You ever Googled yourself? No, it’s not an improper question—we’re talking about the actual process of putting your own name into Google and seeing what comes up. You might be surprised. Shady websites charge fees to list huge databases of personal information, matching names with addresses and phone numbers that may no longer be accurate

Source: Hot Hardware – Here’s How To Make Google Scrub Your Personal Data From Search Results

Over the past few weeks, Pixel owners have encountered an issue that “soft bricks” their devices, locking them out of their apps, media, and other content akin to ransomware attack. However, this issue is not from a threat actor but rather from a bug in Android 14, which has been found to be related to having multiple profiles on a Pixel device.

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Confirms An Android 14 Bug Is Wreaking Havoc On Pixel Devices, Fix Incoming

Nintendo is ripe for a new piece of hardware, which is always a momentous event for game console purveyors. As a result, any sort of leak, rumor, or filing concerning new hardware by Nintendo is noteworthy, even when it doesn’t seem like a device that the company might actually bring to market.

What we have here is a patent filed by Nintendo

Source: Hot Hardware – Nintendo Patents A Detachable Dual-Screen Gaming Device; Maybe The Next Switch?

While it’s normal for desktop and mobile CPUs to differ somewhat, you don’t normally expect to see the mobile version of a chip support fewer instructions. According to a Linux kernel commit spotted by Linux enthusiast InstLatX86 though, that’s exactly what we’re going to see with Intel’s next-generation Arrow Lake-S (the desktop chips) and

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Arrow Lake Doc Reveals Different Instruction Sets For Desktop And Laptop CPUs

AMD drivers come with quite a few built-in features, but many of them couldn’t be used at the same time until AMD released HYPR-RX last month. Now, HYPR-RX is coming to the ROG Ally with the device’s latest update, and it seems like a match made in heaven for this driver feature and ASUS’s high-end gaming handheld.

While the ROG Ally is

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS ROG Ally Update Adds AMD HYPR-RX, 900p Support And More To The Gaming Handheld

Sony announced its PlayStation Explore wireless earbuds, PlayStation Elite wireless headset, PlayStation Link USB adapter, and its highly anticipated PlayStation Portal remote player. All the new devices will be launched in time for the upcoming Christmas shopping season.

While Microsoft may have acquired Activision/Blizzard/King, Sony

Source: Hot Hardware – Sony Reveals Premium Wireless Earbuds For Gamers, PlayStation Link Release Date

One of the best upgrades you can do to your PC is undoubtedly adding a faster storage or system drive. We’d surmise that the first time users tried a fast SSD (NVMe or even SATA), they immediately could tell the difference from their slower spinning hard drive. While the internal storage train has brought us to incredible PCIe Gen 5 speeds

Source: Hot Hardware – ADATA Is The First To Release A USB4 External SSD And It’s Crazy Fast

The PC is considered one of the best platforms for playing your favorite games, and for good reason. Flexible hardware choice, filled with individual input on the part of the gamer. Want to fine tune your settings for better performance? You got it! You can increase your visual eye candy until you’re satisfied, if your hardware can handle

Source: Hot Hardware – Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Will Have A Mind-Boggling 500 Graphics Settings

Although AMD hasn’t said a single word on Ryzen 8000, we’re already getting more details on the first device confirmed to use a processor from the upcoming series: Minisforum’s 3-in-1 gaming tablet. The initial press release for the V3 focused primarily on the hardware (especially its Ryzen 8000 “Hawk Point” APU) but not so much on how it

Source: Hot Hardware – Minisforum Teases An AMD Hawk Point 3-In-1 Windows Tablet With A 165Hz Display

Don’t show this to your kids—Google Search and Lens can now solve advanced trigonometry, calculus, geometry, physics, and other science problems. Thanks to improved Search smarts, solving and visualizing challenging formulas or concepts are merely a click away.

Mountain View just made its Search and Lens capabilities more potent with a

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Smarty Pants AI Search Can Now Solve Your Trig, Calc And Geometry Problems

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured an enlightening image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant that is located 6,500 light-years from Earth. The Crab has been studied since as far back as 1054 CE by 11th-century astronomers.

The top image is a side-by-side comparison of the Crab Nebula as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Telescope Zooms In On A Crab Nebula, The Haunted Remains Of An Exploded Star

So here’s the deal—Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts will arrive in earnest very soon. Retailers are in the habit of pushing out holiday bargains increasingly early every year, so barring a generous return or exchange window, you want to be careful on what you splurge on. That said, there are some tantalizing gaming laptop bargains if

Source: Hot Hardware – The Only Thing Scary About These Gaming Laptop Deals Up To 45% Off Is Passing Them Up

In a surprise move, Western Digital is splitting its hard disk drive (HDD) and flash memory storage businesses into separate companies, effectively spinning off its solid state drive (SSD) division. The move comes around the eight-year anniversary of when Western Digital announced plans to acquire SanDisk for $19 billion (the deal closed in

Source: Hot Hardware – Western Digital Spins Off Flash Memory Business After Kioxia Merger Talks Fizzle

All Hallows’ Eve might be when the kids go out trick-or-treating, but the night before — this night — is when we all bob for Apples. In a  spooky themed, online-only event, Apple CEO Tim Cook led a cavalcade of corporate VPs announcing a new family of processors named M3 and a series of Macs sporting the latest in Apple Silicon. Let’s dispense

Source: Hot Hardware – Scary Fast Apple Announces New M3 Chips With Updated MacBook Pro and iMac In Tow

Back at Innovation ’23, Intel announced that its Meteor Lake processors would be officially-launched on December 14th. Despite the fact that they haven’t made their debut, Intel’s first disaggregated CPUs have already appeared in a few places, including a handheld from Hong Kong as well as in some Lenovo laptops being sold in Bulgaria.

This

Source: Hot Hardware – Lenovo Yoga Laptops With Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Inside Pop Up At Retail

Another day, and another leaked Meteor Lake benchmark has appeared. This time, the data comes from a Geekbench 5 listing featuring the upcoming Core Ultra 185H CPU with 16 cores and 22 Threads. Though, unlike previous benchmarking reports of this chip, this time it put upf some impressive numbers, achieving similar performance to Intel’s outgoing

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel’s Core Ultra 185H Meteor Lake CPU Impresses In Early Multi-Threaded Benchmark

Since its inception, ChatGPT has been an incredibly useful tool to generate ideas and content, write code, or perform more menial tasks that can free-up humans for higher level tasks. Even Boston Dynamics integrated the tool with its robotic dog Spot recently, to enable it to “talk.” Now, OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities by allowing

Source: Hot Hardware – ChatGPT Tests Its Ability To Read And Interact With PDFs And Other File Uploads

Much has been made of AMD’s mobile SoC naming convention, but it’s really not that complicated. The first digit tells you what year it came out, the second digit tells you where it sits in the product stack, and the third digit tells you exactly which Zen CPU core it’s using. With that knowledge, we can accurately judge that a hypothetical

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen 8040U Mobile And 7000G Desktop CPUs Spotted Flexing Zen 4

Japanese researchers have successfully grown mouse embryos in space for the first time. While doing such a thing may sound pointless on the surface, it is vital to research if humans ever propagate during future space travel as we look to set foot on distant planets.

As space agencies continue to move forward with plans to one day have

Source: Hot Hardware – Researchers Grow Mouse Embryos In Space For The First Time, Why This Matters

One of the key indicators of how highly anticipated a video game title is can be found in the most mundane of details that are brought to light. For those waiting for Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 6, even the tiniest of morsels containing potential hints at what the game may be like, is welcomed. While tempting rumors surrounding potential

Source: Hot Hardware – Take-Two Patent Hints At Exciting Animation Tech Headed To Grand Theft Auto 6