But that’s not to say it’s impossible: armed with the right settings, there’s no reason you can’t come away with shots that rock. Before the event begins, check with the venue staff and event organisers to see whether you’re allowed to use flash. Ideally, you also need a ‘fast’ lens, to enable you to shoot in low light at low ISOs. Control the focusWhen you’re using a very wide aperture, accurate focusing is essential. Essential accessory: ear plugsIf you’re going to be regularly shooting bands,

At some point, most of us have had the frustrating moment of testing their broadband speed and seeing it’s nowhere near as high as our provider has said it can go. While it’s hard to accurately estimate home broadband speeds for every individual home, it can sometimes feel like the “up to” number has been plucked from thin air. Given that many people now have their broadband included with a TV or phone package from one provider, it’s been promised that poor broadband service will be sufficient t

There aren’t many free PDF editors, and even fewer that won’t leave your documents with unsightly watermarks. That’s why we’ve rounded up the very best free PDF editing software that’s free to use and won’t add any unwanted extras to your work. You can edit text (including formatting), add text and images, encrypt documents with a password, convert your PDF to an image file and add comments. You can add text, images and links, sign documents, add annotations, and insert ellipses and rectangles.

For a long time, Nintendo hasn’t been a gaming company that touts the latest and greatest technology to sell its hardware. The Nintendo Switch is far from the most powerful console on the market, but Nintendo has never promised power. It really doesn’t matter that the Switch isn’t the most powerful console around, because it’s something completely different. Now we have very un-Nintendo games on a Nintendo platform and a far wider gaming audience is interested. While it’s not the most powerful g

Google is testing a new technology that separates the foreground from the background in videos in real time, making it easy to change the background to something more interesting or fun. YouTube Real-Time Mobile Video Segmentation produces results similar to chroma-keying (also known as green screening), but doesn’t rely on a background that’s a uniform color. Stories are 15-minute videos that are only accessible via the YouTube mobile apps, and are designed to be more like Instagram videos. Rea

Panasonic promised a trio of high-end f/2.8-4 zoom lenses at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and its latest 50-200mm telephoto completes the enticing offering. Alongside the 8-18mm f/2.8-4 and 12-60mm f/2.8-4 in the range, the new Leica 50-200mm f/2.8-4.0 ASPH features a lens design made up of 21 elements in 15 groups, including two UED (Ultra Extra-low Dispersion) lenses, two ED (Extra-low Dispersion) lenses and two aspherical lenses. Optical Image StabilizerShake reduction i

It’s an open-world horse race. He’s reluctant, but is willing to change his mind if you can win a cross-country race on the back of a Neuhof mare. We wish it were more challenging – if you study your map then you shouldn’t have any trouble winning. But it’s still a good demonstration of how diverse Deliverance’s quests can be. To start the quest: Talk to Zora, the horse trader at Neuhof, after the ‘Ginger in a Pickle’ main quest.

HMD Global announced five new Nokia phones at MWC 2018, but the latest report suggests we’ll see at least two more handsets from the company later this year. According to Nokia Power User, we’ll see both the Nokia 9 and Nokia 8 Pro before the end of this year. Both phones will apparently feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset inside, and the report suggests the Nokia 8 Pro will be ready for release in August this year while the Nokia 9 release date is currently unclear. Two big phonesThe site

Cybersecurity – also known as computer security or IT security – involves safeguarding computers and servers from unwanted tampering. And as the threats faced by businesses multiply and mutate, the demand for cybersecurity experts has gone up. So we’ll introduce you to some of the most influential people working in cyber security right now. The company was founded in 1997 by Russian cybersecurity guru Eugene Kaspersky, although he didn’t become CEO until 2007. At Flashpoint, she’s been responsib

Apple could debut a new MacBook Air at a cheaper price point and it might arrive as soon as next month, according to fresh speculation. Spec-ulationThere aren’t any details available on what the possible spec of this potential MacBook Air refresh might be, so that’s still up for guessing. Currently, the base MacBook Air costs $999 (around AU$1,290) or £949 (although you can get a slightly cheaper model if you shop around online). However, it wasn’t so long ago that you could pick up a MacBook Ai

Program AE is short for ‘program auto exposure’ and it’s where the camera takes control of both the lens aperture and the shutter speed – the two main ways of adjusting exposure – and balances both to produce a suitable exposure. Photographers often think this program AE mode is more for beginners than experienced users, but actually, for many everyday photographic subjects, it saves you time with a perfectly good compromise that you’d find it difficult to improve on. If neither shutter speed no

News of the HTC U12 has so far been fairly thin on the ground, and the phone was nowhere to be seen at MWC 2018, but we now have a much better idea of what to expect from it – and when we might see it – thanks to a new leak. LlabTooFeR, who’s accurately leaked HTC information in the past, took to Twitter to share the specs of the HTC Imagine (believed to be the HTC U12), revealing that it has a 5.99-inch QHD+ display, a top-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 chipset and up to 6GB of RAM. They also say

Whatever the symptoms, when you realize you’ve been hacked you need to move quickly to deal with the problem – here’s what to do. Get the hard drive outThe next step is to power down the system and remove the hard drive, whether it’s a HDD or an SSD. The drive should then be mounted in an external caddy, or an inexpensive USB enclosure, and connected to another computer. Now you need to disinfect the drive by running a reputable antivirus scan on it, and ideally a second antivirus solution as we

Welcome to TechRadar Pro’s Security week! Over the next few days we’ll be bringing you a raft of content dedicated to cyber security and how it is impacting our daily lives. Cyber Security is an issue that affects every connected household and is on the agenda of every business in the country. Techradar Pro’s Security week will look into the fundamental aspects of security, at home and in businesses and explore the core components of how we can be better protected in an increasingly perilous onl

How to watch the Oscars 2018 Coverage of the Oscars 2018 begins at 1.30am live on Sky Cinema Oscars, as well as being live-streamed on Facebook. How to watch Oscars 2018 onlineThis is the best way to watch Oscars 2018 online – from absolutely anywhere in the world – without any commercial breaks:1. Where can I watch Oscars 2018 using a VPN? How to watch Oscars 2018 in the UK in its entirety:If you’re in the UK, the Oscars 2018 award ceremony is being shown live on Sky Cinema Oscars, with coverag

Another year, another edition of Android to look forward to, and those in the know are suggesting that the developer preview of Android P could hit as early as the middle of March. Maybe, maybe not. Most of the bigger features of Android P won’t get unveiled until Google I/O, which starts on May 8. Bearing in mind that Android 8.0 Oreo first appeared as a developer preview on March 21 last year, it’s a pretty safe bet that something’s going to happen this month. As is the norm, users with Pixel

If you want to try and minimize your impact, or even do some good while you travel, you’re in luck. There’s a range of brilliant apps out there that will help you travel a little more eco-friendly. This is the app if you’re looking to book a hotel, attraction or even a business meeting and you want to make sure you’re using a service that is eco-friendly. SpinlisterFreeiOS, AndroidOnce you’ve arrived at your destination, the best (and the most environmentally friendly) way to get around is by bi

The Moto G6 line-up is going to replace last year’s Moto G5 phones (one of which you can see in the image above). The Moto G6 Play, apparentlyThe G6 Play should continue that theme of budget value, and we’re expecting a 5.7-inch 720p screen and a 4,000mAh battery, based on what we’ve heard so far. The three colors mooted for the G6 Play up to this point are dark charcoal, gold and deep blue. None of this is official though, so we’ll have to wait for the official unveiling to get a proper look at

You won’t be able to experience the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus until March 11, but we’ve gotten a few days of perspective using the new Plus-sized Android phone while at MWC 2018. There are two cameras on the Galaxy S9 Plus instead of one and they are stacked vertically. It’s also much faster and smoother on the Galaxy S9 though that could be attributed to the new processor. Here are some pics we took with the Galaxy S9 Plus. We’ll continue to test the phone, but for more, check out ou

If you’ve noticed your Amazon Echo being a little less chatty than usual, don’t panic – a spell of downtime in Amazon’s cloud servers knocked out the Alexa app for a few hours, but all systems are go again and your Echo should be back to full functionality. Other users reported sluggishness in Alexa’s responses, so the digital assistant could still respond to questions, but needed a good long think about them first. Most areas are now reporting that Alexa is back up and running normally. Not-so-