By Sarah Perez When Amazon rolled out the next generation of its set-top box, the Fire TV, last year, one of the standout features was the addition of Amazon Alexa to the platform. Today, the voice assistant is making its way to owners of Amazon’s original Fire TV and Fire TV Sticks, the company announced…

By Darren Allan Windows 10 is popular among PC gamers – or at least Steam users, at any rate – and indeed it’s closing rapidly on Windows 7’s market share among users of Valve’s gaming service. New Steam survey results for January which have just been revealed show Windows 7 in the lead with 42.08%…

By Darren Allan Windows 10 is popular among PC gamers – or at least Steam users, at any rate – and indeed it’s closing rapidly on Windows 7’s market share among users of Valve’s gaming service. New Steam survey results for January which have just been revealed show Windows 7 in the lead with 42.08%…

By Katie Roof Square’s latest payments reader is coming to an Apple store near you, the company tells TechCrunch. The devices will retail for $49 and be available online and in-store throughout the U.S. Launched last fall, Square’s new contraption is NFC-enabled and works with Apple Pay. Now the standard in many countries, it accepts…

By Mr Biffo It’s been 12 years since Half-Life 2 was released, and nine years since we had any official Half-Life product from Valve; Half-Life 2: Episode Three has become the very definition of vaporware. It was announced officially, expected to follow close on the heels of Episode Two, and then vanished. In the time…

By Mr Biffo It’s been 12 years since Half-Life 2 was released, and nine years since we had any official Half-Life product from Valve; Half-Life 2: Episode Three has become the very definition of vaporware. It was announced officially, expected to follow close on the heels of Episode Two, and then vanished. In the time…

By Hugh Langley The weirdest announcement to come out of Japan so far this year has to be Detective Pikachu, the latest 3DS game from the Pokémon Company which portrays Pikachu as a tiny, coffee-swigging Sherlock Holmes. The game is out now in Japan, and several YouTubers have already uploaded gameplay footage that reveals more…

By Hugh Langley The weirdest announcement to come out of Japan so far this year has to be Detective Pikachu, the latest 3DS game from the Pokémon Company which portrays Pikachu as a tiny, coffee-swigging Sherlock Holmes. The game is out now in Japan, and several YouTubers have already uploaded gameplay footage that reveals more…

By Matt Burns Meet the new face of Fitbit. Called Alta, this new $130 fitness tracker is set to invigorate the company’s aging product line — if it’s not too late. The Alta is packed with the standard affair of Fitbit abilities, lacking only heart rate monitoring. Inside the band is activity tracking, sleep tracking,…

By Jordan Crook For years now, we’ve though of Augmented Reality in the context of our vision — Google Glass started the trend, and the Microsoft HoloLens enforced it. But the folks at Doppler Labs believe the future of augmented reality starts with the ears. It’s Here. The Doppler Labs Here buds, live in-ear audio…

A MacRumors report claims that Apple’s iPhone 7 will not have a protruding rear camera and unsightly antenna bands. The Apple news website also created a mockup of the design of the upcoming smartphone. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Anna Escher Petcube, which is part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 class, is a young startup that wants to bring together pet care and the connected home to improve the lives of our pets. To do this, the company has raised $2.6 million for their first product, the Petcube Camera. Read More …read more…

By Hugh Langley We can all agree that the best thing George Lucas’s Star Wars prequels gave us was Podracing, but you’ve never seen it like this. CaptainDireWolf has made a playable Podracing map for Halo 5, which is probably the closest we’ll get to a new Star Wars Racer game for a long while…

By Hugh Langley We can all agree that the best thing George Lucas’s Star Wars prequels gave us was Podracing, but you’ve never seen it like this. CaptainDireWolf has made a playable Podracing map for Halo 5, which is probably the closest we’ll get to a new Star Wars Racer game for a long while…

Samsung is expected to use either a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 or Exynos 8890 processor in the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. The Snapdragon 820-based Galaxy S7 has made an appearance on AnTuTu benchmark. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones