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Some big PS5 Pro news today, just a scant few days before the upgraded console officially hits the market on November 7th. First up, we have some official specifications for the system shared not by Sony itself, but rather by Euro tech outlet Digital Foundry, who apparently acquired two separate PS5 Pro machines and...
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Savvy shoppers realize that the best way to maximize the bang-for-buck factor when it comes to home electronics is to wait until previous generation products drop in price. The key is figuring out which ones still offer relevant features and capable hardware, especially if you hold onto devices for a long time. We...
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Monster Hunter is a series with a long and storied history, but if you're not a hardcore fan of Japanese action games, you might not know that. The upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds, which will usher in the sixth generation of the series with its launch in February, is in fact the twenty-sixth Monster Hunter game release...
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In what might comes as a surprise to some and not to others, early demand for Intel's fresh-out-of-the-oven Core Ultra 200S processors appears virtually non-existent at Mindfactory, the largest online PC parts retailer in Germany. Preliminary sales data indicates that Mindfactory has not yet sold even just a single...
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Surprise! After teasing the next generation of 3D V-Cache processors for consumers for a November 7 arrival, AMD chose today, Halloween, to treat gamers to a much-anticipated announcementthe oft-leaked Ryzen 7 9800X3D is now official, with AMD confirming several key details, including a "revolutionary change" to the...
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However you see it, Nothing has a strong global fanbase, and what better way to show that you're listening to your fans than having them help develop a special edition Nothing phone? As a first byproduct of the Nothing Community Edition Project, the Phone (2a) Plus Community Edition is quite uniqueit has a...
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It's only Tuesday, but it feels like Apple is going to be trickling out updates this week. Hot on the heels of the company's iMac M4 announcement yesterday, today we are treated to a huge upgrade to the smallest Mac, the Mac mini. This thing is packed to the gills with either an M4 or an M4 Pro SoC, a minimum of 16 GB...
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We've talked a lot about CUDIMMs, or Clock Unbuffered Dual Inline Memory Modules over the past week or so, but that's not the only development in memory. In what we hope becomes a trend, memory makers are starting to implement both AMD EXPO and Intel XMP profiles on the same DDR5 kits, with PNY the latest to do...
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A Brazilian journalist has suggested that Nintendo could reveal its promised and much-anticipated successor to its Switch consolepossible called the Switch 2in the coming days, perhaps as early as next week during the company's next shareholder meeting. It's important to note, however, that this is largely speculation...
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Maybe you splurged on a decked-out motherboard for your AMD or Intel build with a model that's chock full of bells and whistles, as well as copious overclocking potential. That's all well and good, but can you jam two processors into that thing, and/or cram a staggering 24 terabytes (yes, TERABYTES) of RAM into a sea...
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Leading analysts say Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 on Game Pass will hurt overall sales, but will be a big boon for Xbox Game Pass. The analysts suggest offeringCall of Duty on Game Pass could cause up to six million lost sales of the game, but with three to four million new sign-ups up for Game Pass.
Earlier this...
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Subjectively speaking, G.Skill makes some of the sexiest RAM out there, depending on your taste in modules. If you're unconvinced, I'd like to enter into evidence its latest Trident Z5 CK series memory with sleek and reflective black heatspreaders. Objectively, these new kits are some of the fastest memory on the...
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Not only are there are handful of laptops available based on Intel's latest Core Ultra Series 2 lineup, otherwise known as Lunar Lake, but they're mostly all relatively affordable models. There are several options hovering around the the $1,000 mark, the least expensive of which is the ASUS Vivobook S 14 with 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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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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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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There's a lot of excitement surrounding NVIDIA's next halo GPU for consumers, the GeForce RTX 5090, and for good reasonthe flagship SKU is reportedly a beast, if the leaks and rumors are any indication. So it's no wonder that a video purportedly showing a Zotac-brand GeForce RTX 5090 booting in a test...
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I come from a generation where hulking computer cases were a serious flexit suggested some seriously powerful hardware resided inside. They still can be a flex, but there's been a definite shift (generally speaking) towards more compact systems. Well, it doesn't get a whole lot more compact than a mini PC (PC...
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At some point, Valve is going to release a Steam Deck 2 (even if it ends up being called something different). And when it does arrive, it could sport some notable upgrades, including variable refresh rate (VRR) support and longer batter life, compared to the Steam Deck and Steam Deck OLED. That said, don't expect...
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PC enthusiasts have a weird problem with overly-relativistic thinking. Case in point: AMD's newish Ryzen 9000 Zen 5 desktop processors. It's fair to say that they were disappointing given their relatively modest performance gains in typical client desktop tasks over the Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 CPUs. However, that doesn't...
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Apple is hyping the heck out if its upcoming Apple Intelligence features that are headed to compatible devices, including the recently-launched iPhone 16 lineup (see our iPhone 16 Pro review) and the previous generation iPhone 15 series, both of which have the requisite hardware to power Apple's "AI" features. While...
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