Noctua has updated its product roadmap, revealing that several of its upcoming fans and CPU coolers have been delayed yet again. That includes the highly anticipated second-generation NH-D15 dual tower cooler. Previously, Noctua’s next-gen D15 cooler was announced to arrive as early as Q4 of 2023; Noctua’s updated roadmap now shows that it

Source: Hot Hardware – Noctua’s 2nd Gen NH-D15 CPU Cooler Looks To Be Delayed Again

Despite consumers complaining that Apple devices are a pain in the neck to repair, Apple has announced that it will back a US right-to-repair bill. The bill is part of President Biden’s attempt to promote competition and end “junk fees” and other actions that increase the price of products for customers.

Apple’s decision to back the right-to-repair

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Emerges As An Unlikely Ally In Push For Federal Right To Repair Legislation

Although Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is the star of the show when it comes to showcasing the next generation of smartphones and their performance, a processor can only do so much on its own. Fast memory is required to give such a cutting-edge chip the leg room it needs to perform, and to that end Micron and SK hynix have announced

Source: Hot Hardware – Micron And SK Hynix Push Blistering 9.6Gbps LPDDR5X For Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Phones

The launch of a new CPU can often range from being exciting, to the purely mundane in some cases. When that CPU is accompanied by an entirely new chipset, expectations are raised even further.  One important item that sometimes can be overlooked by consumers in the midst of the excitement on release day is the issue of compatibility with existing

Source: Hot Hardware – Here’s The Latest On LGA 1700 Cooler Compatibility With Intel’s Next-Gen Arrow Lake CPUs

TP-Link is pushing out a new Wi-Fi 7 router, the Archer BE550 (model BE9300) that it hopes will put upgrading to the latest wireless protocol “within affordability range of the typical tech consumer.” That doesn’t mean it’s cheap—you’re looking at dropping $299.99 for this thing. But it’s at least on par with high-end routers, and substantially

Source: Hot Hardware – TP-Link Unveils A Bleeding-Edge Wi-Fi 7 Wireless Router At A Surprising Price

NASA has collected a small amount of the rock and dust sample that its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought back from the asteroid Bennu. However, it is having a bit of trouble accessing the rest. That’s because the team is having issues loosening two of the 35 fasteners on the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM).

The space agency

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Knows Space But Is Still Figuring Out How To Open Its Asteroid Sample Container

Motorola has unveiled a concept phone that makes us wish for the future to come sooner. Indubitably, the showpiece for the no-name device is the bendable display that can be shaped into a few variations to fit the needs of the user, such as being worn on a wrist or propped up for video calls.

With phone manufactures slowly, but surely perfecting

Source: Hot Hardware – Motorola Concept Phone Twists Like A Pretzel So You Can Wear It Like A Smartwatch

It seems as though everyone and their uncle is making gaming monitors now, and before you shout, ‘Yeah, but not Thermaltake!’, well guess what? It does as well. Thermaltake’s introductory gaming displays actually broke cover a few weeks ago, but now they’re formally announced. There are two of them, one of which is a 27-inch display while

Source: Hot Hardware – Thermaltake Makes Gaming Monitors Now And The Specs Look Pretty Good

Remedy Entertainment’s Control was one of the first games to really showcase the potential of real-time ray-tracing with its gorgeous reflections and excellent ray-traced shadows. The company’s next game, a sequel to 2010’s Alan Wake simply titled Alan Wake II, promises to up the ante in terms of graphics technology by supporting what NVIDIA

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA’s Day 1 GPU Driver For Alan Wake 2 Claims A Huge 4.7X Uplift With RT And DLSS

One of the more exciting aspects of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon family processors for Windows on Arm64 is that these laptop PCs are always connected (4G or 5G), and they can deliver stellar battery life. Just peruse any of our recent reviews and you can see that, for instance, the Lenovo Flex 5G has more than 24 hours of battery life with video

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite To Deliver Performance-Per-Watt Leadership For PCs

It’s that time of year again—the leaves and temperatures are falling, and Qualcomm is announcing a new flagship mobile processor platform at its Snapdragon Summit event in Maui today. As expected, the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is now official, packing a faster CPU core configuration, an updated Adreno GPU, and AI engines galore. Qualcomm

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 With Big Performance Gains And AI Mastery

Qualcomm has just announced its new S7 and S7 Pro Gen 1 Snapdragon Sound platforms at its Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii today. The company’s most advanced audio platforms are designed for earbuds, headphones, and speakers, as well as various smart audio devices.
On-Device AI Processing And New Connectivity Tech
According to Qualcomm, the new

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon Sound S7 Series With XPAN For Ubiquitous HiFi Jams

Apple has confirmed rumors that the company plans on making another big announcement by the end of the month with its upcoming “Scary Fast” event. Many have speculated that the Cupertino-based company will likely announce a new iMac and possibly a new MacBook Pro with the latest M3 chipset.

Fans of Apple were a bit disappointed with the

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Announces Its Scary Fast Event With New M3 Silicon Powered Devices Expected

In case you’re unfamiliar, “delidding” is the process of removing the thick metal plate attached to the top of modern CPUs. This plate is known as the “integrated heat spreader” or “IHS,” and it protects the fragile silicon die of the processor from cracking when fumble-fingered users are installing their cooling apparatus. Having an IHS is

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel 14th Gen Core i9-14900K CPU Delidding Reveals A Cool Surprise

Tomorrow, October 25th, the Xbox Partner Preview will showcase both updates and new games coming to Xbox and Windows from the plethora of Microsoft third-party partners. We’ll also get to see info on upcoming Game Pass titles and quite a bit of gameplay footage all around. Overall, it should be an exciting show, so here’s how you can tune

Source: Hot Hardware – Xbox Partner Preview Games Event: When, How To Watch And What To Expect

A new survey by an Apple analyst suggests the Cupertino-based company could spend several billion dollars in 2024 in order to catch up in the AI race. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects Apple to spend “at least” $620 million on servers in 2023 and an estimated $4.75 billion on servers in 2024.

The AI race is hot and heavy between giant tech companies,

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple May Spend Over Billion By 2024 On Servers In Major Generative AI Push

Artists are using a new tool to add invisible changes to their art before uploading online. Why? In order to combat having their work scraped into an AI training set. The new method causes the resulting model to “break in chaotic and unpredictable ways.”

Artists are battling to protect their work against being stolen by generative AI, with

Source: Hot Hardware – Artists Are Using Nightshade Data Poisoning Tool In Escalating War With Generative AI

NVIDIA and AMD are being spurred on by Microsoft to develop their own ARM-based CPUs to be used in Windows PCs, according to a report from Reuters. Apple, which is a competitor of all three companies, has seen great success ever since it launched its own custom ARM-based chip, M1, in 2020. Although this move is ostensibly focused on containing

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA And AMD Tap Arm To Fab Chips For Windows PCs, Should Intel Worry?

Intel announced it is advancing its semiconductor technology facilities at its Gordon Moore Park campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. The chip maker views the expansion as an important step towards regaining process technology leadership by 2025, which has been one of Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s main goals when he returned to the company a little over

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Plans Huge Oregon Chip Fab Expansion As Part Of 0B Investment In US Over 5 years

The furthest human spacecraft from earth—Voyager 1 and 2—are still getting software updates more than 12 billion miles away, which should help keep the probes operational for many years to come. Smartphone companies can learn a thing or two here.

It all started in 2022 when Voyager 1 began sending garbled data back to Earth. Craft functions

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Sent An Important Software Patch 12 Billion Miles To Its 1977 Voyager Probes