Nikon has dropped the Z5 IIC, a revised viewfinder-less full-frame mirrorless over last year’s Z5II with one clear mission: to give content creators something with the ease of smartphone photography and the power of higher-end digital imaging at an affordable price.

Unlike its fuller-featured sibling the Z5 II, there’s no EVF here, which

Valve’s long-awaited standalone virtual reality headset, the Steam Frame, not only finally launched this month, it also made it onto the dissection table. In its latest teardown, the folks at iFixit put the newly launched hardware under the knife (and other surgical instruments) to determine how easily users can service and repair it. The

Microsoft is expanding its Arm-powered PC lineup with fresh internal upgrades for its most portable form factors. Announced at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, the company is refreshing both the Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Plus processor.

The transition brings notable performance and efficiency

Qualcomm has made a series of announcements this week at its annual Snapdragon Summit event in Maui, Hawaii, the newest of which is the unveiling of its Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 platform. Purpose-built for next-generation audio devices for the agentic age, the platform aims to combine premium Snapdragon Sound technologies with on-device

Over on the NeoGAF forums, which are popular among gaming industry insiders, credible leaker Kepler_L2 appeared in a thread claiming that the PlayStation 6 would have performance surpassing NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5080, citing support for dual-issue compute as the reason why. Kepler did not back that claim, but did assert both that the PlayStation

Do you use Discord? If you read this website, there’s a pretty good chance that you do. The massive centralized chat service is extremely popular among young people and gamers, and many open source projects have moved fully to Discord for project discussion, coordination, and updates. Starting today, the company is rolling out age verification

Sony has caught a lot of flak from fans after it announced that it’s no longer going to be producing game discs for its PlayStation consoles beyond January 2028. Microsoft, meanwhile, is taking a different approach with the Xbox. It just launched a beta for its disc-to-digital program and is now seeking feedback from some of its loyal fans

A notorious extortion group claims to have pulled off one of the most audacious cyberattacks in recent memory by allegedly breaching the Federal Bureau of Investigation and stealing about 3TB worth of records belonging to thousands of current and former employees.

The hacking collective, known as ShinyHunters (the same group that was recently

Imagine scoring a top-tier graphics card on the secondhand market, then later finding out that not only was it a good deal, but a spectacular bargain because the markings on it are the signature of NVIDIA’s famed CEO, Jensen Huang. That is what supposedly happened to a 3D artist who went card shopping with a friend. Both were in the market

Scientists have detected direct, localized radio emissions from an exoplanet for the very first time. But don’t call the Space Force and White House hotline just yet—these signals are not alien communications.

Centered on the young gas giant Beta Pictoris b roughly 64 light-years away, this latest discovery opens a fresh perspective into

Motorola is taking a big swipe at Samsung’s dominance in the premium smartphone segment with the unveiling of the Motorola Signature 27 at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. This device will be packing serious new hardware, such as the latest Snapdragon chipset, monster cameras, and deep AI integration.

Powering the Signature 27 is Qualcomm’s

Apple-owned Beats has unveiled the Beats 360, an all-new flagship set of over-ear wireless headphones priced at $349.99. Sitting right above the Studio Pro in the brand’s lineup, the new cans take direct aim at high-end competitors like Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra 2nd Gen and Sony’s WH-1000XM6 while introducing a modular, customizable physical

At the 2026 Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit in Maui, the stars of the show are two new SoCs: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. In addition, to deep dive briefings, we here at Hot Hardware were not only lucky enough to check out the new hardware on the show floor, but also got to run a full suite of benchmarks

Today at its Snapdragon Summit event, Qualcomm is launching its next-generation flagship smartphone silicon with not one, but two new members of the Snapdragon 8 Elite family. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and top-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 are both built on an unspecified 2nm process and introduce a new generation of Qualcomm’s custom

Microsoft’s Xbox gaming division is the midst of a big reset as outlined earlier this year when the company laid off hundreds of employees and shed several smaller studios. The next phase of this shakeup is now in motion and will see more layoffs alongside shifts in how its studios operate, which could mean the demise of one the Xbox’s most

According to patent documents originally spotted by Respawn First, Microsoft is studying ways to enhance in-game advertisement solutions. Specifically, Microsoft showcased a context-aware ad system that times ad interruptions to specific in-game events and rewards players with ad credits for tolerating it. This ties into Microsoft’s plans

That’s right folks; this is an actual launch of an actual PC hardware component! A little odd to get as excited as I am over a new case, but this is where we’re at in the market right now. Corsair’s new Warthog case is an absolutely fantastic-looking new PC chassis in black or olive drab, and if you agree, you can skip my chatter and go down

Sony has submitted a patent for an automated, cloud-based AI model that is designed to continuously monitor consumer electronics (like PlayStaion consoles or headphones), detect subtle software anomalies, and deploy custom repair code to fix them before users even notice there is an issue.

The patent filing describes an architecture with

Following Google’s recent reveal of its new Googlebook platform, preorders are now live at retail. There are several models to choose from, with ASUS, Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo all getting in on the action, and regardless of which way you lean, Best Buy is offering to sweeten the pot by giving early adopters a free set of Pixel Buds 2a earbuds.

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