Losing a phone or other mobile device can be a pain, especially if you don’t have any tools like Apple’s FindMy at your disposal. This pain doubles when you find yourself in the middle of nowhere on a camping trip with no cell signal to help you in the search. However, there is a trick that you could use to help locate the missing device,

Source: Hot Hardware – Use This Wi-Fi Trick To Find Your Smartphone While Camping With No Cell Coverage

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Super rumors are coming at us faster than ever – signifying something may be coming. The popularity of the existing GeForce RTX 4080 has been tepid at best, with gamers avoiding the $1,199 MSRP GPU. While this lukewarm GPU market is not exactly calling for another $1,000+ gaming behemoth, the “Super” variant of

Source: Hot Hardware – GeForce RTX 4080 Super Leak Seemingly Provides Clarity On What GPU NVIDIA Will Use

A new leak suggests that Apple may be aiming to shake things up a bit with its Apple AirPods over the next couple of years. The thought is the Cupertino-based company could launch two sets of fourth-generation AirPods next year to combat low sales of the iconic earbuds.

Apple AirPods were first announced in 2016 alongside the iPhone 7 and

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple AirPods Tipped For A Major Overhaul Inside And Out Starting In 2024

A team of scientists utilized a combination of space and ground-based telescopes, including NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, to identify a neutron star merger that created the second-brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen. The observation also helped scientists detect the chemical tellurium in the aftermath of the explosion.

Called a kilonova,

Source: Hot Hardware – A Violent Star Collision 1B Light Years Away Created Rare Heavy Elements And NASA Saw It

Alan Wake 2 is just on the horizon, and its bone-crushing recommended spec sheet doesn’t so much recommend powerful hardware as much as it does demand it. Even the minimum requirements to run the game call for pretty midrange GPUs, and that’s just to play at 1080p and 30 FPS with DLSS or FSR enabled. The recommended specs for playing the game

Source: Hot Hardware – Run Alan Wake 2 At Max Setting With This Under ,500 Gaming PC Build Guide

How would you like an Intel-powered mini-PC that combines a dual-drive network-attached storage (NAS) and two 2.5 GbE Ethernet ports? The Aoostar R1 seeks to be your answer to be your all-in-one media server and is available now for as low as $269 (via the Amazon link below).

Have you ever looked at your home server/network/storage setup

Source: Hot Hardware – This Sub-0 Mini PC Is Also A NAS Box And 2.5GbE Router Rolled Into One

Up until now, ASUS has resisted releasing a GeForce RTX 40 series graphics card as part of its TUF White series. That just changed, however, with the introduction of the TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti White OC Edition with a dazzling “draped in moonlight” aesthetic. Just be sure to keep a can of compressed air and/or a cleaning cloth handy.

ASUS

Source: Hot Hardware – ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Gets A Stunning White Makeover

OnePlus is slowly building up the hype with the OnePlus 12, touting that the 2K panel on the soon-to-be-released device is so awesome that it broke 18 DisplayMate test records. Exaggeration or truth, let’s try to break down the facts from hearsay.

Shenzhen-based OnePlus seems to be pulling all the stops with the display on its upcoming

Source: Hot Hardware – OnePlus 12 Shatters 18 DisplayMate Records With Its Super Bright 2K Display

Apple TV+ is home to some legitimately great content, not the least of which is Ted Lasso, For All Mankind, and The Morning Show. The series Severance, winner of two Emmy awards, is worthy of binging as well. It also felt like a steal at $6.99 per month plus frequent promotions (and a free trial if you’re new). However, Apple just quietly

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Jacks Up The Price Of Apple TV+, Arcade And These Other Subscriptions

Artificial Intelligence is bleeding into every facet of technology, especially those that have to do with mundane life tasks and grunt work. One such example of this Google demonstrated five years ago when the company showed AI booking hair appointments and dinner reservations, with humans on the other end of the line. Most recently, though,

Source: Hot Hardware – The US FCC Is Gearing-Up With AI To Fight Relentless Junk Robocalls And Texts

Qualcomm revealed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 at long last this week, at its Snapdragon Summit in scenic Hawaii. We expect to see this chip powering most of the high-end Android phones and tablets that launch over the coming year, beginning in just a few weeks with an unnamed Qualcomm partner. Naturally, Qualcomm says this SoC reaches new heights

Source: Hot Hardware – Early Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Benchmarks Show A Sizeable Performance Lift

Are you a Skyrim fiend? Do you have thousands of hours in Bethesda’s fantasy magnum opus, and long for more to do in the land of the Nords? Well, good news. Now you can conquer Skyrim in Age of Empires 2, thanks to an expansive custom map by creator /u/Grouchy_Bluejay4511.

If you’re not an AoE2 player, then you might not be aware that the

Source: Hot Hardware – Play Skyrim Like A Strategy Game With This Age Of Empires 2 Custom Map

Noctua has updated its product roadmap, revealing that several of its upcoming fans and CPU coolers have been delayed yet again. That includes the highly anticipated second-generation NH-D15 dual tower cooler. Previously, Noctua’s next-gen D15 cooler was announced to arrive as early as Q4 of 2023; Noctua’s updated roadmap now shows that it

Source: Hot Hardware – Noctua’s 2nd Gen NH-D15 CPU Cooler Looks To Be Delayed Again

Despite consumers complaining that Apple devices are a pain in the neck to repair, Apple has announced that it will back a US right-to-repair bill. The bill is part of President Biden’s attempt to promote competition and end “junk fees” and other actions that increase the price of products for customers.

Apple’s decision to back the right-to-repair

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Emerges As An Unlikely Ally In Push For Federal Right To Repair Legislation

Although Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 is the star of the show when it comes to showcasing the next generation of smartphones and their performance, a processor can only do so much on its own. Fast memory is required to give such a cutting-edge chip the leg room it needs to perform, and to that end Micron and SK hynix have announced

Source: Hot Hardware – Micron And SK Hynix Push Blistering 9.6Gbps LPDDR5X For Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Phones

The launch of a new CPU can often range from being exciting, to the purely mundane in some cases. When that CPU is accompanied by an entirely new chipset, expectations are raised even further.  One important item that sometimes can be overlooked by consumers in the midst of the excitement on release day is the issue of compatibility with existing

Source: Hot Hardware – Here’s The Latest On LGA 1700 Cooler Compatibility With Intel’s Next-Gen Arrow Lake CPUs

TP-Link is pushing out a new Wi-Fi 7 router, the Archer BE550 (model BE9300) that it hopes will put upgrading to the latest wireless protocol “within affordability range of the typical tech consumer.” That doesn’t mean it’s cheap—you’re looking at dropping $299.99 for this thing. But it’s at least on par with high-end routers, and substantially

Source: Hot Hardware – TP-Link Unveils A Bleeding-Edge Wi-Fi 7 Wireless Router At A Surprising Price

NASA has collected a small amount of the rock and dust sample that its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought back from the asteroid Bennu. However, it is having a bit of trouble accessing the rest. That’s because the team is having issues loosening two of the 35 fasteners on the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM).

The space agency

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Knows Space But Is Still Figuring Out How To Open Its Asteroid Sample Container

Motorola has unveiled a concept phone that makes us wish for the future to come sooner. Indubitably, the showpiece for the no-name device is the bendable display that can be shaped into a few variations to fit the needs of the user, such as being worn on a wrist or propped up for video calls.

With phone manufactures slowly, but surely perfecting

Source: Hot Hardware – Motorola Concept Phone Twists Like A Pretzel So You Can Wear It Like A Smartwatch

It seems as though everyone and their uncle is making gaming monitors now, and before you shout, ‘Yeah, but not Thermaltake!’, well guess what? It does as well. Thermaltake’s introductory gaming displays actually broke cover a few weeks ago, but now they’re formally announced. There are two of them, one of which is a 27-inch display while

Source: Hot Hardware – Thermaltake Makes Gaming Monitors Now And The Specs Look Pretty Good