It’s had more facelifts than an aging Hollywood star, and now Microsoft is set to take the knife to the Xbox One Dashboard design once again. Aiming to deliver a “faster Home experience” according to a new post on the Xbox Wire, it’s looking to declutter the console’s boot screen, and in doing so it’ll also be removing on-console support for Cortana voice control. It’s a move that’s raising eyebrows among some in the Xbox community, chiefly those who use voice control as an accessibility feature

If you have an Oculus VR headset, you can now stream shows and movies from Amazon Prime Video, via a new Prime Video VR app. The app allows US and UK owners of the Oculus Quest, Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, and Gear VR to watch Prime Video shows like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Good Omens on their headsets – all searchable by voice. According to an Oculus press release, these include “Emmy-nominated short film INVASION! Joining the competitionIf you’re not enamored by the content on offer at Prime

If your phone has more than one camera around the back, there’s a very good chance it has an optical zoom. The iPhone XS and XS Max, for example, have a 2x zoom camera, whereas the OnePlus 7 Pro has a 3x optical zoom lens. If, however, you’ve got a 5x optical zoom phone, then it will likely outperform many compact cameras, which pack a standard range of 3x zoom. These are all different names for the same thing, and they open up a world of manual control for photography enthusiast smartphone user

The LG gram 14 2-in-1 offers up a smooth keyboard, crisp display and battery life that goes for almost forever. The gram 14 2-in-1 weighs very little, has a respectable spec sheet, and is reasonably priced. For the LG gram 14 2-in-1, that answer is a resounding yes. Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: TechRadar) Image 2 of 4 (Image credit: TechRadar) Image 3 of 4 (Image credit: TechRadar) Image 4 of 4 (Image credit: TechRadar)Design and displayThe outside of the gram 14 2-in-1 is somewhat boring. One of

The Fujitsu Lifebook U939X is one of the best business laptops on the market and should top your list if you are looking for a sub-1Kg device that can turn into a tablet. Fujitsu sent us the Lifebook U939X convertible laptop which is one of their flagship notebooks that target enterprise and business markets. DesignIt would be an understatement to say that the Fujitsu Lifebook U939X is light. The Fujitsu Lifebook U939X appears to have more tricks up its sleeve than your average magician. (Image

Liberty Global reportedly plans to create its own fibre joint venture in a move that would expand the reach of its Virgin Media cable business and create a competitor to Openreach. Virgin Media FTTP networkBT-owned Openreach is embarking on a major build of FTTP with ambitions to reach 15 million premises by the middle of the next decade. It has been suggested Virgin Media would be the ‘anchor tenant’ for the joint venture with other operators invited to use the infrastructure as an alternative

Oracle wants to get all of its 4,000 on-premise customers in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region on to the cloud in the next two years. Khehar wants more than 1,000 of its on-premise customers to move to the cloud this year. 700 live cloud customers in regionKhehar is confident that the opening of a data centre in Abu Dhabi in February this year has helped the company in many ways. Oracle has more than 700 live cloud customers in Middle East and Africa region, including Emaar Group, Fine Hyg

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge will soon have a new ‘reveal password’ button that will let you check you’ve entered your login credentials correctly before you submit them, reducing the risk of being locked out of your accounts for too many failed attempts. The button will appear automatically in password fields on any website with a login form. Microsoft is developing the button for the new Chromium-based Edge, and has decided to let Google add it to Chrome as well. Legacy featureThe button i

The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10 Pro can’t stop leaking, with the latest photos seemingly showing the two handsets in real life – and there’s no question which one is set to be more impressive. There’s also been a flurry of big claims of new features apparently coming to the new Samsung handsets, but first let’s take a closer look at that image leak. Posted by the generally reliable @UniverseIce Twitter account, the images see the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Pro lying side-by-side, w

So, now that the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super has finally arrived and the Nvidia Turing lineup is finally complete (for now), we thought it was about time to take a step back to see if Nvidia Turing is worth it for most people. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 Super side by side (L to R). Then, we now have the RTX 2080 Super launching for about $100 less than the regular RTX 2080 Founders Edition did back in September 2018. But, compared to the RTX 2070 Super and RTX 2060 Super, e

Popular media software VLC Media Player has a critical software vulnerability that could put millions of users at risk, security researchers have warned. Known as CVE-2019-13615, the vulnerability is found in the latest edition of the software, VLC Media Player version 3.0.7.1, and is rated at 9.8 in NIST’s National Vulnerability Database, meaning it can be labelled as ‘critical’. The issue has been detected in the Windows, Linux and UNIX versions of VLC, however the macOS version appears to be

For the rest of the summer, a number of Nvidia GeForce-powered laptops are getting discounts. The discounts include everything from budget gaming laptops, like the HP Omen 15t with an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650, to higher-powered models, like the Asus ROG Strix Hero III with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 powering a Full HD, 144Hz display. There’s even something for non-gamers who could still use the uplift in performance that a dedicated graphics processor (GPU) can offer. Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 ju

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SimpliSafe is offering 15% off a home security system and including a free security camera that normally retails for $99. SimpliSafe is a well-known home security system that features 24/7 monitoring for your home or business. The security camera provides live 24/7 HD video that you can monitor from your smartphone or tablet and alerts you the instant motion is detected. SimpliSafe Home Security Sale:15% off SimpliSafe Security Systems + Free CameraSimpliSave is offering 15% off a home security

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A new short story collection may be about to tease where we’re headed for Dragon Age 4. Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights is a new set of tales by a handful of BioWare authors, edited by Dragon Age’s current lead writer, Patrick Weekes. So, Dragon Age Origins introduced Ferelden, Dragon Age 2 focused on the single city of Kirkwall, and Dragon Age: Inquisition spanned the Orlesian Empire. The title of the new short story collection adds weight to the rumour that Dragon Age 4 will be set in the Tevinter

The Nintendo Switch is a true haven for fun gaming, able to shift with ease between portable and home play. But recent reports of issues with the Switch’s Joy-Con controllers could be putting that at risk. Others have joined the outcry, with US law firm CSK&D even filing a class-action lawsuit against Nintendo “on behalf of purchasers of Switches and Joy-Con controllers,” given the “alleged defects”. We are aware of recent reports that some Joy-Con controllers are not responding correctly. We wa

Ubisoft’s most recent financial results have revealed that its PC games made more money than any other platform. The Xbox One was considerably behind on 18%, followed by mobile gaming platforms on 7% and the Nintendo Switch on 5%. This is the second quarter in a row that PC sales have beaten out all other gaming platforms, with the previous fiscal results showing a 36% share for PC compared to 34% with the PS4. And of course Ubisoft has the aforementioned Uplay+ service arriving in September, to

The last year has been full of exciting developments in the mobile phone market. We want you to let us know which carrier you’re rooting for in 2019, what you’d most like from your operator and the things you’re really looking forward to reading about in the next 12 months. Who are the new disruptive players in the mobile phone space? As a thank you for taking part we’ll automatically enter you into a prize draw to win a $300 Amazon voucher. The survey is only available to complete until July 26

Feast your eyes on this, Witcher fans: Netflix has pushed out the first trailer for the upcoming TV show that’s based on the popular stories by Andrzej Sapkowski (and that have also spawned a classic series of games),So what have we got here? The trailer suggests the origin stories of Ciri and Yennefer are going to be crucial to the action. Stick around to the end for perhaps the most dramatic shot of the trailer. If you’re completely new to the Witcher franchise, it centers on the adventures of