Samsung acquired the license to a coating technology that allows glass surfaces to repel water and dirt. It can be applied to smartphone displays and other electronic devices that are outfitted with glass panels such as tablets, smartwatches and television. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

The Google Pixel and Pixel XL will be unveiled on Oct. 4, and most of the details regarding the devices have already leaked. What appears to be an official press image for the 5.5-inch Pixel XL has been published online. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By James Rivington If you were thinking of waiting until Black Friday to grab yourself a hot PS4 deal, you may want to re-evaluate your gameplan. Tesco Direct has just launched a range of PS4 deals that are cheaper than anything we’ve ever seen since the console launched for £349 three years ago. Tesco sent…

By Matt Swider Introduction, design, MotoMods and display Moto Z Play is the slightly thicker, long-lasting and more affordable smartphone with creative modular accessories, and proof that Motorola is committed to the idea of a customizable phone. You can snap on a bunch of different mods – from stylish battery packs, to a mini boom…

By Lewis Leong Self-driving cars are the future, and Nvidia wants in. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced today at the inaugural GPU Technology Conference Europe that the company is developing a simplified supercomputer that can power self-driving cars. The supercomputer, called Xavier, is a system-on-chip (SoC) design that features both CPU and GPU on a single…

Samsung has officially announced that its new Galaxy Note 7 units are ready to go on sale in Europe on Oct. 28. This move follows the company’s voluntary Galaxy Note 7 recall over exploding batteries. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Mike Jennings Introduction It’s tempting to dismiss PC cases as big black boxes, but that’s dismissing huge swathes of the market – and one of your system’s most important components. There’s a huge amount of variety and quality in every corner of the market. At the top are the full-tower behemoths that can house…

By Gabe Carey Introduction and design We first went hands-on with MSI’s Pascal series laptops about a month ago at a press conference where the company boasted, once again, that its latest gaming laptops were prone to ‘shatter desktop performance’. Featuring the same power of the Nvidia Pascal desktop GPUs we were all drooling over…

T-Mobile customers who preordered the Jet Black iPhone 7 Plus have started to get their devices shipped, although there are still plenty who continue to wait. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

After years of struggling and an exceptionally brutal second quarter, BlackBerry announced that it will cease designing its own phones and focus entirely on software. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Devin Coldewey Humans are pretty good at ballparking distances, even with one eye closed — but it turns out computer vision systems have a hard time with it. Researchers hope to fix that, or at least make robots a little more robust, by teaching them to navigate a space without the benefit of stereo…

By Kane Fulton Introduction Update: At number 16 on our list, we’ve added Darkest Dungeon, a dungeon-crawler RPG that’s ostensibly cutesy on the outside but a tough egg to crack underneath. The idea that Macs can’t do gaming is an outdated one. Sure, you can’t crack open one of Apple’s computers and slot an Nvidia…

Xiaomi recently unveiled its latest flagship killers, the Mi 5s and Mi 5s Plus. Apple’s iPhone has something to fear, as Xiaomi offers phones with powerful specs, excellent cameras and sleek design for a hard to beat price. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Darrell Etherington On this week’s episode of TCBC, after a brief Disrupt-induced hiatus, longtime TechCruncher Greg Kumparak dishes on Pokémon Go – what made it so appealing at launch, what’s going on with product development, and where he’d like to see it go in the future. Me and Greg are both big Pokémon fans,…

By Emma Boyle The 34th annual Golden Joystick Awards are nearly here, and it poses a simple question for you: “What’s the best game you’ve played this year?” It’s a straightforward question, with no tricks to look out for, no hypotenuses to calculate, but there’s little chance your answer will be immediate or easy to…