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Razer is going to unveil a new product on Nov. 1, and it’s not a laptop. The company now seems ready to announce the phone it’s been working on since acquiring Nextbit. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Alex Cox The march of technology stomps ever onwards, and it’s as noisy as ever. But we don’t see the technology parade the way we once did. We’ve found ourselves able to tune out its incessant footsteps. That constant, desperate upgrade cycle has, by all accounts, slowed rapidly; sometimes a great budget laptop will…

By Devin Coldewey Google is permanently axing all “top touch” functionality from its new Home Mini device after a nasty bug was documented yesterday that essentially recorded everything around the gadget and sent it to Google. These things happen! Either the company couldn’t be sure it could fix it or it couldn’t be sure people…

By Kevin Lee Western Digital (WD) has announced its next biggest innovation in hard drives, and it could bring capacities all the way up to 40 terabytes. At its San Jose, California headquarters, WD announced the world’s first microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) hard drives. The storage company claims its innovative MAMR technology will enable its…

By Leif Johnson Last summer, the Oculus Rift and Oculus Touch bundle enjoyed an appealing $100 six-week price drop down to $399. As of today, though, that’s now the permanent price in the US. Facebook virtual reality chief Hugo Barra made the announcement on stage during today’s Oculus Connect event. However, the company has yet…

By Desire Athow Solid-state drives have pushed hard disks out of the mainstream to niche markets where performance is far less important than the sheer price per GB. SSDs maintain their decade-old advantages of better performance, lower power consumption and higher reliability regardless of any advances in magnetic technology. But in a market dominated by…

By Cameron Faulkner Facebook’s dedicated, wire-free headset codenamed Project Santa Cruz will be in the hands of developers starting early next year. This headset was first shown off in 2016, but at Oculus Connect 4, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off a revised version of the headset, which will boast full inside-out tracking – meaning…

By James Peckham Innovating an ereader is a difficult task and something Amazon has struggled with in its most recent iterations of the Kindle brand. The Kindle Oasis (2017) marks the ten year point since the release of the first ever Amazon ereader and this feels like one of the biggest steps forward for the…

T-Mobile is heating up the carrier competition in the United States, offering a deal that lets unlocked Pixel 2 owners $325 cash back, while undercutting Verizon’s offering. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Emma Boyle Based on its recent console re-release trend, we’re starting to think that gaming is simply a front for Nintendo and that the company has been working on a shrink ray for the past few years. The name for the Wii must have been inspired by something, after all. Now that we have…

By Emma Boyle Just like subscription-based TV services, there’s an increasing amount of choice when it comes to subscription-based gaming services. Sony and Microsoft have their own dedicated online services where games are there to sweeten the deal – PlayStation Plus and Xbox Live. However, they also have their own services dedicated purely to accessing…

By Emma Boyle It’s hard to believe, but this month marks one year since the release of PlayStation VR. Sony’s venture into the virtual reality market has proven to be one of the more successful ones, with the company reporting in June that more than one million units had been sold – far outstripping estimates…

By Abbas Jaffar Ali Star Wars fever is soaring high with the new trailer for Episode 8 landing in. If you fancy getting a bit of Jedi training before you head over to the cinemas at the end of the year, then head over to Etisalat and pre-order the Lenovo made Star Wars: Jedi Challenges…

By Stephen Lambrechts Previously known as Catch of the Day, the Australian retail website Catch will be celebrating its 11th birthday by hosting a 24-hour sale tomorrow (October 12) that will see a number of discounted and hard-to-acquire items on offer. The most sought-after item on that list? Why, that would be the SNES Classic…

By Taylor Hatmaker The idea of inviting an always-on recording device into our bedrooms would have once seemed beyond creepy but now most consumers hardly give it a second thought. As Android Police reports, a small number of Google Home Mini review units given to tech reviewers malfunctioned, persistently recording audio in the background without…