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By Devin Coldewey If you’ve had bad luck so far in trying to nab an SNES Classic Edition, you’ll have a fresh chance tomorrow. Two major retailers have announced they have stock in hand and will be selling it starting October 11. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Devin Coldewey Intel’s quantum computing efforts have yielded a new 17-qubit chip, which the company has just delivered to its partner in that field, QuTech. It’s not a major advance in the actual computing power or applications — those are still in very early days — but it’s a step towards production systems that…

By Leif Johnson Much as many customers feared in the wake of the NES Classic Mini shortage, the followup SNES Classic Edition sold out almost immediately following its release late last month. Fortunately, if you missed out, a new batch is already on the way to video game retailer GameStop. GameStop announced that stores across…

By Desire Athow Chuwi’s SurBook began its life as an Indiegogo campaign, pitched as an affordable 2-in-1 Intel-based PC tablet which looked like an almost exact replica of Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 – but without the hefty price tag. The campaign ended in July 2017 and proved to be wildly popular, raising more than $1…

The Essential Phone will receive an Android Oreo public beta in the coming weeks, in addition to night mode and other much-needed performance fixes. Essential also confirmed the status of the white variant, saying it’ll ship soon. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

Apple recently unveiled the iPhone X, introducing the Touch ID replacement Face ID. Now a report says that the Cupertino brand may equip 2018 iPad Pro models with the facial recognition technology too. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Emma Boyle It’s not out until November 7, but there are already some decent bundles to be had for Microsoft’s Xbox One X. When it launches, the 4K console will be the most powerful on the market but at £449.99, it’s also going to be the most expensive. Fortunately, Currys PC World currently has…

By Abbas Jaffar Ali,Joe Osborne The Surface Pro 4 was a fine product but had its fair share of issues, many of which took a bit too long to rectify or at least patch up. With the new, numberless Surface Pro, it’s obvious that Microsoft took that feedback to heart. The battery life has been…

By John Biggs Researchers at the Imperial College London’s Aerial Robotics Laboratory have created the SpiderMAV – a robot that stabilizes itself by shooting out multiple strands of rope that can stick to magnetic surfaces. The drone, which is a standard quadcopter, has a built-in rope gun that blasts out little connectors. The drone then…

By John Biggs On this week’s Technotopia I talked to Massimo Banzi and Fabio Violante, the co-creators of Arduino. This pair of Italian artists saw their little single-board computers as a gateway to high-tech art but they’ve essentially created a world in which anyone – from an 11-year-old hacker to a huge corporation – can…

By Mike Williams SpyOFF SpyOFF is a San Marino provider that proudly claims to be “the fastest VPN alive” (presumably as opposed to all those dead or zombie VPNs – ed). We browsed SpyOFF’sSpyOFF’s website for background details on its performance, but all we found were more dubious claims. When asked “Will the VPN slow…

By Abbas Jaffar Ali At GITEX Technology Week, Intel announced its new family of 8th Gen Intel Core desktop processors. This new family introduces the first-ever 6-core Intel Core i5 desktop processor and first-ever 4-core Intel Core i3 desktop processor. For enthusiasts and overclockers, the unlocked “K” processors are back as well and the platform…

Meet the BlackBerry Motion, TCL’s latest attempt to make BlackBerry relevant amid a highly competitive landscape. Unlike last year’s KEYone, it doesn’t have a keyboard, which is probably a good thing. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Jordan Crook Nintendo SNES Classic owners should be glad to learn that more games aren’t out of your reach. Cluster, the Russian coder who originally cracked the NES Classic Edition, has now figured out how to side-load more games to the SNES CE through his Hakchi tool. With the release of Hakchi v2.20, users…

By Emma Boyle Paris Games Week is fast approaching. Now in its eighth year, the show is scheduled to begin on November 1 before running through to November 5. This year, all eyes are on Sony and the pre-show conference that it’s announced as taking place on October 30 at 3pm GMT / 4pm CET…