Google has found a way to utilize onboard active noise canceling (ANC) hardware to monitor one’s heart rate. Soon listening to Roxette crooning “Listen to Your Heart” on your Pixel earbuds will have a whole other meaning. 

A team of Googlers (across Google Health, product, UX, and legal departments) have come up with a novel way of using

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Researchers Find A Way To Turn Your ANC Earbuds Into A Heart Monitor

Racing fans, you’ll want to start tuning up your racing rig! EA Sports WRC is coming to your living room race track on November 3rd. Promising to be one of the the most ambitious titles for the rally racing genre, we can feel the drifts already! If you’d like to take a break from the likes of games such as iRacing, rally racing ups the visceral

Source: Hot Hardware – What Specs You’ll Need To Start Your Engines When EA Sports WRC Races To PC

Earlier this year, ASUS China detailed an upcoming model of the RTX 4060 Ti that was notable for including an M.2 slot for NVMe SSDs. Today, that GPU (officially titled the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD) is finally hitting the shelves across Europe, and for a fairly reasonable price as spotted by leaker Momomo_us on X. While it may seem

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Concept Card With A Built-In SSD Slot Heads To Retail

In true Halloween fashion, a comet twice the size of Mount Everest and that earned the nickname the “Devil Comet” is heading toward Earth. The comet, which has a far less intimidating scientific name, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, has a short-period orbit around the Sun of about once every 71 years.

Comet Pons-Brooks’ first recorded detection

Source: Hot Hardware – A Menacing Devil Comet With Horns Made Of Gas And Ice Is Headed Towards Earth

Much to the dismay of gamers who own certain third-party controllers and peripherals, Microsoft has begun actively blocking unauthorized accessories on its Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S game consoles. If you own an affected product and try using it with your Xbox console, you may run into error code 0x82d6002, which means your device is

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Bans Unofficial Game Controllers And Accessories On Xbox Console

Qualcomm’s latest darling, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, has barely hit the ground running since its unveiling last week and it’s already taking it up with its competitors. If this leaked performance benchmark against Apple’s A17 Pro is any indication, Android users may finally have some much-needed bragging rights.

San Diego-based Qualcomm revealed

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Battles Apple’s A17 Pro In Early Benchmarks

It’s only a matter of time before Intel introduces 14th Gen Core Raptor Lake Refresh processors for mobile (laptops) just it recently did on the desktop. We must be getting close, too, considering the leaked benchmark runs that are now popping up. The most recent one points to an upcoming ASUS ROG Strix Scar 16 gaming laptop outfitted with

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS ROG Scar Gaming Laptop Breaks Cover With A Core i9-14900HX And RTX 4090

Last week at its Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm revealed two new mobile platforms, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Snapdragon X Elite, amidst a myriad of additional XR and Audio related announcements. Like its namesake, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is designed for smartphones and tablets (that typically run Android), and this latest iteration is updated,…

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarks: A Potential Game-Changer

While all the major celestial events for October have passed, there is no reason not be prepared for what is yet to come. Between binoculars and telescopes with smartphone integration, you can snag a deal on some great space-observing gear on Amazon to ensure you are ready for any meteor showers, lunar eclipse, or whatever else may be going

Source: Hot Hardware – Here Are Some Deals On Clever Ways To Capture Celestial Events Day Or Night

Google Maps is getting infused with more AI features to make using the app more intuitive when planning and navigating trips. The new features aim to help users make more eco-friendly choices, while inspiring more things to do along the journey.

During its I/O event earlier this year, Google announced that it would launch Immersive View

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Maps Will Be Infused With AI For A Better Understanding Of Your Journey

There’s nothing we like more than surprises, especially when they are accompanied by potential new products from Apple. This October 30th at 5pm Pacific Time, we have an unusually timed night event. Apple plans to hold its “Scary Fast” announcements for its lineup of Mac computers. It will be streamed on their website as an online event, unlike

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple’s Scary Fast October Event Looms Near, Here’s What To Expect

It seems like every few days we’re getting interesting tidbits about NVIDIA’s possible upcoming graphics card lineup. No, we’re not yet at the GeForce RTX 50 series – but looking at the “Super” variants instead. The well-known leaker kopite7kimi has revealed a potentially interesting set of specs for these GPUs. 

If you’re unfamiliar with

Source: Hot Hardware – Alleged NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super, 4070 Ti Super, 4070 Super Specs Revealed

Though Android 14 may be Google’s baby, it does not appear to be playing nice with Google’s Pixel phone lineup. On Reddit and in Google’s issue tracker, users who upgraded to Android 14 on Pixel devices are reporting that they are losing all data after their phones get soft-bricked by the update in a “ransomware-esque” fashion. The only connecting

Source: Hot Hardware – Alarming Android 14 Storage Bug Locks Users Out Of Phones, Which Pixels Are At Risk

A dog is man’s best friend, or in the case of Boston Dynamic’s robot dog Spot, everyone’s best tour guide. The company utilized ChatGPT to create multiple personalities for Spot that uses a Virtual Question Answering (VQA) model or captioning model to describe various objects in the environment, and then elaborate on those descriptions using

Source: Hot Hardware – Zoinks Scoob! Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Dog Just Learned To Talk With ChatGPT

If you’re a frequent visitor of our site, then you may have caught our all-out PC build guide for playing Alan Wake 2 at max settings. One thing we didn’t touch on, however, is the display—we kept the focus on the game’s bone-crunching hardware requirements, particularly at the high end. It’s an expensive build for sure, which is all the more

Source: Hot Hardware – Dell’s Sweet 34-Inch 144Hz Curved Gaming Monitor Is Available On A Killer Deal

It’s a pain point for any system builder: you spend the time to coordinate parts that will look good together, and then you go to wire it all up and it doesn’t matter because even with good cable management your aesthetic is still ruined by the heavy cable bundles required for power and data connections.

A few companies have started to

Source: Hot Hardware – MSI Unveils Project Zero Motherboards With Hidden Connectors For AMD And Intel PCs

When we saw the system requirements for Remedy’s Alan Wake II, we knew this game was going to be a PC system smasher. Of course, we already knew that—the game supports path-tracing, also known as full scene ray-tracing, and we’ve already tested that feature extensively in Cyberpunk 2077, so we’re familiar with how heavy it can be on…

Source: Hot Hardware – Alan Wake II Performance And Visuals: Bring Your Biggest GPU

There are games out there that gamers drool over with anticipation to an extraordinary degree. Then there’s Grand Theft Auto VI, which seems to have rocketed into the stratosphere in the minds of eager gamers everywhere. This is where both PC and console gamers are jointly united, hoping to one day finally sit down and experience what Rockstar

Source: Hot Hardware – GTA 6 Rumors Spiral Out Of Control As Latest Leak Suggests A Bonkers Price Tag

Qualcomm revealed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 this week, delving into myriad new AI-enhanced features. Among them was Zoom Anyplace, a camera capability designed for Samsung’s 200MP image sensors. Qualcomm didn’t have much to say about ISOCELL Zoom Anyplace, but Samsung sure does. Samsung isn’t naming names, but this feature is almost certainly

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Flaunts 200MP Zoom Anyplace Wizardry, Tips Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 For Galaxy S24

In a recent demo, Intel showed off its upcoming Meteor Lake CPU running Dying Light 2 on the chip’s integrated Xe graphics. This demo compared how the game ran on the processor at a native 1080p resolution versus running the game at 720p with XeSS upscaling it to 1080p. Although the demo focused on how much higher the framerate was with XeSS

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch Meteor Lake’s Arc iGPU Run Dying Light 2 Smoothly With XeSS