One of the most common criticisms of Valve’s generally-excellent Steam Deck is that the screen is rather poor. While response times are good, it is a basic IPS LCD with characteristically-poor contrast and mediocre color saturation. The Nintendo Switch’s original screen wasn’t super-great either, so what did Nintendo do to address this complaint?

Source: Hot Hardware – Valve Unveils Steam Deck OLED For HDR Gaming, With Better Battery Life And WiFi 6E

Generative AI ChatGPT has seen exponential growth in the past few months, recently crossing the 100 million weekly active users. However, with all this popularity, a target was perhaps painted on the back of OpenAI and ChatGPT by threat actors looking to make a quick buck or cause mayhem. It seems the latter is what has happened today after

Source: Hot Hardware – OpenAI Scrambles To Fix ChatGPT Outage After It Gets Slammed By A DDoS Attack

The first three generations of AMD Ryzen processors were given model numbers in the 1000s, the 2000s, and then the 3000s. However, between the launch of the Ryzen 3000 family and AMD’s next-gen processors, the company released some refreshed APUs that it gave a 4000-series model number. That meant that the next-generation parts had to have

Source: Hot Hardware – An Alienware Gaming PC With AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPUs Just Broke Cover

Samsung says a new era of AI is coming, with generative artificial intelligence leading the way. In a press release, the company says its Samsung Galaxy is about to change the mobile technology landscape with its upcoming AI innovations.

Tech companies continue to clamor over how to infuse artificial intelligence into its products. Whether

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Says A New Era Of Galaxy Is Coming And It’s Powered By Generative AI

Starfield has been one of the most highly talked about games of 2023, if you ignore perpetual GTA 6 rumors, of course. The game has garnered praise for the highly detailed nature of its free-roaming universe, which makes hopping from planetary system to planetary system with ease. It has also been Bethesda’s most successful launches to date,

Source: Hot Hardware – Starfield Patch Adds DLSS 3 Support, Lots Of Fixes And A Key Requested Feature

You don’t have to look very far to spot Black Friday bargains—we’re a week and a half into November, which means retailers are frantically pushing out early discounts ahead of this year’s actual Black Friday. As such, we’re already seeing some gems. One of them is a chunky discount on the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handheld that is a relative newcomer

Source: Hot Hardware – The ASUS ROG Ally Gaming Handheld Is Off Ahead Of Black Friday

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft surprises the space agency again with another unexpected find. Lucy will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids as it becomes the first mission to investigate the Jupiter Trojan asteroids.

Lucy is on a 12-year mission that will take the spacecraft right into the midst of a belt of asteroids that circle the

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Lucy Probe Surprises Again With A Bizarre Asteroid Flyby Discovery

The OnePlus 12 hype train continues to build momentum with the company dropping more details about the camera package, particularly the Sony LYTIA primary sensor. OnePlus claims that the sensor in the upcoming smartphone will be the best LYTIA one can buy, even topping the one of the fantastic OnePlus Open.

Last year’s OnePlus 11 was seen

Source: Hot Hardware – OnePlus 12’s Flagship Sony LYTIA Camera Detailed And It’s A Beast

AMD continues to chip away at Intel’s dominant lead in x86 CPU market share with a round of gains across the board, including desktop PCs, laptops, and servers, according to the latest audit performed by Mercury Research and shared by AMD. The updated figures cap off an impressive year for AMD, which looks to end 2023 just at it had started—by

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Picks Intel’s Pocket With PC, Laptop And Server X86 CPU Market Share Wins

After an awkward situation with Apple back in 2017, UK-based graphics IP developer Imagination Technologies was in a dire state. The company was quickly snapped up by a state-backed private equity firm from China known as Canyon Bridge. Since then, ImgTec graphics IP has appeared in graphics components offered by multiple Chinese vendors,

Source: Hot Hardware – Imagination Technologies To Make A Triumphant PC Graphics Return?

Minecraft is one of, if not the, most popular game of all time, with the recent crossing of 300m copies sold in 15 years. One of the many beauties of the game is the ability to do just about anything you want to, including using the Force. Minecraft has now introduced a new STAR WARS adventure in Minecraft Marketplace thanks to collaboration

Source: Hot Hardware – Minecraft Star Wars: Path Of The Jedi Is The DLC Fans Are Looking For

Blizzard President Mike Ybarra says that gamers lack patience and have unrealistic expections when it comes to new content. However, while Ybarra says he is unsure how things will change for the company following Microsoft’s acquisition, he is confident that it is the start of a “new era’ for Blizzard.

In a new interview, Ybarra commented

Source: Hot Hardware – Blizzard Boss Says Gamers Have No Patience And Want New Content Every Hour

Google is testing a new feature on YouTube and, stop us if you’ve heard this one before, it’s based on generative AI. Advanced machine learning algorithms and large language models are popping up in numerous products from Google, Microsoft, and almost every other tech company under the sun. This time, Google is leveraging a sometimes-accurate

Source: Hot Hardware – YouTube Is Testing Generative AI To Answer Questions And Weed Through Comments

Intel Application Optimizer (APO) – Free Intel APO or Application Optimization technology is a brand-new piece of software that Intel claims will bring a big performance lift for games, and from what we’ve seen so far, those claims seem to check out. Free frame rate boosts are the best Easy to install Works as advertised  Not supported…

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Application Optimizer Tested: Smash CPU Bottlenecks And Boost Framerates

The latest AMD AGESA firmware—that’s the part of AMD’s firmware that configures the CPU—includes support for upcoming Socket AM5 “APU” processors, at least according to HKEPC. The self-described #1 Hong Kong DIY PC site tweeted a relatively lengthy description of the CPUs that AMD has purportedly provided to OEMs. There are four chips that

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen 8000G Desktop Phoenix APU Models And Specs Break Cover

A team of researchers detected the most distant black hole yet seen utilizing two of NASA’s telescopes. The telltale signature, an X-ray emission, of a growing black hole that researchers found is said to be just 470 million years after the Big Bang. That’s still an infant, in cosmic terms.

The team of researchers used the combined data

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA’s Cosmic Magnifying Glass Discovers Most Distant Black Hole Ever Seen

Today we’ll have to visit a dark, dark place for gamers. No, we’re not talking about the gloomy scenes in Alan Wake 2. Remember the great graphics card shortage that happened just a few years ago due in part to the mining craze? That’s the type of nightmarish scenario that keeps gamers on their toes, looking around the corner for any indication

Source: Hot Hardware – Yes, You Can Turn NVIDIA’s CMP 50HX Miner GPU Into A Gaming Card But Should You?

Although it’s been roughly a year since AMD launched its 4th Generation EPYC Genoa CPUs, the company is looking back at its 3rd Generation EPYC Milan chips and adding six new models to the lineup. With a focus on value, these new Milan variants seemingly indicate that 4th Generation EPYC Genoa, Bergamo, and Siena CPUs are just too high-end

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Adds New 3rd Gen EPYC Milan CPUs And Extends Availability For Mainstream Value

LG is expanding its growing gaming monitor portfolio with a couple of large additions, including the UltraGear GR75DC and UltraGear GR65DC. Other than the model numbers and a $100 price difference, the distinguishing trait between these two curved behemoths is USB-C connectivity—the GR75DC boasts a USB-C port while the GR65DC sheds the connector

Source: Hot Hardware – LG Unveils 45-Inch 200Hz Monitors For Big And Fast Gaming With A Preorder Bonus

On Halloween Eve, Apple’s Scary Fast online event ushered in the era of the company’s third-generation Arm64 processors, dubbed the M3 family. The company did hit a number of landmarks with its custom-built Mac processors, including using 3nm lithography, adding real-time ray tracing hardware to its GPU architecture, and hardware graphics

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Exec Claims M3 MacBook Pro 8GB Of RAM Is Like Having 16GB On Windows PCs