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  • The Dell Latitude 12 7202 might have an old processor, but a deep discount scheme combined with a plethora of accessories and parts mean that this rugged tablet is well and truly a bargain. The Latitude 12 is built mostly to withstand harsh environments, not win design contests, which explains a lot of pragmatic/functional decisions made by Dell. At the heart of the Dell Latitude 12 7202 is the Broadwell-based Intel Core M-5Y71 CPU, a dual-core processor with a tiny 4.5W TDP and a base clock spe
    Dell Latitude 12 7202 Rugged Tablet hands on review

  • Between HTC Vive and Oculus Rift there’s already a mass of hugely impressive VR experiences just waiting to transport you to new worlds and previously unobtainable experiences. Smartphone-utilizing VR headsets have come a long way in recent years, and now the Google Daydream platform is leading the charge on VR for the everyman. A more robust enhancement of the big-G’s past Cardboard creation, the Daydream platform is fronted by Daydream View, a fabric-coated VR headset that comes with its own c
    Best Google Daydream apps and games

  • So what will an IoT 2.0 look like? Interoperability and open ecosystemsOne of the key characteristics of the IoT 2.0 will be common standards. “IoT 2.0 will be defined by the immense number of IoT devices, sensors and actuators, deployed in very diverse environments,” says Dmitri Tcherevik, Chief Technology Officer at Progress. Are we close to getting £1 supercomputers-on-a-chip into IoT devices? That’s pure IoT 2.0.
    A closer look at the Internet of Things 2.0 – and why it’s inevitable

  • If you’ve been catching the little hints Elon Musk’s been dropping this year about revolutionizing traffic flow with a massive network of underground tunnels, you’re probably eager to hear more details about it – and we just got a few. That’s all for now – no word on a schedule, or a testing location, or whether your car radio is still going to work underground. But it’s an interesting insight into where this idea is headed, and if anyone can pull it off, it’s Elon Musk . Car movements below the
    Here's how Elon Musk's tunnels will put an end to traffic jams

  • Bixby Vision is laughably useless, Bixby Reminders is the digital equivalent of a shrug… great, another app that I can pop notifications in. Bixby is the runner that’s just stripping off at the start when it competitors are already 3 miles up the road. Samsung needs awareness to attract users, who in turn pull in developers who want to use Bixby to make money. To start that cycle, Bixby needs a push and having a dedicated button certainly keeps it front and center. So while we shouldn’t dismiss
    Wait - have we all been wrong about Bixby?

  • However, one of the company’s biggest divisions is gaming, which produces many of the peripherals you’ll find in eSports today. Beyond making gaming gear for professional players, though, there’s a far richer history and and development process behind every device Logitech G produces. A few years later, the company debuted their first Wingman gaming mouse in 1998, which sparked their history of excessively engineered experience. Gamers consider a number of Logitech peripherals to be legendary, i
    Inside the extreme science Logitech uses to build gaming mice

  • If you use a tablet as part of your professional or academic repertoire, it’s likely you also need an attachable keyboard. For those who’d rather not buy a new keyboard every time they get a new tablet, Logitech has unveiled its Universal Folio, an attachable keyboard/case combo that fits virtually any 9- to 10-inch tablet. A stylus with a nifty holder is also present in the front for making the most of the touch screen on your makeshift 2-in-1 computer. These are the best Windows tablets you ca
    Logitech Universal Folio turns almost any tablet into a 2-in-1 computer

  • The image of PC gaming as something that happens in a cramped study or a musty bedroom is fading. More people than ever seem to be happy plugging their rig into their TV and gaming on the sofa. Finding games that are truly suited for play in the living room requires a bit of research, though. After many hours of hard research, we’ve come up with 10 corkers. Some of these titles are picked for their ‘couch co-op’ support, others because they’re just the sort of thing we think you’ll want to play
    10 best PC games to play on your living room couch

  • It all started with the first Razer Blade, introduced in August 2011 as a 17-inch gaming laptop equipped with just 8GB of memory and Nvidia GT 555M graphics. TR: Externally, it doesn’t seem like a lot about the Razer laptop design has changed, are we wrong about this? Five-six years ago, we launched our first gaming laptop, nobody knew Razer except on the peripheral side of the gaming business. Truthfully, five years ago when we launched our first gaming laptop, we didn’t think today we would la
    In search of perfection: Razer reflects on five years of laptop design

  • Uber has updated its app with a dedicated menu for controlling your privacy settings that includes another much-requested feature: the ability to delete your account. Rolling out today the ride sharing service’s new settings allow users to tweak what personal data they share with Uber, such as location, notifications, and contacts all under one menu. The biggest feature, however, is that Uber now allows users to delete their account in-app with a single button tap. Previously, customers who no l
    Want to delete your Uber account? It just got a lot easier

  • As a result, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III sees developer Relic Entertainment return to the drawing board for what’s resulted in a mixed revival of a cult classic franchise. Like previous entries in the series, your role in Dawn of War III takes place from above, watching over the battleground. Speaking of which, the single-player aspect of Dawn of War III is a missed opportunity. [Editor’s Note: Relic Entertainment has since clarified the always-online nature of Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War I
    Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War III review

  • Amazon have released a set of commands that developers can use to make Alexa, the voice assistant currently found in the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot, follow a more speech natural pattern. The way Alexa speaks at the moment sounds pretty human, but there are obvious ‘tells’ in the lack of intonation, pitch change and pause that give away that it’s an artificial voice. There are five commands: Whisper, Expletive Beeps, Sub, Emphasis, and Prosody. Alexa, whisper to meWhisper and Expletive B
    Amazon's Alexa now sounds more like a real assistant

  • Roshal has published the code for extracting RAR archives, but not for creating them. Here we’ve looked at programs that can extract RAR archives and offer a similar feature set to WinRAR. To help you package up your files as quickly as possible, this free WinRAR alternative can skip any files that won’t compress particularly well. Ashampoo Zip FreeA nicely designed tool, but the teasers of premium content can be tiresomeAshampoo Zip Free is a well designed WinRAR alternative, held back by a few
    The best free alternative to WinRAR 2017

  • As TechRadar’s 3rd annual PC Gaming Week draws to a close, we’re going out with a legendary bang, thanks to our friends at Overclockers UK. Overclockers is helping us with PC Gaming Week’s biggest giveaway yet, an all-AMD Overclockers Titan Xenomorph gaming PC, plus a sweet, Epic Series gaming chair from Noblechairs – totaling a whopping £1,619.95 or about $2,089. This is luxury PC gaming at its finest. Thanks again to Overclockers UK for helping TechRadar put one helluva bow on our 3rd annual P
    Win an all-AMD rig from Overclockers UK in PC Gaming Week’s last giveaway

  • We’ve already reported that some Apple employees have apparently been using prototypes of a Siri-based smart speaker in their homes to test it out, and now it looks like we’re getting closer to seeing Apple’s answer to the Amazon Echo and Google Home. It’s been a couple of years since Amazon launched its first smart speaker with the Amazon Echo, and with Google recently throwing down a marker of its own with the Google Home, Apple will have to bring something special to dethrone the competition.
    Move over Echo and Home – Apple’s Siri-powered speaker could be here soon

  • Read the full review: Canon EOS Rebel T6i / Canon EOS 750D3. Read the full review: Canon EOS Rebel T7i / Canon EOS 800D5. Read the full review: Canon EOS Rebel T5i / Canon EOS 700D8. Read the full review: Canon EOS Rebel SL1 / Canon EOS 100D9. Read the full review: Canon EOS Rebel T6 / Canon EOS 1300D10.
    Best entry-level DSLRs 2017: What to look for and which to buy

  • In a recent interview with The Guardian, Xbox boss Phil Spencer revealed that the soon-to-be-launched Xbox Games Pass has the potential to be a place for Xbox to release new first-party games. Announced earlier this year and set to officially launch in Spring, Xbox Games Pass is a subscription service for Xbox owners that will give access to a library of over 100 games for a monthly fee of £7.99/$9.99/AU$10.95. Though on launch the games available through Games Pass will largely be a back-catalo
    Microsoft is considering bringing Netflix original-style games to Xbox Games Pass

  • Capture One Pro 10 is a powerful raw cataloguing and editing program offering the industry’s best camera tethering controls for professional photographers. It’s compatible with over 450 camera models, although tethered capture only supports Canon, Nikon, Sony and Phase One cameras. Even if you don’t ever intend to shoot tethered, Capture One offers image cataloguing and raw processing controls that make it worth consideration by serious photographers. That said, Capture One Pro isn’t really for
    Phase One Capture One Pro 10 review

  • Though there’s been no official confirmation that a game called Pokémon Stars is coming to the Nintendo Switch, we do know that a Pokémon game will make its way to the console eventually. Here we’ve laid out exactly what those rumors are, and we’ve also thrown in a few things we’d like to see from the first Pokémon Nintendo Switch title. The much-rumored debut of the Pokémon franchise on Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Switch of course! That means Game Freak is ready to move beyond the limitations of
    Pokemon Stars: all the latest leaks from the rumored Nintendo Switch game

  • The New Nintendo 2DS XL is the next hardware revision of Nintendo’s handheld, the 3DS, which has been available since 2011. $149.99 / AU$199.95 / UK pricing tbaNew Nintendo 2DS XL release dateNintendo has announced that the New 2DS XL will be launched on July 28 in the US and UK, just under five months after the launch of the Nintendo Switch in those territories. New Nintendo 2DS gamesThe New Nintendo 2DS XL, in the same way as the original 2DS, will be able to play the entire 3DS games catalogu
    New Nintendo 2DS XL: release date, news and features

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