If you thought Chevrolet couldn’t make the C8 Corvette even more bonkers, out comes the highly anticipated (and divisive) 2024 Corvette E-Ray, complete with a hybrid powertrain and all-wheel drive (AWD). In other words, a Corvette that won’t run away from you in inclement weather, while making you feel good about helping the environment.

When

Source: Hot Hardware – 2024 Corvette E-Ray Is A Hybrid Juiced Speed Demon That’s Simply Gorgeous

After months of speculation, Intel today formally introduced its 14th Gen Core processors, otherwise known as Raptor Lake Refresh. Exactly as the name implies, this is a refresh of Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs, as opposed to a brand new architecture, which for consumers means the newly minted silicon can slip into existing 600- and 700-series

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Unveils 14th Gen Core Rocket Lake Refresh Processor Lineup

With Prime Day now gone, there are still a few left-over deals that net you savings on things to have around the house, such as speakers to blast some tunes. Whether you are doing some work, cleaning up, cooking, or anything else, having music in the background will make it go faster no matter what, and hopefully, JBL has you covered.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Leftover Prime Day Deals On JBL Speakers Up To 34% Off Is Music To Our Ears

Don’t fret if you missed out on Amazon’s recent Prime Day sales event because there are still a bunch of lingering deals. Moreover, it won’t be long before the Black Friday and Cyber Monday bargains begin rolling into view, which seems to happen earlier and earlier every year (think: early November through December). Deal events aren’t the

Source: Hot Hardware – A Great MacBook Deal Is Still Live For The Taking At Amazon

Whether you need to deck out a home office, spice up a gaming battle station, or enhance your workflow, adding an extra monitor or two will certainly do the trick. Thankfully, Amazon still has some left-over deals from Prime Day, which can net you some big savings on a number of Samsung monitors geared towards gaming or productivity.

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Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Office And Gaming Monitor Deals Up To 43% Off Left Over From Amazon Prime Day

It’s clear that Intel’s upcoming 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs aren’t far away (especially if recent retail listings are any indicator). Presumably that also means Intel’s motherboard partners are readying their boards for the impending launch. This definitely seems to be the case for MSI, which recently released a BIOS update with a new

Source: Hot Hardware – MSI Rolls Out Z790 Max Motherboard Feature That Lets Intel CPUs Sizzle

Highly anticipated video game releases are always exciting, even when we’re still in the rumor phase. If they are part of a dynasty, the story gets more intense. Enter Grand Theft Auto VI, the next installment of one of the most famous franchises in history. While the connoisseurs amongst you wait to hear about the story and gameplay, there’s

Source: Hot Hardware – Report Claims GTA 6 Graphics Are Going To Be Cutting-Edge And Gorgeous

The sky over North, Central, and South America will feature a celestial delight later today, as an annular solar eclipse creates a “ring of fire.” An annular solar eclipse differs from a total eclipse in that the moon is at the farthest point in its orbital path from Earth, keeping it from being able to completely block the sun.

According

Source: Hot Hardware – Here’s When And Where To Watch The Rare Ring Of Fire Solar Eclipse Today

It appears Amazon is having a fairly large sale on smart bird feeders with discounts slashing prices in half on some models. Should you buy one? It really depends on how seriously you take your bird-watching game. I’ve gotten by with dummy feeders to entertain my cats, who love to sit by the window and chirp back at their feathered invaders.

Source: Hot Hardware – Smart Bird Watching Feeders Are On Sale At Amazon Up To 50% Off

Have you been enjoying Counter-Strike 2, PC gamers? Despite the fact that the game has become Valve’s lowest-rated release ever (largely due to complaints from players who are no longer able to play it), it’s still been an enormously-successful launch for the company, with nearly a million players online and playing right now.

If you’re

Source: Hot Hardware – PSA: Don’t Enable AMD Anti-Lag+ In CS2 Or Valve Will Ban You For It

You want to get fat paid by Microsoft without having to sign a pesky employment contract? Just find a major security hole in one of the company’s many new AI-powered services. That’ll earn you a cash prize of between $2,000 and $15,000, depending on the severity and ease of the exploit.

To be clear, simply getting Bing to generate chat

Source: Hot Hardware – Trip Up Bing AI And You Could Score A ,000 Payday From Microsoft

Geekom Mini IT13 – Starting at $499 (Use Coupon Code hothardwareit13 For $40 Off). Sample we tested with Core i9-13900H, 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD currently $899 $789. A very compact system, which seems nicely built and excels in some workloads, but held back somewhat by slower DDR4 RAM and an occasionally distracting fan. …

Source: Hot Hardware – Geekom Mini IT13 Review: A Palm-Sized Intel 13th Gen Core i9 Mini PC

Cloud gaming has many advantages, such as lowering the barrier to entry to triple-A titles that require beefier and beefier hardware these days. However, one downside to this ecosystem is that there is a vast centralized dataset that could make for a rather juicy target for hackers. This is exactly what ShadowPC, a high-end cloud computing

Source: Hot Hardware – Cloud Gaming Service Discloses Data Breach Affecting Over Half A Million Gamers

One of the accouterments that accompany the “Art” of PC building is very simple: the cables. Sometimes, it’s because enthusiasts just want them to look ultra cool. Other times, it’s because they add a significant utility to the design of your build. That’s where CableMod enters, with their custom sleeved cables. Since the introduction of the

Source: Hot Hardware – CableMod’s Revised 12VHPWR Adapter Is Here And Free For Early Adopters, How To Claim

The UK has given its blessing to Microsoft to acquire Activision-Blizzard after the tech giant agreed to exclude cloud gaming rights from the deal. The new deal has Ubisoft acquiring cloud gaming rights instead of Microsoft.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had been the last hurdle that Microsoft needed to clear before closing

Source: Hot Hardware – UK Praises Microsoft’s Game-Changing Concessions And Greenlights B Activision Deal

The OnePlus Open is about a week out from launch and already it is dropping specs and taking names—the Open is now claiming that the Google Pixel Fold is too fat for your pants. 

While nothing official has been revealed by OnePlus regarding the Open’s physical dimensions, it hasn’t stopped reliable leaker Arsène Lupin (@MysteryLupin) from

Source: Hot Hardware – OnePlus Open Is About To Steal A Key Bragging Right From Google’s Pixel Fold

A new study reports two ice giant exoplanets colliding near a sun-like star, creating an astonishing afterglow in deep space. Astronomers were able to view the afterglow of light and plumes of dust as it passed in front of the parent star, dimming it over time.

An international team of astronomers came together after an enthusiast viewed

Source: Hot Hardware – Astronomers Capture Astonishing Afterglow Of Two Giant Planets Colliding In Deep Space

As consumers, we’ve been a little spoiled with RAM prices over the past few years. A continued overabundance of chips on the supply side kept retail prices steadily trending downward, even (and especially) for DDR5 kits, which were sky high (compared to DDR4) at the outset. Unfortunately, DDR5 and DDR4 kits are about to cost a bit more, according

Source: Hot Hardware – Don’t Panic But DDR5 And DDR4 Are Poised For Price Hikes, SSD Storage Too

Luxury game controllers are somewhat vogue these days with all the major platforms sporting fancy hardware, like the Microsoft Elite series and Sony’s DualSense Edge. SCUF is taking them both on with its new Envision, a new line of “groundbreaking” game controllers designed specifically for the PC with “unprecedented customization and cutting-edge

Source: Hot Hardware – SCUF Claims Its Groundbreaking Envision Controller Is So Good It Redefines PC Gaming

To appreciate the subject of this post, you’re going to have to take a trip back to 1993 with us. The gaming scene on the IBM PC had been growing rapidly for a few years, championed by graphics-heavy games taking advantage of the explosion of clones of the expensive Video Graphics Array (VGA) adapter. Gorgeous titles like Wolfenstein 3D and

Source: Hot Hardware – New Indie FPS Grind Gets Very Close To Doom On 1987 Amiga 500 OCS Hardware