The site formerly known as Twitter is headed for a fee-based future. Weeks after owner Elon Musk suggested that X would move to a paid model, the social network has started testing a $1 yearly fee in select markets. The program is being branded in typical Musk fashion as “Not A Bot,” but all it really verifies is that someone is willing to

Source: Hot Hardware – Musk’s X Is Testing A ‘Not A Bot’ Fee To Post On The Site Formerly Known As Twitter

NASA shared a scintillating view of the annular eclipse from 1 million miles in space. The image was produced by a 10-channel spectroradiometer onboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft.

Onlookers gazed upward this weekend as the Moon moved between the Sun and Earth and created what is known as a “ring of fire.”

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Shares Stunning Images Of Annular Eclipse As Seen From 1 Million Miles In Space

There’s nothing like some good GPU rumors to keep gamers on their toes, especially during the mid-cycle refreshes. That’s exactly what we have here from Twitter user hongxing2020: NVIDIA may be getting ready to release “Super” variants of the RTX 4070, 4070 Ti, and 4080. While this is just some speculation at this point, it does open up the

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Could Be Readying GeForce RTX 4070 Super, 4070 Ti Super And 4080 Super GPUs

Samsung is expanding its partnership with Batteries Plus to offer authorized, in-warranty repairs at select locations. The big benefit for Galaxy device owners is potentially having access to faster service when something breaks, including same-day repairs in some cases. For those who live near a Batteries Plus location, it means not having

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Galaxy Owners Just Got A Major Ally In Batteries Plus For Same-Day Repairs

NVIDIA and Hon Hai Technology Group, otherwise known as Foxconn, jointly announced plans develop a new class of data centers and systems designed to “accelerate the AI revolution.” It’s the latest strategic move by NVIDIA to capitalize on the burgeoning market for AI hardware and applications, where the firm has positioned itself as a leader

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Joins Forces With Foxconn To Build AI Factories, A New Class Of Data Centers

It’s common for gamers to talk about input lag as stems from input devices and display devices, but the majority of the motion-to-photon lag for most PC gamers actually comes from the software stack itself. NVIDIA has its Reflex technology to counteract this latency, and AMD has its Anti-Lag, but Radeon Anti-Lag isn’t quite as effective as

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Rolls Back Anti-Lag+ In Its Latest Radeon Driver Due To Cheat Bans, What Now?

Let’s talk display technology. Almost all TVs and computer displays these days are based on LED-backlit LCDs. The only other common display technology anymore is OLED, and despite the similar name, those have nothing to do with this post, so let’s set them aside for now—even though they’re arguably a superior technology.

With LED-backlit

Source: Hot Hardware – MSI Unveils Quantum Dot Gaming Monitors With Rapid VA Panel Tech, Why It Matters

Extreme overclockers Elmor and SkatterBencher in cooperation with ASUS have submitted a record-smashing overclock of Intel’s brand-new Core i9-14900KF (a 14900K without integrated graphics), achieving a stable 9.044GHz and beating the previous world record (also held by Elmor) of 9.008GHz set on the Core i9-13900K. It’s the second time that

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel’s Core i9-14900K Is Already Smashing Records At A Blistering 9GHz Overclock

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Discord is a great voice, text, and video platform that allows friends, family, and communities of all types to connect in a common space. However, it’s been known that Discord has been used for some terrible things, such as the massive leak of intelligence from the U.S. Pentagon. Now, threat actors are leveraging the interconnectivity

Source: Hot Hardware – Alarming Security Report Claims Discord Is A Breeding Ground For Hackers And Malware

After nearly 25 years of being one of the most recognizable voices and faces of Bethesda Softworks, Pete Hines announced he is leaving the company and retiring from the videogame industry altogether. Hines said his decision did not come quickly or easily, but after the successful launch of Starfield, he just felt the time was right.

Hines

Source: Hot Hardware – Now That Starfield Is Out, Bethesda’s Pete Hines Calls It A Career

Xiaomi has unveiled its new mobile operating system to replace the highly customizable iOS lookalike, MIUI. The company claims that the new OS, essentially a skin over Android 14, will bring improved performance partly thanks to being built from the ground up with a new architecture.

In a Weibo post yesterday, Lei Jun, CEO of Xiaomi announced

Source: Hot Hardware – Xiaomi Says Goodbye To MIUI And Hello To HyperOS For Future Smartphones

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected evidence of quartz nanocrystals in a Jupiter-like exoplanet’s atmosphere 1,300 light-years from Earth. The first-ever detection of silica particles in an exoplanet’s atmosphere was made possible by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).

WASP-17 b, also known as Ditso, is a hot gas giant

Source: Hot Hardware – Webb Discovers Quartz Crystals In Clouds Of A Giant Gas Planet And NASA Is Stunned

Best Buy thinks that Taylor Swift and “funflation” are both bad for business. Why is that? Because potential consumers would rather spend money on watching her concerts than buy big ticket consumer electronics, according to Best Buy CEO Corie Barry.

The CEO blames the whole “funflation” phenomenon—where consumers are spending more on experiential

Source: Hot Hardware – Why Best Buy Is Blaming Taylor Swift And Funflation For Sagging Tech Sales

Remember when Netflix was a DVD-by-mail subscription service? It recently shipped its last DVD after successfully pivoting into a streaming juggernaut, and for its next trick, Netflix has set its sights set on getting into gaming in a big way. Efforts are already underway, though Netflix is apparently wanting to make a splash by securing a

Source: Hot Hardware – Netflix Wants A Grand Theft Auto Game To Compete With PlayStation And Xbox

Now that Microsoft has cleared all the regulatory hurdles that stood in the way of its Activision-Blizzard acquisition, it can focus on how best to put its newly-acquired IP to good use. One of those IPs is Diablo and as such, it’s offering up a custom Diablo IV-themed Xbox Series X console that it designed in collaboration with the game’s

Source: Hot Hardware – This Awesome Diablo IV Xbox Series X Console Could Be Yours Without Selling Your Soul

We’re big fans of retro gaming here in these parts. Whether it’s 8-bit and 16-bit classic recreations of our childhood favorites in the Sega Genesis 2 Mini or playing on original retro consoles with fancy upscalers, we just can’t go wrong with revisiting the classics. In recent years, the cutting edge of retro emulation has been found in field-programmable

Source: Hot Hardware – A 4K Nintendo 64 Console Is Coming To Relive Your Retro N64 Games In High Resolution

Intel Core i9-14900K – $589, Intel i7-14700K- $409, Intel Core i5-14600K – $319 Intel’s 14th Gen Core “Raptor Lake Refresh” processors fit in the same socket as 13th Gen CPUs, but crank up the clocks, in some cases cores, and power.   High Performance Single Thread Leadership More Cores, Higher Clocks Socket Compatibility…

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel 14th Gen Core Raptor Lake Refresh Benchmarks: MOAR Power

If you’re into PC hardware, you’re probably familiar with Galax whether under that name or as one of its sub-brands, like KFA2 and Gainward. Galax has been known as a global seller of graphics cards and other PC parts. Indeed, it actually began operations in 1994 in Hong Kong, but it’s celebrating 2023 as its “20th Anniversary” for some reason—possibly

Source: Hot Hardware – Galax’s GeForce RTX 4090 20th Anniversary Edition With Hidden Connector Breaks Cover

The NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPU is one for the record books, with its $699 MSRP enticing gamers to splurge. It also came during a turbulent time of the great GPU shortage, causing its street price to sky rocket. This likely means we also have many gamers still using this fantastic graphics card in 2023, due to its still powerful performance. There

Source: Hot Hardware – GeForce RTX 3080 FE Cooler Teardown Exposes An Odd Defect, Should You Be Concerned?

Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service has taken on new importance in the wake of Stadia’s untimely demise. Some of those who fled Google’s failed streaming platform for Nvidia are in for a rude awakening, though. Nvidia has announced a price hike for select markets, one of which will see the base subscription price jump by 40%.

If you’re

Source: Hot Hardware – GeForce NOW Prices Are Going Up For Some Gamers, How To Lock Your Current Rate