Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR just got the ultimate summer addition in the form of Oculus Venues, a way to watch live events with your closest virtual friends. Everything from concerts and comedy shows to film screenings and sporting events are watchable via the Oculus Venues app. With Oculus Venues, you have the option to watch something solo, or you can meet up with people you know (who also happen to own an Oculus Go or Gear VR). Upcoming Oculus Venue eventsThe Oculus Venues fun kicks off ton

Atari’s upcoming video game console, the Atari VCS, is now available for pre-order. The design and branding are reminiscent of the Atari 2600, the 1977 console credited with popularizing the use of game cartridges. Originally named the Atari VCS before a rebranding in 1982, the console was a sizeable mainstream success, and came to be seen as a mainstay of the video gaming industry at large. There are two Atari VCS models now available for pre-order, with the standard Onyx version taking orders

If your PC gaming headset fits comfortably, but still leaves you feeling like you’ve just depressurized after a lengthy gaming session, HP has something just for you: Mindframe. This is HP’s new, over-ear PC gaming headset featuring active ear cooling. Of course, the headset is focused on comfort otherwise, with a suspension headband over the leatherette ear cups. On top of that, the headset will bring forth DTS Headphone:X and 7.1 virtual surround sound. Finally, the headset is equipped with a

Following a livestream that’s proven we really don’t need vaults to perform sick social experiments, Bethesda has finally confirmed that it’s going to be releasing a new game known as Fallout 76. At the moment not much is known about Fallout 76 and what the game will involve but you can watch the trailer for yourself below. It shows a resident of Vault 76 getting ready for what appears to be Reclamation Day:Of course, while we don’t know anything about the game, we do know some small things abou

Update: OnePlus has issued a statement which you’ll find in full below. So far we’re yet to see a perfect face unlock system – even the one on the iPhone X can be fooled if you put enough work in, but it seems like the OnePlus 6’s might be easier to bypass than many. Under investigationIn a statement, OnePlus has said: “We designed Face Unlock around convenience, and while we took corresponding measures to optimise its security we always recommended you use a password/PIN/fingerprint for securit

The Caffeine icon will appear at the bottom-right of your screen. Double-click the Caffeine icon at the bottom-right of the screen to activate/deactivate. Right-click on the Caffeine icon for further configuration options. Caffeine can be configured to stop working after a certain amount of time, after which your ‘Power & Sleep settings’ will return to their default values. For a full list of command line options, right click the Caffeine icon and choose ‘About’.

If you’re looking to upgrade your gaming rig with a new graphics card, now is the right time for it as NVIDIA is slashing the prices for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics cards. During the promotion, the Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 GAMING-8GD graphics card price is reduced from AED 2,935 to AED 1,658. The Gigabyte GTX 1060 AORUS-6GD goes down from AED 1,964 to AED 1,082 while the Gigabyte GTX 1060 G1 GAMING-6GD is slashed from AED 1,943 to AED 1,071. These are extremely a

WhatsApp might launch their peer-to-peer payment feature as early as next week. Leveraging its large user base, WhatsApp can pose as a serious competitor to the popular digital wallets and payment apps like Paytm, Google Tez, PhonePe and so on. When the existing solutions are compared, Paytm recorded a huge 200 million user base in February 2018 and the rest are still fairly new in the race. So, it’s a good time and opportunity for WhatsApp to foray into the league and make the most out of its u

Apple has released iOS 11.4 which means we all get to finally try AirPlay 2, Apple’s streaming feature that has been in development for almost a year now. AirPlay 2 is Apple’s updated way to store content to TVs and other devices. The following are set to benefit from Apple AirPlay 2. Incidentally, if you are wondering when the third parties are looking to get AirPlay 2, then Bang & Olufsen have just announced that, for its speakers, AirPlay 2 will be available in August and September of this ye

Rumors around the titles known as Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu and Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee were circulating for a few weeks before they were confirmed during a Pokemon press conference in Japan. Nintendo SwitchPokemon Let’s Go Eevee and Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu will launch on November 16 on Nintendo Switch. Pokemon Let’s Go trailersPokemon Let’s Go hasn’t really had a long run of teasers and teasers of teasers. Pokemon Let’s Go isn’t considered a core release in the Pokemon series. It works with Poke

[Update: Fortnite’s shopping carts have now gone live and they are definitely vehicles. Players have started posting footage of the shopping carts in action on social media.] Shopping carts that will let you “roll into battle alone or with a buddy”. However, we don’t think not needing something is likely to stop Epic Games from adding it. Vehicles, especially in the form of shopping carts, could add another fun and interesting element to the game.

Free Usenet servers have seen their numbers dwindle as demand for (and the sheer cost of) resources has continued to increase. Well, you can always get free Usenet trials and just use them one after the other to download Terabytes worth of data for more than four months. We also picked out the best Usenet providers of 2018TechRadar readers can benefit from an exclusive 30-day free trial with UseNeXT featuring up to 600GB to download for free (including a 30GB download at 800Mbps). But you have u

In a potential blow to both automaker Tesla and the burgeoning self-driving car movement, a Tesla Model S was found yesterday to have collided with a parked police vehicle in southern California. According to a tweet by a Laguna Beach officer (@LBPD_PIO_45), the Tesla driver sustained minor injuries after reportedly engaging the sedan’s ‘Autopilot’ mode – although this has yet to be confirmed by Tesla or an official police report:”This morning a Tesla sedan driving outbound Laguna Canyon Road in

Last month, a rumor emerged that Intel was preparing a special anniversary edition Core i7-8086K processor – to mark the 40th birthday of the release of the first 8086 chip on June 8, 1978 – and now multiple retailer listings for the CPU are being spotted. As Videocardz reports, the niftily-named Core i7-8086K has been listed by Italian, Canadian and US retailers amongst others, and according to these product listings, the price is set to be about €480 or $480 (around £360, AU$640). Of course, w

Imgur has long been our favorite image hosting site and a key source of reaction GIFs, and now it’s taken things a step further with support for video clips. At the moment, Imgur only supports uploading of videos through the iOS app, but users on all platforms can see and share the fruits of iPhone owners’ labor. Breaking the sound barrierThere’s no danger of Imgur eating YouTube’s lunch. It’s referring to these snippets as ‘GIFs with sound’, and limiting them to a bite-sized 30 seconds in line

Nvidia has just announced its HGX-2 cloud server platform, which it claims powers “the fastest single computer humanity has ever created”. This is achieved using Nvidia NVSwitch interconnect fabric technology, which links the GPUs together to work as a single GPU. At Computex 2017, Nvidia announced the HGX-1 which became pretty popular, being used by companies that rely on massive datacenters such as Facebook and Microsoft. Nvidia has high hopes for HGX-2 as well, with some major businesses, inc

The Nintendo Switch may be riding high with the announcement of new Pokémon games, but that doesn’t mean Nintendo has forgotten about its other stalwart handheld line. It’s announced an all-new version of its Nintendo 2DS XL console that, while no different in terms of its internal specifications, is a feast for the eyes on the outside. From the looks of the promotional shots that Nintendo has shared, it’ll feature a neat raised detailing design befitting of the legendary weapon, rather than the

Chinese smartphone-maker Xiaomi is all set to launch its latest flagship device, the Mi 8, MIUI 10 and the Mi Band 3 at its eighth annual event in China on 30 May and ahead of the launch, some images of the Mi 8, Mi 8 SE and the Mi Band 3 have surfaced online. After Mi 6, Xiaomi has skipped the Mi 7 and it has decided to go with the Mi 8 as this is Xiaomi’s eighth anniversary. Earlier, Xiaomi was expected to launch only the Mi 8 at the event, but leaked press images have revealed that the compan

Since its launch in 2008, Beats by Dre has grown to become possibly the most iconic headphone brand in the world — its red ‘b’ logo is instantly recognizable, by even the most casual observer. While we’ve seen less of the familiar red logo since Apple’s acquisition of Beats in 2014, it’s now returned in a big way with the release of the Beats’ Decade Collection in celebration of the company’s 10th anniversary. Each product in the Decade Collection, which consists of the Beats Studio 3 Wireless,

HP has just announced its own smaller redesign of the HP Omen 15, which features Intel Coffee Lake processors and Nvidia Max-Q graphics. The new HP Omen 15 is a noticeably smaller machine than its predecessor, measuring 7.4% narrower in width while being 4.6% smaller in depth as well. The 2017 HP Omen 15 (left) vs the 2018 HP Omen 15 (right)Hot and coldThe HP Omen 15 has also been given a complete internal overhaul with 8th generation Intel quad- and hexa-core processors, plus some of the first