XGIMI is having a huge sale on several of its projectors with deep discounts a week ahead of Black Friday. As part of the sales bonanza, XGIMI is offering up its “best pricing ever” for both Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with massive markdowns by as much as $900 (or $1,200, if going by the stated MSRP). Let’s get into it, shall we?

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Qualcomm is looking to bring more features to mid-range Android devices with the launch of its Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Mobile Platform. The company says that the design of its new platform focuses on bringing an even better balance between performance and power efficiency while improving the SoC’s AI capabilities, making these features accessible

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 Brings A Huge AI Uplift To Affordable Android Phones

Intel’s first-generation chiplet processors, code-named Meteor Lake, will include an entire chiplet (or “tile”) dedicated to graphics. Intel has made some big promises about the graphics horsepower of its Meteor Lake processors. Today we’ve seen the first GPU benchmark of any kind for Meteor Lake, and the results are indeed promising.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Meteor Lake iGPU Goes Toe-To-Toe With Radeon 680M In Early Benchmark Run

Here’s an announcement that can be filed under “unexpected.” After previously refusing, Apple has confirmed it will add RCS support to the iPhone, giving Android users the ability to send feature-rich messages to Apple’s smartphone. The days of green bubble discrimination are finally coming to an end. However, Apple stresses that iMessage

Source: Hot Hardware – Crabby Apple Finally Caves On Bringing RCS Text Support To iPhone

AMD CPU overclocker Bill Alverson, who goes by the handle Sampson, set several CPU performance records on Wednesday with his overclocked Threadripper Pro 7995WX. The 96-core processor is based on AMD’s Genoa family, which also powers the regular Threadripper 7000 lineup and 4th Generation EPYC CPUs. These records were set with air cooling,

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Threadripper Pro 7995WX 96-Core Obliterates Benchmark Records On Air Cooling

Please Valve, take my money and let me buy your Steam Deck OLED, thought numerous gamers as they try to get their hands on Valve’s newest release. With some headaches along the way, it appears unfortunately, that this is a a tall order currently. If you’re old enough to remember the great GPU shortage of the early 2020s (we hope you are),

Source: Hot Hardware – Gamers Scramble To Buy Steam Deck OLED But Are Met With Frustration

You hear it said all the time: one of the best reasons to own a Steam Deck is for emulating classic games. The Steam Deck is fundamentally a PC, but despite this, you’ll rarely hear anyone talk about playing classic PC games on it. The reason is simple: the Steam Deck’s primary controls are gamepad-based, and enjoying old PC games with a modern

Source: Hot Hardware – DOS_Deck Plays Retro PC Games Like Heretic In Your Browser With Full Controller Support

Teenagers who reside in countries where they are able to manage their own Google Account will finally be able to access Google’s Bard AI chatbot. This is according to Tulsee Doshi, who is Head of Product within the Responsible AI team at Google. Initially, Bard will only be available in English, with more languages to follow down the line.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Why Google Is Reversing Course And Allowing Teens To Access Its Bard AI Chatbot

Ransomware gang BlackCat, otherwise known as ALPHV, is after the public spotlight following the Reddit data breach debacle earlier this year. Now, the group has breached another organization with MeridianLink and is causing a stir by filing a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to try and spur action. While this may

Source: Hot Hardware – Ransomware Gang Adds Insult To Injury By Reporting Victim’s Security Breach To The SEC

As Black Friday nears, Samsung is giving consumers an early treat with stellar promotions on a few of its flagship devices. Whether consumers require a smartphone, smartwatch, or speedy laptop, Samsung has them covered.

Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra Smartphone
The Samsung S23 Ultra is one of Samsung’s premiere smartphones, at least for a couple

Source: Hot Hardware – Score Huge Bonus Offers On Galaxy S23 Ultra, Z Fold5 And More With These Early BF Deals

Who doesn’t want to play Alan Wake 2 with maxed-out path and ray tracing, right? If you happen to be a mobile gaming enthusiasts, you may even wish to do so from the comfort of your hotel room. With the current generation of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series laptops, this feat is surely possible. While the mobile version of the GeForce RTX 4090

Source: Hot Hardware – Will NVIDIA Launch More RTX 40 Series Laptop GPUs? Major PC Vendor Spills The Beans

NVIDIA and Microsoft are teaming up to offer an AI foundry service, it was announced at the annual Microsoft Ignite conference. This new service is designed to assist in the development of generative AI applications by startups and enterprise users that are deploying on Microsoft Azure.

“Our partnership with NVIDIA spans every layer of

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA And Microsoft Team Up On An Exciting Generative AI Foundry Service

Kids today have no concept of stuffing a pocket full of quarters and heading to the local arcade. Sure, there are outfits like Dave & Busters, but they’re fewer and far between than the heyday of arcade gaming (plus it’s not the same experience loading up and tapping a card). While those days may be gone forever, you can turn your basement

Source: Hot Hardware – Mortal Kombat And More Arcade Cabinet Deals Up To 0 Off, Who Needs Quarters?

There is nothing more satisfying than seeing a familiar face that you’ve known for years, like a good friend. If you count your PC as one of your friends, then you may have owned a version of the ultra popular Lian Li Dynamic O11. Introduced in 2018, this case design has undergone several variations. There is the standard size, a mini version

Source: Hot Hardware – Lian Li And PCMR Collab On A PC Case To Showcase Your Building Skills

Microsoft renamed Bing Chat to Copilot in what the company says is an attempt to unify the Copilot experience for consumer and commercial customers. However, many believe it was more about trying to invigorate people’s interest in its AI-enabled product.

As the AI war heats up, companies are looking for any way to make their products stand

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Says Farewell To Bing Chat And Hello To Copilot As AI Wars Heat Up

European astronomers using data gleaned from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found an exoplanet that not only has water vapor and sulfur dioxide in its atmosphere, but also silicate clouds that eventually falls as sand rain. Not so great if you left your car parked outside.

JWST has brought us many wonderous observations of objects

Source: Hot Hardware – Forget Cats And Dogs, NASA’s Webb Telescope Found A Planet Where It Rains Sand

As with the departure of a dear friend, anytime one’s favorite graphics card takes its final curtain call, there is cause for reflection. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 series GPUs have enjoyed quite a storied history since their initial release. Coming hot off the trail of the egregiously frustrating GPU shortage that preceded it, gamers were

Source: Hot Hardware – Oh Super, NVIDIA Reportedly Halts Mass Production Of GeForce RTX 4080 And 4070 Ti GPUs

Epic Games is empowering gamers with a new tool in an ongoing effort to mitigate bullying, harassment, discrimination, and generally toxic behavior. Effectively immediately, Fortnite players can submit audio recordings to report gamers who cross the line and run afoul of Epic’s community rules. This is in addition to existing mechanisms that

Source: Hot Hardware – Fortnite Adds Voice Reporting To Combat Toxic Gaming Trolls, How It Works

There are a variety of PC hardware components that can exude a feeling of joy and excitement by the mere mention that something new may be coming. While gamers have recently been enthralled with the possibility of a new lineup of NVIDIA GeForce RTX Super GPUs, we have news of some future PCIe cables, too. 

No, gamers aren’t suddenly becoming

Source: Hot Hardware – PCI-SIG Reveals New CopprLink Naming Scheme For PCI Express 6.0 And 5.0 Cables

Cooler PCIe 5.0 SSDs might finally be on the horizon with Silicon Motion’s new SM2508 SSD controller. With a maximum TDP of 3.5 watts, SSDs build on this new controller should run considerably cooler than Phison’s PS5026-E26 controller rated for 5 watts, and running at 1.5 watts lower power draw could make a really big difference for thermals.

Source: Hot Hardware – Silicon Motion Teases Low Power PCIe 5.0 SSD Controller Ripping Reads At 14.5GB/s