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Unreal Engine 5.7 brings significant improvements over the notoriously demanding 5.4 version, tester claims — benchmark shows up to 25% GPU performance increase, 35% CPU boost (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Hassam Nasir | get Game Engine → | tags: engine, hardware, mxbenchmarkpc

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HyperX SoloCast 2 Review: A built-in stand that you'll want to mount (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | get Podcast Stand → | tags: credit, hardware, image

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Video Game Hardware Sales Are the Worst in Decades: Here's Why You Should Buy Now (cnet.com)

2025-12-18 | by See Full Bio | get Graphics Card → | tags: circana, consoles, game

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Evidence of Intel's 'Big Battlemage' GPU continues to mount, as BMG-G31 chip gets another official confirmation (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-17 | by Zak Killian | get GPU → | tags: battlemage, hardware, intel

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Meta is pausing its dream of sharing Quest’s Horizon OS with third-party headset makers (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-17 | by Lucas Ropek | get Meta Quest → | tags: hardware, horizon, meta

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Android XR may not have to worry about pressure from Meta and Horizon OS, after all (androidauthority.com)

2025-12-17 | get Google Pixel → | tags: android, hardware, horizon

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Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-17 | get Linux Kernel → | tags: articles, author, hardware

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Meta pauses third-party Horizon VR headsets program (theverge.com)

2025-12-17 | by Jay Peters | get Virtual Reality Headset → | tags: announced, glasses, hardware

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Video game hardware sales had a historically bad November in the US (theverge.com)

2025-12-17 | by Jay Peters | get Graphics Card → | tags: circana, consoles, game

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Video game console spending hit a two-decade low in November, dropping 27% (techspot.com)

2025-12-17 | get PlayStation → | tags: circana, hardware, lowest

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Turtle Beach Vulcan II TKL review: Pretty, bright, and mechanical (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-17 | by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal | get Turtle Beach Vulcan II → | tags: ii tkl, image, tom hardware

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Corsair MP700 Pro XT 2TB SSD review: the fastest SSD ever has landed with a record 3.3 million IOPS and nearly 15 GB/s (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-17 | by Shane Downing | get SSD → | tags: corsair, drive, hardware

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Score an RTX 5080 and 9800X3D pre-built for under £2,300 with this CyberPowerPC deal — save £200 on this 4K gaming PC with 32GB RAM and 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-17 | by Ben Stockton | get RTX 5080 → | tags: best, deals, gaming

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Enthusiast modder stuffs an entire gaming PC inside a gutted Commodore PET 2001 — replaced the screen with an iPad Retina LCD, but the original keyboard still works (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-17 | by Hassam Nasir | get Commodore PET → | tags: commodore, commodore pet, hardware

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Reverse-engineering the RK3588 NPU: Hacking limits to run vision transformers (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-16 | by Adhitya Mohan | get Neural Network Processing Unit → | tags: compiler, hardware, model

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Reverse-Engineering the RK3588 NPU: Hacking Limits to Run Vision Transformers (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-16 | by Adhitya Mohan | get Neural Network Processing Unit → | tags: compiler, hardware, model

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With a standout $1739.99 price tag, this packed CyberPower PC features both the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Radeon RX 9070 XT for an amazing prebuilt gaming setup — beat the AI crunch with 32GB of DDR5 and a 2TB NVMe SSD (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-16 | by Stewart Bendle | get CyberPower PC → | tags: deals, gaming, hardware

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Sapphire rep predicts DRAM prices will begin to stabilize in the next 6-8 months, but warns 'it may not be the prices we want' — GPU vendor says memory crisis is similar to tariff uncertainty (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-16 | by Hassam Nasir | get Sapphire → | tags: crisler, going, hardware

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AI-designed Linux computer with 843 components boots on first attempt — dual-PCB Project Speedrun was made in just one week and required less than 40 hours of human work (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-16 | by Mark Tyson | get Linux computer → | tags: design, hardware, human

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Dual-PCB Linux computer with 843 components designed by AI boots on first attempt — Project Speedrun was made in just one week and required less than 40 hours of human work (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-16 | by Mark Tyson | get Dual-PCB → | tags: design, hardware, human

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The 'ExtrudeX' machine wants to turn your 3D printing waste into reusable filament, all at home — this Kickstarter project is itself 3D-printable with minimal hardware costs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-15 | by Hassam Nasir | get Extruder → | tags: credit, extrudex, filament

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First truly 3D chip fabbed at US foundry, features carbon nanotube transistors and RAM on a single die — future devices could have up to 1000x improvement in energy-delay product (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Luke James | get Carbon Nanotube Transistor → | tags: fold, hardware, performance

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id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Commander Keen → | tags: hardware, id software, keen

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Russian media finally admits Putin is under fire from angry citizens, but it's for the recent Roblox ban — Kremlin says kids have written 63,000 complaint letters, half said they wanted to leave Russia due to the ban (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Roblox → | tags: children, roblox, russia

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Dev hacks Xiaomi's Smart Humidifier to free it from the cloud, now works with Home Assistant locally — custom firmware allows the product to evade planned obsolescence (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Hassam Nasir | get Smart Humidifier → | tags: assistant, esphome, hardware

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Experiment to train rats to play Doom reaches a new level; rats can now shoot enemies — wraparound AMOLED screen provides virtual environment for neuroengineers' expanded open source project (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-14 | by Zak Killian | get Smartphone → | tags: doom, engine, game

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Nvidia details new software that enables location tracking for AI GPUs — opt-in remote data center GPU fleet management includes power usage and thermal monitoring (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-13 | by Anton Shilov | get GPU → | tags: fleet, hardware, nvidia

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Slab is the first MIDI controller built exclusively for Serato Studio (theverge.com)

2025-12-13 | by Terrence O'Brien | get MIDI Controller → | tags: hardware, maschine, pads

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Nvidia weighs expanding H200 production as new China orders rush in, report claims — ByteDance and Alibaba listed as suitors for 'large orders' in the wake of sanctions lift (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-12 | by Luke James | get Graphics Card → | tags: capacity, china, chinese

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PNY's RTX 5070 GPU falls $50 below its MSRP launch price — grab one quickly via Walmart while stocks last (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-12 | by Stewart Bendle | get NVIDIA GeForce → | tags: deals, hardware, image