Were you worried that Microsoft would ruin Discord if a deal went through? If so, you can rest easy—Discord is no longer for sale, apparently, having ended discussions with Microsoft about a massive buyout offer. It’s not just Microsoft, either. It seems Discord is no longer interested in being acquired, after seeing a big uptick in users

In this special episode of HotHardware’s Two And A Half Geeks, we have a morning cup of joe with our buddy Frank Azor from AMD. And we’ll be talking about some exciting new stuff that was just incorporated in the latest Radeon Software Adrenalin suite…

Show Notes:
0:00 – Introduction
01:00 – Frank Azor, Chief Architect Gaming Solutions
03:00

We’ve seen some rather outlandish Radeon RX 6900 XT cards over the past few weeks, including the OC Formula from ASRock and the Liquid Devil Ultimate from PowerColor. Now it’s Sapphire’s time to shine in the limelight with the Toxic Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition (try saying that three times fast).
As its name implies, the graphics card

A recent CPU-Z Validator entry adds credibility to the rumor that AMD is getting ready to refresh its X570 chipset. The listing highlights an unannounced Gigabyte X570S Aorus Pro AX motherboard, paired with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G processor, and it marks the second time we have seen a reference to X570S. The last time also featured Gigabyte.

Earlier

It is a miserable time now for securing PC gaming hardware like graphics cards and high-end processors. Securing AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards have been particularly troublesome due to demand from gamers and crypto miners.
The supply issue has been compounded by people using bots to snatch up available

At this point, it feels like a foregone conclusion that NVIDIA will be announcing a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti soon. We know, we know—the GPU market is in shambles right now, because of cryptocurrency mining, because of bots and scalpers, and because there just is not enough silicon to go around. Nevertheless, you can expect new product announcements

Barring a successful appeal, Intel is already on the hook for $2.18 billion in damages a jury awarded to VSLI Technology LLC last month, over a series of patent infringement claims. In the second of three lawsuits, VSLI was seeking an additional $3 billion in damages for a different set of patents, but this time Intel emerged victorious.

This

The Destiny 2 2021 Guardian Games have arrived. No Destiny 2 event would truly be complete without a few legendary and exotic items for Guardians to chase after or purchase. Here is how you can acquire the exotic machine gun Heir Apparent and its Catalyst.

What Is Heir Apparent And Its Catalyst

Heir Apparent is an exotic machine gun

Last year, Google introduced two 5G-capable smartphones to hit the mid-range and “upper” mid-range markets. The Pixel 4a 5G launched at $499, while the Pixel 5 debuted at $699.
Google already confirmed that the Pixel 5a 5G is coming later this year, but it might not bring a significant hardware upgrade compared to its predecessor. According

When independent or academic research is carried out, ethics is a primary concern if you have anything to do with people outside the research group. With that in mind, the University of Minnesota has seemingly been performing ethically questionable research on the Linux kernel by submitting useless or vulnerable code. Now, one of the biggest