Gamers can look forward to several quality-of-life tweaks to Fortnite’s various game modes. Battle Royale, Fortnite Festival, Rocket Racing, and LEGO Fortnite will all be seeing improvements in several areas with the latest patch. This will be the final update that is scheduled for this year, with the next set of changes already under development

Source: Hot Hardware – Fortnite Patch Brings Epic Balance Changes, Faster Movement And Much More

Where there’s smoke you’ll usually find fire, and there is a whole heck of a lot of smoke signals pointing to NVIDIA getting ready to launch several more GeForce SKUs in the near future. Most of the upcoming GPUs are rumored to be part of a Super refresh for some of its GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards. However, there’s also chatter of

Source: Hot Hardware – GeForce RTX 3050 With 6GB GDDR6 Launch And Affordable Pricing Details Breaks Cover

Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft has received a new launch date and time, and you can watch live. New Shepard is the space company’s reusable suborbital rocket system designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the recognized boundary of space.

Mission NS-24 was initially scheduled to launch yesterday, but Blue Origin posted

Source: Hot Hardware – Blue Origin Is Blasting Off To Space After A Yearlong Hiatus And You Can Watch Live

DDR5-compatible desktop motherboards are about to support higher capacities thanks to new memory technologies, and ASRock and MSI are already showcasing their boards running with 256GB of RAM. The increased memory capacity is made possible thanks to Kingston’s new Fury Renegade RAM sticks, each of which come with 64GB of Micron’s latest DDR5.

Source: Hot Hardware – ASRock And MSI Motherboards Get A 256GB Memory Boost, How Much RAM Do You Need?

Apple will stop all sales of its Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in the US beginning later this week. The decision by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) is currently under review by the Biden Administration, which must decide by December 25, 2023 whether to veto the decision.

The ITC made its decision in the case in

Source: Hot Hardware – Why Apple Just Halted All Apple Watch Series 9 And Ultra 2 Sales

ChatGPT and large language models, in general, are making their way into every facet of life, finding applications in education, research, content creation, and much more. Now, LLMs are being used for chatbots to replace humans, for answering common questions, but this solution may not be as simple as it seems. Folks have begun to abuse these

Source: Hot Hardware – Car Buyer Hilariously Tricks Chevy AI Bot Into Selling A Tahoe For , ‘No Takesies Backsies’

Nothing short of surprising, Carl Pei might have a Nothing phone to show the world during the next Mobile World Congress (MWC) in 2024. Small, but pertinent details have leaked about a mid-range device called the Nothing Phone 2a and it looks like it could be a winner. That is, if Pei and company can keep the price competitive with other options

Source: Hot Hardware – Nothing Phone 2a Specs And Photos Leak Months Ahead Of MWC 2024 Unveil

Google is giving its Stadia Controllers a reprieve from becoming e-waste by extending the deadline for the ability to switch it to Bluetooth mode. The new deadline for owners of the controller is now December 2024, an extension of one year from the prior deadline of December 2023.

It’s a big deal as there are quite a few of these devices

Source: Hot Hardware – How To Switch Your Stadia Controller To Bluetooth Before Google’s New Deadline

Give credit to Valve for popularizing handheld gaming in the PC space, a realm that was mostly concentrated on Nintendo’s various portable consoles (Switch, Game Boy, etc) before the Steam Deck arrived. Almost overnight, PC gaming handhelds became a viable category. It’s still early, with the Steam Deck and ASUS ROG Ally being the primary

Source: Hot Hardware – A New Gaming Handheld With Rage Mode Is Coming To Battle The ROG Ally

A mystery involving missing tomatoes onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been solved. The yearlong tomato conundrum began after NASA astronaut Frank Rubio lost track of two tomatoes grown in space while harvesting for the eXposed Root On-Orbit Test System (XROOTS).

According to NASA, the XROOTS investigation uses hydroponic

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Solves Yearlong Mystery Of Missing Tomatoes On ISS And Shares Saucy Photo

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 is currently the most powerful consumer GPU on the market. Class-leading power, however, often comes with some drawbacks. First, the GeForce RTX 4090’s $1,599 MSRP is steep by any measure. Secondly, the GeForce RTX has a hefty 450W TDP, which has resulted in issues with its 12VHPWR connector. 

To deal with this

Source: Hot Hardware – Are Today’s GPUs Too Heavy? Popular Repair Shop Details PCB Cracks In RTX 4090 Cards

A Scottish couple has completed a 10-month long journey from the magnetic North Pole to the South Pole in an EV (electric vehicle). The husband and wife veteran adventurers wanted to prove that a mostly-stock EV—in this case, a Nissan Ariya e-4Force—was more than up to the arduous 18,000-plus mile task.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Nissan’s Ariya Just Became The First EV To Trek 18K Miles From North To South Pole

The iPhone is by far Apple’s most popular product, but the Cupertino giant will look to make 2024 a banner year for other devices, too. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company is going to focus on AirPods, Apple Vision Pro, and Apple Watch. Meanwhile, the iPhone will remain mostly the same as the prior year’s model and only receive

Source: Hot Hardware – Why 2024 Could Be A Huge Year For Apple Beyond Launching New iPhones

With the holidays upon us, a game could be a great gift for someone, or for yourself, looking to get away from it all for the holiday break. With this in mind, Gift of Games (GOG) has spun up its winter sale, netting up to 90% off on up to 6000 titles through January 4th. We have pulled out a few of these stellar deals below, but there is

Source: Hot Hardware – Thousands Of PC Games At GOG’s Winter Sale Offer Amazing Deals For Holiday Fun

The holiday shopping season is nearly over, but there are still many great deals for the audiophiles out there if you know where to look. We are here to help though, and have pulled together an array of deals on earbuds from popular brands like Beats, Bose and others…

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Beats Studio Buds feature two listening modes: Active

Source: Hot Hardware – Beats Studio Buds Are Nearly 50% Off And Other Great Earbud Deals At Amazon

Xiaomi has been somewhat secretive regarding the POCO X6 Pro 5G, but some details have been exposed in a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing, which hints at bits like RAM, storage and charging. Crucial information like CPU and camera packages are still under wraps, but the FCC certification might have some clues for us in

Source: Hot Hardware – Xiaomi POCO X6 Pro 5G Breaks Cover At The FCC With RAM, Storage, Charging Specs

You might have heard that Intel’s Core Ultra CPUs (codenamed Meteor Lake) are actually out and available now. That’s true; you can order a laptop with one right now, if you’d like. There are some reviews out around the web, but obviously we recommend waiting for our own coverage before you make any purchasing decisions. One thing we can tell

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel’s Meteor Lake Arc iGPU Has Quality Gaming Chops And Here’s Proof

In a move designed to enhance the privacy of user data, Google is changing how some data is stored in Google Maps. The company remarked in a blog post that the change will store data from a user’s Timeline locally on their actual phones, instead of Google’s cloud.

The company says it wants users to “spend less time worrying” about their

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Stands Up For Privacy, Kills Access To Maps Location Data And Police Warrants

Time flies folks, and if you don’t believe it, consider that it’s already been 10 years OnePlus burst onto the mobile scene. The culmination of a decade on the market is another flagship product, the OnePlus 12, which made its debut in China earlier this month (on December 5). What about a global release? Mark your calendars for next month.

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Source: Hot Hardware – OnePlus 12 Flagship January Launch Revealed In Fireside Chat