Generally speaking, the two best times of the year to buy a TV are the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, which is still a few months out, and right now when retailers trip over themselves shoving Black Friday bargains out the door. Driving home this point, TCL is serving up some excellent deals on big screen televisions ahead of the actual

Source: Hot Hardware – TCL’s 85-Inch TV And 5.1 Soundbar Bundle For 69 Is A Steal And More Early BF Deals

Most of AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 8000 series processors will be based on the company’s next-generation Zen 5 processor architecture, and that’s a big deal because by all accounts, Zen 5 is going to be a major redesign of the Zen CPU core. Earlier leaks have put Zen 5 down for a 10-15% IPC increase, but the most recent leaks seem to indicate a

Source: Hot Hardware – Ryzen 8950X Zen 5 CPU Benchmark Scores Allegedly Break Cover And They’re Really Good

If you’re dropping anything over $300 on a sweet gaming monitor like Dell had for sale recently, then there are still a few good options out there, including those from Titan Army. This is a Chinese monitor brand that’s been making waves in its home continent for its aggressive pricing on feature-filled monitors. Titan Army has now found its

Source: Hot Hardware – Titan Army’s Fast IPS Gaming Monitors Storm Amazon With Killer Specs At Great Prices

It’s almost impossible to imagine it now, but city builders were once PC gaming royalty with Maxis’ SimCity 2000 moving over 4 million copies. These days, the mantle of SimCity has almost entirely been handed off to Colossal Order’s Cities: Skylines. That game just got a sequel, but unfortunately instead of the wide acclaim that publisher

Source: Hot Hardware – Cities: Skylines 2 Autopsy Reveals The Reason For Its Terrible Performance

OnePlus is mere weeks out from the launch of its first foldable, the OnePlus Open, but the company has more up its proverbial sleeve. The flagship OnePlus 12 is still expected to appear this year, and leaks are already painting a picture of a powerful Android smartphone. After learning a bit about the device’s camera, we’ve now also gotten

Source: Hot Hardware – OnePlus 12 Filing Reveals Impressive Battery And Charging Specs Ahead Of Launch

Washington D.C.’s Mayor Muriel Bowser announced a new initiative involving Apple AirTags to combat a rise in car thefts in some neighborhoods. Free AirTags will be distributed to residents who live in areas where car thefts are on the rise in the coming months.

It is not often that a headline involving Apple’s AirTags is positive. Apple’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Why Washington D.C.’s Police Force Is Giving Away Hundreds Of Apple AirTag Trackers

ASUS has announced a new ChromeOS tablet with detachable keyboard—called the CM30—that looks to target the rugged environs of schools, home, and frontline workplaces. This new tablet also promises greater performance, endurance, and sustainability that should bring the fight to the likes of the excellent Lenovo Chromebook Duet 3.

Taiwan-based

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS Unveils Durable 2-In-1 Chromebook CM30 Detachable With 12-Hour Battery Life

The trend in modern hybrid microarchitecture design is to pair high performance cores for heavy lifting, with lower power cores for lighter duty workloads. Going this route allows chip makers and designers to balance performance with power efficiency, and it’s worked well in various ARM-based designs as well as Intel’s Alder Lake and Raptor

Source: Hot Hardware – MediaTek’s Dimensity 9300 Goes All-In With Big Cores For Next-Gen Android Phones

Google and Epic Games head to court this week in a battle over whether Google’s digital payment processing system in its Play Store has been illegally increasing prices for consumers and developers. The epic battle begins with Google still embroiled in a US antitrust trial.

Last week, Google posted an open letter addressing its legal issues

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Faces Epic Legal Battle With Fortnite Creator Over App Store Antitrust Allegations

There’s nothing more satisfying than ingesting tiny morsels of rumors before a new graphics card release. Sure, games such as Alan Wake 2 have hype aplenty, but you’ll need some beefy hardware to run it. Wild speculations have been recently piling up concerning NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX Super refresh. The most tasty of these tidbits comes from

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA’s GeForce 40 Series Super GPUs Could Debut At CES 2024

Honda has released a new compact e-scooter meant for city travel, recreational sightseeing, and campus cruising, as long as the rider does not mind looking like they’re riding a giant sim card on wheels. Or a briefcase. Or a giant Square accessory, or…well, you get the idea.

Remember the Honda Motocompo from the early 80s? It was a tiny

Source: Hot Hardware – Honda’s 5 Motocompacto E-Scooter May Look Dorky But There’s A Good Reason Why

We’re into the second week of November and, as expected, retailers have begun pumping out early Black Friday bargains like they’re going out of style. If you’re ready to jam out to savings as well, then check out these deals we’ve rounded up on various audio gear, including some sweet discounts on wireless Beats and AirPod products.

Topping

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple AirPods And Beats Buds Are Just And Other Early Black Friday Deals

The M3 Pro-powered Macbook Pro 16-inch benchmark results have surfaced inGeekbench 6 database, and the results have been received somewhat negatively. It’s roughly as fast as the M2 Max and only a little faster than the M2 Pro, which is in stark contrast to Apple’s “scary fast” marketing. Expectations for the brand-new M3 chips are high based

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple’s M3 Pro Mac Chip Posts Surprisingly Mixed Early Benchmark Results

The Taurid meteor shower kicks off the month of November for skywatchers. At its peak, the Taurid meteor shower is expected to showcase about ten meteors per hour, with the Leonids meteor shower following shortly after with an estimated ten to fifteen per hour.

The Taurid meteors consist of two streams, the South Taurids and North Taurids.

Source: Hot Hardware – November’s Taurid Meteor Shower Spectacle To Display Up To Ten Fireballs Per Hour

Apple’s brand-new M3 processors are due to arrive soon, to supplent their M2 predecessors, and according to semiconductor analyst Jay Goldberg taping out the new chips cost Cupertino a pretty penny. In fact, the total cost to get the three M3 chips to the manufacturing stage may have hit roughly $1 billion. If that’s true, it means Apple is

Source: Hot Hardware – Analyst Reports Apple’s M3 Tape-Out Cost Alone Was A Cool Billion

In case you weren’t aware, VMware operates a security arm called Carbon Black. On Halloween, Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) announced that it had found 34 different vulnerable Windows drivers that had firmware access. To be clear, that’s 34 unique filenames; the actual number of different driver files is 237.

What do we mean

Source: Hot Hardware – Security Researcher Finds 34 Windows Driver Flaws That Allow Full Takeover

Microsoft Exchange has quite a storied history of security vulnerabilities and breaches given its widespread usage in the corporate world. While there has not been much news regarding Exchange for a while, the Zero Day Initiative has found four vulnerabilities that, while not absolutely critical, could still pose a risk for opportunistic threat

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Exchange Security Flaws Could Put User’s Data At Risk

A tiny device that’s well known amongst the hacking community, known as the Flipper Zero, is wreaking havoc for some iPhone users. The device can be utilized for DoS (Denial of Service) attacks and spam all nearby iPhones.

Infosec user Jeroen Van der Ham noticed while on a train ride that his and other people’s iPhones were receiving the

Source: Hot Hardware – This Tiny Device Renders iPhones Useless In A Nonstop DoS Attack Over Bluetooth

We’re already several days into the month of November and you know what that means, right? Well yes, a fowl feast is right around the corner. But this is also the time of the year when companies start promoting Black Friday (and later, Cyber Monday) deals. It’s more of a Black Friday season, really, as opposed to just a single day of sales.

Source: Hot Hardware – Google’s Great Pixel 7a Is Only 4 With This Limited Time Deal

There are plenty of gamers who are having a blast in Alan Wake II, a survival horror game with bone-crunching system requirements (particularly if you want to play at a 4K resolution with max settings and ray tracing on high). If you’re having performance issues while playing the game, you may need to dial back the settings (see our Alan Wake

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA GPU Hotfix Driver Solves Alan Wake 2 Performance Woes, BSODs And More