Samsung’s new Odyssey Neo G9 Gaming monitor is utterly massive, sporting a whopping 57-inch screen size, lighting fast 240Hz refresh rate, and an extremely high 7680 x 2160 UHD to match. But good luck trying to run it at its maximum potential on some of the best gaming graphics cards on the market. Quasarzone has confirmed that the monitor

Source: Hot Hardware – GeForce RTX 4090 Found Unable To Hit 240Hz On Samsung’s Odyssey Neo G9 Gaming Monitor

Intel’s next generation of desktop processors is almost assuredly going to be a refresh of its extant Raptor Lake silicon. We say “almost” because Intel hasn’t officially announced anything of the sort, but given all of the leaks up to this point, it is all but a forgone conclusion.

According to those same leaks, the top-end Core i9-14900K

Source: Hot Hardware – Leak Reveals MSI Motherboard With ‘Beyond 6GHz’ OC Setting For Raptor Lake Refresh

We are mere weeks away from the unveiling of the Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro, not that there’s much left to reveal. The phones have leaked multiple times, and Google has even confirmed their existence. There’s no official word on pricing yet, but there’s another leak to take care of that. According to an alleged Google promo graphic, the

Source: Hot Hardware – Google Pixel 8 And Pixel 8 Pro Price Leak Points To A 0 Bump For This Phone

Apple’s Senior Vice President of ML and AI Strategy, John Giannandrea, testified during Google’s antitrust lawsuit that pointed to a relatively unknown feature in iOS 17 concerning an iPhone’s default search engine options. The Cupertino-based company has found itself smack dab in the middle of a lawsuit brought against Google by the Department

Source: Hot Hardware – Apple’s AI Chief Lets Slip A Secret iOS 17 Search Setting During Google Antitrust Trial.

If you’re reading this site, you probably are well familiar with the controversy over the 12VHPWR connector used on NVIDIA’s recent graphics cards. This connector is a smaller-scale twelve-pin plug that can provide up to 600 watts of power over a single, smaller bundle of wires compared to the old-school 8- and 6-pin connectors. Unfortunately,

Source: Hot Hardware – Early Tests Look Promising For New 12V-2×6 GPU Power Connector Even When Not Fully Seated

Nonprofit NGO National Student Clearinghouse handles student data reporting and exchange, serving 3,600 universities and 22,000 high schools around the United States. However, being “the leading provider of educational reporting, data exchange, verification, and research services” would make the organization a rather interesting target for

Source: Hot Hardware – Clearinghouse Gets An F- Grade For Data Breach Affecting Nearly 900 US Schools

Later this week, sky watchers will be privy to the last supermoon of 2023 and its being a Harvest Moon. The Harvest Moon will be accompanied by two planets shining brightly in the night sky, Saturn and Jupiter.

A Harvest Moon denotes the time of year when the full moon has unique characteristics. One of those is that for mid-latitudes in

Source: Hot Hardware – How To View This Week’s Super Harvest Moon, The Last Supermoon Spectacle Of 2023

Try to hold back your surprise but Apple might not be the right-to-repair champion you hoped it might become, even after recently penning a letter in support of California’s proposed right-to-repair bill. This is evidenced in a teardown of the iPhone 15 Pro Max. While not without some redeeming qualities, replacing parts in the iPhone 15 Pro

Source: Hot Hardware – iPhone 15 Pro Max Slammed In Teardown Analysis Over Apple’s Draconian Repair Rules

For the record, Intel has never once said that its Meteor Lake architecture will be exclusive to laptops. However, it has now gone on record stating the exact opposite, confirming in no uncertain terms that its 14th Gen Core processors will indeed launch in desktop form after breaking ground with its mobile chip lineup. Fear not, this isn’t

Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Reveals When Meteor Lake CPUs Will Land On Desktop

New York’s mayor just approved another robotic initiative to keep citizens safe while supposedly cutting costs for human law enforcers. The new robot called K5 is undergoing trials right now.

Mayor Eric Adams and the New York Police Department (NYPD) have let loose a 420lb robot to patrol Times Square subway station. It’s a trial run that

Source: Hot Hardware – NYPD Is Deploying 400Lb Security Robots To Patrol The Streets But Not Like In Robocop

India’s Chandrayaan-3 Moon lander has yet to respond to its wake-up call from its location in the lunar south pole. However, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) says the failure to answer is “not the end of the story for Chandrayaan-3 mission.”

Chandrayaan-3 launched on July 14, 2023, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota,

Source: Hot Hardware – India’s Chandrayaan-3 Lunar Fails To Respond To ISRO Wake-Up Call

In the movie Field of Streams, Amazon heard a voice saying, “If you build it, they will come.” Okay, it was actually Field of Dreams (based on the novel Shoeless Joe) and Kevin Costner’s character Ray Kinsella who heard, “If you build it, he will come,” (not “they”). But hey, you say ‘Tomato’, we say ‘Check out these new Fire TV Stick 4K streaming

Source: Hot Hardware – More Powerful Fire TV Stick 4K Preorders Take Top New Release Spot On Amazon

Valve seems to have many moving pieces right now, between the upcoming launch of Counter-Strike 2, Steam Deck updates, and a 20th birthday celebration adding to the chaos. However, more subtly, in the background, updates are being pushed to Steam VR and the Steam Client that bring new VR-related features, UI elements, and more. Perhaps all

Source: Hot Hardware – Valve Software Updates Suggest Rumored Deckard VR Headset Is Launching Soon

NASA is making slight adjustments to the flight path of its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is scheduled to deliver a sample capsule from Bennu, an asteroid the size of the Empire State Building, back to Earth. The final correction maneuvers ensured the spacecraft lands in a predetermined area on the Defense Department’s Utah Test and Training

Source: Hot Hardware – NASA Readies Sample From Huge Empire State Building-Sized Asteroid For Earth Crash Landing

What games do you think of when you hear the term “MMO”, dear reader? Probably stuff like Final Fantasy XIV, World of Warcraft, or maybe Everquest if you’re an old geezer like your author. You probably don’t think of Niantic’s mobile augmented reality game Pokémon GO. Despite that, it almost assuredly qualifies. You’ve got a persistent game

Source: Hot Hardware – Here’s How To Beat And Catch The Cool Legendary Suicune In Pokémon Go

It seems everyone wants Apple’s new iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro, announced at last week’s Wonderlust event. At least, that’s the perspective that Apple would like to share with everyone. In years past, Apple routinely had huge lines at all of its retail locations at each new iPhone launch, but the company had been pushing customers to use

Source: Hot Hardware – iPhone 15 Launch Buzz Is Off The Hook With Long Retail Lines For Apple’s New Bauble

When you hear “super-sampling”, you have a certain expectation. Super-sampling is the oldest form of anti-aliasing, and it essentially amounts to just raising the render resolution. That’s the type of anti-aliasing that early GeForce and Radeon cards used, as well as the last 3dfx Voodoo boards.

NVIDIA’s DLSS, though, really has nothing

Source: Hot Hardware – DLSS 3.5 Tested: Ray Reconstruction In Cyberpunk 2077 Helps Path Tracing Shine

Amazon Prime customers will get an email soon telling them it will cost them extra if they want to continue watching shows on Prime Video without ads. The company says it must make the changes to Prime Video to continue offering compelling content to its customers.

Amazon Prime has been a must-have for many since its launch in 2005, with

Source: Hot Hardware – Amazon Prime Video Will Soon Cost Extra If You Want To Keep It Commercial Free

As it turns out, hotels, and by extension, the hospitality industry, are not the most secure organizations around despite handling personal information and credit card details. This is evident in the recent MGM Hotel breach or even further back with the 2022 social engineering of Marriott. Now, an infostealer campaign is hitting hotels, travel

Source: Hot Hardware – Sinister InfoStealer Campaign Sneakily Targets Hotel Guests, How To Protect Yourself

After what feels like ages and ages (but has really been less than two years), Microsoft is finally drawing near the finish line of its $68.7 billion dollar attempt to purchase Activision-Blizzard. The last roadblock, placed in the way of the acquisition by the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), is likely to be removed

Source: Hot Hardware – Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard Deal Scores An Extra Life With Preliminary UK Approval