Analysts Forecast Continued PC Gaming Growth After COVID Bump Through 2025

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [Analysts Forecast Continued PC Gaming Growth After COVID Bump Through 2025]( By Zak Killian on Oct 01, 2021 02:54 pm [Analysts Forecast Continued PC Gaming Growth After COVID Bump Through 2025 ]( Have you heard about the death of PC gaming? It was a popular topic among certain folks for years. They haven't said much about it lately, though—probably because PC gaming is bigger than it has ever been. Year-over-year growth has been immense, with gaming monitor and gaming PC shipments in the second quarter increasing 19.3% over last year [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Grifthorse Android Malware Claims 10 Million Victims Globally In Premium Subscription Scam]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 01, 2021 02:43 pm [Grifthorse Android Malware Claims 10 Million Victims Globally In Premium Subscription Scam]( Practically everyone owns a mobile device these days, and the majority of them run on Android, the most popular smartphone OS in the world. Don't think that malicious hackers aren't paying attention. Just the opposite, a security firm says it recently discovered an "aggressive mobile premium services campaign" that has infected upwards of [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Sony 65- And 77-Inch Bravia XR OLED Google TVs Up To $1,000 Off With These Hot Deals]( By Brandon Hill on Oct 01, 2021 02:30 pm [Sony 65- And 77-Inch Bravia XR OLED Google TVs Up To $1,000 Off With These Hot Deals]( If you’re in the market for a high-quality. large-screen HDTV, Amazon is currently running some compelling deals on the Sony Bravia XR A80J Smart TV in 65-inch and 77-inch sizes. Now that the NFL regular season is upon us, now is perhaps as good a time as any to upgrade your viewing experience. As you might expect from a high-end TV, Sony [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel Core i7-1195G7 Performance: MSI’s Prestige 14 EVO Flies]( By Marco Chiappetta on Oct 01, 2021 01:55 pm [Intel Core i7-1195G7 Performance: MSI’s Prestige 14 EVO Flies]( Earlier this year, we took a look at the MSI Prestige 14 EVO, a high-performance thin and light ultrabook, which was packing Intel’s latest Tiger Lake-based mobile processing platform at the time. In our deep-dive evaluation of the machine, we found it to offer strong CPU and integrated graphics performance, with speedy PCIe Gen 4 NVMe... [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Microsoft Announces Office 2021 Updates, Pricing, And Windows 11 Integration]( By Tim Sweezy on Oct 01, 2021 01:23 pm [Microsoft Announces Office 2021 Updates, Pricing, And Windows 11 Integration]( Microsoft Office apps are getting a makeover that is said to be both familiar yet modern. This will include softer window corners, neutral colors and a colorful presence indicator that will show you who is working on a document with you. Fans of dark mode will be happy to know that app themes will stay in sync with your chosen preference by [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [FCC Makes Another Valiant Effort To Stop Relentless And Annoying Robocalls]( By Tim Sweezy on Oct 01, 2021 11:30 am [FCC Makes Another Valiant Effort To Stop Relentless And Annoying Robocalls]( There's a high chance that you've recently received a call marked as “Possible Spam” from your phone provider. You may have even received a call that appears to have originated from your area code and then realized after answering that you were the latest victim of a robocall. This still occurs even after placing your phone number on the national [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 5000 Chagall HEDT CPUs Reportedly Delayed]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 01, 2021 11:05 am [AMD's Ryzen Threadripper 5000 Chagall HEDT CPUs Reportedly Delayed]( Hang tight, creators and enthusiasts, eventually AMD will get around to launching its next generation of Ryzen Threadripper processors for heavy metal computing from home. It just might be a little bit longer than you hoped. Nothing has been officially announced, but rumor has it the launch has been delayed again, leading to a 2022 release. AMD's [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [SanMax Debuts 32GB DDR5-4800 SO-DIMMs For Intel Alder Lake Laptops]( By Brandon Hill on Oct 01, 2021 10:40 am [SanMax Debuts 32GB DDR5-4800 SO-DIMMs For Intel Alder Lake Laptops]( Intel’s 12th generation Alder Lake processors are right around the corner, with an official announcement coming as soon as October 27th. However, in the lead-up to the launch, most of the leaks and news have surrounded the Alder Lake-S desktop family rather than the related laptop-centric processors. Thankfully, today we have some information [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 And Z Flip 3 Sales Are Booming As Folding Phones Takeoff]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 01, 2021 10:28 am [Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3 And Z Flip 3 Sales Are Booming As Folding Phones Takeoff]( It took a few generations, but the folding smartphone form factor has come into its own and appears to be drawing greater interest. One could argue that it has achieved mainstream status. It just depends on if the Galaxy Z Flip 3 and Galaxy Z Fold 3 sales momentum in Samsung's native land can carry over to other territories. These are fine [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Alleged AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Navi 33 Specs Suggest It Could Be Faster Than The 6900 XT]( By Paul Lilly on Oct 01, 2021 09:40 am [Alleged AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Navi 33 Specs Suggest It Could Be Faster Than The 6900 XT]( As we highlighted in our Radeon RX 6900 XT review, AMD's flagship graphics card is worthy of the designation, coming within striking distance of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3090 in traditional rasterization (the gap widens in ray-traced gaming) at a lower MSRP. So it would be quite remarkable if, as some alleged specifications allude to, AMD's next-generation [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [New Survey Confirms Over Half Of Business PCs Can't Install Windows 11]( By Brandon Hill on Oct 01, 2021 09:11 am [New Survey Confirms Over Half Of Business PCs Can't Install Windows 11]( It's no secret that Microsoft ramped up its baseline hardware requirements for Windows 11 compared to Windows 10. However, a large swath of the PC population is being left out by requiring AMD Ryzen 2000 and 8th generation Intel Core (and newer) processors and mandatory TPM 2.0 support. These steep requirements are readily apparent in the [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake CPU Retail Packaging Leaks, Core i9-12900K Hits Black Market]( By Brandon Hill on Oct 01, 2021 07:35 am [Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake CPU Retail Packaging Leaks, Core i9-12900K Hits Black Market]( The 12th generation Intel Alder Lake processor leaks continue to file in at a rapid pace. Yesterday, Lenovo spilled the beans on its upcoming Legion 9000K (2022) desktop PC powered by Alder Lake, and today retail packaging for the processors has leaked to the internet. The leak came to us courtesy of VideoCardz, which posted renders of retail [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Thieves Could Steal Your Cash Using This Apple Pay Hack, No iPhone Unlock Required]( By Zak Killian on Sep 30, 2021 03:49 pm [Thieves Could Steal Your Cash Using This Apple Pay Hack, No iPhone Unlock Required]( If you're a regular HotHardware reader, you probably make contactless payments now and again. You might even do it using Apple Pay, and if you live in a big city with mass transit, there's a decent likelihood that you have Express Transit enabled. If you use a Visa card for it, you may want to reconsider that based on the latest iPhone exploit. 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