Z2 Firepower
- Snapdragon 8 Elite Full Benchmark Reveal Shows A Major iPhone 16 Pro Beatdown
- Google Messages Is Rolling Out Stronger Spam Protection For A Billion Users
- AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme Specs Leak Hints At Major Power Boost For Gaming Handhelds
- Anthropic's AI Model Can Use A Computer Like A Human, Mouse And All
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Retail Leak Teases Upgraded 2nd Gen 3D V-Cache
- Scientists Devise A $200 Trillion Diamond Dust Earth Umbrella To Fight Climate Change
- Arm Cancelling Qualcomm’s Chip License Could Throw Mobile Market Into Upheaval
- AOC Calls Its 34-Inch Agon Pro QD-OLED Gaming Monitor A Significant Leap Forward
- Xbox Wireless Gaming Headset Gets Dolby Atmos And Longer Battery Life
- A Massive Meteorite 4X Bigger Than Mt. Everest Crashed Into Earth And Sparked Life
- NVIDIA CEO Says Blackwell GPU Design Flaw Affecting Yields Is 100% Fixed
- MSI's New Portable Datamag 20Gbps SSD Has A Magnetic Trick Up Its Sleeve
- Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon Cockpit Elite And Ride Elite To Fuel AI Assisted Cars
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All News for October 2024
For those of you who follow display technologies, you know that OLED is basically the gold standard for overall image quality, and that will probably remain the case until micro LED (not to be confused with mini LED) breaks into the mainstream. Supposing you're ready to bite the bullet on an OLED upgrade, now is a...
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Google DeepMind announced it has developed a tool for identifying AI-generated text, and is making it available via open source. SynthID is a technology from Google DeepMind that watermarks and identifies AI-generated content by embedding digital watermarks directly into AI-generated images, audio, text, or...
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If you happen to own one of the very few Hyundai Nexo hydrogen fuel-cell cars sold in the United States between 2019-2024, your vehicle is being recalled for a potential fire risk. Hyundai has determined that a crack in the gas pressure relief system can cause a cloud of hydrogen gas to leak out, and in the right...
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The Apple Vision Pro has been a very interesting device, both in its technology as well as its public reception. Many early owners returned their device after the novelty had worn off, to avoid the $3,499 MSRP shock. It seems like Apple is now scaling back the production of the Vision Pro, to better regulate supply...
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Cryorig has somewhat quietly introduced a new and massive CPU air cooler called the Monster XX. There's no accompanying press release that we can find, but there is a product page, as well as a handful of posts on X/Twitter, one of which puts the call out for "cooler reviewers from every part of the world," presumably...
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A headless Halloween comet looks to round out an October that's chock-full of celestial delights. Comet 2024 S1 (Atlas) is on track to make its close approach to the Sun on October 28, and is currently visible in the Southern Hemisphere.
October has been a great month for stargazers, with the ability to see an...
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If anyone needs further proof that the PC gaming handheld market is thriving, just look at the wave of iterative and generational upgrades that have either already been released (like the Steam Deck OLED and ASUS ROG Ally X) or are in the pipeline. Pertaining to the latter, Lenovo has taken to the Eurasian Economic...
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HotHardware's very own Dave Altavilla is on site in Maui, Hawaii, at the Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit where the chip company has revealed its latest Snapdragon 8-family of processors, known as "Snapragon 8 Elite" due to their inclusion of the same powerful Oryon CPU core used in the speedy Snapdragon X Elite laptop...
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With threat actors constantly targeting Android users with spam to distribute new malware, and even going so far as to repurpose older malware, Google is upgrading Messages to better protect users. The company is bringing “new controls and features to make your conversations on Google Messages even more secure and...
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The gaming handheld market is still booming, with customers buying PC-based portables to play their favorite games on the go in surprising numbers. At the heart of the overwhelming majority of these handhelds is AMD silicon—in particular, AMD SoCs based on its "Phoenix" processor, like the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. That...
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With competitors such as Google evolving their AI models, Anthropic is adding a key feature to its Claude Sonnet model that allows it to interact with computers. The model is now capable of following instructions it’s provided with to “move a cursor around their computer’s screen, click on relevant locations, and...
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Given that AMD's standard Zen 5 processors barely moved the needle in terms of gaming performance, and Intel has admitted that its upcoming "Arrow Lake" Core Ultra 200S CPUs similarly won't be providing a big gaming uplift, hype is at an all-time high for the new Ryzen X3D CPUs because PC gamers are desperate for...
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Proposals to combat climate change have ranged from placing data centers in space, to a lunar missions designed to dim the Sun with Moon dust. Now, a new study suggests using $200 trillion worth of diamond dust to create an umbrella over Earth to fight climate change. The group of scientists using 3D models to compare...
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Arm Ltd has reportedly cancelled a license granted to Qualcomm to design chips based on its technology, possibly throwing the mobile market into a state of disarray. The report states Arm has given Qualcomm a 60-day notice of the cancellation, as required by law.
About three years ago, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon...
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It was really on a short time ago when OLED gaming monitors were relatively few and far between. You could still make that argument today, though the landscape is changing with a steady influx of options. One of those is AOC's new Agon Pro AG346UCD, a 34-inch monitor with a QD-OLED panel that the company is calling a...
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For gamers who prize graphical fidelity, immersive audio is often a close second on the list of must-haves. With technology improving in the latest headsets, Microsoft is once again joining the fray with an upgraded offering. With its new/refreshed Xbox Wireless Headset, more robust battery life and immersive Dolby...
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A new study suggests a meteorite the size of not one, but FOUR Mt. Everests may have aided the beginning of life on Earth. The mammoth S2 meteorite, discovered in 2014, is believed to have caused a tsunami larger than any other known in Earth’s history.
When someone thinks of a meteorite these days, it often brings...
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Perhaps the one and only thing that could potentially derail NVIDIA's ability to continue raking money in hand over fist in the AI era would be a design flaw that impacts chip yields. That's exactly what NVIDIA has been contending with in regards to its Blackwell GB200 silicon. However, NVIDIA's chief financial...
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Portable solid state drive (SSD) storage solutions are not exactly in short supply. Just the opposite, there are a plethora of options, most of which aim to separate themselves from the pack with fast speeds, slick-looking designs, and/or rugged protection. Well, MSI has found another way to make its latest portable...
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Qualcomm has just announced its latest intelligent automotive platforms, the Snapdragon Cockpit Elite and Snapdragon Ride Elite. The big news here is that both systems will be powered by the company's Oryon CPU architecture, which promises up to 3x faster CPU and 12x greater AI performance versus its predecessors...
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Alan Wake 2, one of the best games of 2023, will get even better for gamers who opt to play it on Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 5 Pro. Remedy, the game’s developer, says that it put in significant effort to ensure that it “is taking full advantage of Sony’s PlayStation 5 Pro to enhance the game experience further.” This...
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Samsung 990 EVO Plus: MSRP: 1TB - $110, 2TB - $185, 4TB - $345 The Samsung 990 EVO Plus family of solid state drives features Samsung's latest 8th Gen NAND flash memory for better efficiency and higher transfer speeds. Good Real-World Performance Relatively Low-Power PCIe Gen 4 or 5 Suitable For Almost Any Application...
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