By Jon Porter The Apple Watch is set to get its first RPG from Square Enix, publishers of the long-running Final Fantasy Series of role-playing games if a teaser site is to be believed. Details on the game are currently scarce. We know it’s called Cosmos Rings, and that it’ll be exclusive to the Apple…

By Darren Allan Kaby Lake CPUs, the successor to Skylake and seventh generation of Intel’s Core processors, have now begun shipping. This fact was announced by chief executive Brian Krzanich, as Intel revealed its latest financial figures for Q2, although when he says the CPUs have started shipping, that means they’re going out to hardware…

By Desire Athow It’s hard to believe that HP’s PageWide technology is four-years-old already. The new print head – which as its name implies covers the whole width of a page – helped HP grab the world record for the fastest desktop printer. The Officejet Pro X576dw (and its predecessor, the X551dw) managed to print…

By Desire Athow It’s hard to believe that HP’s PageWide technology is four-years-old already. The new print head – which as its name implies covers the whole width of a page – helped HP grab the world record for the fastest desktop printer. The Officejet Pro X576dw (and its predecessor, the X551dw) managed to print…

The Sony Xperia XA and Xperia X Performance are now available in the United States. Here’s what you may want to know, from the specs to the price and more. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

The much touted Galaxy Note 7 leaked in a new render, this time showing off its neat new S Pen stylus. Moreover, the stylus will reportedly work even underwater. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Devin Coldewey The Tesla “Master Plan Part Deux” published tonight by founder Elon Musk proposes quite a lot of major projects, but perhaps the most far-reaching of them all is the plan to put solar on every roof and a battery in every garage. And to do that, he not-so-subtly hints, Tesla and SolarCity…

By Devin Coldewey It’s been four decades since the Viking 1 lander touched down on Martian soil, the first lasting human presence on the surface of the Red Planet. It beamed its unprecedented data back to NASA, where it was stored on the hot new format of the day: microfilm. Now one scientist wants to…

By Devin Coldewey Pop quiz, hot shot: You’re a delivery drone with a flight duration of 20 minutes with your current payload, but because of delays (use your imagination) you’re never going to make it in time. What do you do, hot shot? What do you do? You land on a streetlight that’s been converted…

By Parker Wilhelm The soccer-with-cars phenomenon Rocket League is one step away from being the first game ever to bridge multiplayer between Xbox One and PS4 players. The catch? Developer Psyonix just needs to get the ol’ thumbs-up from Sony before it can go live. We’ve known for while that Psyonix had the know-how to…

By Devin Coldewey DeepMind may be a master at one of the most complex games on Earth, but can it handle the day-to-day energy concerns of a Google datacenter? Yes, as it turns out, and with a vengeance. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Darrell Etherington The Nintendo NX is one of the most long-teased console releases I can ever remember, especially as an officially acknowledged thing. Speaking on his company’s quarterly earnings conference call yesterday (via IGN), Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot shared some tantalizing impressions about the NX: It’s “really great,” and it should “help the industry…

By Brian Heater Corning has managed the remarkable feat of making smartphone glass – if not sexy exactly, at the very least compelling. Smartphone makers tend not to go out of their way when it comes to talking up third-party component manufacturers, but name-checking Gorilla Glass has become common practice at product unveils, a sort…

By Devin Coldewey A drone is a great eye in the sky, but if you want richer data than what its cameras show — for example, detailed 3D maps — you might be looking at a few hours of processing time. That is, unless your HQ is rocking Lockheed Martin’s cool-sounding Hydra Fusion tools, which…

By Dave Rudden PlayStation Neo Games Even though we likely won’t even touch PlayStation Neo hardware until late 2017, the weeks and months are sure to be packed with new information and imaginative prognostication on the virtual reality-focused 4K-compatible hardware. While we’ll enjoy diving into the specs and feature set as those details become available,…