Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 first-stage booster for what would be a record-breaking 19th mission. The launch occurred just after midnight on December 23, 2023, and successfully added 23 Starlink satellites to its network constellation.
Starlink mission 6-32 launched from the Space Launch Complex 40 launchpad at Cape Canaveral
Source: Hot Hardware – SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Takes Starlink Satellites To Orbit In Record-Breaking Style
Meteor Lake is the newest chip architecture off the ol’ Intel block and in the coming weeks, we anticipate a barrage of laptop reviews. A few have already found their way to the web, including our own Core Ultra review from a pre-production MSI Prestige 16 AI Evo machine. We were generally pleased with the overall performance, though if you
Source: Hot Hardware – Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake Laptops Get A Big Performance Lift With BIOS Updates
Love ’em or hate ’em, Intel’s decision to start shipping CPUs with both big and little CPU cores was a major turning point for the industry. Whether you realize it or not, AMD is already doing fundamentally the same thing. The company has several products shipping right now based on its “Phoenix 2” silicon that sports a pair of standard Zen
Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Promises To Reveal Detailed Specifications Of Its Hybrid Zen4C Processors
If you know anything about hardware emulation, you’ll expect that emulating the Nintendo Switch is a pretty tall task, and as far as it goes for “all hardware,” you’d be right. However it’s now possible to play a lot of Switch games on ARM64-based Android devices with better-than-real-hardware performance thanks to a new feature, the name
Source: Hot Hardware – Nintendo Switch Emulator Yuzu Gets A Huge FPS Performance Boost On Android
It appears as if the Samsung and Naver partnership to develop chips for hyperscale AI models is already producing results, with the companies claiming their field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solution is a whopping eight times more power efficient than anything made by NVIDIA. This is a bold claim, and will no doubt be put to the test when
Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Develops AI Chip With Naver, Claims It’s 8x Faster Than NVIDIA’s Best Silicon
It appears as if the Samsung and Naver partnership to develop chips for hyperscale AI models is already producing results, with the companies claiming their field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solution is a whopping eight times more power efficient than anything made by NVIDIA. This is a bold claim, and will no doubt be put to the test when
Source: Hot Hardware – Samsung Develops AI Chip With Naver, Claims It’s 8x Faster Than NVIDIA’s Best Silicon
MSI is preparing a big treat for fans of large and beastly gaming laptops. In the lead up to next month’s Consumer Electronics Show, MSI is offering some preliminary info on its upcoming Titan 18 HX, which as the model name suggests is an 18-inch gaming laptop. What the model designation doesn’t overtly reveal, however, is what makes the 18-inch
Source: Hot Hardware – MSI Teases Titan 18 HX Gaming Laptop With First-Ever 18-Inch 4K 120Hz Mini LED Display
MSI is preparing a big treat for fans of large and beastly gaming laptops. In the lead up to next month’s Consumer Electronics Show, MSI is offering some preliminary info on its upcoming Titan 18 HX, which as the model name suggests is an 18-inch gaming laptop. What the model designation doesn’t overtly reveal, however, is what makes the 18-inch
Source: Hot Hardware – MSI Teases Titan 18 HX Gaming Laptop With First-Ever 18-Inch 4K 120Hz Mini LED Display
Through 2022, the LAPSUS$ threat actor group went on a tear, breaching companies like NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, and Rockstar. The latter of these breaches resulted in quite a bit of game leaks related to GTA IV, revealing details that would later be confirmed in the official GTA IV trailer. Some, if not all, of the teens behind this group
Source: Hot Hardware – LAPSUS$ Teen Hacker Behind Massive GTA VI Leak Receives Indefinite Hospital Order
Through 2022, the LAPSUS$ threat actor group went on a tear, breaching companies like NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, and Rockstar. The latter of these breaches resulted in quite a bit of game leaks related to GTA IV, revealing details that would later be confirmed in the official GTA IV trailer. Some, if not all, of the teens behind this group
Source: Hot Hardware – LAPSUS$ Teen Hacker Behind Massive GTA VI Leak Receives Indefinite Hospital Order
NVIDIA’s high-end GPUs, including the flagship GeForce RTX 4090, have impressed with class-leading gaming performance. Of course, there’s a tradeoff for the leap in performance and capabilities versus previous generations, which manifests in a higher power draw and more portly cooling shrouds to keep temps at bay. This in-turn can translate
Source: Hot Hardware – CableMod Issues Safety Recall For Its Angled 12VHPWR Adapters, What You Need To Know
NVIDIA’s high-end GPUs, including the flagship GeForce RTX 4090, have impressed with class-leading gaming performance. Of course, there’s a tradeoff for the leap in performance and capabilities versus previous generations, which manifests in a higher power draw and more portly cooling shrouds to keep temps at bay. This in-turn can translate
Source: Hot Hardware – CableMod Issues Safety Recall For Its Angled 12VHPWR Adapters, What You Need To Know
The Ursid meteor shower will be the last chance to catch a falling star to wish upon for the wanted gift to be left under the tree on Christmas morning. That’s because the celestial light show is the final meteor shower of 2023, and it’s predicted to peak during the early morning hours of December 23, 2023.
The Ursids are a product of comet
Source: Hot Hardware – Ursid Meteor Shower Is About To Peak, How To Watch 2023’s Last Celestial Light Show
Beeper is throwing in the towel in its attempt to create a more seamless messaging experience between Android and Apple users. It simply became too difficult to continue to offer the service to users with Apple breaking the app’s functionality after every update. The company states that “each time that Beeper Mini goes ‘down’ or is made to
Source: Hot Hardware – Beeper Concedes Defeat To Crabby Apple In Blue Bubble Messaging War On Android
Google is adding some new bells and whistles to Chrome on the desktop that could potentially make the world’s most popular browser a bit faster and more secure. While these are not necessarily game-changing alterations, they’re significant enough that you may want to initiate a manual update rather than waiting for Chrome to automatically
Source: Hot Hardware – Chrome Update Tattles On Memory-Hogging Tabs And Bolsters Password Security
If you’ve read our review of Intel’s Meteor Lake, then you’ll be well aware that the company’s new Core Ultra processors offer impressive integrated graphics performance that trades blows with the Radeon parts integrated into AMD’s “Phoenix” APUs. Given that, it’s no surprise that Geekom’s next mini-PCs will offer your choice of Red or Blue
Source: Hot Hardware – Geekom Teases Intel Meteor Lake And AMD Hawk Point Mini PCs For A CES Unveil
It must be a Thursday, because there’s been another major data breach that affects millions of consumers and may force you to change passwords. The target of the latest attack was Comcast, which has confirmed that online criminals ran roughshod over its Xfinity servers for days before detection. The hack has reportedly exposed the data of
Source: Hot Hardware – Xfinity Tells Millions Of Customers To Change Passwords After Alarming Data Breach
When it comes to PC hardware, it is common knowledge that as technology advances, products quickly become obsolete. While enthusiasts always enjoy taking part in new advances, there is also a strong element of appreciation for longevity. If this longevity also continues to provide value and stellar performance over time, it hits the magic
Source: Hot Hardware – AMD Talks Socket AM5 Plans, Memory Scaling And More In Revealing Interview
So, you play HuniePop or another NSFW game on Steam but also still want your friends to see your games library to know what to get you for Christmas? Thankfully, Valve has your back with an update to Steam that allows you to mark individual games private rather than an entire library, as well as some handy features that enable efficient shopping
Source: Hot Hardware – Steam Privacy Update Lets You Hide Games On Your Naughty List, How It Works
Apple is looking to have its newest product, the Vision Pro headset, ready for launch in February according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. To meet this launch window manufacturers in China are currently working at “full speed” to ensure enough units are ready to go for customers eager to try out Apple’s newest offering.
Of course, it’s not
Source: Hot Hardware – Apple Vision Pro Headset Production Hits Full Speed To Hit This Launch Target