We are nine days out from Christmas and 15 days out from the new year, so while you are (hopefully) getting all your Christmas shopping and shipping done, it is time to start thinking about your resolutions for 2024. Folks will have different priorities of course, but working towards being more healthy and fit is a noble goal for virtually

Source: Hot Hardware – Great Holiday Home Gym Deals For Your New Year’s Health Resolution

Unless you have a GeForce RTX 40 series GPU or you’re a really big fan of mediocre fantasy games, you probably haven’t had much experience with frame generation technologies. Suffice to say that we’re fans around here. While AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution is a fair (if somewhat inferior) competitor with NVIDIA’s DLSS, the company’s FSR

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Releases FSR 3 Source Code On Github, Why This Matters For Gaming

Google has invested heavily in artificial intelligence research over the past decade, and it paid off when researchers developed transformer algorithms in 2017—then it did nothing with it. Transformers are the underlying technology for all the fancy new generative AI applications. It was caught flatfooted when Microsoft integrated ChatGPT,

Source: Hot Hardware – A Hyper-Advanced ‘Pixie’ AI Assistant Is Reportedly Headed To Google’s Pixel 9 Phone

NASA was able to capture a striking image of a massive solar flare being emitted from the Sun on Thursday, which was so powerful that it caused a radio blackout in parts of the Americas. The flare, classified as an X2.8 flare, is the most powerful recorded since 2017.

According to reports, the explosion more than likely caused a fast-moving

Source: Hot Hardware – Angry Sun Erupts Strongest X-Class Solar Flare In Years Knocking Out Radio Comms

in a recent filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Adobe disclosed that it has been cooperating with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as the agency investigates the software maker’s subscription cancellation policy. If the FTC finds that Adobe violated the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act, it could

Source: Hot Hardware – Adobe Braces For A Big Fine As FTC Investigates Subscription Cancellation Policy

Pat Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, claims that NVIDIA’s AI dominance it currently enjoys thanks to CUDA will come to an end sooner rather than later. The comments were made during Intel’s launch event in New York for its new 5th Gen Xeon and Core Ultra chips.

Gelsinger believes the future of AI will hinge on inference technology instead of training,

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Fires AI Shots At NVIDIA, Wants To Crush The CUDA Market

After a family of GPUs are released, some models stay the same without much ado for the lifetime of the product. Typically, higher-end models such as NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 will get special treatment with unique enthusiast versions. Lower-priced GPUs are also fair game, such as the GeForce RTX 4070 and GeForce RTX 4060. 

MSI wants to

Source: Hot Hardware – MSI Revives Its Single-Fan Cyclone Series Starting With An Overclocked GeForce RTX 4060

Naughty Dog has officially put a nail in the coffin of the highly-anticipated The Last of Us Online video game. In a press release, the studio commented, “There’s no easy way to say this: We’ve made the incredibly difficult decision to stop development on that game.”

The studio, established in 1994 and exclusive to PlayStation, added that

Source: Hot Hardware – Naughty Dog Axes The Last Of Us Multiplayer For PS5, Can You Guess Why?

Over the past few years, if you have been paying any attention to Twitch, there has been a marked trend toward body-positivity or sexualized livestream content, depending on your worldview. Whether or not this is a good thing we will leave it as an exercise to the reader, but regardless, Twitch is leaning into the trend by building leniencies

Source: Hot Hardware – Twitch Responds To Topless Stream Backlash With Clarified Rules On Sexual Content

This is the best time of the year to be a PC gamer. Why is that? Depending on your job, you may find yourself with time off from work to finally tackle that humongous backlog of games you’ve been meaning to play. Also, however, this is when digital distribution platforms go hard with seasonal sales. Epic Games (which is on a high after defeating

Source: Hot Hardware – Epic Holiday Sale Is Live With A Free Alan Wake Game Deal, 33% Off Coupon And Tons More

Instagram is going to be giving creators on the platform a helping hand when it comes to managing their communities, alongside assistance to help them keep their account in good standing. Over the coming weeks creators will get access to a suite of tools that include improved spam detection and in-app notifications of any content that may

Source: Hot Hardware – Instagram Rolls Out Much-Needed Tools To Bury Spammers In Meta’s Backyard

Huawei has revealed a different take on the open-air earbud by adding some high fashion, professional flare along with flagship features to it. Called the FreeClip, Huawei utilizes a unique “C-bridge” design that allows the earpiece to stay secured in (but not into your ear canal) and around your ear. If you don’t mind wearing something that

Source: Hot Hardware – Huawei Unveils Unique Wireless Earbuds That Don’t Actually Go Inside Your Ear Canal

While gamers have been distracted by the recent GTA 6 teaser trailer, there is some more exciting news on the horizon concerning GPUs that are crawling in. As NVIDIA’s current GeForce RTX lineup matures, GPUs such as the GeForce RTX 4090 continue to be slightly illusive to find in the marketplace at (or close to) MSRP. Gamers may be more tantalized

Source: Hot Hardware – NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4080, 4070 Ti And 4070 Super GPUs Launch Dates Allegedly Revealed

NASA is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its Orion spacecraft making a spectacular reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. The feat was part of the Artemis 1 mission that completed a 1.4 million-mile journey around the Moon.

NASA’s Artemis 1 mission was the first in a series of missions that is aimed at putting human boots back onto the

Source: Hot Hardware – Watch NASA’s Thrilling Video Of Its Orion Spacecraft Coming In Like A Fireball

Meta Quest 2, 3 and Pro headset owners are going to see a big boost to the games available to them with the newly announced support for Xbox Cloud Gaming. In order to access this new feature Quest users will need to download the Xbox Cloud Gaming (beta) app from the Meta Quest Store. They will also need to have a Microsoft account and an active

Source: Hot Hardware – Xbox Cloud Gaming Just Leveled-Up Meta’s Quest VR Headsets

Today is the day that Intel’s initial Meteor Lake CPU lineup becomes official and as is always the case for these types of launches, OEM system builders and hardware partners are at the ready with a barrage of product announcements. It’s no surprise, then, that Acer is rolling out several new products, one of which is the Predator Triton Neo

Source: Hot Hardware – Acer Predator Triton Neo 16 Gaming Laptop Flexes Meteor Lake Muscle, RTX 40 Graphics

As you may have heard, today is launch day for Intel’s Core Ultra processors, likely better known by their codename, Meteor Lake. These parts are not only Intel’s first disaggregated design, but also the company’s first CPUs to include a bespoke Neural Processing Unit (NPU) designed to accelerate AI processing. Naturally, Lenovo is updating

Source: Hot Hardware – Lenovo’s Latest Laptops Tap Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs To Drive New AI Experiences On PC

If you’re a regular HotHardware reader, we probably don’t have to explain to you that Intel’s new Core Ultra processors launching today were codenamed Meteor Lake, and that they represent not only Intel’s first “disaggregated” consumer CPUs built from disparate tiles, but also the debut of Intel’s “Intel 4” process technology.

We’re not

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake Mobile CPUs Launch With Gaming Grade iGPU And AI Brawn

Razer and Lexus sounds like an unlikely partnership, right? Well, this concept gaming vehicle may change your mind. Simply dubbed the Razer Lexus TX, it shows off what happens when you combine luxury with serious gaming aspirations on-the-go.

Revealed at the 2023 Esports Awards Show in Las Vegas recently, the Lexus-Razer gaming vehicle

Source: Hot Hardware – Razer Turns A Lexus TX Into A Luxury Gaming Vehicle With RGB, Do You Dig It?

AMD has responded to recent concerns surrounding overclocking on Ryzen Threadripper 7000 CPUs, specifically how AMD’s built in a piece of hardware to detect if overclocking has ever been enabled, and how that could impact warranty coverage. AMD reached out to Tom’s Hardware to clear the air and assured users that overclocking would not totally

Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Sets The Record Straight On Threadripper 7000 OC Warranty Terms And Blown Fuses