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Look, we know it's tempting if you're a gamer with the requisite $700, but please don't buy a PS5 Pro. It's an awful lot of money for a toy that can only play the games that Sony says you can play. It doesn't even have the excuse of being a really high-quality Blu-Ray player like the PS3 didthere's no disc...
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SpaceX has performed the first private spacewalk during the Polaris Dawn mission, viewing Earth 458 miles below. Crew members Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis took turns floating just outside the Dragon capsule while wearing specially-designed suits.
After having its launch delayed due to the FAA grounding all...
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It's a new school year, and chances are good that the old Windows 7-based 2012-vintage laptop you were planning to give to the kid is really on its last legs. Grab something new with a fresh version of Windows and all of the accoutrements you expect from a brand-new laptop, like a modern screen in high resolution, a...
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When we first played the early Astro's Playroom on the Sony PlayStation 5, we knew Sony had a winner on its hands. Fast forward a few years, and the just recently released Astro Bot is a fantastic gaming experience that needs to be enjoyed.
While Sony does not have the heavyweights to match the Mario franchise...
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While we await the next powerhouse GPUs from NVIDIA, we have some interesting news from the AMD side. For RDNA 3, AMD put up a valiant effort at the upper echelons with GPUs such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX. While it did not best the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090, it certainly put up a good fight with the GeForce RTX 4080 in...
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NASA and Boeing are preparing to bring the Starliner spacecraft back to Earth, albeit uncrewed. Starliner will depart from the International Space Station (ISS) later today for a rendezvous back on Earth at one of several possible landing sites.
Early in the mission, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams...
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Ubisofts Star Wars Outlaws was a highly anticipated release for fans of the franchise, and was expected to be one of the companys hit releases for 2024. After encountering some bugs during the early access period, the game released to the general public and received a mixed reception from reviewers. The problems have...
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If it were up to us, a product with "Blaze" in the model name would be unveiled on April 20 for obvious (to some) reasons. Missed opportunity aside, Acer has chosen IFA 2024 as the launchpad for its first gaming handheld, the Nitro Blaze 7 (GN771), which is the latest hardware entry in a growing segment that Valve...
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There's not a whole lot of mystery surrounding MSI's next-generation Claw 8 AI+ handheld, as it's been teased, showed off, and talked about several times up to this point. Nevertheless, following the launch of Intel's Core Ultra Series 2 processors, otherwise known as Lunar Lake, MSI has now officially...
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series processors are very potent 12 and 10-core CPUs that are occasionally power-limited in the systems we've tested. Unlike Intel's processors, Qualcomm's chip doesn't contain a mix of performance and efficient coresyou get three quad-core clusters of full-fat Oryon CPUs. A dozen cores is...
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The Xbox Series S continues to test developers looking to bring their games to the Xbox ecosystem, adding to the negative vibes currently facing Microsofts gaming consoles. The most recent developer to add its two cents about the situation is Funcom, which is currently working on MMO Dune Awakening. Chief product...
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If you have been looking to buy a CPU during the last several months, the decision has been complicated by scary headlines for both Intel and AMD. With warranty issues being a primary concern, we have some new information that will be good news to those purchasing AMD's Zen 5-based Ryzen 9000 processors.
The Ryzen...
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We've been telling you all that it's too early to count Intel out. The company has more than four decades of making chips under its belt, and there's a whole lot of talent on the blue team. Today's launch, of the "Core Ultra Mobile Processors (Series 2)"better known to enthusiasts by its "Lunar Lake" code...
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Have you ever waded in a hot tub for a long while before realizing that your smartphone was in the pocket of your swimming trunks the whole time? Just me, then? That's cool, but I'm certainly not alone in having subjected a smartphone to water damage. One of the prevailing tips for such incidents is to plop a wet...
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Remember when Corsair was best known for its DRAM products, followed by gaming peripherals and cooling gear? It's expanded quite a bit since those early days, and its newest product announcement has nothing to do with RAM or gaming keyboards or CPU coolers, etc. Instead, it's a promising 34-inch monitor with a sleek...
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If you're reading HotHardware, you probably already know that displays based on Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, or "OLEDs", have a lot of advantages over more conventional liquid-crystal displays (LCDs.) They offer essentially-instant response times, highly-saturated colors, and inky blacks that make for decent...
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Reflect Orbital aims to provide and sell sunlight in the dark of night by redirecting light with a giant mirror in space. CEO Ben Nowack presented his plan during the International Conference on Energy from Space in London this past April, and has now launched a website where people can sign up for a chance to access...
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It's looking like owners of the brand spankin' new Google Pixel 9 will have to wait just a little longer for stable Android 15 to hit their phones. In an almost nonchalant way, Google has established (in the release notes for the Android Beta Exit update) that its latest and freshest OS will drop sometime in October...
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Chrome is by far the most dominant browser on the market with regards to market share, so when there's an alarming security that's being actively exploited in the wild, it's a bit of a big deal. To that end, Google has issued an urgent update to Chrome that addresses that very thing. It also contains a host of other...
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If you've ever directly compared modern LCDs and OLEDs, you'll know that the biggest problem with most consumer OLEDs is that they just don't get that bright. This is a problem for users who want high contrast for sharp HDR highlights, but the reason is simple -- the blue pixels will die too fast. LG Display claims to...
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If you recall, some benchmarks for AMD's new Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5"-based desktop processors were well behind the expected performance gains compared to the previous generation. Those expectations were set by AMD, and in response to community outcry over the missed marks, AMD gave a number of explanations. One of those...
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A prototype of a Nintendo PlayStation SNES controller has sold at auction over the weekend, with the winning bid coming in at a whopping $35,000. Yes, controllers are expensive in general these days, but $35,000 could get you a decent vehicle (or at least a really nice down payment on one). So why would someone pay...
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