Microsoft Celebrates 20 Years Of Xbox With A Gorgeous Retro Translucent Controller And Headset

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [Microsoft Celebrates 20 Years Of Xbox With A Gorgeous Retro Translucent Controller And Headset]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 08, 2021 02:41 pm [Microsoft Celebrates 20 Years Of Xbox With A Gorgeous Retro Translucent Controller And Headset]( Certain events can make you feel old, like your kids growing up and getting married, or seeing a formerly young and sprightly actor appear gray and weathered in their newest flick. Life just relentlessly marches on. I bring this up because today brought on of those moments for me today—a reminder that the original Xbox is about to turn 20 [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake CPU Obliterates All Comers In Latest Leaked Benchmark]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 08, 2021 02:00 pm [Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake CPU Obliterates All Comers In Latest Leaked Benchmark]( At the risk of sounding like a broken record (probably too late), another leaked benchmark run serves to crank the hype dial on Alder Lake to 11 (or should that be 12, as in 12th Gen?). We've seen purportedly early Alder Lake CPU samples light up the pre-release benchmark charts before, and this latest one over at UserBenchmark throws down [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Rockstar's Remastered Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Is Real And Coming Soon To PCs And Consoles]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 08, 2021 12:26 pm [Rockstar's Remastered Grand Theft Auto Trilogy Is Real And Coming Soon To PCs And Consoles]( It took a minute, as well as a handful of leaks and rumors, but Rockstar Games has confirmed plans to release remastered versions of Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. All three will be packaged up into Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition (try saying that one time fast), [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Crypto Miners Found A Clever Workaround To NVIDIA's GeForce Hashrate Limiter]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 08, 2021 12:06 pm [Crypto Miners Found A Clever Workaround To NVIDIA's GeForce Hashrate Limiter]( The only things guaranteed in life are death, taxes, and that cryptocurrency miners will figure out a way to bypass restrictions that limit their efforts in the blockchain. To the latter point, even NVIDIA's Lite Hash Rate (LHR) technology is proving no match for resourceful miners. Following up on a previous workaround to partially bypass [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Proposed Ransomware Law Would Add Insult To Injury For Hacking Victims]( By Tim Sweezy on Oct 08, 2021 11:16 am [Proposed Ransomware Law Would Add Insult To Injury For Hacking Victims]( Ransomware attacks are on the rise, and it may feel like there is no recourse for many victims. A new law has been proposed in the United States by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congresswoman Deborah Ross to attempt to address that, but with an added dilemma. The new law, the Ransomware Disclosure Act, would require businesses to disclose [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Apple Watch Series 7 Preorders Now Open, Here's What To Know Before You Buy One]( By Tim Sweezy on Oct 08, 2021 10:58 am [Apple Watch Series 7 Preorders Now Open, Here's What To Know Before You Buy One]( Starting today you can preorder the Apple Watch Series 7. The latest-generation smartwatches are being touted by Apple as being heavy on features and light on price. Are they really? Let's have a look. The Series 7 brings with it the largest and most advanced display on an Apple Watch thus far. The borders have been reduced by 40 percent [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Adata Sets DDR5 Overclocking Record By Cranking Its XPG RAM To DDR5-8118]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 08, 2021 10:35 am [Adata Sets DDR5 Overclocking Record By Cranking Its XPG RAM To DDR5-8118]( Next-generation DDR5 memory is not even out in earnest yet for consumers, but that has not stopped Adata from pursuing overclocking records...with its own RAM, of course. Adata has taken one of its 16GB DDR5 memory kits that is rated to run at 4,800 MT/s, and overclocked it to 8,118 MT/s. Not too shabby, eh? The kudos really belong to Adata's [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Qualcomm Dual Station Wi-Fi 6E Tech Brings Wired Ping Times To Windows 11 Gamers]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 08, 2021 10:26 am [Qualcomm Dual Station Wi-Fi 6E Tech Brings Wired Ping Times To Windows 11 Gamers]( Forces are at play to vastly reduce latency while gaming over Wi-Fi, and quite frankly, that is something that is long overdue. The secret sauce to make this possible is comprised of two main ingredients—Qualcomm's FastConnect hardware and the Wi-Fi Dual Station technology that is baked into Windows 11, developed in partnership with Microsoft. [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Bungie Confirms Plans To Vault Destiny 2 Forsaken Campaign And Tangled Shore On These Dates]( By Brittany Goetting on Oct 08, 2021 09:35 am [Bungie Confirms Plans To Vault Destiny 2 Forsaken Campaign And Tangled Shore On These Dates]( Bungie has been hinting for quite some time that the Forsaken campaign will soon be "vaulted." Their Destiny Content Vault (DCV) provides them with "breathing room" to make improvements to the game and add in new content. We now have confirmation that the much-loved campaign will be entering into the DCV. The Destiny 2 Forsaken campaign and [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Amazon Insists New World MMO Is Safe To Play Amid Reports Of More Dead GPUs]( By Zak Killian on Oct 07, 2021 07:03 pm [Amazon Insists New World MMO Is Safe To Play Amid Reports Of More Dead GPUs]( Amazon's recently-released game New World is cracking open pent-up MMORPG demand to become a massive hit. At the time of this publication, it's currently the number-one most-played game on Steam. That's in spite of some bad press; we reported last week on stories of the released game murdering folks' hardware, just like back in the beta. At [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Hot Deals: Save Big On Gigabyte's RTX And OLED Gaming Laptop, 32-Inch Dell And LG FreeSync Monitors]( By Zak Killian on Oct 07, 2021 05:21 pm [Hot Deals: Save Big On Gigabyte's RTX And OLED Gaming Laptop, 32-Inch Dell And LG FreeSync Monitors]( One often-posted work-around for enthusiasts' inability to locate new graphics cards is to purchase a pre-built gaming PC or a gaming laptop. In the past, hardcore system-building enthusiasts have sneered at gaming laptops, as their perceived gaming performance value was widely regarded to be inferior for in-place gaming. 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