We tested Intel’s Application Performance Optimizer last week and came away with a tentatively-positive opinion. The technology helps games leverage the hybrid architecture of Intel’s CPUs more effectively, improving performance when CPU-limited, and it seems to really work. However, it’s currently limited to the company’s newest 14th-generation

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Confirms Its Game-Boosting APO Tech Is Not Coming To 13th And 12th Gen CPUs

Bill Gates made a surprise appearance on the Artificial Intelligence subreddit in order to share his thoughts on the future of AI and how it will impact computing. Gates is bullish on AI, believing it will entrench itself into various aspects of people’s daily lives. Personal assistants, healthcare, education and productivity will all be transformed

Source: Hot Hardware – Bill Gates On AI: It Will Change How You Use Computers, And Everything Else He Said

Black Friday is just around the corner, but to try and beat out some of the brick-and-mortar stores, Amazon has deals going live early that may even beat out other shops. This includes a whole slew of Amazon Fire TVs, which are marked down more than normal to save you a buck and up your home theater game.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon Fire TV Deals Light Up Early For Big Black Friday Savings Up To 38% Off

Google Pixel Watch 2: Starting at $349.99 The Google Watch 2 builds on the success of the original with better performance, battery life, and fitness tracking, but its starting price is still relatively high. Bright, sharp display A solid day of battery life Extremely comfortable on the wrist Stylish design Uses proprietary band connector…

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Pixel Watch 2 Review: An Impressive Sequel

Vice President for Partnerships at Google James Kolotouros testified during the Epic versus Google antitrust trial that the search giant agreed to pay $8 billion over four years to Samsung Electronics Company to make its search engine, voice assistant, and Play Store the default on Galaxy devices. Kolotouros testified Google constructed plans

Source: Hot Hardware – Epic Details Google’s B Deal To Make Its Apps Default On Samsung Galaxy Devices

NVIDIA’s AI computing platform got a big upgrade with the introduction of the NVIDIA HGX H200, which is based on the NVIDIA Hopper architecture. It features the NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU that can make quick work of large amounts of data. This is crucial for workloads that require high performance computing, along with generative AI tasks.

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Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA’s HGX H200 GPU With HBMe3 Is An AI Beast For The Data Center

Talk about a tasty giveaway! Microsoft’s Xbox team is collaborating with Warner Bros. Pictures on a special Xbox Series X console that looks like a Willy Wonka chocolate bar. The lucky winner will also receive the world’s first official edible Xbox controller made of chocolate, which of course will don a signature gold wrapper, plus some other

Source: Hot Hardware – Xbox Is Giving Away A Deliciously-Themed Wonka Console With An Edible Controller

Samsung has just initiated a pretty aggressive Android 14 update schedule for not only its latest flagships, but also to some surprising models in its lineup. Read on to find out if the well-received Android 14 will be coming to your device.

The stable version of Samsung’s One Ui 6.0 (based on Android 14) is coming sooner than you think

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Reveals When These 35 Galaxy Devices Will Update To Android 14

A NASA toolbag worth an estimated $100,000 is floating in space after being lost during a recent spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS), and it can be seen from Earth with the aid of a pair of binoculars. Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara were conducting maintenance on the space station when the toolbag escaped the

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s 0K Toolbag Lost In Space Can Be Seen With A Pair Of Binoculars

A reputable leaker who has been reliable in the past suggests that AMD is about to expand its lineup of desktop processors equipped with stacked 3D V-Cache, though they won’t be part of the Zen 4 family. Instead, upcoming additions will bolster AMD’s previous generation Ryzen 5000 series based on Zen 3. They’re also both mid-range SKUs, which

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Seems To Be Readying More Desktop CPUs With 3D V-Cache

Grand Theft Auto is absolutely not a series for children. While the earliest games had a cartoony style and relatively little objectionable content besides the nominative car theft, the games became surprisingly realistic, starting with the fully-3D GTA III on the PlayStation 2. Successive titles over the following years have only added to

Source: Hot Hardware – GTA 6 Anticipation Builds As Latest Leak Reveals A Surprise Character

DLSS modder PureDark just brought DLSS 3 frame generation tech to Grand Theft Auto V, an older but still fairly graphically intensive game for modern hardware, especially when using graphics mods. Although FSR 1.0 was modded into GTA V soon after the upscaling technology came out, DLSS 3 is a much different beast and required PureDark to dig

Source: Hot Hardware – GTA V Mod Adds DLSS 3 For A Huge Performance Boost, Check It Out

The Lockbit ransomware group has breached a number of high-profile organizations and companies, such as TSMC in Taiwan, which is effectively the global leader in silicon production. Most recently, though, the international aeronautic and telecommunications company Boeing seemingly fell victim to the group, and subsequently failed to pay ransom.

Source: Hot Hardware – Ransomware Gang Leaks 43GB Of Boeing Data After Demand To Pay Up Doesn’t Fly

It appears as if Apple is ready to move on from the Dynamic Island display feature it introduced just last year with the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. According to Majin Bu, someone known for Apple rumors and leaks, Apple is internally testing a version of the upcoming iPhone 16 with a hole-punch cutout design. Majin Bu posted this

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple’s iPhone 16 May Abandon Apple’s Dynamic Island For This Instead

As PC hardware enthusiasts, we talk about code names a lot. Stuff like “Raptor Lake” and “Bergamo” are technically internal names that aren’t really supposed to be used in an official context. Intel, for example, would prefer that we say “13th-Generation Intel Core Processor” and AMD would like to read “AMD EPYC 9704-series Processors”. There

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Zen 5c Comes Into View With Codename Prometheus But What Is It Exactly?

That Gmail account you’ve been keeping in your back pocket could be on the chopping block. The company updated its inactive account policy earlier this year, and the deadline is fast approaching. Beginning December 1, Google will delete most accounts that haven’t been touched in two years or more. You can save your forlorn account, though.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Google Will Delete Millions Of Dormant Gmail Accounts Very Soon

Luke Farritor, computer science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is $40,000 richer after deciphering a snippet of text from the Herculaneum scrolls as part of the Vesuvius Challenge. Farritor was able to accomplish this using a fairly ancient, at least by gamer standards, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070. Even though this GPU was released

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA GPU Used To Decipher An Ancient Roman Scroll Scores Student A Huge Prize

We’ve all misspelled words, and had the odd scolding or two from our school teachers. With the advent of spell checkers in electronic word processors, the incidents of embarrassing typos certainly has decreased over the years. ASUS, which is no stranger to unique and rare hardware, seems to have made a slip up. 

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Source: Hot Hardware – Oops! A Typo Gets Stamped On ASUS ROG’s 0 Maximus Z790 Hero Evangelion Mobo

Fans of the iconic Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game franchise had high hopes for the third installment, but critics and gamers alike are already ripping into it. Modern Warfare 3 picks up where the second left off with Captain Price and Task Force 141 facing off against war criminal Vladimir Makarov.

Many fans of the Modern Warfare

Source: Hot Hardware – Game Critics Slam Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 For Being A Vapid Disappointment

Juicy deals are appearing ahead of Black Friday and not just for computer hardware, either. As we approach Thanksgiving Day, there are quite a few bargains on smart ovens, fryers, and microwaves that have popped up. Before you plan your feast, check out these discounted kitchen appliances that can help make the big day go a lot smoother.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Get Cooking With Smart Oven, Fryer And Microwave Deals Up To 33% Off Before Thanksgiving