The Sage by Heston Blumenthal the Oracle Touch does the hard work. DesignThe Sage by Heston Blumenthal the Oracle Touch is bulky. The Sage by Heston Blumenthal the Oracle Touch is slicker than its original espresso machines. The soothing sound the Sage by Heston Blumenthal the Oracle Touch makes when you turn it on. VerdictThe Sage by Heston Blumenthal the Oracle Touch is a perfect machine for domestic use.

Mozilla has released Firefox Quantum 59, with faster load times for content on your homepage, as well as cached pages. Firefox 59 offers improved privacy as well. Easy annotationsThe Firefox Screenshots tool has received a boost, too. Screenshots was introduced with the launch of Firefox Quantum in November last year. With Firefox Quantum 59, you can now crop and annotate grabs before sharing them, avoiding the need to import them into a separate image editor.

If the proliferation of 4K games on consoles and PC has left you longing for the simple days of 16-bit action you’ll be glad to know that a Sega Mega Drive collection is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC in a matter of months. The announcement of the collection came via Twitter in a post which was very quickly deleted. ‘SEGA Genesis Collection’ coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on May 29. pic.twitter.com/onlWVAaJYJMarch 13, 2018As the tweet only contains a trailer and a May 29 release date, ther

The LG G7 and LG G7 Plus launch date will likely be towards the end of April, or at the start of May, with it hitting store shelves sometime in May, according to the latest leaks surrounding the flagship handsets. A new report by ETNews also claims the LG G7 will be around KRW 100,000 more expensive than the LG G6 – which would be an increase of around $90 (£70, AU$120). Additionally, it will integrate the AI camera features that were seen on the LG V30S ThinQ at MWC 2018. It’s also speculated t

If you’re a fan of Google Assistant, today is a good day. Good Morning adds the ability to turn on lights, adjust thermostats, and more. They are called Leaving Home, I’m Home, Commuting to Work, Commuting Home, and Bedtime. What’s cool is that because Google Assistant can distinguish between voices (unlike Siri on the HomePod), individual users can have personalized Routines. Want to see if Google Home is the right smart speaker for you?

Google has announced it will be banning adverts for cryptocurrency across all its platforms. The search giant has revealed a crackdown on all cryptocurrency-related content, including adverts for ICOs, exchanges, digital wallets, and trading advice. The ban, set to come into force in June 2018, will also mean that even legitimate cryptocurrency vendors and traders will be blocked from using Google AdWords to show off their services, and follows a similar move by Facebook back in January. ‘Extrem

There’s a lot to like about the Sony Xperia XZ2 and Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact, including some Hi-Res audio tech, but the 3.5mm headphone jack has bitten the dust this time around. Sony has taken to its official blog to explain why the port got removed, and we’re not entirely convinced. “In order to create the beautiful seamless design, our designers needed to remove the headphone jack. Plus, we’re aware of the major market trend toward wireless headphones over wired headphones.” Even without the h

Joining the likes of PlayStation Plus and Games with Gold, Free Games with Prime is a new service from Twitch that will award its Prime subscribers a handful of free PC games every month. Twitch has, of course, offered free games to Prime members before but this is the first time we’ve seen it formalized into an actual monthly system. Something for almost nothingIf you’re already an Amazon Prime subscriber, becoming a Twitch Prime member is as simple as linking your Amazon and Twitch accounts. C

Microsoft has patched the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities on Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs, where previously only Windows 10 was covered. Specifically, those running Windows 7 (Service Pack 1) and Windows 8.1 will now be able to install Microsoft’s fix for the flaws on the software front. However, the majority of Windows users will now be able to benefit from the Meltdown and Spectre fixes. How to protect against Spectre and Meltdown For the latest on how to protect yourself from Spectre and Meltdo

An app for music streaming service Deezer has been released on Xbox One, giving Spotify-hating gamers another way to play music through the console. Deezer arrives just a few months after Microsoft discontinued its own, rather unappreciated, Groove Music service at the end of 2017. The app will let you play music as a soundtrack to your game, rather than just using it as a modern alternative to a CD player. It should prove particularly handy while gaming, as you won’t want to interrupt play just

Israeli security firm CTS Labs has today released a white paper to the press, which it claims detail a number of vulnerabilities affecting current AMD CPUs. The 13 vulnerabilities listed in the white paper allegedly affect all Ryzen and Ryzen Pro products currently on the market, as well as EPYC server CPUs made by AMD, but do require root-level (administrator) operating-system access in order to exploit. AMD respondsThe report from CTS Labs is intentionally light on the exploits’ details; a mea

But for the people of Phoenix, Arizona who volunteered to ride in Waymo’s self-driving cars, the experience started out thrilling but ended up relaxing – even boring. Most recently, the Alphabet-owned company showed off a video of what self-driving cars “see” to stress how the AI will avoid people and obstacles at all costs. Once people do go for a ride in a self-driving car, however, this video seems to indicate that they’ll quickly lose their phobias of an empty driver seat. Waymo’s AI tech te

Image credit: Kitty HawkNew Zealand is truly the nexus point for fantasy lovers and futurists’ dearest dreams. First it hosted Hobbiton, and now it’ll serve as the first major testing ground for a professional flying car company. An overhead look of a Cora prototype (Credit: Kitty Hawk) (Image: © Kitty Hawk)Current regulations in the US would make a Kitty Hawk taxi service impossible. In other words, unless you live in New Zealand, don’t necessarily count on climbing into an autonomous air taxi

The lowly light switch is getting a 21st century upgrade, thanks to home tech company Ecobee. The new Ecobee Switch+ features Amazon Alexa, bringing voice-enabled technology and a speaker to an otherwise mundane household fixture. Through a software update launching in the summer (between June and September), the Ecobee Switch+ will even work with the Ecobee smart thermostats to regulate room temperature. The Ecobee Switch+ is the deepest integration we’ve seen in a light switch yet, however, an

After numerous beta updates and delays, Android Oreo has finally landed on the Essential Phone. Originally intended to launch with the vanilla version of Oreo, Essential opted instead for the latest version due to some stability concerns. We’re excited to announce the full release of Android Oreo 8.1 on Essential Phone! Check your phone now for the update. This Android Oreo update will certainly make the Essential Phone better than before, though it’s now slightly overshadowed by the Android P d

The would-be second Surface Studio desktopThe would-be second Surface Studio desktop When is it out? All we have to go off of is Windows Central citing sources in a recent video having said that ‘Surface Studio 2 is a-go.’ As such, the outlet expects to see the device ‘in the fall.’That amounts to anytime between September and November for a possible Surface Studio 2 release. Surface Studio 2 priceSadly, there’s even less known regarding the Surface Studio 2’s possible pricing, i.e. What we want

The San Jose, CA-based developer conference is almost certainly where Apple will reveal next milestone software updates: iOS 12, MacOS 10.14, watchOS 5 and tvOS 12. iOS 12 retoolingIt’s going to be interesting to see how Apple talks up iOS 12. Its phone and tablet software updates have long been a big focus of WWDC, but this year could be different. Apple has reportedly shelved many exciting features intended for iOS 12, including a home screen redesign and several app tweaks. It’s too soon for

As we draw ever closer to the release of Microsoft’s next major version of Windows 10 , the info dumps only grow more frequent and more specific. Meanwhile, the world expects Microsoft to publicly dub this major revision the ‘Spring Creators Update ,’ a name that has appeared in several leaked Windows 10 Insider Preview builds up until this point. That more than likely name tells us a lot about Microsoft’s intent with this OS version, namely that it aims to further appease the creative professio

The Wearable Technology Show isn’t a big hitting behemoth tech conference like CES or MWC, but we’ve trawled the floor at the London event to find the weirdest and most innovative tech. Some of them may never come to market, but each is worth knowing about if you’re interested in technology you wear. Smart socks with sensors in the materialUnlike most other smart clothing, the technology inside these socks from Footfalls & Heartbeats is built into the textile itself. It’s not just the socks eith

The new Nikon 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E is simply the best 70-300mm lens on the market for use with current and recent Nikon DSLRs, both DX and FX. That lens has now been discontinued, and replaced by the AF-P 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E ED VR, priced at a somewhat less budget-friendly £750/$750/AU$1,300. Compared with the older FX-format 70-300mm VR lens, there are three crucial differences in the new design. The uprated VR system in the new lens gives improved 4.5-stop performance, and comes with Normal and