By Romain Dillet Meet the Lima Ultra, a tiny device that lets you create a personal cloud and control your data more easily. Think about it as a Dropbox alternative with data sitting on a hard drive in your home. The Lima Ultra is a new and improved version of the original Lima. It’s more…

If you have been hankering for the fingerprint gestures support the Google Pixel XL and Pixel handsets boast, then a new app called Fingerprint Gestures is the answer to your prayers. It will enable owners of Android Marshmallow devices to use the nifty feature on their phones. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Emma Boyle According to recent reports, the Nintendo Switch console is expected to launch in the UK with prices starting from £199.99. The report comes from LetsPlayVideoGames, who claim to have heard from two reliable sources that UK retailer Game has been told that it can expect to sell the console from £199.99 when…

By Darrell Etherington Wireless VR will do a lot to help the tech become more viable, since dealing with your heavy cable umbilical on Oculus and HTC Vive right now is a pain. MIT has created a new wireless communication system designed specifically for VR that could unburden us for truly immersive VR experiences. MIT’s…

By Brian Heater The Touch Bar is an interesting proposition. Part innovation, part work around. The technology is Apple’s attempt to embrace a new form of input while continuing to eschew touchscreen on its computers. I was mostly pleasantly surprised by the technology, in terms of its capability, versatility and responsiveness, but for now, it’s…

By Darrell Etherington The next Spectacles vending machine location is on again, with a little under 24 hours to go as of this writing on Monday morning. The next location is still a secret, of course, but the first two have been LA and Big Sur in that order, so there’s precedent for both a…

By Darren Allan If you’re in the market for a good mechanical keyboard, then Razer’s BlackWidow Ultimate could put some bite into your gaming skills without wounding your wallet given that it’s currently £69.99. The peripheral has a recommended price of £135, so with this discount, it’s almost half price. You can buy the Razer…

By Darrell Etherington Cray has a new supercomputer called the XC50, the successor to its XC40 model and the first supercomputer from the company that can deliver one petaflop of performance (at peak) in a single cabinet. The XC50 supports the NVDIA Tesla P100 GPU accelerator, as well as nex-gen Intel Xeon and Xeon Phi…

By Brian Heater My MacBook Pro is on its last legs. The anti-glare laminate began bubbling up some time ago, spreading across the screen like an untreatable rash, fogging up the webcam in the process. The hinge is loose, so the screen shakes when someone walks by. The little black rubber bumpers have fallen off…

By Dan Ackerman Apple’s Touch Bar — a thin screen that replaces the function keys on the new MacBrook Pro — can’t compete with the multitouch screen found on iPads and Windows laptops, but it has a lot more promise than you might expect. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By Darren Allan Rumor has it that the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti will be launched at the beginning of next year at CES, and the latest from the graphics card grapevine is that this powerful card will carry 10GB of video RAM. This comes courtesy of Videocardz.com which spotted a shipping listing for an unnamed…

By Jon Porter Despite not offering ‘native’ 4K, Sony’s new PS4 Pro seriously impressed us with its graphical improvements over the stock PS4, but a variety of issues are emerging with the new console. Digital Foundry is reporting that a variety of games are actually running worse on the new hardware than on the standard…

By Jon Porter The NES Mini is fast becoming one of the hottest christmas presents this year, and it’s almost impossible to find the retro console for sale anywhere. That hasn’t stopped one intrepid YouTuber JerryRigEverything from tearing the console apart to find out what’s making it tick. What he found was that the innards…

The Google Pixel XL and LG V20, two of the most powerful smartphones of 2016, went head to head in a performance test. Both are true powerhouses, but which performed better? …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Kane Fulton While it’s easy focus your time, money and attention on hardware and the latest titles, it can also pay to invest in a comfortable chair to support you during those lengthy gaming sessions. Even affordable models are a substantial step up from your average office chair, with many featuring proper back support,…