Microsoft is now rolling out a free preview of Office 2019 for businesses, including new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. New features in Office 2019 include the ability to manage icons, vector graphics and 3D images in PowerPoint; funnel charts and 2D maps in Excel; Office 365 groups for Outlook; and a chic black theme for Word. Cloud firstA preview of Office 2019 for Mac will arrive in the coming months, but Microsoft has already announced that the PC version will be exclusivel

Kaspersky Free Antivirus gives you the company’s top-rated antivirus engine and intelligent blocking of malicious links for absolutely nothing. Kaspersky’s commercial antivirus and security suite products add features including online banking protection, parental controls, password management, file backup, and coverage for your Windows, Mac and mobile devices. Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2018 combines its excellent core antivirus engine with an array of smart technologies to keep you safe from ha

Several great PC games have been made available to download free in recent times, and another has just strolled into view, with GOG.com giving you the chance to bag the first outing in the Witcher series for absolutely nothing. Well, no cash anyway; if you want a free copy of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, you’ll have to sign up to the site’s newsletter (you’ll also get a free card keg for Gwent, the Hearthstone-alike card game). As mentioned, we’ve seen a good number of corking free games being

Tamron has officially launched the 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III RXD, after announcing it was in development back in February at Japan’s CP+ Imaging Show. Designed for Sony full-frame E-mount cameras like the Alpha A7 III and A7R III, it’s the first standard zoom alternative to Sony’s own offerings. Tamron has opted for a completely new design for the lens, which is made up of 15 elements in 12 groups. The lens compatible with many of Sony’s own features, including Fast Hybrid AF, Eye AF, Direct Manual F

Audio manufacturer Shure has released an updated pair of their electrostatic earphones that slashes the cost by a third, making them a much more palatable $1,999 (about £1,500, AU$2,500). But make no mistake, Shure isn’t the type of manufacturer that makes a product expensive for the sake of it. In fact, Shure isn’t a manufacturer that makes a lot of products, but the products that it does make endure. Well, these earphones manage to take electrostatic technology which usually lives in bulky ove

The first Nokia phone to sport a notch is seemingly about to land, as an invite for an announcement on May 16 is doing the rounds. While the Nokia X isn’t named, the invite is in the shape of a phone with a notch at the top and it includes an image of roads making an X shape, so it’s almost certainly the Nokia X that’s being announced. The invite, which was spotted by Nokiamob, is circulating on Baidu (a Chinese social media site), but if that’s not official enough for you the official Nokia acc

In the microblogging site’s ongoing effort to transform into a news outlet , Twitter has confirmed the introduction of a new feature that groups multiple tweets linking to the same news story. The news-link will be pushed to your timeline and appear as a small preview, with the people that have shared it, along with their tweets, grouped below. This feature, albeit similar to Facebook’s own method of tidying up the newsfeed, is the latest news-centric Twitter tweak, joining the likes of live new

From today, Windows 10 users will be able to download the free April 2018 update for the operating system, with an official rollout to PCs around the world scheduled to commence on May 8, 2018. Announced via a blog post by Microsoft’s corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi, the update promises a host of new features, many of which are said to streamline your Windows experience and save you time while working. Best of all, the Timeline feature will work across your iOS or Android devices while usin

In an effort to clean up its act, Facebook took a leaf out of Reddit’s book and began testing upvote and downvote buttons for comments. While the trial was carried out in the US, Facebook is now rolling out the new tool to more users. Does Facebook now have some kind of upvote/downvote system? Not sure I like the Upvote and Downvote feature of Facebook. ok seriously facebook comments having an upvote/downvote system now is hurting my brainApril 29, 2018Users, however, can’t seem to make up their

It turns out that Huawei might have a plan B ready, just in case it gets abandoned by Google and Android as well. The South China Morning Post reports that Huawei is working on its own mobile operating system, intended to be ready to go should the friction between the US authorities and the company get even worse. Not for the foreseeableIn fact, Huawei has been working on the OS and something similar for desktops and tablets since 2012, the Post reports. When asked for comment by the Post, Huawe

Burj Khalifa and HTC have partnered up to create Mission 828, a VR adventure installed at the observatory deck on the 125th floor of Burj KhalifaThe mission, should you choose to accept, takes you to the top of Burj Khalifa to intercept a satellite and then jump down. If that sounds familiar, it is because it loosely resembles the plot of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol where Tom Cruise performed a similar stunt. The whole experience has been recreated by Burj Khalifa and we got to experience

Offered as part of the Office family of productivity apps, OneNote is one of the most popular and capable note-taking apps you can get. The best thing about OneNote, though, is that it’s completely free to download while offering a plethora of premium capabilities. EvernoteMany regard this as a must-have productivity appUser-friendlyPowerful note-taking featuresFree versionEvernote is a well-respected and powerful productivity app. For instance, you can create notes in text form, or as sketches,

LG seems to be enjoying the build-up to the arrival of the LG G7 ThinQ, which gets its official unveiling on May 2. The latest feature to be teased by the company is the phone’s previously rumored Boombox Speaker, apparently ramping up the volume by 6dB and doubling the bass output from anything that’s been heard before (on an LG phone at least). LG is also including a Hi-Fi Quad DAC inside the LG G7 ThinQ to maximize audio accuracy. As well as an official launch date of May 2, there’s lots we a

It’s fair to say there’s a certain amount of fear around smart speakers at the moment, as these tiny devices that we put on our coffee tables and bookshelves have the potential to listen in on our every conversation. And so far, no one has managed to prove that smart speakers are spying on you. The recent news that security firm Checkmarx created a skill that allowed it to turn Echo speakers into spy devices (below) actually does more to disprove than prove the theorem. The team muted the line f

While Kodi for Linux was developed for Ubuntu-based distributions, there are plenty of third-party packages available for other Linux distros, and you can also compile Kodi directly from the source code. How to install Kodi on LinuxAs mentioned earlier, Kodi for Linux was built primarily for Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distributions. Install Kodi on Linux Ubuntu-based distrosIf you have Ubuntu, Linux Mint, or other Ubuntu-based distributions, there are two ways you can install Kodi: the default way

If you spend much time chatting to a digital assistant on a smart speaker or your phone, you’ll be interested in a new study that put nearly 5,000 questions to Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Cortana from Microsoft. According to the study, Google Assistant is slightly smarter on a phone than it is on a smart speaker. In terms of questions where an answer was actually attempted, Cortana sits in second place with Alexa in third. Siri languishes in fourth place, with Apple’s dig

You could soon be able to mute specific users in your timeline without unfollowing them, based on limited tests Instagram seems to be running right now. Instagram user @wongmjane spotted the new feature in her app, reports The Verge. It would presumably work in a similar way to the mute option on Twitter – you don’t have to see posts from particular people, but you can stay connected to them. Another feature @wongmjane has come across shows a Slow-Mo button for Stories, alongside the usual optio

Independent testing shows that the best antivirus apps do a great job of keeping you safe, regularly blocking 100% of their test threats. To help out, this article will highlight five of the best and most reliable free Android antivirus apps, as assessed by our own experience and the results of assessments by AV Comparatives and AV Test. Avira Antivirus Security 2018Lock down your device with this accurate appExcellent detection ratesRemote device managementNo browser-level site blockingAvira ma

Carl Richell the CEO of System76, the Linux computer manufacturer backing the new Linux operating system, discusses Pop!_OS’ first major release. Before Pop!_OS all of our attention was focused on ensuring the computer hardware ran flawlessly with [Ubuntu] Linux. Where Linux excels is in the fields of computer science, engineering, and DevOps – this is where our customers live. One of the things we’re most grateful for is having such an active Pop!_OS community providing feedback. One of the thi

Apple is developing a wireless headset that can be used for both virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), according to a new report. Impressively, the VR/AR standalone headset will feature displays with resolutions of 8K (7680 x 4320) per eye, according a person familiar with Apple’s plans who divulged the details to CNET. For comparison, the HTC Vive Pro, the latest high-end VR headset on the market, has a resolution of 2880 x 1600. Unlike the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, Apple’s rumored h