Category Archives: Hot Hardware

Apple May Make An 18.8-Inch Foldable iPad Pro With Under Display Face ID

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Apple May Make An 18.8-Inch Foldable iPad Pro With Under Display Face ID
Could Apple be readying a foldable iPad Pro BEFORE a foldable iPhone or MacBook Pro? Quite possibly yes, according to multiple independent sources. The device reportedly will sport an 18.8-inch display when opened and have an under-display Face ID camera. Regardless of which model gets the bendy-screen treatment first, it seems almost a certainty

PlayStation Lead Architect Confirms AMD FSR 4 Is Coming To PS5 Pro

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PlayStation Lead Architect Confirms AMD FSR 4 Is Coming To PS5 Pro
Sony’s PlayStation 5 Pro is a mid-lifecycle upgrade for the aging PlayStation 5 (non-Pro), but it may have some important features added soon. Sony has worked closely with AMD on its graphics technology that powers its PS5 consoles, to a greater degree than first made evident. According to Mark Cerny, who spoke with Eurogamer, AMD’s FSR 4

Is Your Pixel Display Flickering After The March Update? Try This Workaround

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Is Your Pixel Display Flickering After The March Update? Try This Workaround
Google’s March Pixel update is filled with loads of new features, and also a handful of bugs, apparently. Complaints are piling in over glitching display brightness, as well as audio and haptics that have seemingly developed a mind of their own. Rest assured Google is on the case with a fix for some if not all of the new issues. In the meantime,

DeepSeek Spurs Crazy Black Market Prices For NVIDIA RTX 50 GPUs in China

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DeepSeek Spurs Crazy Black Market Prices For NVIDIA RTX 50 GPUs in China
The general scarcity of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 series has created a market where GPUs are selling for insane prices at places like eBay. That’s not the only thing driving up the cost, though. Over in China, smugglers are making some serious bank by selling illicit GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards at highly inflated prices, spurred in large

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU Review: Dominant, No Compromise Performance

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU Review: Dominant, No Compromise Performance
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D: $699 MSRP The new Ryzen 9 9950X3D pairs AMD’s Zen 5 CPU architecture with 2nd Generation 3D V-Cache for enhanced gaming performance, higher clocks, and more overclocking headroom.   Great Overall Performance No Compromise Gaming Power Efficient Price Premium AMD announced a vast array of products back at CES earlier…

Hidden Backdoor Discovery Could Expose 1 Billion Bluetooth Devices To Hackers

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Hidden Backdoor Discovery Could Expose 1 Billion Bluetooth Devices To Hackers
Researchers have uncovered a proprietary undocumented command in Chinese manufacturer Espressif’s ESP32 chips that could be exploited to the detriment of billions of users.

The ESP32 chip allows connectivity through Wifi or Bluetooth and can be found in millions of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. At RootedCON, a notable Spanish cybersecurity

Musk Under Attack? Huge X Cyberattack, Tesla And DOGE Protests Say Yes

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Musk Under Attack? Huge X Cyberattack, Tesla And DOGE Protests Say Yes
If you were frustrated by an inability to doomscroll Xwitter on your lunch break, don’t worry, because you’re not alone. The site has been suffering intermittent connectivity issues all morning. What’s the deal? Did Musk forget to pay some bill? Has X’s famously skeletonized staff failed to keep the ship righted? Is the Internet at large dying?

According

Microsoft’s Next Xbox Could Be Even More Like A PC In A TV-Friendly Shell

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Microsoft's Next Xbox Could Be Even More Like A PC In A TV-Friendly Shell
The current console cycle is mature enough that rumors have begun swirling regarding the next generation. There’s already been some rumblings about the PlayStation 6, and now there’s some potential information about what the next Xbox will have in store for fans, by way of Windows Central’s Jez Corden.

During the XboxTwo Podcast, Corden

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Release Date And Stunning New Trailer Drops

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Death Stranding 2: On The Beach Release Date And Stunning New Trailer Drops
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach perhaps has become a bit of an afterthought, with so much attention on the speculation surrounding Grand Theft Auto VI and the sales success of Monster Hunter Wilds. However, the game has managed to recapture the zeitgeist after its latest trailer, which was directed by the legendary game developer Hideo Kojima

NVIDIA’s New Hotfix GPU Driver Fixes Black Screen Crashes And An Overclocking Issue

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NVIDIA's New Hotfix GPU Driver Fixes Black Screen Crashes And An Overclocking Issue
NVIDIA’s team of driver engineers continue to try and eradicate reported black screen issues on its GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards, and perhaps earlier generation models too. We’ve seen these efforts play out in the past several driver releases, including both regular ‘Game Ready’ releases and also out-of-band hotfixes. Pertaining to

Google Will Enable Android Phones With Ability To Run Debian Linux Soon

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Google Will Enable Android Phones With Ability To Run Debian Linux Soon
Hidden away among the hullabaloo of Google’s March Pixel feature drop lies a feature many enthusiasts and developers have asked for years—the Linux Terminal app. This Debian-based Linux environment is now available for Pixel phones with the latest stable update. This means users can load a portable desktop distro on their smartphones—can you

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, 5060 And 5050 Mainstream GPU Specs Leak

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NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, 5060 And 5050 Mainstream GPU Specs Leak
The overall GPU market for gamers is in a bit of a sorry state at the moment, with demand far outpacing supply (unless you’re shopping prebuilts) and high partner pricing (let along greedy scalpers) plaguing product launches. We’re not here to beat that dead horse, though—everyone knows the situation by now. Ignoring all that, there are more