Headphone jacks can be hard to come by in 2023, as smartphones, tablets, and even laptops drop the legacy port to save space. The new Fiio KB3 keyboard is going the other way, however, with not one but two headphone jacks. The KB3 isn’t just a keyboard—it’s also a HiFi amp.

You might not know Fiio, but it’s a popular manufacturer of portable

Source: Hot Hardware – FIIO Releases A 0 Mechanical Keyboard For Audiophiles

Out in the wild, you’ll typically find a few types of gamers. The first one is a fan of boosting the visual eye candy to the max—we’re talking ultra settings at a 4K resolution, with path tracing to boot. Alan Wake 2 is a great example of leading edge technology that focuses on the visual aspect of the game. The next type of gamer is the one

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch Counter-Strike 2 Hit A Staggering 1000FPS On A Core i9-14900K And RTX 4090

While Spotify fills everyone’s Twitter/X timeline with users posting their most played songs of 2023, the company announced it will be laying off 1,500 workers ahead of Christmas. The number equates to a not-insignificant 17% of Spotify’s total workforce, and follows layoffs of 600 employees in January, plus an additional 200 in June of this

Source: Hot Hardware – Spotify Spreads Holiday Jeer By Plotting Big Round Of Layoffs Ahead Of Christmas

The United States government seems to be sending a strong message to NVIDIA about the company’s chip exports to China. Gina Raimondo, US Commerce Secretary, spoke about the importance of her department’s work in keeping China from getting access to the cutting-edge chips it needs to continue its AI development.

While speaking at the Reagan

Source: Hot Hardware – US Issues Apparent Warning To NVIDIA Over Redesigned Chip Shipments To China

Amazon has inked a deal with Blue Origin rival SpaceX for three Falcon 9 launches to support deployment of Project Kuiper, Amazon’s low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband network. The company previously secured 77 heavy-lift rockets from Arianespace, Blue Origin, and United Launch Alliance, which should be enough launches for most of Amazon’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon Joins Space Forces With Blue Origin Rival SpaceX On Kuiper Satellite Launch

Microsoft’s Head of Gaming, Phil Spencer, recently commented about the desire Xbox and Bethesda Game Studios have for Starfield to be a hit similar to Skyrim during an interview at CCXP23 in Brazil. “Skyrim is such an amazing hit from Bethesda Game Studios, and talking to Todd Howard and the team, really what they wanted to do as people who

Source: Hot Hardware – Starfield Surpasses 12M Gamers But Can It Match Skyrim’s 12-Year Run? Xbox Boss Sounds Off

The threat of rising PC memory prices has been looming for several months now and, despite a recent surge in supply-side revenue, is still something to be on the lookout for as we head into 2024. That’s according to TrendForce and its recent investigations into the state of DRAM, which found a “significant leap in the DRAM industry” for the

Source: Hot Hardware – Memory Chip Makers Still Plan To Hike DRAM Prices After DDR5 And DDR4 Buying Spree

NVIDIA has reached a fairly impressive milestone with its RTX technologies—there are now over 500 games and applications that support RTX in some form or another. The achievement arrives five years after the introduction of the very first GeForce RTX graphics cards, the GeForce RTX 20 series based on Turing, which later extended into newer

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Celebrates 500 RTX Games With A 0 Gift Card Giveaway And More Sweet Prizes

In case it bears repeating, the end of the year is when retailers aggressively push out bargains and discounts, which by no coincidence lines up with the holiday shopping season. Did you miss out on Black Friday and Cyber Monday? No worries—Best Buy is hosting a “20 Days of Deals” event that runs through December 17, with each day serving

Source: Hot Hardware – Twenty Days Of Best Buy Deals: Elgato Stream Deck XL, PS5 And Xbox Games And More

Let’s talk about Grand Theft Auto for a bit, dear reader. Despite only having five mainline games in the series since breakout hit Grand Theft Auto III moved millions of PlayStation 2s in 2001, the “GTA” franchise has continued to be one of the most important in all of gaming. If you need evidence for that claim, look no further than the absolutely

Source: Hot Hardware – Rockstar’s GTA 6 Trailer Looms Near, What To Expect In This Month’s Big Reveal

Astronomers have found a key ingredient for life in the outer reaches of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery challenges our understanding of the origins of the element and potentially extends the galactic habitable zone.

The element that was found in a very unexpected location by a group of astronomers from the University of Arizona is phosphorus,

Source: Hot Hardware – Scientists Discover A Key Ingredient For Life At The Edge Of Our Galaxy

Capcom announced on the the social media network formerly known as Twitter, and now called X, that its “Outfit 3” DLC for all 18 launch characters in Street Fighter 6 is now available. Unfortunately for Capcom, the announcement did not go over so well, resulting in players calling out the publisher for its “dreadful pricing.” One user called

Source: Hot Hardware – Street Fighter 6 Gamers Rage At Capcom For Awful Monetization Tactics

If you’ve acquired a new Apple product recently this shopping season, you’ll want to pay special attention to the latest critical update that has been released. While the plethora of new iPhone, iPad, and Mac buyers are enjoying their brand new devices, a potential danger lurks underneath. 

Apple has a new patch for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS

Source: Hot Hardware – Every iPhone, iPad And Mac User Needs To Grab This Urgent Security Update Right Now

AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution is available for use on any graphics card, and that includes FSR 3 frame generation. However, you can’t use FSR 3 at the same time as DLSS. Or can you? In AMD’s beta graphics drivers, you can enable a function called Fluid Motion Frames that essentially applies frame generation to almost any game. How do you

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA And AMD And Frame Gen Tech Combine For Big Results In Game Benchmarks

Sycom has created a very unique RTX 4070 Ti featuring Noctua’s high-performance NFA12x25 120mm fans. It is one of the very few (if not the only) GeForce cards to be manufactured with Noctua fans. Noctua itself has Noctua-branded RTX 30 and 40 series cards (that are co-manufactured with Asus), but it doesn’t have an RTX 4070 Ti variant yet.

Source: Hot Hardware – This Quad-Slot GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Is Quietly Chilling Out With Noctua Fans

NVIDIA is aiming to lower the price of its GeForce RTX 3060 in China to 1,999 Yuan, roughly the equivalent of $280 in American USD, and these GPUs are set to last at least through the first quarter of 2024. That price would undercut even the cheapest GeForce RTX 3060 12GB by $10 in the US, if this price cut carries over from China. However,

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3060 Is Sticking Around And Might Get A Price Cut To Boot

Remember when finding an Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5 console in stock from a first-party seller was trickier was like stumbling upon the Holy Grail? Well holey-moly, how times have changed. Graphics cards for PC gaming are plentiful again, and game console are not only routinely in stock, they’re also discounted with some sweet bundle offers.

Source: Hot Hardware – Xbox Series X With Diablo IV Bundle Is Just 9 And More Devilishly Good Gaming Deals

Apple and Paramount are toying with the idea of combining forces to combat subscriber loss. Both companies reported losing an estimated 7% of subscribers in the month of October, 2023.

The world of streaming platforms has become a hotly contested battlefield. With so many options for consumers to choose from, such as Apple TV+ and Netflix

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple May Team Up With Paramount On A Streaming Bundle As Subscriber Losses Mount

Amkor Technology, a semiconductor packaging provider, got Apple as its first and biggest customer for its advanced packaging facility being built in Peoria, Arizona. According to Amkor it’s the only company based in the United States that is capable of providing this advanced packaging technology, and this new facility in Arizona will be the

Source: Hot Hardware – Billion US Chip Packaging Company Scores Apple As Its First And Biggest Customer