Late last month, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella noted at the company’s BUILD 2021 conference that “one of the most significant updates to Windows” in the past decade is coming soon to customers. So now, we have an official time for when we’ll see what Microsoft has been working on for the next version of Windows.
According to Microsoft, it will

In this latest episode of HotHardware’s 2.5 Geeks, we’ll be digging in to the many happenings of Computex 2021, from the AMD Radeon RX 6000M announcement, to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), the 3D V-Cache demonstration, Zen 4, and Intel Xe-HPG tease and more…

Show Notes:
04:52 – AMD Confirms RDNA 2-Infused

Ring is changing how its users are able to respond to public safety requests. Public agencies will now need to post requests for help publicly through Ring’s Neighbors app. The purpose of this change is to provide greater “transparency and accountability.”

These requests for assistance will be limited to two posts per incident. The request

Intel might end up launching Alder Lake a little bit sooner than expected. Previous rumors pegged the launch as happening in November, but a new one claims desktop Alder Lake processors with unlocked multipliers will arrive in October, around the same time as Microsoft’s upcoming Windows refresh. The timing is also said to not be a coincidence.

Every

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Dell over its Alienware Area-51m laptop and the limited upgrade path available to consumers. According to the lawsuit, Dell “intentionally misled and deceived” customers into thinking there would be more robust upgrade options for what had been its flagship gaming laptop at the time of its release.

It

Apple’s iPad tablets are the most popular on the consumer market, but that doesn’t mean that development on the devices should come to a standstill. Apple’s iPad mini has been around for a long time and hasn’t seen any significant design updates in six years. Sure, there have been upgrades to performance and support for the Apple Pencil, but

In due time, Qualcomm is expected to release a Snapdragon 888 Plus system-on-chip, just as there were Plus versions of the Snapdragon 865 and Snapdragon 855 SoCs. What comes after that, however, is shaping up to be a pretty big upgrade according to the latest leak, which claims Qualcomm’s next premium SoC will be built on a 4-nanometer manufacturing

AMD is teasing another graphics card launch, presumably based on one of its latest generation Navi GPUs, only this time it is not meant for home consumers. On YouTube, there is an unlisted video posted by AMD that is titled “Something BIG is coming (Short)” and it appears to show a workstation graphics card. Based on other leaks, we have a

Google’s upcoming Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro Android flagships are still months away from launching, but leaked information on both devices is coming in at a furious pace. Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen convincing renders of the devices, alleged specs, and reports on possible features.
Today, however, we’re learning about a new feature

Dell first announced the Alienware m15 R5 gaming laptop back in April, and we got a chance to review the “Ryzen Edition” late last month. What makes these Alienware m15 R5 so compelling is that you can pair AMD’s most potent Zen 3-based Ryzen 5000 APUs with NVIDIA’s powerful GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs. Our review unit, for example, came loaded