By Jon Porter Introduction and Nintendo E3 2016 is probably the single most important event for gamers all year long. It’s here we’ll get our first look at the big franchises that will keep our consoles and gaming rigs humming later in the year and, if we’re lucky, a sneak peek at next-gen hardware, too.…

T-Mobile is now putting the LG G Pad X 8.0 up for sale. Although the tablet is midrange at best, it does run Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow out of the box, which is still quite rare to see. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

Asus may launch a ZenFone 3 Deluxe running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 823 processor that can support up to 8 GB of RAM. The Snapdragon 823 model of the Asus phone, however, will be available only in select markets. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless is running a limited time promo for Father’s Day where consumers get a 50-inch or 30-inch Samsung Smart TV, the Gear VR headset and more as freebies upon purchasing select Samsung smartphones. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Devin Coldewey Part of Microsoft Accelerator’s batch 3 of startups, DefinedCrowd is filling a niche in the big data and machine learning community, providing near-real-time feeds of rich language data, checked by actual well-informed humans all over the world. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Haje Jan Kamps When you think action cams, any number of brands spring to mind. Ricoh may not be one of them, but on paper, the WG-M2 from Ricoh has the perfect combination of features if you like your adventures on the wet and rough end of the spectrum. The camera’s party-trick — and…

The OnePlus 2 and OnePlus X are now available to purchase directly from Amazon. At the launch of these smartphones, customers had to wait for an invite from the company to purchase a handset. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Parker Wilhelm Yeah, yeah, you probably knew Minecraft is huge – but do you know exactly how huge? It turns out the creative cube builder has sold more than 106,859,714 copies to date, according to Mojang, with 53,000 copies still being sold each day since the beginning of this year. Not only is the…

By Parker Wilhelm Yeah, yeah, you probably knew Minecraft is huge – but do you know exactly how huge? It turns out the creative cube builder has sold more than 106,859,714 copies to date, according to Mojang, with 53,000 copies still being sold each day since the beginning of this year. Not only is the…

By Brian Heater The field is getting mighty crowded, but Samsung’s not backing down from its big fitness push. Today the company is unveiling two new wearables — an update to its Gear Fit activity tracker and the IconX, a pair of completely wireless earbuds aimed at runners. The company kicked off a pre-briefing with…

By Devin Coldewey The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest is a yearly competition in which writers attempt to create the worst possible opening sentence to a novel. Google, for several reasons, should enter this year — in its latest self-driving car project report, the company writes: “As our honking algorithms improved, we’ve begun broadcasting our car horn…

By Lewis Leong Valve’s quirky Steam Controller has sold over half a million units, according to the company. The Steam Controller was released in November 2015 to accompany Valve’s Steam Machines, which are basically gaming PCs built for the living room. Valve had to rethink how a gamepad would work in a living room setting…

By Lewis Leong Valve’s quirky Steam Controller has sold over half a million units, according to the company. The Steam Controller was released in November 2015 to accompany Valve’s Steam Machines, which are basically gaming PCs built for the living room. Valve had to rethink how a gamepad would work in a living room setting…

By Parker Wilhelm After being all-but-official thanks to Instagram leaks, quarterly reports, and promotional Ray-Bans, Ubisoft has announced that Watch_Dogs 2 is happening and will appear at E3 2016 later this month. Ubisoft’s E3 press conference – and presumably our first look at the sequel to 2014’s cybercrime thriller – will stream live over YouTube,…

By Parker Wilhelm After being all-but-official thanks to Instagram leaks, quarterly reports, and promotional Ray-Bans, Ubisoft has announced that Watch_Dogs 2 is happening and will appear at E3 2016 later this month. Ubisoft’s E3 press conference – and presumably our first look at the sequel to 2014’s cybercrime thriller – will stream live over YouTube,…