Google’s Android bug bounty program has come a long way since its humble roots back in mid-2015. At the time, the search and software giant offered a maximum payout of $38,000 for specific exploits that compromised the world’s most popular operating system. Today, Google has announced that its maximum payout now weighs in at up to a staggering

Google Assistant has gained a new capability that movie fans will appreciate courtesy of Google Duplex technology. On Android phones, Google Assistant can now help users to buy movie tickets online. Users can get times and buy tickets starting with “Hey Google, showtimes for [movie] in [city] this weekend.” Google also notes that movie fans

Earlier this week, we first got wind of Half-Life: Alyx, the latest entry into the Half-Life saga. The original Half-Life — which was a first-person shooter blockbuster, helping to revolutionize the genre — blazed onto the scene back in 1998, and was followed up by Half-Life 2 in 2004.

Half-Life: Alyx is what Valve calls a full-length,

Black Friday is almost here, and everyone knows that the Friday after Thanksgiving is one of the biggest shopping days of the year. Black Friday is when many people buy the gifts they intend to give for Christmas. The big day is about a week away, but Amazon is already teasing some of its biggest deals for tech fans so shoppers can get ready.

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You might already yell at your TV on occasion, like when the referees miss a blatant pass interference call against your football team. Amazon has something a little different in mind, though. Its new Fire TV Blaster encourages talking to your home entertainment devices, though not out of anger for frustration—it adds Alexa voice control to

This is a special time for us here at HotHardware. We are celebrating our 20th Anniversary this year; the first version of HotHardware went live in 1999 and we have been partying like it ever since! This year also happens to be the 20th Anniversary of Falcon Northwest’s Talon systems and it’s AMD’s 50th Anniversary as well.

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Qualcomm is one of the largest producers of chipsets for smartphones and other devices in the world, and it has announced that it expects the global smartphone market to ship 450 million 5G handsets in 2021. The company is also predicting that the worldwide market will ship another 750 million 5G handsets in 2022.

Qualcomm is predicting

We have two highly anticipated game console launches coming up in 2020, and they are Microsoft’s Xbox Project Scarlett and Sony’s PlayStation 5. Of the two, we know the most about the PlayStation 5, and according to a new leak, we now know exactly when it will launch and how it will be priced.
According to a leak from Twitter user PSErebus,

After all of the hype and anticipation—and there was plenty of both—Google’s cloud gaming Stadia service has arrived, and some early adopters are pretty pissed at what has been delivered versus what was advertised. Part of it boils down to the usual growing pains, especially for a project this ambitious. Still, the annoyances are starting

Many computer users know that Microsoft doesn’t email you about Windows updates, but many people unfortunately still fall for spam tricks. There is a new malicious spam campaign going around that tells users to download a critical Windows update. If users install the attached file, Cyborg ransomware is then loaded on the system.
The threat