By Darren Allan EA has published the official system requirements for its World War I shooter, Battlefield 1. The fourteenth incarnation of Battlefield might use the “most optimized” version of the Frostbite engine yet (with much improved network code for smoother running, too), according to Per-Olof Romell, DICE’s Director of Technology, but it’ll still make…

By Jon Porter The Last of Us movie might currently be stuck in development hell, but there’s hope for anyone looking to get their zombie fix this year. The Girl with all the Gifts, a movie based on the book of the same name, bears more than a passing resemblance to Naughty Dog’s seminal third-person…

By Darrell Etherington Higher resolution is making for larger video and images, but luckily, flash memory capacity seems to be keeping pace. A new SDXC card from SanDisk unveiled today has 1TB of space available, which basically means you can put t in a camera and essentially forget it even has a storage cap at…

By Brian Heater I’m a bit surprised Canary didn’t just go ahead and make the Flex its flagship. For starters, the camera is just a heck of a lot nicer looking than its predecessor, a white (or black) pill-shaped product with a glossy black frot and a glowing power ring on the bottom that brings…

By Steve Boxer Forza Horizon 3 Forza Horizon, Microsoft’s arcade-style driving game, ought to be an underdog: it was originally a mere spin-off from Forza Motorsport, the company’s high-tech, serious-minded racing simulator. But it instantly won a sizeable fan-base by taking a completely different approach from the game that spawned it. While the original Forza…

The OnePlus 3 just saw a successful launch recently, but OnePlus is said to be already working on the next flagship smartphone. Here is what we know so far about the OnePlus 4. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Devin Coldewey When you see or hear something happen, you can instantly describe it: “a girl in a blue shirt caught a ball thrown by a baseball player,” or “a dog runs along the beach.” It’s a simple task for us, but an immensely hard one for computers — fortunately, IBM and MIT are…

A new patent hints that the alleged Surface Phone from Microsoft could tout a novel fingerprint scanner. The scanner will be integrated in the device’s display and not the home button or rear of the handset. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

The replacement units reaching Galaxy Note 7 owners in the United States do not have blue S stickers and green battery indicators, which are previously mentioned signs of devices with no faulty batteries. Fortunately, there is another way to check. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Duncan Geere I bet you love some terrible games. I do. Just Cause 2’s plot-by-numbers and awful voice acting, for example, couldn’t put me off it’s intoxicating blend of grappling-hook action and big explosions. Dwarf Fortress looks like a spreadsheet circa 1987 and is about as comprehensible, but I can’t help but get swept…

By Kane Fulton The Oculus Rift has finally made it to the UK, where it can be picked up from select retailers. To date, UK folks have had to order the headset online which involves additional shipping costs – not to mention wait times. But the Rift is now available to buy in UK shops…

By Kevin Lee SanDisk has taken the unveiled the world’s first 1TB SDXC card, doubling the current maximum capacity seen with all other memory cards. The new 1TB SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I memory card only exists as a prototype. However, just two years ago at Photokina 2014 SanDisk announced 512GB capacity card that was…

By John McCann Can you hear that? It’s the sound of a smartphone offering best-in-class audio – at least that’s what HTC wants you to believe with its latest mid-range marvel, the HTC Desire 10 Lifestyle. The phone arrives as one piece of a double act, with the higher spec Desire 10 Pro taking most…

By John McCann HTC’s duo of new mid-range smartphones aim to bring some flagship style to the middle of the market, and it’s the HTC Desire 10 Pro leading the way as the most powerful Desire handset ever, borrowing several features from the HTC 10. While its cheaper brother, the Desire 10 Lifestyle, is firmly…

Many iDevice owners exchange or sell their old device to purchase a new one. Here is how to effectively wipe out personal data from an iPhone or iPad before selling or exchanging it. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones