The Intel Pentium Silver N5000, Intel Pentium Gold 4410Y and Intel Pentium Gold 4415Y will be the chips lined up for the new configurations of the Surface, according to WinFuture’s source. Apologies to anyone who was hoping for an Intel Core m3 chip, as it looks like you’re out of luck. These specs could change before the new Surfaces see the light of day, of course. Keep taking the tabletsA less expensive line of Surface tablets makes a lot of sense when you consider that Apple’s latest iPad co

Lightweight, responsive and with some great handling attributes, the FE 400mm f/2.8 GM OSS is the lens you’ve been waiting for if you’re a sports or nature photographer shooting on Sony Alpha cameras. Sony’s Alpha A9 is a brilliant camera for shooting action, thanks to its incredibly quick AF system and 20fps burst shooting. Now Sony has launched the much-anticipated FE 400mm f/2.8 GM OSS telephoto prime, which offers a focal length that’s all but essential for sports photographers, and for many

This is a useful way to see Android messages on your PC as they come in. Android Messages for WebGoogle has also recently rolled out ‘Messages for web’ for Android. To get started, you must have the ‘Android messages’ app installed on your smartphone. If the update fails to download Android Messages, open the Google Play Store to search for and install it yourself. Open Android Messages and select the ‘Settings’ button on the top right, choose more options and select ‘Messages for web’.

While we’re still waiting for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1180 to be announced, the GTX 1160 may be powering the best gaming laptops by the end of the year. Adding on to the heap of Nvidia Turing rumors we’ve seen over the last few months, we might be seeing the next generation of laptops graphics coming to the Lenovo Legion Y530 in Q4 2018, according to a leak reported by Wccftech. And, you can just look at recent trends in the GPU market to realize that laptop GPUs typically follow the release of t

Just a few days ago, we found speculation that the Intel Core i9 was coming to the mainstream as part of the 9th-generation Intel Core family. But, now it looks like Intel has made the 9th generation official in its latest microcode revision. Intel’s 9th generation Core family will be coming to market by the end of the year, according to official listings found by Wccftech. So, it looks like Coffee Lake-S is going to be a full blown generation, meant to give Ryzen 2nd Generation some competition

Bandai Namco’s manga-inspired fighting game, Jump Force, made quite a splash when it was unveiled at E3 2018. But what is Jump Force, who’s actually on the roster, and when is it going to be released? Jump Force trailers”These worlds were never meant to meet…”Explosive, flashy and heavy on the gravitas, Jump Force’s E3 trailer immediately caught our attention. Jump Force news and rumorsWe ain’t seen nothing yetAs the world’s biggest publisher of manga, Shonen Jump has an extensive catalog to d

Microsoft continually releases updates for Windows 10 which are designed to fix common bugs that reduce system performance. If machine performance is lagging, open the Windows menu and type ‘Update’ in the search bar and click ‘Check for Updates’ to access your settings. This is often because many installers will instruct Windows to run their programs immediately after you log in, slowing down system speed. Click the Windows menu and type ‘Disk Cleanup’ in the search bar to get started. To disab

Toyota is sponsoring the world’s first autonomous hydrogen-powered ship on a six-year world tour. The specially adapted race boat, Energy Observer, uses solar, wind and wave-generated power – as well as carbon-free hydrogen generated from seawater. The ship creates hydrogen by demineralizing seawater (removing salt and ions), then separating the oxygen and hydrogen through electrolysis. World firstEnergy Observer was built in Canada in 1983 by naval architect Nigel Irens, and this latest voyage

With fast travel unlocked from the start, you simply find the event you want to play, select it and boom! Crew cutMuch like 2015’s Steep – another Ubisoft franchise that packed myriad sports into one package – The Crew 2 isn’t just about burning rubber. Boats offer some of the most challenging and dynamic races, with the need to slip around enemy wakes key to keeping your speed up. Planes also offer an interesting way to break up the street, drift, drag and off-road races you’ll undertake most o

A new, stripped down version of Spotify is currently being tested that will be a lot kinder to your data plan. The actual app weighs in at just 15MB, which is a whole 75MB lighter than the full-fat version of the app. The app is being tested in selected countries (including Brazil) and there’s no word yet on if a full rollout will happen. Key features missingThese features aren’t exactly bloatware and, for many, are integral to how they use Spotify. The app is also said to come with a low data m

TuttoAndroid has spotted that some European Netflix users are being presented with an option to try out a new ‘Ultra’ tier, priced at between €16.99 and €19.99 a month. This is up from the current top ‘Premium’ tier which costs €13.99 a month. Missing featuresHowever, while the pricing looks to be going up, that doesn’t look like it’ll be bringing new features with it. Instead, it’ll be removing features from lower tiers. However, to do so by removing features from their most loyal customer’s pa

How many lenses is too many for a smartphone? Huawei is offering the most on the market with three rear sensors on the Huawei P20 Pro… but how about nine? The brand, which has huge smartphone maker Foxconn as an investor, is apparently set to launch a phone with the multi-sensor array later this year. Light is reportedly claiming that the massive sensor line-up will offer 64MP photos, great depth effects and improved low light performance. Its L16 camera, with a 16 sensor array, has had mixed

Details of the new technology were published on Nature Communications, outlining how the technology works and what it can offer. The article explains how the new technology is more secure thanks to the inclusion of temperature sensing. “In order to prevent the fingerprint forgery using artificial fingerprints, temperature of human finger skin can be detected using temperature sensors to distinguish real and counterfeit fingerprints…improving security levels further.” The sensor is “to monitor

Amazon is expanding its checkout-free shopping stores with a second US opening. The new Amazon Go store was revealed by Geekwire as part of a new office tower in the company’s home city of Seattle, about a mile away from Amazon headquarters. An eagle-eyed fan spotted Amazon Go branding in a window gap, with stacked shelves and a smart design suggesting that the store is apparently nearing completionNew Amazon Go storeAmazon confirmed the new store in a statement, saying “We are excited to bring

It sounds like Samsung is close though, as the company has apparently created a curved battery suitable for such a phone. We say ‘suitable’, because Samsung SDI actually created a curved battery four years ago, but it only had a capacity of 210mAh. Now, though, it’s created one that can be between 3,000mAh and 6,000mAh and which is set to be used in the folding Samsung Galaxy X according to ITHome, citing industry sources. A curved Samsung SDI battery. That suggests it could be around the same t

Main image: SpaceX is working on the most powerful rocket ever, the Big Falcon Rocket, for trips to Mars. The Falcon 9 Block 5 is designed to be the most reliable and reusable rocket ever built. Cue the new SpaceX Block 5 boosters, which can be reused no less than 10 times – and possibly as much as 100 times. What about Falcon Heavy and the Big Falcon Rocket? “The Falcon Heavy is an intermediary rocket – SpaceX is not intending to put humans on that one,” says Forczyk.

It’s a limited repeal of April 15’s Denial Order against the Shenzhen-based company , according to an authorization order put out by the US Department of Commerce. The end to the seven-year ban for ZTE seems to be in sight, however. US President Trump tweeted in May that he and China’s President Xi were working to get ZTE ‘back to business, fast’. Trump’s series of tweets about ZTE didn’t end in ‘Sad’, which is good news for the company and its partners, including US partners. The authorization

Thankfully, a recent US patent shows that Amazon takes these safety concerns seriously. If the drone expects but doesn’t receive the next heartbeat, it will immediately transition from mission mode to safety mode. In fact, as the proposed drones fly, they would use cameras to scan their surroundings, looking for safe places to land in an emergency, such as a vacant lot or mown field. Predicting the final Amazon drone modelAmazon’s engineers have a ton of patented ideas for their drones, some mor

Apple is expected to launch a new iPad Pro 2018 in the coming months, and it’ll take cues from the iPhone X TrueDepth camera, according to fresh, convincing evidence discovered today. iOS 12 beta includes iPad support for AvatarKit, the backend software that requires a TrueDepth camera to work, tweets iOS app developer Steve Troughton-Smith. This is why we think the iPad Pro 2018 will have a bezel-reduced display. An iPad Pro would the TrueDepth camera also makes sense because iOS 12 brings mult

As the de facto input in Apple’s latest MacBook Pro laptops and an increasingly common port on Windows machines, USB-C is becoming an increasingly prevalent technology. In recent years, just about every monitor manufacturer has introduced a USB-C monitor, so now there are a fair number of displays from which to choose from. To help you pick one and find the best price, we’ve rounded up the best USB-C monitor deals. So whether you want a curved gaming monitor or a big display for work, you’ll fin