By Jon Porter What’s the best Christmas movie? Obviously the only answer here is Die Hard, but Home Alone deserves a mention, and now its two baddies, Harry and Marv, have made their way to Hitman’s Paris level as a pair of burglars in need of a good dose of assassination. The inclusion was first…

By Nick Broughall,Stephen Lambrechts Update: Foxtel Play is now available to stream on the Telstra TV streaming device and is receiving new pricing tiers – details below! It seems like an age since the TV through the internet craze took Australia by storm. While ABC iView and SBS On Demand are practically everywhere these days…

By Daniel Van Boom Square Enix’s latest epic isn’t perfect, but it’s a refreshing take on its most revered franchise. …read more Source:: cnet Camcorders

By Devin Coldewey During the supreme madness of the Pokémon GO season this summer, it wasn’t uncommon to hear people talk about how the insanely popular game was boosting activity levels and making people walk miles more than they did before. That effect appears to have been significantly overstated, according to research published in the…

By Aloysius Low Don’t let the plastic chassis fool you, this tablet features top-end specs at a pretty affordable price point. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By Devin Coldewey The internet connection on the International Space Station and other platforms in orbit is getting a serious upgrade that will double its capacity, NASA announced today. But they aren’t sending up a new router or satellite; the improvements are mainly terrestrial. The ISS and dozens of satellites rely on the Space Network,…

By Darrell Etherington Microsoft is making Cortana available to third-party device makers, and opening up the platform to third-party developers, too, so that they can integrate their own services in Cortana-powered devices. The news comes after an earlier revelation that Cortana would be coming to some IoT devices via next year’s Creators Update for Windows…

By Devin Coldewey If you intend on delaying your gift-buying to the degree that you have to 3D print a few just before go time, you’re in luck. This easy to use little tool lets you quickly select, customize, and print out a tiny topographical map of anywhere in the world. Read More …read more…

By Scott Stein Apple’s new “truly wireless” earbuds are finally available. Here’s what you need to know. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By Nick Pino Jimmy Fallon isn’t the only person invited to take a look at Nintendo Switch – Nintendo is going to give the whole world an in-depth sneak peek of the system before it launches at March with its live webcast, starting at 11pm ET / 9pm PT on January 12. (That’s 4am BT…

By Sarah Perez Apple today is rolling out an update to macOS Sierra that addresses several issues with MacBook Pro computers, including the graphics problems on late 2016 MacBook Pro computers. Plus, in response to reported battery life concerns on these devices, Apple will now remove the “time remaining” display from the menu bar pulldown…

By Frederic Lardinois Google first announced Android Wear 2.0 at its I/O developer conference in May, with a promise to roll it out to all users later this year. It has now delayed those release plans in favor of more developer previews and today, it launched the fourth of these. Just like before, there is…

By David Carnoy Jabra’s Sport Elite is a totally wireless waterproof headphone that features two separate cord-free earbuds and an in-ear heart-rate monitor. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By Darrell Etherington Velodyne has a new LiDAR sensor design that could help bring an autonomous driving future closer than ever; it’s a small, solid-sate design that has a cost of less than $50 per system, when purchased at the kind of high volume rates needed for mass manufacturing. LiDAR’s cost has been a limiting…

By Darrell Etherington Google has acquired the company and team behind CoWatch‘s software, an Android-based smartwatch OS that differed from most in that it also offered Amazon Alexa access on your wrist. Cronologics announced on its site that it will be joining Google, working on Android Wear, after having developed its Android-based OS for the…