By Matt Burns Sony has issued a notice that YouTube will no longer work on some 2012-era smart TVs. But it’s not Sony’s fault, guys! It’s YouTube and the dastardly engineers who pushed the YouTube app past the TV’s performance capabilities thus proving once again it’s best to offload smart capabilities to set-top boxes. The…

A report claimed that Samsung was planning to issue a worldwide recall for the Galaxy Note 7 over the coming days amid reports of exploding batteries. The official announcement on the recall came just hours afterward. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Darrell Etherington Nintendo wants to harken back to its heydays with the new, unreleased Nintendo NX console in more ways than one: A new WSJ report says it’ll use cartridges in place of discs, which have been standard on the game company’s home consoles since the introduction of the GameCube in 2001. Cartridges are…

By Darren Allan Windows 10 continues to make good headway with gamers according to the latest statistics from Steam, despite the fact that the freebie offer for the OS isn’t in effect any more. Valve’s latest figures on operating system usage across the Steam user base are for August, the first full month when Windows…

By Desire Athow The Xeon with a secret In the history of processing power, faster didn’t always quench the need for speed which is why multi-threading, multi-core and multi-socket solutions were introduced, first at the very top-end of the market and more recently to consumers. Having more of everything does help to speed up performance…

By Joe Osborne Alienware has finally brought some much needed agility and versatility to its 15- and- 17-inch gaming laptops. Both notebooks have received a massive overhaul not just in components, but chassis design and unique features. For starters, Dell’s gaming division has drawn liberal inspiration from competitors like Gigabyte’s Aorus series of notebooks, but…

By Kevin Lee Since Nvidia’s latest generation of Pascal graphics came to laptops, we’ve been seeing a ton of upgraded gaming notebooks come out of the wood work. But while hardware refreshes are great, we still have yet to see something truly new. That is until now. The new Alienware 17 is the first portable…

By Kevin Lee Since Nvidia’s latest generation of Pascal graphics came to laptops, we’ve been seeing a ton of upgraded gaming notebooks come out of the wood work. But while hardware refreshes are great, we still have yet to see something truly new. That is until now. The new Alienware 17 is the first portable…

Huawei launched two new midrange smartphones, the Nova and the Nova Plus, ahead of the IFA 2016. Both mobile phones will be globally released in October this year. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

Chinese telecom regulator TENAA has cleared the purported Lenovo Vibe P2. The handset may come with a 5.5-inch display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 625, 4 GB of RAM and more. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Kevin Lee Logitech wants to lower the barrier of entry for PC gaming by launching a new Prodigy line of affordable peripherals staring with a keyboard, mouse and headset. Starting with the G213 Prodigy RGB gaming keyboard, it offers all the premium features of a gaming keyboard for just $69 (about £50, AU$90). It’s…

By Devin Coldewey Have you ever been in a VR conference call and thought, well, I know what everyone looks like from the front, but what about the other sides? The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications has your back — and theirs. Researchers there have created a powerful multi-camera setup that captures every aspect of someone…

By Kane Fulton Dell’s XPS 15 has been one of the true highlights in the 15-inch laptop space during 2016. It features the company’s space-saving InfinityEdge tech, which slims down the chassis size by shrinking the display’s bezels to mere millimeters. It looks great and is practical to boot, allowing the machine to be slipped…

By Kane Fulton Dell’s XPS 15 has been one of the true highlights in the 15-inch laptop space during 2016. It features the company’s space-saving InfinityEdge tech, which slims down the chassis size by shrinking the display’s bezels to mere millimeters. It looks great and is practical to boot, allowing the machine to be slipped…

By Darrell Etherington Samsung is looking into reports from multiple users that the recently released Galaxy Note 7 has issues wherein a few phones have exploded during charging. A Samsung spokesperson told TechCrunch that they’re “conducting a through inspection,” and Korean news agency Yonhap reported earlier that a potential recall of the all Note 7…