Ben Funk
HotHardware
Illinois, United States
Contact Ben
Discover and connect with journalists and influencers around the world, save time on email research, monitor the news, and more.
| Recent: |
|
| Past: |
|
Past articles by Ben:
Alienware Concept Nyx Offers a Glimpse Into The Future Of Connected Home Gaming And Collaboration
Dell and Alienware demo several concept devices that show how the company dreams people might one day interact in virtual workspaces and gaming worlds. → Read More
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin Dev-Kit Eval: Inside An AI Robot Brain
NVIDIA's latest Jetson AGX Orin developer kit opens a whole new world of AI-assisted robotics. → Read More
The EU May Finally Force Apple to Add USB-C to iPhones With a Lightning Port Kill Shot
The EU May Finally Force Apple to Add USB-C to iPhones With a Lightning Port Kill Shot → Read More
Alienware 34" (AW3423DW) Gaming Monitor Review: Oh My QD-OLED
Alienware's 34 inch curved entry into the QD-OLED desktop gaming monitor space looks and plays amazingly. → Read More
ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED Review: Affordable 2-In-1 Beauty
In a product segment full of trade-offs, we've never seen a gorgeous OLED display at this price point in a 2-in-1 detachable laptop like this. → Read More
Acer Expands Predator Gaming Lineup With Supercharged Orion Desktops And Decked Out Monitors
Acer's Predator series of gaming displays is one of the longest-running lines of high-refresh monitors with G-Sync in the PC industry, and it just added a few new models (plus some desktop configs). → Read More
Razer Hones Its Blade 17, 15 And 14 Gaming Laptops With AMD And Intel CPUs, RTX 3080 Ti GPU
Razer's stylish Blade gaming laptops just got a major upgrade with next-gen CPU options from Intel and AMD. → Read More
AMD Pumps Adrenalin Drivers Full of New SmartShift And Radeon Super Res Features For 2022
AMD's pushing its software to new heights with updated driver features, power and performance optimizations, and global toggles → Read More
AMD Blitzes Mobile PC Gaming With Radeon RX 6500 XT, 6000S Series And 6000M GPUs
With power consumption down to lower levels, AMD Radeon-powered gaming notebooks can be thinner and lighter → Read More
SK Hynix Platinum P41 SSD Hits A Blistering 7,000MB/s Over PCIe 4 And Is Backed By A 5-Year Warranty
Hot on the heels of acquiring Intel's SSD business, SK Hynix is introducing new high-performance drives of its own. → Read More
Two Retro Classics Gloriously Unite As Sega's Sonic Spins Onto The Commodore 64
The blue blur spins his way onto home computers in this port of the 8-bit original. → Read More
Driver Told To Keep Delivering Amazon Packages Amid Tornado Warning In Startling Text Exchange
What's the safest thing to do if you're driving in a tornado warning zone? Keep delivering packages, apparently. → Read More
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 Review: A Powerful Refresh
Lenovo's most powerful ThinkPad X1 laptop delivers a beautiful 16-inch display, powerful Intel Tiger Lake-H CPU and RTX 30 graphics in under 4 lbs. → Read More
Alienware Aurora R13 Review: Alder Lake Invades Dell's Revamped Gaming Desktop
Alienware's redesigned Aurora chassis puts a renewed focus on cooling and acoustics while loading up with Intel Alder Lake firepower. → Read More
Apple M1 Max Smokes First-Gen M1 In Leaked Benchmark But Is Obliterated By RTX 30 Laptops
Compared to its own SoCs, Apple's biggest processor has huge compute power. Compared to PC hardware, though, not so much. → Read More
Back 4 Blood Performance Review: A Worthy Successor To L4D
The spiritual successor to the Left 4 Dead series looks and runs great, but some of the gameplay additions fall flat. → Read More
Animal Crossing New Horizons: Huge Free Update And Paid Happy Home Paradise DLC Inbound
The final content update for Nintendo's 2020 blockbuster really hits it out of the park. → Read More
Far Cry 6 With Ray Tracing And FSR Performance Review
Ubisoft's latest wide-open FPS adds some nice ray traced eye candy, but still runs very well on variety of hardware, especially with AMD FSR enabled. → Read More
iPhone 13 Pro Review: Fast, Impressive But Unfinished
Apple's latest iPhone's 120 Hz display plays catch-up to some flagship Android devices and otherwise refines an excellent design. → Read More
Apple iPhone 13 Stumbles Out Of The Gate With Major 120Hz Display And Apple Watch Bugs
Early adopters of Apple's newest flagship phones are having a rougher time than expected and it's not a good look. → Read More