It’s already been more than a year since the GeForce RTX 4090 hit store shelves. Truly, tempus does indeed fugit. Hardware enthusiasts are looking ahead to the next generation, and rumors have come a-plenty, but one of the most reliable NVIDIA leakers seems to have made a major screw-up with his GeForce RTX 5090 predictions.

As we previously

Source: Hot Hardware – GeForce RTX 5090’s 512-Bit Bus Rumor Busted? Here’s The Latest On Next-Gen GPU’s VRAM

As we get ready to close out the year, the Leonid meteor shower is going to reach its peak tomorrow morning, November 18th. While the shower might end up being a bit of a quieter one, there is still the opportunity to see a handful of meteors every hour while taking in the gorgeous night sky in all its glory.

The Leonids, which peak in

Source: Hot Hardware – Leonid Meteor Shower To Put On A Spectacular Light Show In The Skies This Weekend

Valve’s Steam Deck is a handheld gaming device that has forever changed PC gaming on-the-go. While it’s still a slick, fun device as we approach its second birthday, gamers always want for more performance. The Steam Deck 2 isn’t coming any time soon, however, so what are users supposed to do to maximize their current experience? Well,…

Source: Hot Hardware – Steam Deck Undervolting Tested: Boosting Battery Life And Performance

For every action, there is a an opposite action that is expected. Why do we bring this up? AMD has been competing fiercely with NVIDIA in the desktop discreet graphics card market this generation. With impressive performance-to-price ratio GPUs such as the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and the mid-range Radeon RX 7800 XT, NVIDIA is not the only game

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Radeon RX 7900M Laptop GPU Benchmark Leak Puts RTX 4090 In A Vulkan Grip

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to dip your toes in cloud game streaming, now is the time. Why is that? NVIDIA is joining the Black Friday frenzy that has already begun by offering a pretty sweet PC gaming bundle offer—if you sign up for six months of NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW Ultimate tier, you’ll also receive three months of PC Game

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA GeForce NOW Levels Up With A PC Game Pass Bundle Deal Ahead Of Black Friday

Apple’s efforts to transition away from using modems made by Qualcomm Inc. are not going as well as the company had hoped. The smartphone giant no longer expects to be able to switch over to using its own in-house 5G modem by its initial projection of springtime of 2025. Apple is now hoping it can make the switch by the end of 2025 or the

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple’s Plan To Ditch Qualcomm For In-House 5G Modems Hits Another Snag

Google wants to help *ahem* sleigh busy holiday travel plans with an update to Google Maps. The added features are intended to help travelers navigate directions, festivities, and more. The travel tips include three new updates for Maps.

Going into a big city can be confusing and frustrating trying to figure out the best bus and train routes

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Maps Just Got A Bunch Of New Features To Sleigh Holiday Travel

Amazon is getting into the car-selling business thanks to a strategic partnership with Hyundai and its dealerships. This move sidesteps current state laws that ban direct-to-consumer (DTC) car sales, but is also something we think benefits the two corporations more so than its consumers. After all, who wants a middleman to the middleman?

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Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon Is Getting Into Online Car Sales With This Automaker Calling Shotgun

XGIMI is having a huge sale on several of its projectors with deep discounts a week ahead of Black Friday. As part of the sales bonanza, XGIMI is offering up its “best pricing ever” for both Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with massive markdowns by as much as $900 (or $1,200, if going by the stated MSRP). Let’s get into it, shall we?

The

Source: Hot Hardware – XGIMI Aura 4K Ultra Short Throw Projector Is 0 Off And More Great Black Friday Deals

Qualcomm is looking to bring more features to mid-range Android devices with the launch of its Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Mobile Platform. The company says that the design of its new platform focuses on bringing an even better balance between performance and power efficiency while improving the SoC’s AI capabilities, making these features accessible

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Brings A Huge AI Uplift To Affordable Android Phones

Intel’s first-generation chiplet processors, code-named Meteor Lake, will include an entire chiplet (or “tile”) dedicated to graphics. Intel has made some big promises about the graphics horsepower of its Meteor Lake processors. Today we’ve seen the first GPU benchmark of any kind for Meteor Lake, and the results are indeed promising.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Meteor Lake iGPU Goes Toe-To-Toe With Radeon 680M In Early Benchmark Run

Here’s an announcement that can be filed under “unexpected.” After previously refusing, Apple has confirmed it will add RCS support to the iPhone, giving Android users the ability to send feature-rich messages to Apple’s smartphone. The days of green bubble discrimination are finally coming to an end. However, Apple stresses that iMessage

Source: Hot Hardware – Crabby Apple Finally Caves On Bringing RCS Text Support To iPhone

AMD CPU overclocker Bill Alverson, who goes by the handle Sampson, set several CPU performance records on Wednesday with his overclocked Threadripper Pro 7995WX. The 96-core processor is based on AMD’s Genoa family, which also powers the regular Threadripper 7000 lineup and 4th Generation EPYC CPUs. These records were set with air cooling,

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Threadripper Pro 7995WX 96-Core Obliterates Benchmark Records On Air Cooling

Please Valve, take my money and let me buy your Steam Deck OLED, thought numerous gamers as they try to get their hands on Valve’s newest release. With some headaches along the way, it appears unfortunately, that this is a a tall order currently. If you’re old enough to remember the great GPU shortage of the early 2020s (we hope you are),

Source: Hot Hardware – Gamers Scramble To Buy Steam Deck OLED But Are Met With Frustration

You hear it said all the time: one of the best reasons to own a Steam Deck is for emulating classic games. The Steam Deck is fundamentally a PC, but despite this, you’ll rarely hear anyone talk about playing classic PC games on it. The reason is simple: the Steam Deck’s primary controls are gamepad-based, and enjoying old PC games with a modern

Source: Hot Hardware – DOS_Deck Plays Retro PC Games Like Heretic In Your Browser With Full Controller Support

Teenagers who reside in countries where they are able to manage their own Google Account will finally be able to access Google’s Bard AI chatbot. This is according to Tulsee Doshi, who is Head of Product within the Responsible AI team at Google. Initially, Bard will only be available in English, with more languages to follow down the line.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Why Google Is Reversing Course And Allowing Teens To Access Its Bard AI Chatbot

Ransomware gang BlackCat, otherwise known as ALPHV, is after the public spotlight following the Reddit data breach debacle earlier this year. Now, the group has breached another organization with MeridianLink and is causing a stir by filing a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to try and spur action. While this may

Source: Hot Hardware – Ransomware Gang Adds Insult To Injury By Reporting Victim’s Security Breach To The SEC

As Black Friday nears, Samsung is giving consumers an early treat with stellar promotions on a few of its flagship devices. Whether consumers require a smartphone, smartwatch, or speedy laptop, Samsung has them covered.

Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Smartphone
The Samsung S23 Ultra is one of Samsung’s premiere smartphones, at least for a couple

Source: Hot Hardware – Score Huge Bonus Offers On Galaxy S23 Ultra, Z Fold5 And More With These Early BF Deals

Who doesn’t want to play Alan Wake 2 with maxed-out path and ray tracing, right? If you happen to be a mobile gaming enthusiasts, you may even wish to do so from the comfort of your hotel room. With the current generation of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series laptops, this feat is surely possible. While the mobile version of the GeForce RTX 4090

Source: Hot Hardware – Will NVIDIA Launch More RTX 40 Series Laptop GPUs? Major PC Vendor Spills The Beans

NVIDIA and Microsoft are teaming up to offer an AI foundry service, it was announced at the annual Microsoft Ignite conference. This new service is designed to assist in the development of generative AI applications by startups and enterprise users that are deploying on Microsoft Azure.

“Our partnership with NVIDIA spans every layer of

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA And Microsoft Team Up On An Exciting Generative AI Foundry Service