This cheap MacBook Air deal is the best way to grab a luxury laptop on a budget
Home News Laptops (Image credit: Future) If you’re looking for a MacBook Air deal this week, you’d be hard-pressed to find a model under $1,000. Today’s MacBooks all come packaged with anything from 256GB of SSD storage all the way up to 8TB, with the price tags to match. This $699 2017 MacBook Air deal,…
Resident Evil 3 Remake gets first trailer and release date
Home News Gaming (Image credit: Capcom) Resident Evil 3 Remake has been formally announced by Capcom after an earlier leak, and it’s got a release date of April 3, 2020. The first trailer looks well in line with the tone of this year’s Resident Evil 2 Remake, with a similarly grim depiction of Raccoon City…
Top Christmas gifts for mobile gamers
Home News Gaming (Image credit: TechRadar) Mobile gamers are a special breed, playing anywhere and everywhere with all manner of phones. For the smartphone gaming fan in your life, here are the best Christmas gifts we’ve found.If you’re starting from the ground up, we have plenty of gamer phones to recommend at plenty of price…
Oppo’s first smartwatch could be more than just another Apple Watch clone
Home News Wearables Oppo earphones (L), Oppo Reno 3 Pro (M) and Oppo smartwatch (R) (Image credit: Oppo) Having made serious inroads into the smartphone arena, several Chinese tech brands are now targeting the smartwatch market: Huawei has released a few watches now, Xiaomi showed off the Mi Watch in November, and now Oppo has…
First Google Pixel 4 ‘feature drop’ adds cavalcade of new capabilities
Home News Mobile phones (Image credit: Google) Although the Pixel 4 and 4 XL only launched a little over a month ago, Google has today announced a number of new features are coming to the Android flagships, with “the first Pixel feature drop” of many set to roll out this month.The new update will arrive…
‘Plundervolt’ attack breaches chip security with a shock to the system
Today’s devices have been secured against innumerable software attacks, but a new exploit called Plundervolt uses distinctly physical means to compromise a chip’s security. By fiddling with the actual amount of electricity being fed to the chip, an attacker can trick it into giving up its innermost secrets. It should be noted at the outset…
Facebook’s video calling Portal devices add WhatsApp login, new features and content
Facebook is making its line of Portal-branded smart video calling devices more relevant to consumers, including those who don’t even have a Facebook account. The company today says its Portal family of products will now work with just a WhatsApp account, allowing users to make video calls to friends and family, as well as access…
Y Combinator will now run its online Startup School multiple times per year
Back in 2017, Y Combinator began offering a 10 week, once-a-year online course called Startup School. Part forum community and part video classroom, the program offers up a variety of lectures on topics like raising money or evaluating startup ideas, as led by YC partners and other entrepreneurs from their network. Three years and 40,000+…
Google Assistant gets a customized alarm, based on weather and time
Alarm clocks were one of the most obvious implementations since the introduction of the smart screen. Devices like Lenovo’s Smart Clock and the Amazon Echo Show 5 have demonstrated some interesting in the bedside display form factor, and Google has worked with the former the refine the experience. This morning, the company introduced a handful…
xs:code launches subscription platform to monetize open source projects
Open source is a great source of free tools for developers, but as these projects proliferate, and some gain in popularity, the creators sometimes look for ways to monetize successful ones. The problem is that it’s hard to run a subscription-based, dual-license approach and most developers don’t even know where to start. Enter Israeli startup…
