Surprise, surprise: an upcoming first-party Nintendo game has leaked to the internet ahead of its launch date. Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the long-awaited new traditional-style side-scrolling title in the famous franchise of everyone’s favorite video-game plumber, has found its way to pirates through the usual channels.

As you could probably

Source: Hot Hardware – Super Mario Bros. Wonder Running At 4K On PC Leaks Online But Beware Of Spoilers

This generation of graphics cards calls for some insanely powerful behemoths, like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080. With great power, usually comes great heat, too. That will mean beefy coolers that are typically large will be the modus operandi – especially since the RTX 4080 shares a lot of designs with the RTX 4090. If you can’t fit it, you’ll

Source: Hot Hardware – GeForce RTX 4080 Mod Drastically Reduces Footprint To Inside An SFF Gaming PC

It seems like it was just yesterday that Minecraft hit 10 years old, but that was actually a half a decade ago. Since then, much has changed as the popular block-based game has continued to grow in popularity. However, with those changes come more eyes on the game overall and recent events surrounding Minecraft certainly highlight that. Though,

Source: Hot Hardware – Minecraft Crosses 300M Copies Sold As The Best-Selling Game Of All Time

The Google Camera app has been quietly replaced with the Pixel Camera app in the Google Play Store. The Pixel-exclusive app also received a new app description with a few hints at what Pixel owners will be able to do with the newly labeled app, suggesting there’s more than just a name change afoot.

One of the greatest battlefields among

Source: Hot Hardware – Pixel Camera Quietly Replaces Google Camera In Play Store With Key Changes

Valve’s latest preview update for the Steam Deck’s SteamOS, version 3.5.1, is largely a patch for bugs but includes one big ticket feature enthusiasts have been clamoring for: undervolting. This is thanks to the version 118 BIOS firmware that this preview update also introduces, and while it gets rid of the old overclocking settings, undervolting

Source: Hot Hardware – Steam Deck Is Getting Undervolting Controls, Here’s How To Access Them Now

Audiophiles on Pixel 8 and other Android phones may have a reason to rejoice—support for lossless USB audio is coming to a future Android 14 version. While it’s not a huge deal for most consumers, we think that this initiative is a potential win for Google over the competition.

The Pixel 8 series will add support for lossless USB audio

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Pixel 8 Is Getting A Sweet Upgrade That Audiophiles Will Love

The European Space Agency’s Mars Express takes adventurers on a gorgeous ride across Mars’s ‘labyrinth of night’. The spacecraft has been exploring the atmosphere, surface, and subsurface of the Red Planet since 2004.

ESA shared footage captured by the Mars Express spacecraft as it flew over the eastern part of Noctis Labyrinthus. It captured

Source: Hot Hardware – Stunning Mars Flyover Tours The Red Planet’s Incredible Labyrinth Of Night

Most of the headsets that make headlines are geared towards gamers, save for the occasional exception. Logitech’s new Zone Wireless 2 is one of those semi-rare exceptions. It’s pitched as a “top-of-the-line business headset,” which is due in large part to a clever AI-powered tactic designed to suppress background noise on both ends of a call,

Source: Hot Hardware – Logitech Zone Wireless 2 Headset Means Business With AI Smarts And 40-Hour Battery

If you thought Chevrolet couldn’t make the C8 Corvette even more bonkers, out comes the highly anticipated (and divisive) 2024 Corvette E-Ray, complete with a hybrid powertrain and all-wheel drive (AWD). In other words, a Corvette that won’t run away from you in inclement weather, while making you feel good about helping the environment.

When

Source: Hot Hardware – 2024 Corvette E-Ray Is A Hybrid Juiced Speed Demon That’s Simply Gorgeous

After months of speculation, Intel today formally introduced its 14th Gen Core processors, otherwise known as Raptor Lake Refresh. Exactly as the name implies, this is a refresh of Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs, as opposed to a brand new architecture, which for consumers means the newly minted silicon can slip into existing 600- and 700-series

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Unveils 14th Gen Core Rocket Lake Refresh Processor Lineup

With Prime Day now gone, there are still a few left-over deals that net you savings on things to have around the house, such as speakers to blast some tunes. Whether you are doing some work, cleaning up, cooking, or anything else, having music in the background will make it go faster no matter what, and hopefully, JBL has you covered.

Starting

Source: Hot Hardware – Leftover Prime Day Deals On JBL Speakers Up To 34% Off Is Music To Our Ears

Don’t fret if you missed out on Amazon’s recent Prime Day sales event because there are still a bunch of lingering deals. Moreover, it won’t be long before the Black Friday and Cyber Monday bargains begin rolling into view, which seems to happen earlier and earlier every year (think: early November through December). Deal events aren’t the

Source: Hot Hardware – A Great MacBook Deal Is Still Live For The Taking At Amazon

Whether you need to deck out a home office, spice up a gaming battle station, or enhance your workflow, adding an extra monitor or two will certainly do the trick. Thankfully, Amazon still has some left-over deals from Prime Day, which can net you some big savings on a number of Samsung monitors geared towards gaming or productivity.

Starting

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Office And Gaming Monitor Deals Up To 43% Off Left Over From Amazon Prime Day

It’s clear that Intel’s upcoming 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs aren’t far away (especially if recent retail listings are any indicator). Presumably that also means Intel’s motherboard partners are readying their boards for the impending launch. This definitely seems to be the case for MSI, which recently released a BIOS update with a new

Source: Hot Hardware – MSI Rolls Out Z790 Max Motherboard Feature That Lets Intel CPUs Sizzle

Highly anticipated video game releases are always exciting, even when we’re still in the rumor phase. If they are part of a dynasty, the story gets more intense. Enter Grand Theft Auto VI, the next installment of one of the most famous franchises in history. While the connoisseurs amongst you wait to hear about the story and gameplay, there’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Report Claims GTA 6 Graphics Are Going To Be Cutting-Edge And Gorgeous

The sky over North, Central, and South America will feature a celestial delight later today, as an annular solar eclipse creates a “ring of fire.” An annular solar eclipse differs from a total eclipse in that the moon is at the farthest point in its orbital path from Earth, keeping it from being able to completely block the sun.

According

Source: Hot Hardware – Here’s When And Where To Watch The Rare Ring Of Fire Solar Eclipse Today

It appears Amazon is having a fairly large sale on smart bird feeders with discounts slashing prices in half on some models. Should you buy one? It really depends on how seriously you take your bird-watching game. I’ve gotten by with dummy feeders to entertain my cats, who love to sit by the window and chirp back at their feathered invaders.

Source: Hot Hardware – Smart Bird Watching Feeders Are On Sale At Amazon Up To 50% Off

Have you been enjoying Counter-Strike 2, PC gamers? Despite the fact that the game has become Valve’s lowest-rated release ever (largely due to complaints from players who are no longer able to play it), it’s still been an enormously-successful launch for the company, with nearly a million players online and playing right now.

If you’re

Source: Hot Hardware – PSA: Don’t Enable AMD Anti-Lag+ In CS2 Or Valve Will Ban You For It

You want to get fat paid by Microsoft without having to sign a pesky employment contract? Just find a major security hole in one of the company’s many new AI-powered services. That’ll earn you a cash prize of between $2,000 and $15,000, depending on the severity and ease of the exploit.

To be clear, simply getting Bing to generate chat

Source: Hot Hardware – Trip Up Bing AI And You Could Score A ,000 Payday From Microsoft

Geekom Mini IT13 – Starting at $499 (Use Coupon Code hothardwareit13 For $40 Off). Sample we tested with Core i9-13900H, 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD currently $899 $789. A very compact system, which seems nicely built and excels in some workloads, but held back somewhat by slower DDR4 RAM and an occasionally distracting fan. …

Source: Hot Hardware – Geekom Mini IT13 Review: A Palm-Sized Intel 13th Gen Core i9 Mini PC