The new Huawei Talkband B5 is a hybrid product that combines a Bluetooth headset that sits in your ear with a fitness tracker. A new fitness tracker and Bluetooth headset hybridA new fitness tracker and Bluetooth headset hybrid When is it out? Huawei Talkband B5 design and displayIf you’ve seen or used the Huawei Talkband B3, you likely won’t see any major differences in the design of this newer product. Huawei Talkband B5 features and specsAlongside the ability to work like a Bluetooth headset,

Galileo is an alternative to the US Global Positioning System (GPS) network. Smartwatches are among the devices able to use the Galileo network – the Garmin Fenix 5X just got a Galileo upgrade. Unlike GPS and the Russian government-owned GLONASS (Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System), Galileo will be the only such system under civilian control. The UK could just continue to use the US GPS network. Last year the UK space industry was worth around £15 billion in turnover, with exports of £5

Google’s Android Wear had a shaky start, but it’s now an increasingly mature platform thanks to the Android Wear 2.0 update and the more recent switchover to the Wear OS name. We originally ranked the best Android Wear watches you can buy, but we’ve now changed this list since Google rebranded its smartwatch platform to Wear OS in early 2018. Check out our list of all the best smartwatches money can buyCheck out our collection of the best Wear OS appsBest Wear OS watch faces that you can downloa

Finnish game developer Next Games and AMC have released a gruesome new mobile game that uses augmented reality (AR) to spread zombie hordes through the real world. The Walking Dead: Our World, first announced in August 2017, is available to download free for iOS and Android, and invites you to fend off walkers solo, or in weekly team missions with friends. The Walking Dead: Our World is powered by Google Maps, with a game map that landmarks like the Statue of Liberty, the Burj Khalifa and the Lo

Apple has today announced that it has updated its MacBook Pro range for faster performance, with various new features aimed at professionals, making the MacBook Pro 2018 “the most advanced Mac notebook ever”, according to the company. These new processors should seriously boost the performance of the new MacBook Pro, especially when it comes to running intensive software, and multitasking. As Apple points out, the MacBook Pro is already the most popular notebook for programmers and developers, a

Apple has quite a lot to live up to with the MacBook Pro 2018. The 2018 MacBook Pro is Apple’s attempt to address to those criticisms, while maintaining the identity of it’s premium laptop. Price and availabilityWhat everyone will be excited to hear is that Apple has left the pricing of all its MacBook Pro models unchanged from last year. DesignIf you were looking for Apple’s hot new take on the look and feel of the MacBook Pro, perhaps 2019 is the year for you. Apple had to do a considerable am

Wimbledon 2018 – where and when Wimbledon 2018 is taking place from Monday, July 2 to Sunday, July 15 at the famous All England Club in South-West London. Check out the Wimbledon live stream options below, kick back, and watch Wimbledon 2018 for free. There’s so much to watch and you can live stream pretty much every Wimbledon match live – our first stop would be TVPlayer.com. The best way to stream Wimbledon 2018 in CanadaIn Canada, it’s a similar deal as you’ve got fairly limited options. The

According to a press release from Synaptics, concerning new biometric PC security measures, Microsoft is developing a ‘next-generation operating system’ of some kind with a focus on security. The security system will be for “enterprise/commercial and consumer notebook PCs based on next-generation AMD Ryzen Mobile platform and Microsoft’s next-generation operating system”. Windows Central, which spotted this development, theorizes that it could be referring to Microsoft’s rumored project, which i

Sirin Labs has taken the wraps of its Finney blockchain phone. The $999 device features a dual-screen set-up that devotes a second display entirely to cryptocurrency transactions. Finney blockchain phoneAway from the cryptocurrency deals, the Finney features some decent hardware, with a Snapdragon 845 processor and 6GB RAM powering the device, alongside 128GB storage expandable up to 2TB via microSD and a 3280mAh battery. The Finney, which is available for pre-order now, was first revealed last

Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite – the little known indie game that absolutely no one is playing – has revealed that its first proper esports tournament comes complete with a grand prize of $8 million. In order to jumpstart the competition, according to Epic Games, invitations have already been sent for the tournament and the participants will be made up of community and Fortnite players. Changing formatWhen it comes to the format of the competition, well this is set to change week to week, as

It’s been a long time coming, with whispers of the headset being little more than vaporware along the way, but the naysayers could be about to be silenced – Magic Leap finally has a release window. The mixed reality Magic Leap One: Creator Edition will launch later this summer (so by around the end of August), the company revealed during a dev chat on Twitch. With the range of sensors and apparent quality of the performance set to be high, it’s thought Magic Leap could rival the expensive early

Opera for Android has become the first mainstream browser with its own cryptocurrency wallet. Opera’s built-in wallet means you’ll no longer need to use a third-party extension or decentralized app (dapp) browser to send and receive cryptocurrency, interact with dapps, and make secure payments to online stores using Coinbase Commerce. “Although the current selection of merchants accepting cryptocurrencies is very limited, we think cryptocurrency payments will become more popular in the near futu

Anyway, so what’s actually new with build 17713 of Windows 10? The Edge PDF Reader has been bolstered as well, with fresh toolbar options (like Add Notes) and better text descriptions for the various icons. And, for business users, with this new build it’s now possible to use biometrics to authenticate a remote desktop session. Specifically, Active Directory users will be able to log on securely via Windows Hello for Business. As ever, there are a ton more small changes and a host of known issue

Image noise, that horrible side-effect of capturing digital images at higher ISO sensitivities, could one day be a thing of the past, thanks to artificial intelligence. Researchers at Nvidia, working with another set of researchers from Aalto University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an AI program that can remove noise from images. Reducing the effect of image noise in post-processing programs such as Photoshop has been possible for a while, but this is a whole di

As well as showing the handset, the ad also has ‘Galaxy Note 9’ in its top right corner, and the words ‘The new super powerful Note’ along the bottom. Galaxy Note9/S Pen pic.twitter.com/uAqOpZY2VCJuly 12, 2018Spot the differenceThe angle of the handset gives us a clear view of the base of the Galaxy Note 9, and reveals that nothing here is really changing from the Galaxy Note 8. It appears the Note 9 will keep the centralized USB-C port, headphone jack and a slot for the S Pen to slide into. The

Sony has just added to its Xperia XA2 range with the announcement of the Sony Xperia XA2 Plus, a phone that’s set to join the already-available Sony Xperia XA2 and Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra, and it’s the only one of the three to sport an 18:9 screen. The Xperia XA2 Plus is coming in silver, gold, green and blackDoes Plus top Ultra? One area where the Ultra might have the Xperia XA2 Plus beat is the front-facing camera, as while the XA2 Ultra has a dual-lens one, the Xperia XA2 Plus has just a single

Trusted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has previously claimed both variants of the next Apple Watch will come with bigger screens, but now he has shared his first information on the exact display specs. Kuo has said in a new report that the smaller Apple Watch will now have a 1.57-inch screen while the larger variant is going up to 1.78 inches. For context, the Apple Watch 3 comes with either a 1.31-inch or 1.54-inch display depending on what model you buy. Bigger screens for everyoneThe report from

We’ve been wondering what Microsoft will call the next major update to Windows 10, which currently has the codename Redstone 5, and a new rumor suggests it will be called Windows 10 October 2018 Update. RS5 = “Microsoft Windows 10 October 2018 Update”July 12, 2018Following a patternThe Windows 10 October 2018 Update name also makes sense as it follows the naming convention started by Microsoft earlier this year for Windows 10 updates, with the Windows 10 April 2018 Update. The April 2018 Update

Though the Xbox One S and Xbox One X have supported the HDR10 format since their respective launches, the slightly more advanced Dolby Vision format has remained unsupported on all games consoles to date. However, that’s about to change, with an announcement on Xbox Wire revealing that Microsoft’s 4K-capable consoles are set to receive an update that will enable Dolby Vision streaming, allowing users to watch Netflix in the 12-bit high-dynamic-range format. System Update 1810 has already started

Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has a reputation for predicting product advancements with a reasonable amount of accuracy, so when he starts talking about what the Cupertino company has in store, it’s generally worth listening. As reported by 9to5Mac, the prolific prognosticator has just published new research notes predicting that Apple plans to shake up the Mac product line this fall in the US (that’s roughly mid-September through to mid-December). Expectedly, the hardware predictions