By Lewis Leong With laptops racing to see who can be the thinnest and lightest, compromises must be made. The Apple MacBook ranks as one of the thinnest and lightest ultraportables on the market, but you’ll have to carry a bag full of dongles as it only features a single USB-C port. PC makers have…

By John Biggs Look, it’s 2016. A cereal bar, pet grooming station, nap pod, and ping pong hovel aren’t enough to get a young programmer’s guts boiling. You need something unique. You need a flip disk system. This system, created by a BreakfastNY, is basically a modern version of those massive analog-digital signs you used…

By John Biggs If you’re anything like me you hate social media with a white hot passion yet you feel oddly compelled to put garbage into it on a regular basis, to your great shame. Thankfully there is now a service that can create a book about your year in social media, allowing you to…

Amazon has shaved $150 off the price of the Sony Xperia XZ, selling the smartphone at $499.99. The discounted Xperia XZ is an unlocked, GSM/ LTE model and is available in three color options. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Brian Heater Just in time for holidays, OhMiBod is releasing the latest version of its “wearable massager.” Half a decade after the release of the Club Vibe 2.OH, the sex toy innovator is back with a new version of its discreet vibrator. Version 3.OH is smaller than its predecessor and ships with a rechargeable…

By Darrell Etherington Mobileye and Delphi announced a partnership to build an affordable self-driving car platform it could sell to automakers starting in 2019 earlier this year, and now Intel is joining the two automative suppliers to provide the chips used in their autonomous system. Intel’s processors will power the interpretation of input from the…

Microsoft Surface Pro 5, iPad Pro 2 and the Google Nexus 7 (Pixel 7) are some of the best upcoming tablets of 2017. However, none of these tablets have been officially confirmed. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Brian Heater For all the pomp and circumstance surrounding LeEco’s US launch, the company hasn’t exactly made its products easy to get here in the States, largely relying on what it’s deemed “flash sales” – or limited time offers through its own store. Starting today, the LeMall commerce site is open for good here…

By Dom Reseigh-Lincoln It’s here. It’s actually here. More than a decade later, a couple of names changes and more interim spin-offs than you could shake a chocobo at, Final Fantasy XV has arrived. And with 2016 quickly becoming our collective ‘annus horribilis we’ve been in need a little bit of good news, so Noctis…

By Darrell Etherington Amazon could follow-up the early success of the Echo and Echo Dot with a new Alexa-powered premium speaker that includes a 7-inch touchscreen that can be tilted to different viewing angles for easier use in the kitchen, according to a new Bloomberg report. The speaker would include voice-based assistant Alexa, just like…

By Desire Athow Far more powerful computers coupled with much better tools (like cloud-based services) have slowly transformed the way scanners are being perceived – not to mention the arrival of smartphones with multi-megapixel sensors. While these multi-purpose, ubiquitous devices can compete with dedicated scanners in ad-hoc scenarios, they are inadequate for anything that requires…

Verizon has delayed delivery of the 128 GB Pixel XL smartphone once again. Customers who preordered the Pixel XL may have to wait until Dec. 26 to get their new phone. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Emma Boyle Pokémon Sun and Moon make some of the most noticeable changes to visuals and gameplay we’ve seen in the series for a while, and now the title’s developer Game Freak is launching an all new mechanic to get excited about: global missions. Global missions are limited-time events that issue Pokémon trainers everywhere…

By David Nield If you’d given up on The Last Guardian, we wouldn’t blame you – the game’s been in development since 2007, back in the early days of the PlayStation 3, and at one point it looked like the game was completely dead in the water. Then out of almost nowhere we got new…

By Jon Porter If there’s one thing you can rely on technology to do, it’s to get smaller and smaller until the point at which you’re almost certain it can’t go any further, and then it shrinks just a little more for good measure. Nintendo itself has played its part with devices like the Game…