By Hugh Langley The end of days There’s so much going on in Ubisoft’s The Division that it’s difficult to know where to begin, so let’s start with the premise: the end of days. In 2001 the US government ran a simulation of a viral outbreak on American soil. The results showed that the country’s…

By Jay Donovan What ended up being my favorite episode of CES 2016 was watching someone experience Las Vegas on their own terms. An avid gamer named @hardlyeverwrong was posting some frustration online about his hotel — the Luxor — that was preventing him from using his own PS4 in his hotel room. Below is…

By techradar Our week started sadly with the news that David Bowie has returned to his home planet. In the obituaries, one thing that stood out was how prescient the Brixton Spaceboy was when it came to tech, predicting the mass influence of the internet and even founding his own ISP. And so as one…

Microsoft is throwing in a free one-year subscription to Office 365 Personal with every purchase of the Lumia 950 or Lumia 950 XL. The bundle is a limited-time offer only in select markets, so here’s where you can take advantage of it. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

The hot topic of mobile data encryption has engulfed authorities in New York. Assemblyman Matthew Titone is now looking into a bill that can force manufacturers to disable encryption on all handsets sold in the Big Apple. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

The Xiaomi Mi 5 surfaced in an early retail listing, revealing full specs and pricing details. Three color options and two storage configurations are in store, complementing the handset’s high-end specs such as a QHD resolution and a Snapdragon 820 chip, among the highlights. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Henrietta Rowlatt Introduction and design HP has made one of its thinnest laptops yet. The Envy Notebook 13-d002na clocks in at a measly 12.9mm high undercutting the fat edge of a 13-inch MacBook Air by some margin – 4.1mm to be precise, and this HP offering is also only 10 grams heavier. Under the…

By Henrietta Rowlatt Introduction and design HP has made one of its thinnest laptops yet. The Envy Notebook 13-d002na clocks in at a measly 12.9mm high undercutting the fat edge of a 13-inch MacBook Air by some margin – 4.1mm to be precise, and this HP offering is also only 10 grams heavier. Under the…

By Henrietta Rowlatt Introduction and design HP has made one of its thinnest laptops yet. The Envy Notebook 13-d002na clocks in at a measly 12.9mm high undercutting the fat edge of a 13-inch MacBook Air by some margin – 4.1mm to be precise, and this HP offering is also only 10 grams heavier. Under the…

LG is widely expected to launch its next-generation LG G5 at Mobile World Congress, which begins on Feb. 22. A new report claims the handset will feature the first-of-its-kind modular design. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Kane Fulton Razer is chopping 50 per cent from the cost of its PC gaming peripherals, but only for 24 hours. The gaming hardware company started the promotion to celebrate bagging the Best of CES People’s Choice award for the sixth year in a row. It starts on Jan 14 at 6pm PST/UTC-8 for…

By Kane Fulton Razer is chopping 50 per cent from the cost of its PC gaming peripherals, but only for 24 hours. The gaming hardware company started the promotion to celebrate bagging the Best of CES People’s Choice award for the sixth year in a row. It starts on Jan 14 at 6pm PST/UTC-8 for…

The Huawei Honor 5X is going to land on U.S. shores on Jan. 31 with a $199 price tag. It’s also already up for preorder, but before buying it, here are what others who got ahold of the smartphone have to say. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Tom Goodwin The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a feast to the eyes, but an overload of the senses. Separating the profound from the gimmicks and the trends from the distractions is vital, but hard. For me, there is one just one takeaway from CES this year: Everything around us is becoming digital. So…

By Bernard Desarnauts What if you went to start your car and Apple Watch stopped you? Yes, Apple Watch, with your permission, knew you had spent time at a bar, monitored your heartbeat and other physiological data and saw changes indicating that you had been overdrinking. When you walked to your car, it connected to…