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AT&T has started rolling out the Android 7.0 Nougat update to the Samsung Galaxy S7 active, and that means all models of the smartphone across major U.S. carriers can now download the latest Android version. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

IBM has managed to do the unthinkable. The company has been successful in storing one bit of data on a single atom, which may in the future revolutionize the way data is stored in devices. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ have been recently spotted on FCC ahead of their official March 29 launch. This suggests that the Samsung flagships’ have been given a green signal in the U.S. as the debut inches closer. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Nicholas Fearn ThunderNews may not be the most well-known Usenet service on the market, but it’s vying for your attention as a premium newsgroup offering that works with thousands of third-party servers across the world to provide a plethora of options. What it does The service offers a tempting combination of solid connection speeds,…

The Samsung Galaxy S8 is rumored to house yet another top-notch security feature. Samsung will reportedly equip its flagship smartphone with a facial recognition feature, in addition to an iris scanner. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

A mysterious ZTE device featuring the Android 7.1.1 Nougat OS has been spotted at the GFXBench. The rumored device with the codename ZTE Z986 is expected to come loaded with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 processor. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Dong Ngo This is the fastest and largest little storage device you’ve seen, but can you afford it? Here’s CNET’s full review. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

By John Biggs Ready for some XTREME WRIST GAMING ACTION? Sure you are. But here’s the Gameband, a new smartwatch for gamers that lets you play simple games on a tiny, wrist-mounted screen. Founded by Feargal Mac Conuladh the watch has a MicroSD slot for storage of up to 256GB of games and it can…

By Damien McFerran We’ve all heard about consoles like the Sony PlayStation, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox, and there’s a good chance you have one of these – or more – secreted beneath your television set right now. A successful games system can sell hundreds of millions of units, generating an incredible amount of revenue…

By Darren Allan Alongside the release of its new GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, Nvidia is unleashing a fresh graphics card driver which promises a performance boost in DirectX 12 games. Those running DX12 games (under Windows 10) will benefit from driver optimizations which according to Nvidia will deliver an average performance boost of 16% across…

By Kevin Lee The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti has been arguably the most anticipated graphics card of the new year. The 1080 series is Nvidia’s top-end GPU for gamers, and this year’s iteration even outpaces the Titan X in several regards. Priced at $699 or £699 (about AU$930) – the same as the pre-discounted…

A retailer has already started taking preorders for the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. The prices are significantly higher than last year’s Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Patrick Goss Rarely does an Editor take issue with their audience, but when the votes of the best console of all time were counted I was genuinely gobsmacked that Sony’s impeccable PlayStation 2 was not the runaway winner. Consoles are still in their infancy, and yet in hundreds of years’ time people will look…

By Andrew Willliams Everyone loves Mario Kart. But, particularly these days, not everyone has a Nintendo console. Maybe the Nintendo Switch will change all that, after all stranger things have happened in the last decade of gaming. In case it doesn’t, here are 10 of the best Mario Kart alternatives. We’ve included ones released around…

By Jon Porter Over the years, video game controllers have changed beyond all recognition. What started as a joystick and a single button with the Atari 2600 has changed to add extra buttons, joysticks, shoulder buttons and even triggers. Controllers nowadays are complicated beasts indeed. They’ve still got the D-pads and face buttons that have…