NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Gets A Mid-Life Kicker With A Full Fat GA107 GPU

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [HotHardware.com]( Here Are Today's Hot Headlines In Tech [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Gets A Mid-Life Kicker With A Full Fat GA107 GPU]( By Zak Killian on Dec 26, 2022 02:56 pm [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Gets A Mid-Life Kicker With A Full Fat GA107 GPU]( Here's something most HotHardware readers probably know: the same GPU core is used for many different models of graphics card. Case in point: the GA102 processor is used for every GeForce RTX 3000-series model from the RTX 3080 on up the stack. However, what you may not know is that it can go the other way: sometimes a single GPU model can [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Microsoft Dev Leaks A New Notepad Feature Windows 11 Users Are Going To Love]( By Ryan Whitwam on Dec 26, 2022 01:42 pm [Microsoft Dev Leaks A New Notepad Feature Windows 11 Users Are Going To Love]( Juggling a bunch of windows can be a pain, even with the UX enhancements in Windows 11. Microsoft is helping to reduce the clutter with the recently released tabbed file explorer, and now it appears another core app is getting tabs. According to a now-deleted Tweet, Microsoft is on the verge of releasing a version of Notepad with tabs. The [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Heads-Up, Nintendo Is Scrambling To Patch Major Security Flaws In These Popular Games]( By Lane Babuder on Dec 26, 2022 11:19 am [Heads-Up, Nintendo Is Scrambling To Patch Major Security Flaws In These Popular Games]( You're sitting there, playing Mario Kart online on the brand-new Nintendo Switch you got over the holidays. All of a sudden, you get booted back to the home screen on the Switch. You reconnect to the game, only for it to happen again. Thanks to a security vulnerability found in numerous first party Nintendo titles dating back to the Nintendo [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Asteroid Launcher Lets You Simulate How Screwed We Are If A Big Rock Slams Into Earth]( By Tim Sweezy on Dec 26, 2022 10:50 am [Asteroid Launcher Lets You Simulate How Screwed We Are If A Big Rock Slams Into Earth]( If you have ever wanted to see what kind of damage a large asteroid impact would have on your hometown, there is now an Asteroid Launcher web app that can give you all the catastrophic details. Asteroid Launcher is based on papers by Dr. Gareth Collins and Dr. Clemens Rumpf. An Armageddon-type asteroid event, such as the Chixculub asteroid [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Palit Is Giving Away A One Of A Kind Custom Themed GeForce RTX 4080 GPU, How To Enter]( By Paul Lilly on Dec 26, 2022 10:45 am [Palit Is Giving Away A One Of A Kind Custom Themed GeForce RTX 4080 GPU, How To Enter]( Didn't get what you really wanted this holiday season? Well, turn that frown upside down—in addition to the plethora of tech related deals that continue to pop up, Palit is hosting a 'White Christmas' giveaway event with several white-themed PC hardware items up for grabs, including the only custom GeForce RTX 4080 GamingPro White Special [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Google's Nest Hub Surprise Will Have Owners Sleeping Soundly Until At Least 2024]( By Tim Sweezy on Dec 26, 2022 09:31 am [Google's Nest Hub Surprise Will Have Owners Sleeping Soundly Until At Least 2024 ]( Google gives owners of a 2nd generation Nest Hub a holiday surprise with another free year of its Sleep Sensing feature. The feature was originally scheduled to become a paid feature at the end of 2022. The Google Nest Hub is a multi-purpose smart device that can stream Netflix, control your smart home, keep your family connected, and more. [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Avoid These Surprising Password Pitfall Trends At All Costs To Keep Hackers At Bay]( By Paul Lilly on Dec 26, 2022 09:26 am [Avoid These Surprising Password Pitfall Trends At All Costs To Keep Hackers At Bay]( As we approach the end of the year, cybersecurity outfits inevitably round up and share the weakest passwords detected in the wild over the past 12 months. 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