The days of having to rely on external media boxes to handle all of your Smart TV needs are very quickly coming to a close. Its Tizen OS is snappy and responsive, but in order to get the most out of your new set you’ll need to load it up with apps. We’ve done the digging for you and found 10 gems in the rough that we think are the top apps for your new Samsung Smart TV. Need a new Samsung smart TV? How about the QE65Q9F QLED, Samsung’s 2017 flagship QLED screen?

Facebook continues to pump up its Live streaming service with new features, and today it’s unveiled two more designed to make broadcasting alongside friends easier, be you audience or host. The first of the new additions to Facebook Live is the ability to chat with friends in a stream, what Facebook is dubbing ‘Live Chat With Friends.’ Instead of having your comments lost in a sea of randos shouting over each other, Live Chat With Friends lets you invite folks to a private conversation thread so

Over at a press event in Shanghai, Microsoft has revealed the next model in its Surface range of hybrids, and as expected, the follow-up to the Surface Pro 4 has dropped the number and is simply called the Surface Pro. As with the Surface Studio, this allows for a more comfortable experience when doing things like sketching on the Surface Pro with the stylus (or using the Surface Dial with the hybrid). Beefy batteryThe Surface Pro has a claimed battery life of 13.5 hours, an impressive boost (th

Update: We’ve just added some US deals too, which are also the cheapest we’ve ever seen. We do love a good voucher code, especially when it makes devices like the Amazon Echo Dot even cheaper than Black Friday. With the voucher code being valid until June 6, there’s a good chance stock will return in in time. US update: Amazon is selling refurbished Amazon Echo Dot units for just $37 down from $49.99 for a regular version. With a saving of $13, we think this is a fantastic deal especially as the

The fear that my smart home is making me dumber started not long after I had filled every light and lamp in my house with smart lightbulbs. The living room has Hue bulbs that change color and brightness depending on what I am doing. This relative – who shall remain unidentified – has the temerity to not fill their home with smart light bulbs, no matter how many smart light Christmas/Mother’s Day presents I’ve got her… I mean them. Guests who stay over are frequently perplexed by our smart light

Apple has unleashed a new weapon against Google to win over consumers using Android handsets. The Cupertino firm has launched a ‘Switch from Android’ website and a series of 16-second videos on its YouTube channel that essentially works as a FAQ for Android users, explaining how it thinks that iPhones and iOS are superior. Apple’s previous campaign targeted at Android users focused more on the ‘Move to iOS’ app – which helps transfer data from one OS to the other – rather than providing informat

This could be the last time we’ll be talking about cheap Wii U deals, we’re certainly not expecting much action on Black Friday 2017. Nintendo recently confirmed production on the Wii U is ending soon as the Japanese giant prepares for the Nintendo Switch. There are some strong games in its lineup right now, but considering the still-high costs, you may want to consider a Nintendo Switch deal instead. Wii U game dealsThe Wii U hasn’t enjoyed the same success as the original Wii console, but that

Hitch up your horses – the wait for Red Dead Redemption 2 just got longer. Publisher Rockstar Games announced today the highly anticipated sequel to 2010’s Red Dead Redemption will now go on sale in spring 2018. Red Dead Redemption 2’s release date was initially slated for fall 2017, but Rockstar says ‘the outlaw epic’ requires more time, as it’s being built from the ground up for PS4 and Xbox One. So far, we know Red Dead Redemption 2 takes place “across the vast and unforgiving American heartl

If this photo is genuine, then we’ve just had one of the clearest views yet of the Samsung Galaxy X, the first ‘properly’ foldable smartphone to be released. The Galaxy X leaks comes from Dutch tech site TechTastic, which has found a picture of the supposedly-impending device. It takes a lot of cues from the current Samsung Galaxy S8, but is devoid of sensors on the front. TechTastic posits that this is due to the fact the Galaxy X will have a screen on the back (which becomes the front when fol

Debuting in France at the Cannes Film Festival, HP has pulled the curtain back on not one, but three refreshed lines up laptops and 2-in-1 devices. Leading the pack is the HP Spectre x2, with just one model asking for $999 (about £769, AU$1,342) this June. The upgraded Spectre x2 adopts much of HP’s new Spectre aesthetic found in its recent high-end laptops, but more importantly an entirely new screen. This time, the firm has dipped even deeper into Microsoft’s font of inspiration, fitting its l

The forthcoming OnePlus 5 could be faster than the Galaxy S8 and the Google Pixel XL when it launches in the near future. TechRadar has been sent a chart from a trusted source close to OnePlus showing internal testing of app load times for the new smartphone versus the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Google Pixel XL. The results are promising for the fledgling smartphone brand, with the OnePlus 5 delivering times quicker than its rivals in most of the app loading tests. The results show the OnePlus 5 is f

Last week we saw images of a mystery Nokia phone appear in a leaked advert from the company, but now we know it’s real as someone had the opportunity to use one at an event in France. The Nokia 9 is in prototype form at the moment, but writers at Frandroid had the opportunity to use the phone and take photos of the handset. Top end Nokia returnImage 1 of 5 Credit: Frandroid Image 2 of 5 Credit: Frandroid Image 3 of 5 Credit: Frandroid Image 4 of 5 Credit: Frandroid Image 5 of 5 Credit: Frandroid

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 may be the first phone to have a fingerprint sensor under the screen of the device. That may be because Samsung feels ready to place the scanner under the screen. Rumors suggested Samsung planned to put the fingerprint reader under the screen of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, but couldn’t get the tech right in time for the release, and instead had to place the scanner on the rear of the phone. Even bigger screensWhether the fingerprint scanner is going to work well u

There’s more positive news on the PC front, with one analyst firm declaring that laptop sales are up for the first quarter of this year, against traditional seasonal expectations (i.e. It is, then, something of a temporary swing, but any good news is welcome when it comes to PC sales these days. And the Q2 outlook remains ‘positive’ according to TrendForce notebook analyst Anita Wang, with anticipated growth of 1% to 3% year-on-year. Wang noted that: “North America had a substantial wave replace

Bridge cameras are a versatile and affordable alternative to DSLRs, offering the same kind of manual controls plus a huge zoom lens that covers everything from wide-angle to super-telephoto photography. The first is that bridge cameras have much smaller sensors than DSLRs or mirrorless cameras, so they can’t match them for picture quality. We’d certainly sacrifice a little for of zoom range for better and faster optics. Some image smoothing is visible at 100% image size, but it’s a common trait

Steam’s new VR loading screen, SteamVR Home, has just launched into beta and it includes a host of new upgrades including the ability to invite friends into your space with you for multiplayer interaction. SteamVR Home replaces the platform’s loading screen – currently an open-space surrounded by an impressive space nebula – that anyone who’s used an HTC Vive headset will be familiar with. For a full list of SteamVR Home’s features, check out Valve’s site. If you’d like to try out SteamVR Home f

Multiple rumors are pointing towards an expensive iPhone 8 handset this year, and one of the reasons for Apple’s hotly tipped anniversary edition iPhone getting a price hike could be the difficulty it’s facing with 3D Touch. Chinese site, the Economic Daily News has information from sources at TPK Holdings (the firm that supplies Apple with 3D Touch sensors) claiming the price of the sensors will double for the iPhone 8. The reason is apparently due to the complexity involved in attaching them t

But while the home VR Alien experience is yet to arrive, the terrifying movie franchise will soon get a virtual reality makeover for a new theme park attraction. FoxNext, the immersive entertainment arm of studio Twentieth Century Fox, is developing a multiplayer VR experience that will let four visitors face off against the xenomorph hordes. Game on man, game onFoxNext has worked with iP2 Entertainment and VR content creator Pure Imagination Studios to build the Alien experience, using iP2’s pr

The difference is that while WannaCry used a pair of NSA hacking tools to spread and install malware, EternalRocks has a further five NSA tools in its malicious toolbox, making a total of seven. There’s no kill switch here, either, so no way of shutting the thing down as happened in the case of WannaCry. Furthermore, it’s also worth bearing in mind that some nefarious types are offering up solutions for WannaCry which are actually malware themselves. As Easy Solutions pointed out in a blog post:

A number of documents and manuals used to train Facebook’s moderators have been exposed in an investigative report by The Guardian, revealing the type of content users are and aren’t allowed to post on the social networking site. That includes taking some controversial stances. For instance, it’s allegedly Facebook policy to allow the livestreaming of video of people attempting self-harm, only removing the video “once there’s no longer an opportunity to help the person … unless [the videos] are