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By Jamie Carter Consumer electronics companies are always looking for a brand to convince is to part with our cash, and by now all brands with any kind of recognition have already been licensed to Chinese gadget-makers. Some don’t work at all – does a Porsche laptop or an, err, KFC phone make any sense…

By Emma Boyle Black Friday was a lifetime ago – and Cyber Monday is already starting to fade in your memory – but that’s not stopping Amazon from continuing to offer some pretty competitive discounts. Amazon has now discounted the price of the PlayStation 4 Pro to £259.99, the lowest it’s ever been. The discount…

‘Call of Duty: WWII’ leaked video put out the new game modes and guns details. There is no word from the developer yet, however, fans are excited. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

The Pixel Visual Core chips tucked away inside Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL devices are lighting up. Google is enabling them with the developer preview of Android 8.1 Oreo and do the same for consumers in December. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Darren Allan Intel’s next-generation mainstream flagship processor will be a Core i7 CPU that sports no less than 8-cores with 16-threads, according to the latest from the rumor mill. According to recent leaks, as reported by Wccftech.com, the 9th-generation flagship processor will be the Core i7-9700K which will up the ante to 8-cores from…

By Gerald Lynch Can’t get enough of that sweet PUBG chicken dinner? Then you’ll be pleased to hear that smash-hit multiplayer shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is coming to smartphone devices. But there’s a catch – it’s (for the time being at least) only headed to China. It’s being ported by Tencent, who had previously announced it…

By Andrew London Destiny 2 is a more attractive proposition than ever, with the release of a free trial of the game being released November 28. Unlike the Beta that was released before the official launch, the free trial is much more like the full-game experience. You’ll be able to play single-player and multiplayer modes,…

Samsung recently made fun of the iPhone X for being late in smartphone innovation and having a silly notch design, among other things. Now it’s Motorola’s turn. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By John Biggs Researchers at Duke University, OSU and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have solved one of the biggest problems with new forms of quantum encryption: quantum key distribution. QKD is the process of distributing keys during a transmission and in a way that will tell both sides of the conversation that someone is eavesdropping.…

By Nick Pino Want an SNES Classic Mini, but can’t find one in stock anywhere? We’ve found an alternative that’s actually cheaper and, in some ways better. Nintendo is, generally, a pretty awesome company and between the launches of the Nintendo Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey and the…

By Ian Osborne The Apple Mac mini has long been the cheapest way to own a Mac. Since its introduction in January 2005, the small form factor desktop Mac has offered a low-cost alternative to the all-in-one iMac or the high-end Mac Pro. Although it’s sold without a keyboard, mouse or screen, everything else you…

By Mike Williams Turbo VPN is a popular free VPN proxy client for Android. Google Play reports the app has had 10 to 50 million installs, and it’s easy to see why. The free service gives you access to nine servers across North America, Europe and Asia, and there are no bandwidth limits or restrictions…

By John Biggs A few years ago jailbreaking your iPhone was all the rage. The cat-and-mouse game of hackers versus Apple was great fun and some of the open source products available to jailbreakers – namely the Cydia alternative app store – added amazing features and customizability to the iPhone. Some devs even launched only…

By Jordan Crook Anything you can do, AI can do better. Eventually. On October 12, NASA put on its own demonstration, pitting an AI-piloted racing drone against world-renowned drone pilot Ken Loo. Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who have spent the last two years working on drone autonomy (which was funded by Google), built…

Will Android 8.0 Oreo be on the Galaxy S7, Galaxy S8, or Galaxy Note 7? Well, according to a leak, here are the Samsung phones and tablets scheduled to get the latest Android update. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones