Since the Amazon Echo Button launched in September 2017 as a fun game accessory for your Amazon Echo devices, Amazon has only released 22 Alexa skill games for the device, most of which don’t have the greatest reviews . Thankfully, Echo Button owners hungry for new content may not have to wait long as Amazon announced on Tuesday the release of the Gadget Skills API Beta. Now, independent developers can use the Alexa Skills Kit to integrate the Echo Button’s “inputs and actions” into their Alexa

FreeVPN Free VPN Proxy is a Chrome extension which provides a free unlimited bandwidth proxy to – the developer claims – ‘unblock any website’. Want to try FreeVPN Free VPN Proxy for Chrome? We headed off to FreeVPN Free VPN Proxy’s website, http://www.freevpn.pw, to try and find out more, but were quickly disappointed. A caption refers to Tigervpns (UK), and a Tigervpns Ltd Facebook page refers to FreeVPN Free VPN Proxy as a new service it has built. We’ve rounded up the best free VPN services of 2018

Mark Zuckerberg has a date with US lawmakers. It was announced today that the Facebook CEO will testify before the US Congress’ Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee on April 11 regarding how Facebook uses and protects user data. The hearing is scheduled for 7am PT / 10am ET / 3pm GMT on Wednesday, April 11, or 12am AEST on Thursday, April 12. Facing the musicZuckerberg’s summons comes in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal and the ensuing questions about how Facebook handles user dat

The OnePlus 6 has been confirmed to include a 3.5mm headphone jack, but it’s also going to launch alongside wireless earbuds, according to a new report today. ‘OnePlus Bullet Wireless’ has shown up within the Bluetooth Certification database, discovered Nashville Chatter, and it may be the sequel to the OnePlus Bullet V2 headphones sans the wires. The certification doesn’t spell out what the OnePlus Bullet Wireless headphones will look like or if they’re be true wireless earbuds like Apple AirPo

We spoke to Mitchell Baker, executive chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation, about the reasons for the update and the role of tech companies in society today. A disturbing setting”We’ve always been a technology organisation that’s focused on the impact of technology on society,” Baker said. “To have a healthy society, you need to have a healthy infrastructure. Some Firefox users in the US see sponsored Pocket recommendations when they open a new browser tab. “We think that acknowledging that tech

Kingston has announced its first entry-level M.2 NVMe solid-state drives, which promise twice the performance of a SATA drive while being just as affordable. Based upon 3D NAND technology, the new Kingston A1000 supports sequential read and write speeds of up to 1,500MB/s and 1,000MB/s, respectively. Additionally, these SSDs will come in 240GB, 480GB and 960GB capacities, with the largest drives offering the fastest data transfer speeds. The Kingston A1000 is available now from the company’s own

Dell, along with Alienware, its gaming-focus brand, has announced a range of new gaming devices that are aimed at enthusiasts and esports players. Overclocking laptops can be a tricky process, so to make things easier, the new laptops come with the Alienware Command Center, which was first glimpsed at this year’s CES 2018 event. The new Alienware 15 and 17 laptops also get a new color, called Epic Black, to go alongside the original Space Grey color option. The Dell G3 15 and 17 laptops come in

Thousands of Mac users are crying foul at Apple following the release of macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 having rendered key third-party display products and services useless. Particularly, neither DisplayLink docking products nor the Duet Display Mac app are working in this latest version. Following the macOS 10.13.4 update, the Duet client app hangs without starting. As far as we can tell, it doesn’t seem like macOS 10.13.4 has affected external display connected directly to MacBooks through mini Di

YouTube has launched yet another take on the ‘stories’ format, teaming up with song lyrics and info site Genius to create a new type of presentation specifically for music. Song Stories pieces together interviews and YouTube content including music video clips and concert footage, plus facts and lyrics from Genius. “A song is so much more than an audio file,” said Ilan Zechory, co-founder and president of Genius. It’s not the first time Genius has partnered with a major music site. YouTube is in

Those who play Assassin’s Creed Origins on the PC are getting a major bonus in the form of a massive raft of customization options that allow for various parameters to be tweaked, including adding multiple animal companions and switching on ‘God Mode’. All this will be implemented via the Animus Control Panel which Ubisoft says will go live on the PC version of the game later this month. You’ll also be able to play with NPC attack speed, hit points, and other variables. When it goes live, the pa

The Honor 10 launch date has been revealed. Honor has sent us an invite to an event in London on May 15, and all signs point to the launch of the new Honor 10. The Honor 10 will replace the Honor 9 at the top of the firm’s smartphone tree, and it’ll likely sit alongside the Honor View 10. The invite also hints at camera AI (artificial intelligence) for the handset, with a shutter icon closing to reveal the letters ‘AI’. TechRadar will be reporting live from the launch event to bring you all the

The HTC Vive Pro raises the game for virtual reality in terms of screen resolution and fidelity, but it also raises the price. If you’re looking to get involved with Vive VR for the first time, a new HTC Vive Pro Starter Bundle pack could be just what you’re after. Though originally billed as an upgrade unit for existing Vive owners, the demand for the new high resolution Vive Pro unit has necessitated the need for a whole new bundle for the Pro, including all the controllers and motion trackers

Valve has posted a spirited defence of both Steam Machines and the future of gaming on Linux on its Steam Community forums. Valve’s response comes after news that the company had removed prominent links on its Store to Steam Machines. No ghosts in the Steam MachinesThe forum post, written by Valve employee Pierre-Loup Griffais, insists that the removal of any reference to Steam Machines was simply “a routine cleanup of the Steam Store navigation”, which was “removed from the main navigation bar

If you’ve used Facebook for a long time, you might have authorized dozens of apps over the years, making that a long and arduous process. To give it a try, visit your App Settings page and click all the apps that you’d like to disconnect from your account. Third-party Facebook apps aren’t always what they seem. Cambridge Analytica acquired data from millions of users via a personality test called ‘thisisyourdigitallife’ developed by researcher Aleksandr Kogan. Apps can also change hands, so your

If you prefer to travel without a laptop when out shooting, but still want to be able to back up, preview and rate images you’ve shot, as well as review video footage, then the Gnarbox 2.0 SSD could be the answer. The Gnarbox 2.0 SSD promises to be more than just another rugged external hard drive. Dedicated appsWhile the built-in display offers control over the image back-up process, to take full advantage of the Gnarbox 2.0 SSD you’ll want to download the dedicated apps that are being launched

Watch all the action at Masters.com: US live streamYour initial go-to option for streaming this year’s US Masters is an absolute gimme. And if you hate commercials, then keep reading to see how to watch rounds three and four without the ad breaks. So you can watch the (hopefully) dramatic crescendo to the 2018 Masters without having to sit through commercial breaks. Which countries can I stream the Masters live using a VPN? A VPN will enable you to watch the Masters 2018 from literally anywhere.

Intel isn’t going to patch some of its older CPUs which are vulnerable to the Meltdown and Spectre flaws, according to a fresh update issued by the company. That means CPUs which run the gamut across Core, Xeon, Pentium, Celeron and Atom chips. For example, the Bloomfield processors in question are high-end first-generation models: the Intel Core Processor Extreme Edition i7-975 and i7-965, and Core i7-920, 930, 940, 950, 960 (alongside Xeon offerings). How to protect against Spectre and Meltdow

We weren’t expecting a Samsung Galaxy S9 Mini, yet we might be getting one, as a phone rumored to be just that has been benchmarked. That’s not surprising, as Samsung’s mini range has always been mid-range despite sharing names with the company’s flagships. So don’t expect a shrunken version of the Samsung Galaxy S9. Credit: GeekbenchDon’t count on itHowever, we’re still not entirely convinced that this even is the Samsung Galaxy S9 Mini, as Samsung hasn’t launched a mini model since the Samsung

Facebook has released an update that’s supposed to counter the proliferation of fake news. If this song sounds familiar, it’s because it’s not the first time the social media company has sung it. Although if you’re the sort of person who investigates before reacting, you’re probably not the user that is most in need of a Fake News detection tool. Want to figure out what happenned with Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica scandal? Check out: The Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data scandal: what

It was just two months ago when Oculus Rift passed HTC Vive as the most popular VR headset in the Steam hardware survey for the very first time. In February, Oculus overtook HTC Vive by 1.9%, with 47.3% of Steam users connecting with Oculus Rift compared to 45.4% with Vive. Because Oculus users access the Oculus Store by default and must manually download the SteamVR browser, many Oculus gamers simply never open Steam. If only half of Oculus gamers try Steam, compared to all Vive gamers, then Oc