Honda has released a new compact e-scooter meant for city travel, recreational sightseeing, and campus cruising, as long as the rider does not mind looking like they’re riding a giant sim card on wheels. Or a briefcase. Or a giant Square accessory, or…well, you get the idea.

Remember the Honda Motocompo from the early 80s? It was a tiny

Source: Hot Hardware – Honda’s 5 Motocompacto E-Scooter May Look Dorky But There’s A Good Reason Why

We’re into the second week of November and, as expected, retailers have begun pumping out early Black Friday bargains like they’re going out of style. If you’re ready to jam out to savings as well, then check out these deals we’ve rounded up on various audio gear, including some sweet discounts on wireless Beats and AirPod products.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Apple AirPods And Beats Buds Are Just And Other Early Black Friday Deals

The M3 Pro-powered Macbook Pro 16-inch benchmark results have surfaced inGeekbench 6 database, and the results have been received somewhat negatively. It’s roughly as fast as the M2 Max and only a little faster than the M2 Pro, which is in stark contrast to Apple’s “scary fast” marketing. Expectations for the brand-new M3 chips are high based

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple’s M3 Pro Mac Chip Posts Surprisingly Mixed Early Benchmark Results

The Taurid meteor shower kicks off the month of November for skywatchers. At its peak, the Taurid meteor shower is expected to showcase about ten meteors per hour, with the Leonids meteor shower following shortly after with an estimated ten to fifteen per hour.

The Taurid meteors consist of two streams, the South Taurids and North Taurids.

Source: Hot Hardware – November’s Taurid Meteor Shower Spectacle To Display Up To Ten Fireballs Per Hour

Apple’s brand-new M3 processors are due to arrive soon, to supplent their M2 predecessors, and according to semiconductor analyst Jay Goldberg taping out the new chips cost Cupertino a pretty penny. In fact, the total cost to get the three M3 chips to the manufacturing stage may have hit roughly $1 billion. If that’s true, it means Apple is

Source: Hot Hardware – Analyst Reports Apple’s M3 Tape-Out Cost Alone Was A Cool Billion

In case you weren’t aware, VMware operates a security arm called Carbon Black. On Halloween, Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) announced that it had found 34 different vulnerable Windows drivers that had firmware access. To be clear, that’s 34 unique filenames; the actual number of different driver files is 237.

What do we mean

Source: Hot Hardware – Security Researcher Finds 34 Windows Driver Flaws That Allow Full Takeover

Microsoft Exchange has quite a storied history of security vulnerabilities and breaches given its widespread usage in the corporate world. While there has not been much news regarding Exchange for a while, the Zero Day Initiative has found four vulnerabilities that, while not absolutely critical, could still pose a risk for opportunistic threat

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Exchange Security Flaws Could Put User’s Data At Risk

A tiny device that’s well known amongst the hacking community, known as the Flipper Zero, is wreaking havoc for some iPhone users. The device can be utilized for DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and spam all nearby iPhones.

Infosec user Jeroen Van der Ham noticed while on a train ride that his and other people’s iPhones were receiving the

Source: Hot Hardware – This Tiny Device Renders iPhones Useless In A Nonstop DoS Attack Over Bluetooth

We’re already several days into the month of November and you know what that means, right? Well yes, a fowl feast is right around the corner. But this is also the time of the year when companies start promoting Black Friday (and later, Cyber Monday) deals. It’s more of a Black Friday season, really, as opposed to just a single day of sales.

Source: Hot Hardware – Google’s Great Pixel 7a Is Only 4 With This Limited Time Deal

There are plenty of gamers who are having a blast in Alan Wake II, a survival horror game with bone-crunching system requirements (particularly if you want to play at a 4K resolution with max settings and ray tracing on high). If you’re having performance issues while playing the game, you may need to dial back the settings (see our Alan Wake

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA GPU Hotfix Driver Solves Alan Wake 2 Performance Woes, BSODs And More

The last year has seen an explosion of interest in generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney. Now, you can simply tell a computer what you want it to create, and it might just be good enough to replace a human. These tools are causing consternation in some corners of the internet, but others have embraced them. One AI enthusiast has

Source: Hot Hardware – This Game Was Created In ChatGPT, DALL-E 3 And Midjourney And You Can Play It Now

Building supply and home improvement company Ace Hardware has seemingly suffered a severe cybersecurity attack and is dealing with the fallout. After an email notice surfaced on Reddit, online sales have gone down, and outbound shipments are on hold while the breach is dealt with. While there has been no direct announcement from the Illinois-based

Source: Hot Hardware – Ace Hardware Gets Hammered By Hackers Demolishing Online Sales

Before we talk about Sapphire’s new graphics card, let’s go over what exactly comprises a Radeon RX 6750 GRE graphics card. AMD launched two cards under that name in the middle of last month, differentiated primarily by their memory capacity. The 10GB version of the RX 6750 GRE is essentially a Radeon RX 6700, while the 12GB model is fundamentally

Source: Hot Hardware – Sapphire Radeon RX 6750 GRE Aurora Edition Flexes OC’d Memory To Spank An RTX 4060

Amazing drone footage of a bear chasing a man along a trail in the woods will send shivers down the spine. Some questioned the validity of the video and whether or not it had been digitally altered. Spoiler alert: it wasn’t, though there is a surprise twist to the story.

The footage was first shared on Reddit nearly two years ago, but has

Source: Hot Hardware – Amazing Drone Footage Of A Bear Chasing A Man Is Real And Has A Surprise Twist

The service formerly known as HBO Max and now simply Max is the latest streaming service to put the squeeze on its subscribers. Owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, the service sent out an email to existing subscribers to its $15.99 per month ad-free tier that, effective on their next billing date, they’ll either have to upgrade to a more expensive

Source: Hot Hardware – Backlash Builds As HBO Hoses Legacy Max Subscribers And Removes Streaming Features

NASA is preparing to launch something other than a rocket with its upcoming NASA+ streaming service. The new streaming platform will be ad-free, family-friendly, and come at a cost everyone will love.

NASA is well-known for the astonishing imagery and video that it shares from its incredible observatories and adventures in space. The James

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Unveils An Exciting Ad-Free Streaming Service At A Price You’ll Love

Apple posted financial results for its fiscal 2023 fourth quarter (for the period ending September 30, 2023), with CEO Tim Cook boasting an all-time high in Services revenue and a quarterly high in iPhone sales. Along with its other product offerings, Apple generated a cool $89.5 billion for the quarter, resulting in a profit of $22.96 billion

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Rakes In Record iPhone And Services Revenue Hand Over Fist, Investors Still Balk

If you bought a Steam Deck with a 256GB or 512GB SSD inside, you’re probably not aware of an issue that affects people with the cheaper 64GB model. You see, games on SteamOS download pre-compiled shader libraries as well as additional data to help with Steam Deck compatibility, and this data can take up quite a bit of space on your internal

Source: Hot Hardware – Steam Deck’s Shader Storage Limitation Is No Match For This 61TB SSD Mod

Acer Predator BiFrost Arc A770 OC 16GB: MSRP – $399; Street Price – $319 (As Low As $289) Acer’s take on Intel’s Arc A770 GPU is the fastest and flashiest Arc card around, and you won’t pay a premium for it when it’s on-sale — which is often. Complete Feature Set Solid Performance-per-Dollar Impressive XeSS Image Quality Attractive Visual…

Source: Hot Hardware – Acer Predator BiFrost Arc A770 OC Graphics Card Review: Intel On-Board