I did a bad thingSo… I’m going to be doing the Liverpool marathon on Sunday. And here’s the big one: I’m not going to run with a watch. I’m going to run it completely by feel, letting the race unfold in front of me, and see where that gets me. I’m going to run too fast at the start. I’m going to consider every mile whether I’m going to keep going, or slow down, or walk / run, or just go home.

Initial reviews weren’t terrible, but Far Cry 2 did not initially appear to have reached the heights that it had aspired to. The cult-favoriteBut over the following months and years Far Cry 2 slowly grew into a cult classic. It was perfectly possible to play Far Cry 2 like a generic first-person shooter. The legacy of Far Cry 2In the years since Far Cry 2, numerous other games have more explicitly sold themselves on the promise of discovery and open-endedness. At a time when open-world games wer

However, as TechCrunch spotted, with the latest release of the Oculus software (v1.15), this is now an official cast-iron feature. Apparently tracking with two sensors (as seen with the HTC Vive) is still ‘experimental’, so remains in the beta phase with Oculus. As we reported last summer when roomscale support was first revealed, Oculus Rift tracking has always been pretty glitchy with just a pair of sensors, causing problems particularly when you turn around and are facing away from the sensor

The Toshiba N300 is an excellent NAS hard drive that is a great choice if you want one (or more) hard drives that offer plenty of space, as well as rock solid reliability. The Toshiba N300 hard drive is a storage device that’s been specifically built for NAS (network attached storage) devices which run constantly, often providing storage to large files from a number of networked PCs. The Toshiba N300 range can be installed in NAS devices that can handle up to eight hard drives in various RAID co

It appears that Apple is still serious about exploring the idea of some kind of fully virtual keyboard for its notebooks – or perhaps an entirely new hybrid device – if a freshly updated patent is anything to go by. One of the updated patent claims now talks of “an electronic device comprising: a housing that forms a reconfigurable input surface configured to receive user touch input in a plurality of different input modes”. If you thought that the Touch Bar was a polarizing aspect of the latest

Actually, one element of the phone – its battery life – was positively woeful. Battery life, however, has stagnated at the single day mark, 36 hours max if you’re lucky. Chasing the impossible dreamImproving battery life shouldn’t be that difficult, right? Just make the battery bigger, or invest some of those billions of dollars of profit that the smartphone space is rolling in to boost battery development. Years of development for just one additional day of battery life isn’t exactly the advanc

Looking for the best Google Home prices on the net? You’re in the right place, as we search for and list the best deals every day! Google Home is one of the leading voice-activated smart speakers on the market, similar to Amazon’s Echo and Alexa devices. Simply say ‘Ok Google’ and ask it any question you like and Google Assistant uses the enormously powerful Google search engine to bring you the answer. The best Google Home bundle prices:We regularly spot bundles with some freebies to take advan

The study tested seven different fitness trackers – the Apple Watch, Basis Peak, Fitbit Surge, Microsoft Band, Mio Alpha 2, PulseOn and the Samsung Gear S2. The subjects were measured engaging in a range of activities, including sitting, walking, running and cycling while wearing fitness trackers. Where the results get interesting is the inaccuracies in measuring energy expenditure: “No device achieved an error in [energy expenditure] below 20 percent.”As a minimum level of fault that’s very hig

Microsoft’s Movies and TV store (previously known as Xbox Video) has just received its first 4K HDR movie, The Lego Batman Movie . Although this is not the first 4K video to be available on the store (that award goes to a number of extreme sports videos available on the service), it is the first that supports HDR video. Price of admissionOnce you have all the pieces of the hardware puzzle you’ll need to stomach a pretty hefty price premium to buy the film. The Ultra HD version will set you back

When will the iPhone 8 launch? And you’d think the answer would be obvious, as Apple’s iPhone launch events have taken place on the second week of September for five years now. Yet there are a growing number of reports suggesting Apple will push the iPhone 8 launch back this year. Even a delay is unlikely we’d think, but this is just the special edition of the iPhone 8 that we’re talking about, so if it is delayed the less ambitious iPhone 7S and iPhone 7S Plus might still launch on time. Octobe

HTC Vive owners who have previously looked with seething jealousy at Oculus Rift players enjoying a spot of seriously slick shooter action in Superhot VR need seethe no more – because the game has now arrived on Steam and the Vive. Hot dealAnd this addictive title can now be enjoyed on the HTC Vive, with Superhot VR being available to download and install on Steam, currently with a 20% discount (a promotion which runs until the end of the month). That said, the actual campaign is pretty short, a

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is expected to be the slightly bigger and, in many ways, the better version of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus. We’re now seeing the first evidence of that larger display, with the Note 8 front glass leaking today, according to a new 10-second video out of China. By comparison, the Galaxy S8 has a 5.8-inch screen and the S8 Plus maxes out at a 6.2-inch screen. Samsung could introduce a Samsung Gear VR game changer if it does include a 4K display, up from the current Quad H

If you’re looking to track down the very best deals on new iPhones you’ve come to the right place. Unlike other price comparison services, we’re completely impartial and we always aim to show you the best iPhone deals out there! See also: iPhone 7 deals | iPhone 7 Plus deals | iPhone 6S deals | iPhone SE dealsWhich iPhone is right for you? Read more: iPhone 6S deals4. iPhone SEThe new iPhone SE is an iPhone 6S in the shape of an iPhone 5SOS: iOS 9 | Screen size: 4-inch | Resolution: 1136 x 640 |

The electronics giant has announced the HTC Link, a little brother to the high-end HTC Vive. While the HTC Link isn’t tethered to a PC, it does require an HTC U11 smartphone for the needed computing power. That said, HTC is also hard at work on an entirely different VR headset that doesn’t need a PC or a phone due out later this year. The Vive-branded viewer will run on Google’s Daydream VR platform, and is part of a standalone headset push by the company. As such, we won’t be surprised if the s

If you want to sell boxes that come pre-loaded with Kodi, you’re going to need to find another somewhere other than Facebook Marketplace. Facebook is following e-commerce giants eBay and Amazon, both of whom prohibited the sale of Kodi-equipped hardware earlier this year. But what Facebook, eBay and Amazon are trying to curb is something called “plug and play piracy”, i.e. What this means is that the software and the hardware falls into a legal grey area: No you can’t get in trouble for owning a

While the firm did share some more tidbits regarding its Vega GPUs, no concrete details were given regarding price, release date or power profiles – and AMD Ryzen received even less attention. We can also confidently say that the more affordable, consumer-facing AMD Vega products will be available to purchase this quarter. Then again, we’re even more out of the loop when it comes to AMD Vega pricing. AMD’s slick new Vega logoAMD Vega priceThat’s right, with presumably a month to go before Vega a

Tech giants like Google, Facebook and Wikipedia are undertaking a concerted effort to crack down on the dissemination of fake news. How tech companies are fighting fake newsTo address fake news, Google announced plans last month to improve the quality and reliability of its search results. With the steps Google and Facebook have taken in recent months, one might wonder if any of them are doing anything to stop fake news. Leading up to May 7’s French presidential election, Facebook suspended 30,0

Two months after teasing a mysterious new handset, high-profile startup Essential could be just days away from unveiling its debut phone. Started by Android co-founder Andy Rubin, Essential has let loose the first tweet on its official Twitter profile, announcing that “something big” is expected to go down this coming Tuesday, May 30. We’re here to let you know something big is coming May 30th! Since then, Rubin teased an image of what appears to be a bezel-less handset, while Alphabet executive

Time is almost up for the OnePlus 3T. OnePlus is just days from taking the only phone it’s currently selling, off sale. As the Chinese firm gears up for the launch of the OnePlus 5 this summer, the final day you’ll be able to buy the OnePlus 3T is June 1. After then there will be no phones available to buy from the OnePlus website until its successor is launched. OnePlus made the announcement in a blog post, with a spokesperson saying “This is the last call to buy the OnePlus 3T before stock run

By connecting to the internet via a VPN, you can browse the web safe in the knowledge that your privacy and security will remain intact. Most VPN service providers offer services globally and thus charge in US Dollars rather than in local currencies, so we’ve listed pricing in Dollars for the sake of simplicity. Here are some of the best deals we’ve found this week for browsing the web securely:Hotspot Shield boasts great download and upload speeds as well as support for up to five devices. This