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By Emma Boyle Like your birthday, Christmas and Halloween, FIFA release day rolls around but once a year. That most wonderful time of year is almost upon us again with FIFA 18‘s September 29 release date but a matter of hours away. Even though most of us at this point have accepted the FIFA franchise…

By Mike Williams FrootVPN is a Swedish VPN provider owned by Edelino Commerce, the group behind Anonine VPN, VPNTunnel, BoxPN and more. The FrootVPN network looks good, with 80 servers in around 30 countries. These aren’t just the usual locations in North America or Europe, either. The company has servers in Brazil, Russia, Israel, Japan,…

By Devin Coldewey Making sure fresh food is kept at the right temperature during transit is a harder problem than one might think — but the Swiss are on the job. Not only did they create robo-fruit to mix in with the real ones, but another research team has created a biodegradable temperature sensor that…

By Josh Constine Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Google is building a tabletop smart screen for video calling and more that will compete with Amazon’s Echo Show. The device could help Google keep up in the race for the smart home market after Amazon just revealed a slew of new Echos and as Facebook continues…

By Devin Coldewey Like many cities, Moscow has an enormous network of CCTV cameras, but unlike many cities, thousands of those cameras are now hooked up to a powerful facial recognition system that can track criminals (and trash collectors) wherever they go. The privacy implications are serious, of course, but a large scale rollout like…

By Mike Williams Avast Business Antivirus is a new business-oriented endpoint protection tool which aims to combine the very best of Avast and AVG technologies. A lengthy list of features starts with the security essentials: antivirus, behavior monitoring, and real-time file, email and download scans, along with smart blocking of dangerous URLs. Security suite-level tools…

By Emma Boyle Rockstar promised brand new Red Dead Redemption news on September 28 and it delivered in a big way with the game’s second official trailer. So, what have we learned about the game this time? Well, according to Rockstar the game will tell “the story of outlaw Arthur Morgan and the Van der…

Apple has published a six-page technical white paper that addresses some of the questions and security concerns surrounding the new iPhone X’s Face ID feature. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Devin Coldewey Riding high on the success (and mind-boggling scarcity) of the NES Classic Edition, Nintendo surprised no one with the announcement of the SNES Classic Edition, a tiny version of the classic Super Nintendo console that comes with 21 of its greatest hits built in. But a few new features and departures from…

By Emma Boyle Assassin’s Creed has always been a franchise with a grand vision both in terms of the scale of its worlds and its narratives. Telling a story that has a foot in our present while making history an accurately and respectfully recreated playground is no small task but the team behind Assassin’s Creed…

By Darrell Etherington Nvidia Shield TV, the Android TV-powered smart TV streaming box that offers 4K and more, now also includes built-in support for Google Assistant. Nvidia’s integration of Google Assistant was first revealed way back in January, but the feature was announced as something that would be coming later. Now it’s arriving to Shield…

By Darren Allan Intel’s new monster Core i9 processors boasting 18-cores and 16-cores have just gone on sale, and Asus has set some blistering new records overclocking these CPUs with its ROG Rampage VI Apex motherboard. Using the Core i9-7980XE 18-core processor (with a base clock of 2.6GHz, Turbo to 4.2GHz) cooled with liquid nitrogen…

By Darrell Etherington Aston Martin has a new concept submarine designed in partnership with submarine maker Triton Submarines. The project is codenamed “Neptune,” and the concept designs envision a sleek underwater craft with aggressive pointy-ended pontoons and a central passenger bubble cockpit with an unobstructed, all-around view. The Neptune submersible combines Aston Martin’s design skills……

Android cofounder Andy Rubin’s Essential Phone is an excellent device, but people are seemingly apathetic toward it. A new report claims only 5,000 units of the phone have been sold so far. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Darren Allan Nvidia has just released new drivers for its PCIe graphics cards to ensure compatibility with the latest version of macOS 10.13, known as High Sierra. Driver version 378.10.10.10.15.114 introduces a raft of performance tweaks and bug fixes, along with compatibility for Pascal-based (i.e. Nvidia’s latest) GeForce and Quadro GPUs in the current…