Sophisticated gentlemen of the gaming world know trouble when they see it. Having been battle-tested in the era of the great GPU shortage, where dwindling supply went to please the crypto-currency machine, the red flags once again are raised. The mighty NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 has been spotted potentially undergoing mass transformation from

Source: Hot Hardware – Why China Is Ripping Out GPUs From Thousands Of GeForce RTX 4090 Graphics Cards

Scientists using the Telescope Array in Utah detected the second highest-energy cosmic ray ever. The singular subatomic particle was equivalent to dropping a brick on someone’s toe from waist height.

The Telescope Array comprises 507 surface detector stations arranged in a square grid located outside of Delta, Utah. It has been utilized

Source: Hot Hardware – A Mysterious Cosmic Ray From Beyond The Galaxy Hit Earth And Scientists Are Stunned

Hey, have you gotten the memo—Black Friday deals are live! Of course you have because you can’t hardly visit a website without being hammered over the head with Black Friday bargains. That includes us (hey, we gotta eat too!). But before you mentally check out of the sales festivities, do yourself a solid and check out these gaming laptop

Source: Hot Hardware – Alienware Gaming Laptop With RTX 4070 Is 0 Off And More HOT Black Friday Deals

The last thing you want to do with your swank gaming PC is to saddle it with second-rate peripherals. Sorry, but that generic two-button mouse that was a blue-light special at K-Mart is not going to cut it for competitive gaming. What will cut it, however, are any of several purpose-built gaming mice that are on sale for Black Friday. Whether

Source: Hot Hardware – Level-Up With Gaming Mouse Deals Up To 74% Off From Logitech, Razer, Corsair And More

‘Tis the season to be jolly about Black Friday discounts on pretty much everyt product category that exists. Naturally, not all deals are created equal. One that certainly stands out, however, is a big saving on Sony’s PlayStation 5 game console. With a little bit of luck and legwork, you can snag one with a disc drive for $150 below the MSRP.

How

Source: Hot Hardware – How To Score A PlayStation 5 For Just 0 And More PS5 Black Friday Deals

AMD’s Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards are based on the RDNA 3 architecture, and if you keep up with hardware news, you’ve probably heard of RDNA 3.5. That revision to the RDNA 3 design is not coming to discrete GPUs, though; it’s strictly for integrated graphics. Instead, AMD’s next Radeons will be based on RDNA 4. Little is known about

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD’s Next-Gen RDNA 4 GPUs For Radeon RX 8000 Graphics Cards Break Cover

If you’re reading this site, you’re almost assuredly aware of the impressive GPT-4 language model, the basis of recent versions of ChatGPT as well as Bing Chat. OpenAI’s GPT family of AI models are only one of many different language models, though. Anthropic’s AI Claude is a similarly-capable language model in comparison to GPT-3, but it

Source: Hot Hardware – Anthropic’s Claude AI Chatbot Is Now Nearly 2X More Capable Than ChatGPT

NASA caught a frickin’ laser beam from 10 million miles away and the space agency finds it groovy baby. No, the near-infrared laser beam was not from Dr. Evil’s deep space lair, but rather from NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment.

During its journey to the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the Psyche spacecraft

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Caught A Laser-Beamed Message Sent To Earth From 10 Million Miles Away

Like a band of seductive sea nymphs tempting sailors to change course, retailers are luring gamers with Black Friday discounts on games for every major platform. Only instead of using alluring voices to ultimately steer anyone to a rocky demise, retailers are singing the song of savings to prevent gamers from paying full price (gross!) for

Source: Hot Hardware – Game On! Huge Black Friday Deals On PS5, Xbox And Switch Titles Are Live

One of the best trends in tech over the past several years is big screen TVs getting increasingly bigger and less expensive. Underscoring that fact like an emphatic dunk at the end of a basketball game that’s a blowout is Hisense and its retail partners unloading its absolutely monstrous 100-inch U8K television for $7,000 below its original

Source: Hot Hardware – Hisense 100-Inch 4K HDR Mini LED TV Hits A New Low Price For A Massively Good Deal

It’s one of the arguments of the age: like Coke vs. Pepsi, Apple vs. Samsung, or Nike vs. Adidas, the choice of Xbox or PlayStation is a highly contentious one. There are a lot of factors that fans take into account, but arguably the biggest one is simply your choice of controller layout; where Xbox pads have the left stick far and the right

Source: Hot Hardware – Huzzah! Steam Finally Embraces Sony’s DualSense Game Controllers

Amazon typically offers a wide array of excellent deals in the lead up to Black Friday, but it offers some of the deepest discounts on its own products. Such is the case with the family of Fire TV products that are marked down up to 50% off at the moment.

Kicking things off, we have the headline deal in this series with the Fire TV Stick

Source: Hot Hardware – Fire TV Streaming Device Deals Up To % Off Cook Up Big Savings For Black Friday

Dell Inspiron 16 Plus (7630) Notebook (Starts at $999, as tested $1,249) The affordably-priced Dell Inspiron 16 Plus offers plenty of productivity and gaming performance, and doesn’t sacrifice on battery life. Solid productivity performance Good gaming performance Big, fast display with wide viewing angles Excellent battery life  Beats…

Source: Hot Hardware – Dell Inspiron 16 Plus Laptop Review: Understated Beauty And Brawn

If you’ve ever watched a review of a fancy car showcasing a hidden fridge in the rear seat, we’ve got something more impressive to show you. ASUS has recently shown off its unique NVIDIA Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, complete with a built-in M.2 SSD slot. Even If one is not impressed with the paltry 8GB of VRAM onboard, you now at least have one

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD Graphics Card With A Built-In M.2 Slot Is Official

Early last year, an obsolete part of a Chinese space rocket crashed into the lunar surface, leaving behind two visible craters. A team of researchers from the University of Arizona found definitive proof it caused the duo of craters and that it also had an undisclosed payload.

The event was unique in that most lunar impacts caused by space

Source: Hot Hardware – China Slammed A Rocket With A Secret Payload Into The Moon Causing Multiple Craters

It’s only fitting that one of the big discounts for Black Friday applies to Samsung’s biggest gaming monitor, an absolutely monstrous 49-inch display with drool-worthy specs. Don’t worry if you don’t have the space or desire for such a dominating display, though, because we’ve rounded up a bunch of Black Friday discounts on a wide range of

Source: Hot Hardware – Go Big With With Samsung’s 49″ OLED Monitor For 0 Off And More Gaming Display Deals

NVIDIA has found its golden goose in AI chip design, which contributed heavily to another massive spike in revenue during the company’s third quarter of fiscal 2024—it tripled year-over-year to $18.12 billion. That’s also a sizable 34% gain from the previous quarter and a new quarterly revenue record, and it led to a huge profit of more than

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA Crushes Earnings On Monster AI Chip Demand And Big Gains In Gaming

For those who have an Apple lover on their holiday shopping list, there are more than a few Black Friday deals going on. From iPads to MacBooks to accessories, get a bite of an Apple product to satisfy anyone’s taste buds.

Apple iPad 9th Generation

The Apple iPad 9th gen comes with an A13 Bionic chip, a 10.2-inch Retina display, and

Source: Hot Hardware – 10th Gen iPad Falls To Lowest Price Ever For Black Friday Plus More Great Apple Deals

As you’ll know if you’ve been reading our deals posts recently, this Friday is Black Friday. The infamous day of deals heralds the beginning of the holiday shopping season. If you have kids, then you probably already know what they want as gifts, and there’s a pretty good chance it’s video games.

Actually, that would be a pretty darn decent

Source: Hot Hardware – Study Reveals What Kids Want Most For The Holidays And You Won’t Be Surprised

Black Friday might not be here yet, but there are a plethora of good CPU deals already going on. Several of AMD and Intel’s most popular chips, like the Ryzen 7 7800X3D and Core i5-13600KF are discounted significantly at the moment, with prices dropping by as much as 20%. Cooler prices have also dropped quite a bit, so we’ve taken the liberty

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel And AMD CPU Prices At Amazon Are Falling In Early Black Friday Deals