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- Move Over Photoshop, Microsoft Paint Is Getting Layers And PNG Transparency
Paint has been part of Windows since time immemorial, but it's never been able to hold a candle to more robust image editors like Photoshop. It's making an important step in the right direction, though. Microsoft has announced that Paint is getting a major update, adding support for layers and PNG transparency in a test for Windows Insiders. Anyone
- Epic $245M Fortnite Settlement With The FTC Is Live, How To Stake A Claim
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has cleared the way for anyone charged for unwanted purchases in Fortnite to possibly get some of their money back. Those who feel they were charged unnecessarily can now apply for a refund as part of a $245 million agreement between the FTC and Epic Games. The formal complaint by the FTC against Epic
- See Meteor Lake And Thunderbolt 5 In Action At Intel's Innovation '23 Event
HotHardware's own Dave Altavilla is on location at Intel's Innovation '23 event, and that means he's getting to check out all the latest and upcoming hardware from the blue team first hand. Fortunately, that means you get to check it out, too, because we've captured some videos of the demos on the show floor. We've currently got two new clips
- Security Researchers Sound Alarm On A Startling Never-Before-Seen Linux Backdoor
Trend Micro has been tracking a threat-actor group since early 2021, dubbed Earth Lusca, which is purportedly based out of China. Since that initial discovery, researchers have found the group has utilized increasingly sophisticated infrastructure, tools, techniques, and procedures to advance its goals in cyberespionage and financial crimes
- Google Integrates Bard AI Into Gmail, YouTube, Maps, And More Popular Apps
Google says its AI assistant Bard is improving with its latest update. The latest Bard model now integrates with Google apps and services to better assist with more helpful responses through Bard Extensions and an enhanced "Google it" button. The tech giant launched Bard Extensions in English yesterday, introducing a new way to interact
- NVIDIA CEO Autographs An ASUS ROG Matrix GeForce RTX 4090 For Charity Auction
ASUS and Make A Wish International have clubbed together to launch a special graphics card auction. The highly anticipated ASUS ROG Matrix RTX 4090 is the prize, and a cherry on this deliciously powerful cake is that it bears the gold-inked signature of the NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang. As you might expect, proceeds of the auction will go to Make
- Endless Darkness Of Moon's Lunar South Pole Comes Into View In Eerie NASA Photo
NASA utilized cameras on two separate lunar orbiters to produce a stunning image of the Moon's darkened South Pole region. The mosaic was created using imagery from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LROC) and NASA's ShadowCam onboard the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO). As NASA prepares to send humans back to the surface of the
- Postbank confirms full SASSA SRD grant payments amid fraud attempts
Postbank has officially confirmed disbursement of all outstanding SRD SASSA funds to recipients. They also noted some fraud attempts by some beneficiaries of the initiative. Read more here:
- Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 Advances Boost Performance And Introduce Key Software Optimizations
The ways we get connected to the Internet are evolving, and the future is most certainly wireless. Qualcomm brought us out to its headquarters in San Diego, California recently for its Wi-Fi 7 Day to learn about new technologies the company is fostering to make these changes possible. Wi-Fi 7 is certainly a key enabler, but software and services
- Interview With NVIDIA And CD Projekt Sheds Light on DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction
In case you couldn't tell from our coverage, some of us around here—particularly your present author—are big fans of Cyberpunk 2077. That's not only because it's a legitimately great game these days, but also because it is a showcase for the absolute bleeding edge in graphics technology. That will continue to be the case in coming days as
- Need More Storage? Check Out These SSD Deals Before NAND Flash Prices Jump Back Up
The fortune tellers at TrendForce predict that NAND flash memory prices are stabilizing and on track to rebound next quarter. That's good news for suppliers, which are making moves to induce a rebound. For consumers, however, it means SSD pricing is leveling out and could potentially go on an upward swing as we head into 2024. With that in
- Assassin's Creed Mirage PC Specs: What You Need To Play In Glorious 4K At 60 FPS
The thirteenth installment in the long-running Assassin's Creed series, Assassin's Creed Mirage, is due to release on PC, consoles, and iOS (for the iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max) in less than two weeks. For those of you who plan to play the game on PC, Ubisoft has revealed a set of system requirements, including what you'll need to maintain 60 frames
- Exclusive: Nigerian fintech PayDay is looking to sell the company six months after $3m raise
Six months after raising $3million, PayDay is currently in discussions to sell the company. Its journey has been marked by negative press, salary reductions, the sore exit of a co-founder, and reports of other co-founders juggling other full-time jobs with running PayDay
- Adetutu Laditan on how creators can better drive growth on YouTube
A lot of creators struggle with knowing how to monetise, and the first thing they need to learn is how to collaborate.
- IBM Brings New Capabilities to its Sustainability Software to Help Organizations Accurately and Efficiently Operationalize Scope 3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Insights
New text classification capabilities can help to automatically categorize thousands of lines of spend data using natural language processing (NLP)
- GeForce RTX 5090 Rumored For A 2.9GHz Clock A Massive Memory Bandwidth Upgrade
A new leak has revealed that NVIDIA’s future RTX-50 series graphics cards, more specifically the RTX 5090, could receive as much as a 170% performance increase over its RTX 40-series predecessor. The leak highlights key performance increases in several vital areas of NVIDIA’s next-generation GPU architecture, including memory bandwidth, cache
- Intel Demos Lunar Lake Live On Stage At Innovation '23 Conference
If you read that headline and aren't suitably impressed, let us elaborate. Intel's next launch, looming on the horizon, will be the company's first chiplet-based (or tile-based) processors, codenamed Meteor Lake. Those chips are coming along with an extensive re-branding effort, at least for Intel's mobile parts. After Meteor Lake will
- Logitech G Launches Next-Gen Yeti Mics And Litra Lights To Level Up Your Game Streams
Logitech G has unveiled two new variations to the legendary Yeti mic and its Litra Beam LX light for content creators. The latest additions to Logitech G's lineup aim to provide broadcast-style audio and pro-level lighting for creators that all work seamlessly with Logitech's G Hub software. If anyone asks a seasoned content creator what
- CapraRAT Malware Targets Android Users By Spoofing YouTube, What You Need To Know
If it doesn’t come directly from the Google Play Store, do not download or install whatever application it is. This simple rule could protect you from malware such as that from the Transparent Tribe, a suspected Pakistani threat actor who is hiding remote access tool (RAT) features inside another application that appears to be legitimate. The
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Series May Adopt Chiplet Design With The Blackwell GPU Arch
You probably already know that AMD's most recent Radeon GPUs are created using chiplets: a single GCD for graphics and compute, and then between three and six MCDs for memory access and caching. Intel hasn't released any consumer GPUs using chiplets yet, but its Datacenter GPU Max—that's the part formerly known as "Ponte Vecchio"—is made from