Your wait is almost over – Activision and Treyarch have just taken the wraps off of the first private multiplayer beta session for Call of Duty Black Ops IIII that will take place starting on August 3 and run until August 6 at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 5 pm GMT. For everyone else, the second session of the multiplayer beta will run August 10 until August 13 at 10 am PT / 5 pm GMT and will be open to both Xbox One and PS4 players. Not to be left behind, PC players will have their own dedicated open be

Future Intel processor lineups have included almost a half dozen rumored codenames, but at long last we could finally have the details pinned down thanks to a leaked Intel roadmap. Xfastest posted slides of what it claims to be an official Intel roadmap outlining the processor release schedule for the coming year. Going by the schedule, and disappointingly, we shouldn’t expect 9th generation Intel processors until the first few months of 2019. The Intel roadmap lists that the Core i9-9900K, Core

Sony has announced a new range of televisions, the Master Series, in a series of live tweets from a press conference in New York today. Sony’s Twitter account introduced two new 4K television sets – the A9F and Z9F – under the Master Series branding, as a subset of the established Sony Bravia TV range. Best of the bestThe A9F is Sony’s new flagship OLED TV, which promises “top-of-the-line sound quality” with its Acoustic Surface Audio+ technology. The Z9F, on the other hand, is the culmination o

TCL is a household name in most parts of the world, being the third largest manufacturer of televisions on the planet. That’s about to change though – TCL is bringing its range of affordable 4K smart TVs to UK stores. From today, you’ll be able to purchase a range of sets from a range of AV retailers and a dedicated section of the Amazon store . Later in the year, TCL will also be offering the DC748 4K smart TV, available in 55 and 65-inch sizes. “We see the UK market as one of great opportunity

HP is looking to patch one of the most pressing threats to the modern workplace with a new bug bounty program for printers. The initiative, described by the company as the “first of its kind”, will reward those who spot security flaws in its products with some serious money. Anyone spotting a new flaw could be set to score up to $10,000, with HP also saying it may reward those who find existing threats with a “good faith payment” in certain cases. HP printer securityHP has partnered with securit

Nintendo has announced during a quarterly earnings call that its Nintendo Switch console has sold 19.67 million units as of June 30. On a related note, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has sold 10 million copies, joining Super Mario Odyssey in the honor. A new seat in the pantheonThese new figures puts the Nintendo Switch on track to outsell the Nintendo GameCube’s 22 million units in its six-year lifespan in less than half the time. As for the Nintendo Wii U, the Switch outsold that console’s 13.56 million

Toyota has unveiled a hydrogen cell electric truck that can cover 300 miles on a single tank of fuel. The truck, known as Codename Beta, is the second vehicle in Toyota’s Project Portal experiment, and will soon be hard at work hauling cargo at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, California. Project Portal is fast moving in every sense. Toyota’s hydrogen-powered truck emits nothing but waterEach of its individual journeys is quite short – a type of haulage work known as drayage. Project Por

In short: iPhone 11 Plus, not iPhone 9 Plus. iPhone 9 Plus / 11 Plus priceThe iPhone 11 Plus is tipped to be the bigger sibling to the iPhone 11, which itself will be the successor to the iPhone X. iPhone 9 Plus / 11 Plus designHottest leaks:Same design as the iPhone X, but biggerYet smaller than the iPhone 8 PlusApart from being bigger, various leaks suggest the iPhone 11 Plus design won’t be all that much different from the iPhone X it takes cues from, with Apple likely to focus more on intern

Amazon Prime isn’t just life-changing because you can have all kinds of stuff delivered to your doorstep within 24 hours, it also allows you to stream TV shows and movies on demand. Very few details have been released about the upcoming TV series, but it’s a modern day anthology that’ll follow the lives of people who think they’re descended from the Romanov family. Amazon hasn’t released many more details yet, but production is expected to start in late 2018, with a 2019 release date reportedly

A smartphone that appears to have more screens than you can shake a stick at, a bending, folding arm and multiple cameras. What we assume is the ‘main’ display appears to wrap over the bulging top of the HubblePhone and allow the way down its rear. Turning says the HubblePhone release date will be June 2020 for the US, August 2020 for Europe, September for China and the rest of the world by December. The HubblePhone sounds too good to be true, which is likely what Turing is trying to achieve by

The game in question is Abstractism, and it was a simple platform-type affair where you guide a black square around a series of sparse looking levels, but it has since been removed from Steam. Fortress fakeryAnd as we mentioned at the outset, this developer was also reportedly trying to scam Steam denizens out of money by selling fake items for Team Fortress 2. One poor guy bought what he thought was a TF2 Australium Rocket Launcher, worth about $100 (around £75, AU$135) or so, when in fact it w

Lenovo says it will be the first smartphone manufacturer to launch a 5G smartphone, powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 855 chipset. A VP for the firm, Chang Cheng, took to Chinese social media site Weibo to reveal the plans. That’s because the Snapdragon 855 – that’s said to be powering the handset – hasn’t been officially launched yet. Qualcomm is hosting its Snapdragon Summit during the first week of December where we expect the chip to be revealed. While 5G capabilities are likely to be heavily

We know Samsung is readying a new smartwatch for release – even the company’s own website has let the product slip – but a new certification offers further proof we’ll be seeing it soon. The new Samsung Galaxy Watch has just received its radio certification in Korea after previously getting its Federal Communications Commission (FCC) details in the US earlier this month. Piling on the evidenceThere are a variety of events where Samsung may decide to launch the Galaxy Watch. One is the Samsung Ga

Up to four people can now chat at once using WhatsApp for Android and iOS. The new group call feature is rolling out to both platforms at the same time, and lets app users set up multi-way video or voice calls. You can only invite one new participant at a time, and you can’t invite a fourth caller until the third has joined. Speak easyFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced group calls for WhatsApp and Instagram (both of which are owned by the social media behemoth) at the F8 2018 developer confe

It looks like Google is in a fighting mood, as it’s just released a new video that attacks Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s macOS operating systems, while claiming that Chromebooks are the only laptops you can rely on. The video (which you can watch below) highlights a number of annoyances that people have complained about through the years when using laptops running Microsoft or Apple software. Fighting wordsAccording to Google, Chromebooks are free from all these issues, with its ChromeOS opera

Canon has announced the launch of the latest travel compact in its range, the PowerShot SX740 HS, replacing PowerShot SX730 HS that was released last year. Like it predecessor, the SX740 HS comes packing a 40x optic zoom (equivalent to 24-960mm in 35mm terms) and a 20.3MP 1/2.3-type (6.17 x 4.55 mm) back-illuminated CMOS sensor. ISO sensitivity ranges from 80 to 3200, with a maximum of ISO 1600 in auto mode, and shutter speeds range from 1/3200 second to 15 seconds. The Canon PowerShot SX740 HS

Having proven itself an invaluable tool for the scheduling of group meetings, Google Calendar has now made itself even more useful by introducing a new feature that promises to make appointment organizing more convenient for everyone involved. Starting today for web users and available for mobile from August 13, Google has announced that invited meeting guests will now be able to propose an alternate meeting time along with an optional message, which the organizer can then review and approve at

Whether it’s going to keep the MacBook Air moniker or amalgamate into the MacBook 12-inch line, rumors are mounting for a 2018 refresh of an affordable, lightweight notebook from Apple. The MacBook Air’s current model is sports a relatively archaic 5th-generation Intel processor, but reports from Taiwanese publication Economic Daily News , suggest that a new model is due later in 2018 and will use 8th-generation Kaby Lake Refresh processors. Apparently, Apple isn’t even willing to wait for Intel

It was only in December 2017 that Mozilla launched a new icon for its Firefox Quantum browser , making the flaming fox brighter. Yet the internet company isn’t satisfied and has begun a new project of modernizing the Firefox brand. The following lines will represent general-purpose browsers (like Developer Edition and Firefox Nightly), singularly-focused browser icons (Firefox Focus and Firefox Reality) and new applications and services, respectively. And to help with the final decision Mozilla

Two different Star Wars shows are coming, for example, and that’s just the tip of the mouse-eared iceberg. What is Disney’s streaming service? Disney’s streaming service will be an all-in-one Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars video destination, packing plenty of existing movies and TV shows along with a stack of brand-new content. So just who will be able to tune into the House of Mouse’s streaming service? The Disney streaming service won’t have content from outside of the Disney ecosystem,