While all the major celestial events for October have passed, there is no reason not be prepared for what is yet to come. Between binoculars and telescopes with smartphone integration, you can snag a deal on some great space-observing gear on Amazon to ensure you are ready for any meteor showers, lunar eclipse, or whatever else may be going

Source: Hot Hardware – Here Are Some Deals On Clever Ways To Capture Celestial Events Day Or Night

Google Maps is getting infused with more AI features to make using the app more intuitive when planning and navigating trips. The new features aim to help users make more eco-friendly choices, while inspiring more things to do along the journey.

During its I/O event earlier this year, Google announced that it would launch Immersive View

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Maps Will Be Infused With AI For A Better Understanding Of Your Journey

There’s nothing we like more than surprises, especially when they are accompanied by potential new products from Apple. This October 30th at 5pm Pacific Time, we have an unusually timed night event. Apple plans to hold its “Scary Fast” announcements for its lineup of Mac computers. It will be streamed on their website as an online event, unlike

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple’s Scary Fast October Event Looms Near, Here’s What To Expect

It seems like every few days we’re getting interesting tidbits about NVIDIA’s possible upcoming graphics card lineup. No, we’re not yet at the GeForce RTX 50 series – but looking at the “Super” variants instead. The well-known leaker kopite7kimi has revealed a potentially interesting set of specs for these GPUs. 

If you’re unfamiliar with

Source: Hot Hardware – Alleged NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super, 4070 Ti Super, 4070 Super Specs Revealed

Though Android 14 may be Google’s baby, it does not appear to be playing nice with Google’s Pixel phone lineup. On Reddit and in Google’s issue tracker, users who upgraded to Android 14 on Pixel devices are reporting that they are losing all data after their phones get soft-bricked by the update in a “ransomware-esque” fashion. The only connecting

Source: Hot Hardware – Alarming Android 14 Storage Bug Locks Users Out Of Phones, Which Pixels Are At Risk

A dog is man’s best friend, or in the case of Boston Dynamic’s robot dog Spot, everyone’s best tour guide. The company utilized ChatGPT to create multiple personalities for Spot that uses a Virtual Question Answering (VQA) model or captioning model to describe various objects in the environment, and then elaborate on those descriptions using

Source: Hot Hardware – Zoinks Scoob! Boston Dynamics Spot Robot Dog Just Learned To Talk With ChatGPT

If you’re a frequent visitor of our site, then you may have caught our all-out PC build guide for playing Alan Wake 2 at max settings. One thing we didn’t touch on, however, is the display—we kept the focus on the game’s bone-crunching hardware requirements, particularly at the high end. It’s an expensive build for sure, which is all the more

Source: Hot Hardware – Dell’s Sweet 34-Inch 144Hz Curved Gaming Monitor Is Available On A Killer Deal

It’s a pain point for any system builder: you spend the time to coordinate parts that will look good together, and then you go to wire it all up and it doesn’t matter because even with good cable management your aesthetic is still ruined by the heavy cable bundles required for power and data connections.

A few companies have started to

Source: Hot Hardware – MSI Unveils Project Zero Motherboards With Hidden Connectors For AMD And Intel PCs

When we saw the system requirements for Remedy’s Alan Wake II, we knew this game was going to be a PC system smasher. Of course, we already knew that—the game supports path-tracing, also known as full scene ray-tracing, and we’ve already tested that feature extensively in Cyberpunk 2077, so we’re familiar with how heavy it can be on…

Source: Hot Hardware – Alan Wake II Performance And Visuals: Bring Your Biggest GPU

There are games out there that gamers drool over with anticipation to an extraordinary degree. Then there’s Grand Theft Auto VI, which seems to have rocketed into the stratosphere in the minds of eager gamers everywhere. This is where both PC and console gamers are jointly united, hoping to one day finally sit down and experience what Rockstar

Source: Hot Hardware – GTA 6 Rumors Spiral Out Of Control As Latest Leak Suggests A Bonkers Price Tag

Qualcomm revealed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 this week, delving into myriad new AI-enhanced features. Among them was Zoom Anyplace, a camera capability designed for Samsung’s 200MP image sensors. Qualcomm didn’t have much to say about ISOCELL Zoom Anyplace, but Samsung sure does. Samsung isn’t naming names, but this feature is almost certainly

Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Flaunts 200MP Zoom Anyplace Wizardry, Tips Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 For Galaxy S24

In a recent demo, Intel showed off its upcoming Meteor Lake CPU running Dying Light 2 on the chip’s integrated Xe graphics. This demo compared how the game ran on the processor at a native 1080p resolution versus running the game at 720p with XeSS upscaling it to 1080p. Although the demo focused on how much higher the framerate was with XeSS

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch Meteor Lake’s Arc iGPU Run Dying Light 2 Smoothly With XeSS

The Leica M11-P is the first camera in the world designed specifically to combat AI deepfakes. It stores metadata in line with the Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) to ensure better protection of copyrights and safeguards the trustworthiness of publications.

In the world of photography, professionals have been locked in a battle to

Source: Hot Hardware – How Leica’s M11-P Camera Combats AI Deepfakes For Photographers With Deep Pockets

The newest gaming laptops have put up some mightily impressive numbers that approach high-end desktops. While the GPU is certainly at the forefront of the excitement, a strong CPU is a prerequisite to complete the package. The heavy hitting NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 laptops typically come packed with the 13th generation Intel Core i9-13900HX

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Core i7-14700HX Benchmarks Confirm Raptor Lake Refresh Is Headed To Gaming Laptops

After a month in beta, Valve has finally released SteamVR 2.0 for all users in the Steam VR ecosystem. This update brings some new features, updates, and upgrades over the previous version of SteamVR while also increasing SteamVR’s modernity to align with the recent Steam platform update earlier this year.

The SteamVR 2.0 update has brought

Source: Hot Hardware – SteamVR’s Long Awaited 2.0 Update Is Here With A Bunch Of Improvements And Bug Fixes

Jupiter will accompany this weekend’s Hunter’s Moon as the duo parade across the night sky together. The Hunter’s Moon gets its name from the Algonquin Native American tribe and was used to remind native American cultures that it was time to hunt and store up meat for the winter.

The October Hunter’s Moon might also be called the Falling

Source: Hot Hardware – Full Hunter’s Moon Will Bring Jupiter Into View, How To Watch The Spooktacular Event

This is the last weekend before Halloween, which means stores will fully pivot from spooky decorations to Thanksgiving and Christmas-themed displays (which are already up, naturally). Before that happens, however, you can bolster your PC games library with some scary titles. Additionally, Blizzard Entertainment is hosting a free trial of Diablo

Source: Hot Hardware – Score Evil Within 2 And More Spooky Games For Free Plus A Diablo IV Trial

The launch of the Ryzen 3000 series in 2019 led not just to a dramatic rise in the performance of AMD CPUs, but also temperatures. Since then, it hasn’t gotten any better—the latest Ryzen 7000 series has even pushed the normal operating temperature to 95C, so that the flagship Ryzen 9 7900X and 7950X could run at full bore. The heat won’t

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Explains Why Future Ryzen Chips Might Run Hotter in Wide-Ranging Interview

There has been a lot of talk about Arm encroaching onto x86 territory (more so than it already has), especially on the heels of Qualcomm unveiling its Snapdragon X Elite platform, which is perhaps the biggest threat to x86’s dominance to date. Don’t tell that Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, though. While addressing Intel’s latest earnings, Gelsinger

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Shrugs Off ‘Insignificant’ Arm As Q3 Earnings Beat Smokes Expectations

If you follow technology news much at all, you’re probably familiar with the latest iteration of the GPT line of AI models, known simply as GPT-4. At its heart, GPT-4 is a large language model with billions of parameters, able to converse in many languages on almost any topic. GPT-4 is so smart that it can ace the SAT, overcome the BAR exam,

Source: Hot Hardware – AI Breakthrough Leaves ChatGPT In The Dust With Human-Like Cognitive Capabilities