Although AMD hasn’t said a single word on Ryzen 8000, we’re already getting more details on the first device confirmed to use a processor from the upcoming series: Minisforum’s 3-in-1 gaming tablet. The initial press release for the V3 focused primarily on the hardware (especially its Ryzen 8000 “Hawk Point” APU) but not so much on how it

Source: Hot Hardware – Minisforum Teases An AMD Hawk Point 3-In-1 Windows Tablet With A 165Hz Display

Don’t show this to your kids—Google Search and Lens can now solve advanced trigonometry, calculus, geometry, physics, and other science problems. Thanks to improved Search smarts, solving and visualizing challenging formulas or concepts are merely a click away.

Mountain View just made its Search and Lens capabilities more potent with a

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Smarty Pants AI Search Can Now Solve Your Trig, Calc And Geometry Problems

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured an enlightening image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant that is located 6,500 light-years from Earth. The Crab has been studied since as far back as 1054 CE by 11th-century astronomers.

The top image is a side-by-side comparison of the Crab Nebula as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Telescope Zooms In On A Crab Nebula, The Haunted Remains Of An Exploded Star

So here’s the deal—Black Friday and Cyber Monday discounts will arrive in earnest very soon. Retailers are in the habit of pushing out holiday bargains increasingly early every year, so barring a generous return or exchange window, you want to be careful on what you splurge on. That said, there are some tantalizing gaming laptop bargains if

Source: Hot Hardware – The Only Thing Scary About These Gaming Laptop Deals Up To 45% Off Is Passing Them Up

In a surprise move, Western Digital is splitting its hard disk drive (HDD) and flash memory storage businesses into separate companies, effectively spinning off its solid state drive (SSD) division. The move comes around the eight-year anniversary of when Western Digital announced plans to acquire SanDisk for $19 billion (the deal closed in

Source: Hot Hardware – Western Digital Spins Off Flash Memory Business After Kioxia Merger Talks Fizzle

All Hallows’ Eve might be when the kids go out trick-or-treating, but the night before — this night — is when we all bob for Apples. In a  spooky themed, online-only event, Apple CEO Tim Cook led a cavalcade of corporate VPs announcing a new family of processors named M3 and a series of Macs sporting the latest in Apple Silicon. Let’s dispense

Source: Hot Hardware – Scary Fast Apple Announces New M3 Chips With Updated MacBook Pro and iMac In Tow

Back at Innovation ’23, Intel announced that its Meteor Lake processors would be officially-launched on December 14th. Despite the fact that they haven’t made their debut, Intel’s first disaggregated CPUs have already appeared in a few places, including a handheld from Hong Kong as well as in some Lenovo laptops being sold in Bulgaria.

This

Source: Hot Hardware – Lenovo Yoga Laptops With Intel Meteor Lake CPUs Inside Pop Up At Retail

Another day, and another leaked Meteor Lake benchmark has appeared. This time, the data comes from a Geekbench 5 listing featuring the upcoming Core Ultra 185H CPU with 16 cores and 22 Threads. Though, unlike previous benchmarking reports of this chip, this time it put upf some impressive numbers, achieving similar performance to Intel’s outgoing

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel’s Core Ultra 185H Meteor Lake CPU Impresses In Early Multi-Threaded Benchmark

Since its inception, ChatGPT has been an incredibly useful tool to generate ideas and content, write code, or perform more menial tasks that can free-up humans for higher level tasks. Even Boston Dynamics integrated the tool with its robotic dog Spot recently, to enable it to “talk.” Now, OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT’s capabilities by allowing

Source: Hot Hardware – ChatGPT Tests Its Ability To Read And Interact With PDFs And Other File Uploads

Much has been made of AMD’s mobile SoC naming convention, but it’s really not that complicated. The first digit tells you what year it came out, the second digit tells you where it sits in the product stack, and the third digit tells you exactly which Zen CPU core it’s using. With that knowledge, we can accurately judge that a hypothetical

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Ryzen 8040U Mobile And 7000G Desktop CPUs Spotted Flexing Zen 4

Japanese researchers have successfully grown mouse embryos in space for the first time. While doing such a thing may sound pointless on the surface, it is vital to research if humans ever propagate during future space travel as we look to set foot on distant planets.

As space agencies continue to move forward with plans to one day have

Source: Hot Hardware – Researchers Grow Mouse Embryos In Space For The First Time, Why This Matters

One of the key indicators of how highly anticipated a video game title is can be found in the most mundane of details that are brought to light. For those waiting for Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto 6, even the tiniest of morsels containing potential hints at what the game may be like, is welcomed. While tempting rumors surrounding potential

Source: Hot Hardware – Take-Two Patent Hints At Exciting Animation Tech Headed To Grand Theft Auto 6

Google has found a way to utilize onboard active noise canceling (ANC) hardware to monitor one’s heart rate. Soon listening to Roxette crooning “Listen to Your Heart” on your Pixel earbuds will have a whole other meaning. 

A team of Googlers (across Google Health, product, UX, and legal departments) have come up with a novel way of using

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Researchers Find A Way To Turn Your ANC Earbuds Into A Heart Monitor

Racing fans, you’ll want to start tuning up your racing rig! EA Sports WRC is coming to your living room race track on November 3rd. Promising to be one of the the most ambitious titles for the rally racing genre, we can feel the drifts already! If you’d like to take a break from the likes of games such as iRacing, rally racing ups the visceral

Source: Hot Hardware – What Specs You’ll Need To Start Your Engines When EA Sports WRC Races To PC

Earlier this year, ASUS China detailed an upcoming model of the RTX 4060 Ti that was notable for including an M.2 slot for NVMe SSDs. Today, that GPU (officially titled the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 4060 Ti SSD) is finally hitting the shelves across Europe, and for a fairly reasonable price as spotted by leaker Momomo_us on X. While it may seem

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Concept Card With A Built-In SSD Slot Heads To Retail

In true Halloween fashion, a comet twice the size of Mount Everest and that earned the nickname the “Devil Comet” is heading toward Earth. The comet, which has a far less intimidating scientific name, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, has a short-period orbit around the Sun of about once every 71 years.

Comet Pons-Brooks’ first recorded detection

Source: Hot Hardware – A Menacing Devil Comet With Horns Made Of Gas And Ice Is Headed Towards Earth

Much to the dismay of gamers who own certain third-party controllers and peripherals, Microsoft has begun actively blocking unauthorized accessories on its Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S game consoles. If you own an affected product and try using it with your Xbox console, you may run into error code 0x82d6002, which means your device is

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft Bans Unofficial Game Controllers And Accessories On Xbox Console

Qualcomm’s latest darling, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, has barely hit the ground running since its unveiling last week and it’s already taking it up with its competitors. If this leaked performance benchmark against Apple’s A17 Pro is any indication, Android users may finally have some much-needed bragging rights.

San Diego-based Qualcomm revealed

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Battles Apple’s A17 Pro In Early Benchmarks

It’s only a matter of time before Intel introduces 14th Gen Core Raptor Lake Refresh processors for mobile (laptops) just it recently did on the desktop. We must be getting close, too, considering the leaked benchmark runs that are now popping up. The most recent one points to an upcoming ASUS ROG Strix Scar 16 gaming laptop outfitted with

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS ROG Scar Gaming Laptop Breaks Cover With A Core i9-14900HX And RTX 4090

Last week at its Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm revealed two new mobile platforms, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and Snapdragon X Elite, amidst a myriad of additional XR and Audio related announcements. Like its namesake, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is designed for smartphones and tablets (that typically run Android), and this latest iteration is updated,…

Source: Hot Hardware – Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Benchmarks: A Potential Game-Changer