The software for Sennheiser’s high-end headphones has been discovered to have a major security flaw which could potentially allow hackers access to a users’ personal details. During a random check, security consulting firm Secorvo has found that Sennheiser’s HeadSetup and HeadSetup Pro softwares installed a root certificate into the Trusted Root CA Certificate store along with a non-unique private key. To make matters worse, uninstalling the software itself doesn’t remove this trusted root certi

Over the past few years, there’s been a resolution revolution as Full HD TVs have become virtually extinct in the face of new, improved 4K TVs. From being a cutting-edge new tech a few years ago, 4K TVs are now the mainstream, accounting for nearly 50% of all TVs shipped worldwide. That’s so much more detailed than the paltry two megapixels offered by Full HD TVs. Just because you have a 4K TV, it doesn’t mean that everything you watch is in 4K. Here’s what you need to know about 4K upscaling wh

One bomb of a Microsoft hardware leak has just dropped from an unlikely source: the final chapter of a non-fiction novel penned by a technology journalist. “ Beneath a Surface ,” the debut novel by Brad Sams of Thurrott.com fame available now in ebook format, has lots of information on future of Surface, Xbox and even the long-rumored Andromeda device. Speaking to anonymous sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans, Sams learned of an entire hardware product roadmap in place for 2019 and 2020. As

Online Chinese retailer, Gearbest, has the Cubot King Kong 3 on sale for £127 ($159.99) at the time of writing. Let’s find out if this King Kong makes it to the top of the Empire State Building, or is riddled with machine gun bullets much nearer the foyer. DesignIt seems an odd name for a phone, King Kong, given that in Asian culture, the giant movie monsters represent nature’s counterpoint to humans and our technology. But we digress – this is what Cubot called the handset, and the numbering hi

Intel is gearing up for an Architecture Day to talk all about its next-generation processor architectures. The chipmaker has reportedly been sending out physical invites pointing to an Intel Architecture Day that will land on Tuesday, December 11 according to HotHardware. We greatly appreciate the excitement and interest in Intel Graphics. https://t.co/DMvsBgNTPCNovember 28, 2018Raja Koduri, Intel’s recently acquired Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Systems and Graphics Architect

If it feels like there’s more YouTube videos about franchises like Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto and Fortnite than there is around Mario Party, The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon, it probably has something to do with the Creators Program, a policy instituted by Nintendo that squirreled away up to 40% of a YouTube video’s ad revenue after YouTube had taken a cut. It’s an antiquated program that streamers hate and one that ultimately limited the amount of Nintendo-focused videos on YouTube, T

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The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Microsoft with a $480 million contract to produce up to 100,000 HoloLens headsets for infantry use in combat missions, Bloomberg reports . The news comes amid the wide use of HoloLens in military training for some time now. US military officials clearly like what they’ve seen, and they’re now ready to deploy augmented reality (AR) tech in live combat missions. “Many Microsoft employees don’t believe that what we build should be used for waging war,”

Toyota and Japanese phone operator NTT Docomo have proved that it’s possible to operate a humanoid robot wirelessly via 5G, with performance similar to a wired connection. In tests, an operator controlled a T-HR3 robot using a Master Manoeuvring System (MMS), which allows the machine mirror a human’s movements. Follow the leaderThe T-HR3, which Toyota unveiled earlier this month, is the company’s first foray into humanoid robots for several years. Controlling a robot wirelessly from a remote loc

If you’ve ever wondered how to take a screenshot on a Mac or MacBook, then you’ve come to the right place, as we explain all the ways you can take a screenshot on a Mac. Screenshot optionsYou no longer need to use a Terminal command to choose where Mac screenshots are saved! Save the entire screen on the desktopTo take a screenshot on a Mac of the whole screen, press Command (⌘) + Shift + 3, which will place a screenshot file on your desktop saved as a .png file. Take a screenshot of a windowTo

A team of artists are using improvisation and augmented reality to create a different science fiction play every night for 13 days. Thirteen Cycles is currently underway at the Rosemary Branch Theatre in London, with the final show taking place on November 29. The play’s set uses projection-mapped interactive visuals, ensuring a different look on stage every night. “Katy and Chris have a huge amount of experience creating engaging improvised theatre, and to create improvised soundtracks to their

One of Joel Burgess’s proudest moments as Fallout 3’s lead level designer was giving a big “Fuck You” to players. Redefining the Fallout seriesWriter and designer Erik J. Caponi says he felt a “weight of responsibility” when working on Fallout 3. The team wanted to live up to the legacy of the series while acknowledging it would be many players’ first Fallout game. Indeed, Fallout 3’s guns felt floaty, and bullets lacked impact outside of the cinematic V.A.T.S. On that game, Burgess managed to c

If you have a Mac, be it a traditional PC, an iMac all-in-one, or a MacBook, and you do a lot of printing, then you’ll want the best printer for your Mac device. Getting the best printer for your Mac means ensuring that it can easily connect to your Apple product either via wires or wirelessly. The best printers for Macs will also be capable of high print quality. This is why the Epson SureColor SC-P800 is on this list of the best Mac printers. It strikes a very good balance between print qualit

He enlisted the help of his six-year-old son James to try out Google’s Family Link app with Nokia smartphones. Nokia asked me to take a look at Google’s ‘Family Link’ app, which enables parents to manage the apps on their children’s device. They kindly sent me a Nokia 7.1, and my six-year-old son James a Nokia 3.1, to give the Family Link software a try. The Family Link software comes in two flavors – there’s an app for the parents and an app for the children. While the Family Link software is d

Intel has released new Universal Windows Driver (UWD) graphics drivers for Windows 10 – also known as Windows Modern drivers – with some nifty features including support for a couple of new games, and further support for the automatic tuning of game settings for a number of older titles. This is the first such driver to be delivered by Intel, and the fact that this is labelled a universal driver simply means that it works across all device types, similar to how universal apps run across all devi

Malware will become far more sophisticated in 2019, with cybercriminals using AI to drive attacks, according to McAfee’s latest threat predictions for the coming year, which also underline the dangers likely to be posed to the smart home. McAfee believes that new strains of malware will be equipped with increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques. More specifically, McAfee thinks cybercriminals will target two main vectors to compromise smart home security: smartphones/tablets, and routers. Th

BBC R&D has launched a new interactive radio drama for Amazon Alexa that’s different for everyone who hears it. The Unfortunates is adapted from a BBC Radio 3 play starring Martin Freeman, which was based on an experimental ‘book in a box’ novel by BS Johnson. The new radio drama is split into 17 sections, which are shuffled with each listen. Degrees of interactionLast year, BBC R&D released its first interactive audio drama for smart speakers: sci-fi story The Inspection Chamber. To listen, ask

Asus has announced it is teaming up with Quantumcloud to allow owners of its graphics card to mine cryptocurrencies and get digital payouts via PayPal or WeChat. The partnership means that Asus graphics card owners can use the Quantumcloud software to manage their digital wallet, set up cryptocurrency mining and perform conversions and transfers automatically, taking a lot of the complexity out of cryptocurrency mining. It also means that while your graphics card is idle – basically when it’s no

Lewis Hamilton has praised the effect that technology has had on Formula 1, hailing it as one of the “most exciting” aspects of the sport today. Speaking at a media session at the HPE Discover event in Madrid yesterday, the recently-crowned five-times Formula 1 world champion told TechRadar Pro that the relationship between sport and technology has never been more important, particularly as breakthroughs first seen on the racetrack continue to trickle down to modern road cars. “It’s been amazing

Earlier this week OnePlus teased us with the announcement that is was teaming up with performance car maker McLaren for a launch on December 11, and leaks pointing to a OnePlus 6T McLaren edition have now surfaced. According to sources who spoke to MySmartPrice, the rumored handset will apparently come with a huge 10GB of RAM and sizable 256GB of storage. The planned December 11 launch event is called ‘Salute to Speed’, so a rumor suggesting we’ll see a handset with 10GB of RAM isn’t overly surp