Facebook’s new AI assistant , M, can now translate your Messenger conversations from Spanish to English, or vice versa, with the tap of a finger. Facebook first debuted M Translations back at the F8 2018 Conference in May, but only in the Marketplace. Sellers and chatbots can use M Translations to connect with more customers in foreign nations. Facebook claims that it has plans to launch M Translations in other languages and countries, but hasn’t given any timetable on when or where that could h

HTC wants you to spend your summer vacation indoors. To that end, today, Vive and Vive Pro owners can take advantage of Viveport’s annual Summer Sale 2018 – HTC has discounted over 100 VR games and experiences, at up to 90% off. That includes people who sign up for 14-day free trials, in case one free title really catches your eye. Unfortunately, out of our favorite Vive VR games , many of them aren’t included in this sale. Your best bet for titles like Skyrim VR and Fallout VR may be to check o

Your wallet might already be hurting from the 2018 Steam Summer Sale going on today, but remember, sales on regular PC games are a dime a dozen. That said, finding sales on VR games can be more of a challenge. Thankfully, Oculus is also taking mercy on our wallets this week with its own 2018 Summer Sale . Owners of Gear VR , Oculus Rift or Oculus Go can find over 250 games and experiences on sale on the Oculus Store right now. After the 1st, Oculus likely won’t have another major sale until Wint

The Samsung HW-N400 is the company’s latest entry-level soundbar and forms part of its ‘all-in-one’ range – i.e. FeaturesThe Samsung HW-N400 uses a 2.1-channel speaker configuration, with two forward-firing channels each composed of a mid-range driver and wide dispersion tweeter. PerformanceThe Samsung HW-N400 is a perfectly competent soundbar that fulfils its role of improving the sonic performance of smaller TVs with ultra-slim panels. Other soundbars to considerA great rival for the Samsung H

Microsoft and Nintendo have officially opened the doors to cross-play. It started with the announcement of Fortnite on Nintendo Switch last week and now continues with Minecraft thanks to a large update that just became available. Nintendo has released an official trailer commemorating the monumental occasion, and it’s glorious in both its inclusiveness and the way it subtly digs at Sony for not being part of the partnership. The trailer Nintendo released today seems to fly in the face of those

High-dynamic range (HDR) gaming on PCs and HDR in general has never been more prevalent than today. On one side, there are FreeSync 2 HDR gaming monitors priced well below a grand. Meanwhile, Nvidia is going for the jugular by introducing its two first G-Sync HDR gaming monitors at an astronomical price. Likewise, Nvidia and AMD have opposing stances and philosophies regarding how they are developing ecosystem of displays HDR gaming. “Over a year ago, the curved 34-inch G-Sync monitors were laun

There’s a new Google Assistant update available today, and it’s going to make issuing voice commands to the AI assistant a lot less tediousContinued Conversation, first shown at Google IO in May, allows Google Assistant to automatically listen for followup commands after it answers the first question or command. The Continued Conversation ends when you say, “thank you,” or “stop,” or when Google Assistant detects no speech for 8 seconds. Only the English-language Google Assistant in the US is ge

Amazon Prime Day 2018 will take place on Tuesday July 17th with deals starting at midday the day before – Monday 16th. That’s all according to a Prime Day 2018 banner published on the Amazon UK website – presumably in error – and discovered by TechRadar this morning. The 36 hour period for Prime Day 2018 makes it the longest Prime ‘day’ ever – providing final and clinching proof that Amazon cares not for the mental health or sleep patterns of TechRadar’s hard working deals team. So our predictio

Apple has yet again delayed the release of its AirPower wireless charging mat, according to the latest from Bloomberg. Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg reports that the AirPower product won’t be seen in Apple stores until September. AirPower is designed to charge up to three devices at once: ideally your latest iPhone, the Apple Watch and the AirPods (once that wireless charging case is released). However, these multiple reported product delays could be a product of Apple’s newfound commitmen

LG’s new 4K UHD/HDR laser projector HU80K is an eyeful. Anything else on the market tagged with 4K, UHD, laser also has a price tag of 5K USD or greater, usually with extra zeros at the end. No other competition in this price bracket features such wildly affordable laser projection, nor do they have any business being near your tastefully chosen sofa or carpet. The HU80K has ports for USB(3.0 and 2.0) and Ethernet and fully supports wireless connectivity, running on LG’s Smart TV platform. Keybo

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Intel’s rumored octa-core processor has been benchmarked again and curiously the results were blurred out in the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990X test results we reported on earlier this week. Komachi tweeted an undoctored version of the screenshot to reveal an Intel 8-core Coffee Lake-S processor achieving a Cinebench score of 2,212 points. AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990X處理器效能曝光 暴力多核更上層樓 https://t.co/T1dHVHcZ8V pic.twitter.com/KhiG9TBgBwJune 20, 2018Comparatively, AMD’s latest Ryzen 7 2700X achieved a

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned from the company over allegations he had a relationship with a fellow employee. The computing giant confirmed that Kraznich, who has been chief executive since May 2013, has left the company with immediate effect due to breaking Intel’s non-fraternisation policy. Krzanich leaves Intel“Intel was recently informed that Mr Krzanich had a past consensual relationship with an Intel employee,” the company said in a statement. “An ongoing investigation by internal

Fortunately there are also distributions (distros) of the free operating system Linux which have been specifically designed to function as firewalls. ClearOSA well thought-out distro that’s refreshingly easy-to-useUser-friendlyExpands to suit your needsSmart looking distroClearOS is by far the sleekest looking firewall distro in this roundup. To test this, we did a quick poll of 20 Linux geeks, asking them to name a firewall distro. The installation of Smoothwall Express is text-based, but you d

This desktop software is perfect for creating that magnum opus or floor-filling banger, and won’t cost you a penny. We’re also going to be sticking to just desktop software for macOS, Windows and in some places, Linux. So, without further ado, read on for our shortlist of free digital audio workstations, softsynths and effects. Compatibility: WindowsCakewalk – formerly known as Cakewalk SONAR, was one of the first ever digital audio workstations, but its owner Gibson halted development last year

A new feature that lets you easily keep track of all your subscriptions has been rolled out to the Google Play store on Android devices. Available from the menu, ‘Subscriptions’ appears third in the list after ‘My apps & games’ and ‘My notifications’. From here you can view, cancel, renew and restore previously cancelled subscriptions, as well as control payment methods for each one. Provide feedbackIf you do opt to cancel a subscription you’ll be shown a multiple choice question asking why you

Archibald observed that “Firefox handled this brilliantly,” – within three hours the bug had been confirmed, and Mozilla had looked into other potential similar leaks. Eventually, after some chasing, Microsoft’s security team informed Archibald that they were indeed developing a fix, but gave no further details. More waiting, and further chasing on the bug bounty – which Archibald wanted to donate to charity – ensued. If Archibald’s experience is anything to go by, there’s certainly some work to

Microsoft has put plans for VR support for Xbox devices on hold, according to an interview with Xbox’s chief marketing officer. Speaking to gamesindustry.biz, CMO Mike Nichols said that the gaming platform doesn’t have “any plans specific to Xbox consoles in virtual reality or mixed reality”. “Our focus is primarily on experiences you would play on your TV, and ultimately we’d like to make those experiences more broadly.”Virtual promisesThe announcement is the culmination of a gradual retreat ov

The sun may be shining, but you’re about to spend the next few weeks sat in front of your gaming PC, as the Steam Summer Sale 2018 is set to kick off today. That’s information courtesy of the Steam Database Twitter account, which has reliably pointed to the kick off date of previous seasonal steam sales. Steam Summer Sale will begin in 24 hours. The Steam Summer sale tends to be the biggest of all publisher Valve’s discount events, with huge swathes of the catalogue seeing its price slashed dram

Fresh on the heels of news that Facebook’s Messenger service is trialing autoplaying video ads , the social media giant is now testing the waters with paid subscriptions to user-created groups. Administrators of certain groups will be able to charge between $4.99 and $29.99 a month for the privilege of being a member of their group and, hence, the ability to access the content within. “We know that admins invest their time and energy to maintain their groups”, the statement from Facebook reads.