Category Archives: Hot Hardware

Consoles Cringe As GTA V Gets Glorious Free PC Upgrades With Exclusive RT Features

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Back in March of 2022, we reported on the then “next-gen” update for GTA V that brought massive tech upgrades to the game while also delivering a solid amount of new content for the Online mode. Even back then, we wondered when this update would come to PC, and theorized that it could be a year or more. It turns out it was actually three years,

Google AI Co-Scientist Arrives To Turbocharge Scientific Research

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Google AI Co-Scientist Arrives To Turbocharge Scientific Research
Despite recent concerns over junk AI-generated science on Google Scholar, Google seems confident in AI’s involvement in scientific research. As such, the tech giant unveiled plans regarding an ‘AI co-scientist’ tool built on Gemini 2.0 that is capable of conducting scientific research and making discoveries. Google claims this AI tool can

Amazon’s App Store On Android Is Closing: When And What You Need To Know

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Amazon's App Store On Android Is Closing: When And What You Need To Know
Amazon announced it is shutting down its ‘Amazon Appstore for Android’ this summer as part of a broader effort to streamline and improve its services and programs. The app store was never nearly as popular as Google’s own Play Store anyway, but it does mean one less officially vetted (and generally safe, though not always) place to download

Radeon RX 9070 Listed On Amazon Doubles Down On Rumored Boost Clock

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Radeon RX 9070 Listed On Amazon Doubles Down On Rumored Boost Clock
As we get closer to the March launch of AMD’s Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT, more glimpses into the first consumer RDNA 4 GPUs are slowly leaking out. AMD is set to have an event on February 28th at 8 a.m EST to announce the new products. Ahead of that event, an early Amazon listing spotted by X user @momomo_us shows the boost clock

NVIDIA Priority Access May Be Your Best Shot To Score A GeForce RTX 50 Card

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NVIDIA Priority Access May Be Your Best Shot To Score A GeForce RTX 50 Card
Whether retailers want to admit it or not, you have almost no shot of a bagging a GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card against the barrage of bots and scalpers that swoop in whenever there’s an inventory refresh. Stock has been slightly better for the GeForce RTX 5080, but those are nearly impossible find at retail, too. In an effort to make it

Logitech’s Awesome G502 Wireless Mouse Is $70 Off And More Great Deals For Gamers

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Logitech's Awesome G502 Wireless Mouse Is $70 Off And More Great Deals For Gamers
There comes a time when the right thing to do is to put your gaming mouse out to pasture. Maybe the buttons stopped working and are beyond repair or perhaps it’s so old that kids with their fancy new mice have a competitive advantage in your favorite online shooter. You can level the playing field with a gaming mouse upgrade, and one of our

Telescope Captures ‘City-Killer’ Asteroid With A 1-In-48 Chance Of Hitting Earth

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Telescope Captures 'City-Killer' Asteroid With A 1-In-48 Chance Of Hitting Earth
The Gemini South telescope, commissioned over two decades ago, continues to contribute significant astronomical findings. On February 7th, it captured a new image of Asteroid 2024 YR4, which ultimately resulted in a revised projected probability of Earth impact to 1 in 48 by 2032, from the previously estimated 1 in 83. This observation was

iPhone 16e Arrives With USB-C, Face ID, A18 And Apple’s First 5G Modem

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iPhone 16e Arrives With USB-C, Face ID, A18 And Apple's First 5G Modem
At last, we have a new iPhone SE, except it’s not called the SE anymore. Apple has incorporated its latest fourth gen SE phone into the iPhone 16 lineup as the iPhone 16e. The name change is a smart one—with SE sales struggling to keep up with its flagship stablemates, slapping “iPhone 16” (in this case) onto the moniker may help boost the

iPhone 17 Air’s Ultra-Slim Design Leak Gives Off Serious Pixel Vibes

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iPhone 17 Air's Ultra-Slim Design Leak Gives Off Serious Pixel Vibes
Say hello to the iPhone 17 Air, or at least what it could potentially be. Yet another leak seems to corroborate previous mentions that Apple is slapping a horizontal camera visor on its next gen phones—in this case the Air. We might as well call it the Apple Pixel 9 Air, because the pill-shaped camera island (among other things) bears a remarkable

Micron Unveils 4600 PCIe 5 SSD To Turbocharge PCs With Speeds Up To 14.5GB/s

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Micron Unveils 4600 PCIe 5 SSD To Turbocharge PCs With Speeds Up To 14.5GB/s
It took a minute, but Micron has released what it is calling its “first Gen5 client SSD,” which primarily takes aim at OEM system builders. With sequential speeds rated at up to 14.5GB/s, it’s the fastest SSD in Micron’s stable, though the qualifier here is that it previously released multiple PCIe 5.0 SSDs under its Crucial brand, the newest

SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Takes Starlink Satellites To Orbit In Record-Breaking Style

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Takes Starlink Satellites To Orbit In Record-Breaking Style
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 first-stage booster for what would be a record-breaking 19th mission. The launch occurred just after midnight on December 23, 2023, and successfully added 23 Starlink satellites to its network constellation.

Starlink mission 6-32 launched from the Space Launch Complex 40 launchpad at Cape Canaveral

Source: Hot Hardware – SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Takes Starlink Satellites To Orbit In Record-Breaking Style

Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake Laptops Get A Big Performance Lift With BIOS Updates

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Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake Laptops Get A Big Performance Lift With BIOS Updates
Meteor Lake is the newest chip architecture off the ol’ Intel block and in the coming weeks, we anticipate a barrage of laptop reviews. A few have already found their way to the web, including our own Core Ultra review from a pre-production MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo machine. We were generally pleased with the overall performance, though if you

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake Laptops Get A Big Performance Lift With BIOS Updates