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- Lenovo Blitzes MWC With AI Powered ThinkBook And A Wild Transparent Display Laptop
- Prison Laptop Gets A Hacker Jailbreak To Ubuntu Freedom
- Intel Arc GPUs Just Brought A Big Boost To Pytorch For Llama 2
- Xiaomi 14 Ultra Breaks Cover For Sale With A Killer Leica Camera
- Blue Origin Showcases Its Towering New Glenn Rocket As It Readies For Launch
- Apple’s iPad Mini Hits A New Low Price, $100 Off With This Great Deal
- Leaker Claims Microsoft Is Readying An All-Digital White Xbox Series X
- Researchers Show Wireless Chargers Can Melt Phones, Blow Up Keys, Or Start Fires
- AI Arms Race Fuels HBM Memory Shortage: SK Hynix Sold Out For 2024
- Reddit's IPO Filing Reveals A $91M Loss And An Investing Twist
- Controversy Over Google’s AI Image Tool Explained And Why It’s On Pause
- Waiting For NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090? Brace For A Possible Shortage Of Next-Gen GPUs
- Will The Next Xbox Ditch Physical Game Discs? Phil Spencer Sounds Off
- NASA Warns Of Comms And Electric Grid Disruptions As Sun Spews Solar Flares
- Is Gmail Safe? Google Responds To Shutdown Claim Seen By Over 7 Million
- HotHardware And Lenovo 2024 New Year, New Gear Giveaway!
- Stable Diffusion 3 Unveiled With Legible Text And Multiple Subjects For Amazing Results
- AT&T Rocked By Nationwide Cellular Outage, 911 Calls Affected Too
- Bethesda Giveaway: Win A Starfield Radeon RX 7900 XTX And Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- Samsung's One UI 6.1 Update Will Expand Galaxy AI To These Devices
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Lenovo announced two ThinkBook laptops at MWC 2024 this week, that showcase the company’s innovation in the AI PC era. The first is the ThinkBook 14 2-in-1 Gen 4 featuring Intel Core Ultra processors, along with a wild and innovative proof-of-concept ThinkBook laptop with a transparent display.
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When you think of prison, you probably do not think of technology, and in fact, you may think of the lack thereof. However, a plethora of correctional facilities and inmates utilize technology, and not just that which is smuggled in. Laptops are great for educational, leisure, and other purposes, but they also must be safe for the correctional
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A lot of people will tell you that PyTorch is for NVIDIA GPUs, but that's not actually true. PyTorch is platform-agnostic; it's just that many packages built on PyTorch make heavy use of NVIDIA's CUDA API. You can run PyTorch on just about anything; however, performance may not be great without specific...
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The Xiaomi 14 Ultra with a Leica Quad camera array, equipped with four 50MP sensors, including a Sony 1-inch sensor, has made its way to the market. The company’s flagship also comes packed with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and a 6.73-inch 2K AMOLED LTPO display.
It didn’t take long for the Xiaomi 14 Ultra to pop up for...
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Blue Origin’s New Glenn, named after the first American astronaut to orbit the Moon, John Glenn, is upright on a launch pad for the first time. The advanced heavy-lift vehicle will support both customer missions and Blue Origin programs, including returning to the Moon as part of NASA’s historic Artemis...
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Are you in the market for a reading and drawing tablet, or other Apple accouterments for your tech kit? Amazon has a few sales going right now that can save you big bucks on some solid Apple gear, from iPads to AirPods and AirTags; there is something for everyone in these deals. Without further ado, let’s take a bite...
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There is quite a bit of mystery and intrigue surrounding Microsoft's future Xbox hardware plans, both in the long-term and the more immediate future. As it applies to the latter, a fresh leak alleges that Microsoft is getting ready to release an Xbox Series X in white trim, and without an optical disc drive, making it...
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Virtually all smartphone users around the globe charge their devices daily, either via a wired charger or wireless charging pad. It turn out, however, that wireless chargers can be used to do some pretty nefarious things. Researchers have recently shown that it's possible to manipulate or even destroy devices by...
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If you're coming to us from a PC gaming perspective, you're almost assuredly aware of the standard DDR5 memory and the graphics-optimized GDDR6(X) memory. You might not be familiar with High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). This technology uses an extremely wide 1024-bit connection to the host processor, and that's *per...
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Yesterday, the social media platform known for its antics like Ask Me Anything's (AMAs) and /r/Place, and dubbed the front page of the Internet, had its initial public offering (IPO) documentation published by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This document revealed quite a bit of interesting information...
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Google has had to put the brakes on its Gemini AI text-to-image generation when it comes to humans. The controversy erupted on social media this week, with Google confirming its most powerful AI offering ever was indeed creating images with historical “inaccuracies.”
The launch of Gemini seemed to go well for...
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The cat is out of the bag, NVIDIA is on an absolute winning streak that has taken the world by storm, as evidenced its latest earnings report. Gaming GPUs with the GeForce RTX 40 series mostly held on with good inventory for gamers. Meaning, its data center GPUs are hot commodities, with demand increasing at an...
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One rumor that's persisted for several years—at least a half a decade, at this point—is that Microsoft will completely abandon physical discs for its Xbox game consoles. It hasn't happened, though with Microsoft confirming that it plans to keep releasing newer generation Xbox consoles into the future, the question has...
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NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory, or SDO, detected three strong solar flares with the potential to disrupt radio communications, electric power grids, navigation signals, and could even pose a risk to spacecraft and astronauts. The first flare detected was an X1.8 flare, the second flare being classified as an X1.7...
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An X/Twitter user with nearly 100,000 followers had people researching if Google was planning to shut down its popular Gmail service after posting a supposed screenshot of an email claiming that was the case. The post quickly went viral, amassing over 7.6 million views in less than 24 hours. But is Google really going...
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We're gearing up for some big innovations that are on the horizon in 2024 for our industry. To celebrate the new year, we've teamed up with Lenovo to give away some fresh Tech gear to a few lucky winners!
We have three prize packs lined up for our 2024 New Year, New Gear Giveaway with Lenovo – 1 (one) Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IRX9H Gaming
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Cloud-hosted AI image generators like OpenAI's DALL-E 3 and Meta's Imagine are really fun to play with, but they can come with onerous restrictions in terms of content, blocking even prompts that don't seem objectionable at all. They also are known to massage users' prompts—Gemini was recently noted to insert...
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AT&T customers nationwide are reporting outages that are preventing outbound calls, including emergency phone calls. Starting early this morning, folks were noting that they were unable to get work done or complete phone calls, and it would seem that this was not just affecting the AT&T network. Carriers running off...
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Bethesda has teamed up with AMD to give away some limited edition CPU and GPU hardware. Not by coincidence, the giveaway coincides with Starfield gaining support for AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) upscaling technology, which came by way of the game's most recent patch (versiion 1.9.67). Incidentally, the...
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For better or worse, Samsung's Galaxy AI will be making its way across more Galaxy devices as part of the new One UI 6.1 update. The brand new Galaxy S24 series got to enjoy Galaxy AI first, but now four product lines in the Samsung stable will be able to partake in some mobile AI smarts along with some genuinely...
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The year 2024 started off with NVIDIA finally announcing its line of GeForce RTX Super GPUs, which include the GeForce RTX 4070 Super, RTX 4070 Ti Super, and RTX 4080 Super. The first two GPUs were introduced at the same price as the models they superseded, with the GeForce RTX 4080 Super getting a notable $200 price...
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Late last year, Google introduced the world to its most capable AI offering ever, Gemini. Since then, Gemini has strengthened with new features, as well as most recently providing an upgrade to Google Assistant. What some may not be aware of, however, is the availability of Google’s new AI Premium subscription, that...
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