Is a sluggish internet connection slowing you down and putting you in a bad mood for the holiday? If you’ve gone through the usual troubleshooting steps and determined that your crusty-old wireless router is to blame, then cheer up because there are a bunch of deals on fast models to turn that ‘Bah humbug!’ into Buddy the Elf-level enthusiasm.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Boost Your Home Network With HOT Holiday Deals On Wi-Fi Routers Up To Half Off

Bethesda is defending Starfield, its latest role-playing game 25 years in the making, from negative comments on the game’s Steam page. Starfield is currently on sale, bringing in a new batch of gamers with opinions that Bethesda feels they need to respond to. As of this article going live, the game has an overall review sentiment of “Mixed”

Source: Hot Hardware – Bethesda Fires Back At Starfield Complaints On Steam As Game Goes On Sale

NASA delivered a teaspoon size sample of the asteroid Bennu to be studied in the labs at the Natural History Museum in London. NASA describes the 500-meter (0.3 miles) wide asteroid as being the most dangerous rock in the solar system because it has a chance of hitting Earth within the next 300 years.

Scientists at the Natural History Museum

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Sends A Teaspoon Of The Most Dangerous Rock In The Solar System To The UK

The holiday season is upon us, which means a barrage of sales on services and products as people find themselves in the gift-giving mood. It’s also a time for feasting, and not just on turkey and ham—like nasty little cockroaches and termites, scammers come out of the woodwork during the holiday season in hopes of feasting on victims who are

Source: Hot Hardware – Warn Your Loved Ones Not To Fall For These Trending Holiday Email Scams

Alright, here’s the scenario: you, a friend, or a family member want to move their gaming experience from console to PC, but you’re looking at popular builds and balking at the prices. Who has $200 for a CPU cooler or $35 apiece for ARGB fans? Well good news: that stuff is for enthusiasts, and isn’t necessarily required to build a baller gaming

Source: Hot Hardware – Build An Affordable 1440p Gaming PC For Under 00 With These Cyber Monday Deals

Today we’ve discovered a pretty big leak that, if accurate, reveals most of the pertinent details about AMD’s first Socket AM5 “APUs”, or desktop processors with powerful integrated graphics. We don’t have any way to verify the content of the leak so take this with however many grains of salt that you wish, but the information looks perfectly

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen 8000G AM5 Desktop APU Lineup Specs And Release Details Break Cover

General Electric is primarily known for its spinning things, like washing machines, supersonic engines, or the GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm seven-barrel cannon mounted on the A-10 Warthog and CIWS weapon system. All goofs aside, GE is quite a broad company with connections in nearly every sector of the economy. Therefore, it is not surprising but

Source: Hot Hardware – General Electric Confirms It’s Investigating Claims Of A Shocking Data Breach

The Oakland Sherriff’s Office in Michigan is warning parents about the NameDrop feature of Apple’s iPhones. This feature is found on the smartphone maker’s latest iOS release, iOS 17. Apple says that “NameDrop allows users to easily share contact information by simply bringing their iPhones together, or by bringing an iPhone and Apple Watch

Source: Hot Hardware – Police Issue Strong Warning To Parents About A Controversial New iPhone Feature

Black Friday may be over, but gamers can still find plenty of Cyber Monday deals on solid state storage. Whether you want a speedy SSD for a desktop, laptop, Steam Deck, or a PlayStation 5 console, there is a deal ripe for the picking.

WD_Black 1TB SN850X NVMe Internal SSD
WD_Black is a well-known brand amongst gamers. The company’s SN850X

Source: Hot Hardware – Cyber Monday SSD Deals Bring Speedy Storage Savings Up To 50% Off

Samsung will likely reveal the Galaxy S24 family in early 2024, and we already know it plans to integrate AI features with the phones. However, a new report illustrates just how much Samsung will embrace AI. According to some new trademark filings, Samsung will market the S24 as an “AI Phone.” Hopefully, this works out better for Samsung than

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Filings Hint At Galaxy S24 Being An AI Phone

A malware campaign originally targeting Microsoft Windows that began in July of this year is now taking aim at Apple’s macOS. Cybersecurity Researcher Ankit Anubhav shared on the Infosec Exchange instance on Mastodon that it got an update that will now push a DMG file payload when it detects an Apple user browsing with Safari.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Atomic Stealer Malware Is Using A Devious Ploy To Infect Mac Systems

Storage devices have gotten really fast lately, with the fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs getting over 14GB/s in reads and writes, but that’s nothing compared to a Ryzen CPU with 3D V-Cache. Tested by hardware enthusiast and engineer Nemez all the way back in February, a Ryzen 7 5800X3D was able to hit 183GB/s and 175GB/s in reads and writes respectively,

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD 3D V-Cache Turned Into A RAM Disk Destroys PCIe 5.0 SSDs In Speed Test

The laptop gaming market may be niche, but it certainly has a fervent and loyal following. The latest generation products initially aimed solely at maximizing performance, such as ones using NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs. As the product stack evolves with a more complex array of choices, Tuxedo Computers has added a few more possibilities. 

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Source: Hot Hardware – Tuxedo Dresses Up A Linux Gaming Laptop With AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS And Radeon RX 7600M XT

A Taiwanese footwear brand known for its award-winning designs and eco-friendly initiatives has become the first company to start making shoes using recycled silicon waste. How does one incorporate rigid material like silicon into flexible footwear, you might ask? Read on.

Taiwan-based Ccilu (pronounced “chee-loo,” Japanese for “liberation”)

Source: Hot Hardware – Footwear Maker Gets Its Kicks By Turning TSMC’s Silicon Waste Into Cheap Shoes

If you’re an avid reader, you should strongly consider investing in an e-reader. I know, I know—we all love the feel (and sometimes smell) of a physical book, and up until I bought a Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition last year, I was firmly in the dead tree camp too. Not anymore. Among other benefits, e-readers make it easy to travel with

Source: Hot Hardware – Kindle E-Reader And Tablet Cyber Monday Deals Up To 44% Off For Bookworks To Burrow Into

As NASA prepares to send humans back to the moon and later onto Mars, researchers say males making the long journey in space may run into a problem. A new study has found that deep space missions where astronauts exposed to high levels of galactic cosmic radiation (GCR) and microgravity might be highly subject to long-lasting erectile dysfunction.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Aw Nuts! Deep Space Travel Could Have A Debilitating Side Effect For Male Astronauts

We live in a world where streaming rules the day, but if you like the comfort of owning a movie or TV show on physical media, than Blu-ray is still the way to go. Now is a great time to flesh out your collection (or start one) too, because Cyber Monday discounts abound on a plethora of Blu-ray flicks and shows, including entire compilations.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Reel Savings Up To 68% Off James Bond, John Wick And More Cyber Monday Blu-Ray Deals

A new leak of what the camera hump of the upcoming Oppo X7 Pro might look like has emerged, and let’s just say that it’s… massive. Could this be a bluff or something close to the final product?

All eyes are on Oppo to make a splash with its premium flagship Find X7 Pro, right now slated for an early 2024 release. The world has so far been

Source: Hot Hardware – Oppo Find X7 Pro Spotted Flaunting A Wild Looking Camera Array

Cyber Monday is upon us, and with it comes a plethora of stellar tech deals that can net big savings on early Christmas gifts or just toys for yourself. This year, if you are looking to up your home office game or perhaps get into live streaming, there are a handful of essential streaming tech deals on Amazon that can make you look, sound,

Source: Hot Hardware – Cyber Monday Deals To Kickstart Your Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Or Zoom Livestreams

With Cyber Monday nearly upon us, tech deals abound. Right now, for example, there are some outstanding deals on sound bars available that can crank your home theater to eleven this holiday season.

Leading off, we have the Polk Audio Signa S2 Soundbar and Subwoofer combo for $149 flat, which is a 40% saving off the regular price. The S2

Source: Hot Hardware – Don’t Miss These Ten Amazon Sound Bar Deals Under 0