When it comes to in-vogue games, few titles continue to capture the zeitgeist (and fill it full of bullet holes) like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. It may have one of the worst names ever, but that hasn’t stopped PUBG from putting the ‘battle royale’ subgenre on the map and making itself into a phenomenon. Sure, there’s a lot of hype still surrounding it, but the game behind all the coverage and Twitch fascination is still one of the most addictive on Steam. That simple premise – parachute into

Mozilla is ending support for beta versions of Firefox add-ons. Until now, you could find beta or development versions on addons.mozilla.org (also known as AMO). If you still want to lend a hand, developers can host beta versions of extensions themselves, but you won’t be able to find them through AMO. The change will happen at some point this month, though Mozilla hasn’t given an exact date, so keep an eye on the Mozilla Add-Ons Blog for details. Instead of giving developers pretty much free re

We’ve got our hands on a Samsung Galaxy S9 out at MWC 2018, so the first thing we’ve done is take it out and about to check out what it’s all about. Check out our hands on: Samsung Galaxy S9 reviewCameraThe camera doesn’t look like it’s changed much, but there’s actually a fair amount of difference under the lens surface – the dual aperture sensor is supposed to make the Galaxy S9 immense in low light. And it is – we were really impressed with what it can capture when there’s very little light a

Smartwatches and fitness trackers are nowhere to be seen at 2018’s biggest mobile tech show. Mobile World Congress has never had wearable tech as its main focus, but it’s the show major brands have used to reveal smartwatches and fitness trackers in the past. The big namesMyKronoz is by far the biggest sole wearable tech company at the show, but the firm isn’t showing off any new products. Then there’s the lack of both the fitness and style focused wearable brands at the show – why have none of

There’s some bad news for those who still enjoy receiving free monthly PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita games on PlayStation Plus: Sony has announced the service will no longer include PS3 and Vita games come March 2019. After this, Sony will only include two PS4 games in its monthly lineup and nothing else. It may, however, mean that we could see some more high value PS4 games included in the lineup to reduce the sting of the cut. And then there were twoFortunately, any PS3 or PS Vita games t

It’s a big week for Sky Q. This new partnership will see the Netlix app integrated into Sky Q, as well as the creation of a brand-new Sky TV package that will include the full Netflix service. The agreement also extends to Sky’s no-contract Now TV streaming devices, which will soon have their own standalone Netflix app. However, the deal won’t be available to Sky+ customers, and it won’t be possible to watch Netflix shows on the Sky Q app. Although the agreement has been announced, the new Sky T

Instead of motion-sensing security cameras, Vayyar’s 3D imaging sensor tech can track people’s minute movements without the need for video. In that way, Vayyer’s radio wave 3D imaging chip can be tuned to see through almost any object or material. With so many potential uses, all Vayyar’s tech needs is some impressive AI to make it useful. Details are brief, but it seems Vayyar’s sensor tech will be used with Softbank’s AI to ‘create buildings and infrastructure which are safer, more energy effi

LG all but confirmed that it would not be revealing its 2018 flagship phone at MWC 2018 , so it seems to have caught many by surprise that the LG G7 was found on display in one of the halls at the event with the codename “Neo”. Ynet has confirmed that the LG G7 is powered by Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 845 chip and includes 64GB of onboard storage with 4GB of RAM. Some questions do remain as to whether this is actually the final LG G7 design, however, with VentureBeat reporter and prolific leaker

If you have any technical questions about the Oculus Go headset, just tweet John Carmack, Oculus Chief Technology Officer, and he’ll probably have an answer. In a Twitter exchange with a curious Samsung Galaxy S7 owner, Carmack assured them that the Oculus Go mobile VR headset will perform “significantly better” than an S7 in a Samsung Gear VR headset. Yes, significantly better. But again, Carmack’s “significantly better” assertion suggests that the headset intends to surpass our expectations. C

After Waymo sued Uber for allegedly stealing its LIDAR technology, you might assume the self-driving car company would keep it closely under wraps. The video shows a glamorized version of “x-view”, data collected from Waymo cars LIDAR, radar and camera feeds and aggregated into a constantly updating map of nearby roads and objects. 5 million miles and countingWaymo’s AI took six years to hit its first million miles. Now, with loosening restrictions on where self-driving cars can go, the fifth mi

Found at the back of the GSMA Innovation City, Earthlight: Lunar Mission goes way beyond the Oculus Rift headsets it uses. The external tracking system used is way beyond what you could achieve at home with just a VR headset; this is ultra-accurate multi-player VR. Take me to the moonUsing Oculus Rift headsets equipped with TPCast wireless adaptors , Earthlight: Lunar Mission lasts about five minutes. Earthlight: Lunar Mission has been developed exclusively for Noitom’s Project Alice by Melbourn

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Welcome to our list of the best free games for children on both tablet and PC. Toca Kitchen 2If you’ve a child who regularly uses a tablet, chances are you’ve already installed some Toca Boca games. Llama Spit SpitLlama Spit Spit is an oddball shoot ’em up, featuring a flying llama blasting crazy cartoon enemies with a mix of spittle and high-powered weaponry. Get Llama Spit Spit for Android and iOS. This game features advertising, and IAP for unlocking a premium upgrade (more courses and slots

If you have a collection of photos that you’d like to share, turning them into a video is one of the best ways to make them look their best. Add photos to the timelineClick the menu button under ‘Timeline’ at the bottom of the Shotcut window and select ‘Add video track’. Apply filters and add titlesYou might be happy with how your photos look already, but the right filters can give your video a whole new look. To add music to your video, click ‘Open file’, select the audio file and click ‘Open’,

The Samsung Galaxy S9 is the best OLED display ever made, according to DisplayMate’s rigorous testing, earning the highest score achievable. Despite running at the same 2,960 x 1,440 resolution as its predecessor, the Samsung Galaxy S8, a number of improvements have been made to the new device. Samsung can’t stop topping itselfWhile Apple has recently cropped up in the OLED discussion with the inclusion of the tech in its iPhone X, Samsung has mostly been competing with itself over the past few

*gulp*”Lots of people have been questioning us on [our smartphone] AI,” Huawei’s Senior Product Marketing Manager, Peter Gauden told us at MWC 2018. Now, before I go further, a caveat about this driverless car experience. The phone then communicates actions to the robotic drive system, telling the car to keep going, swerve left, swerve right or stop. Training run completed, our instructor hopped into the car and reserved it back to the start (remember, this isn’t a driverless car, this is a smar

YouTube has announced a raft of new features that should help improve livestreaming for creators as well as viewers. They include users being able to replay YouTube Live videos and viewing the live chat as it happened in real time, live automatic captions with videos, and the ability for creators to geotag the videos from where the recording is taking place. Basically, YouTube has applied its live automatic speed recognition (LASR) technology, which is in the process of approaching industry stan

MWC 2018 is drawing to a close, and we’ve had an exciting level of launches to plough through in our time here. Best PhoneSamsung Galaxy S9 PlusThe Galaxy S9 Plus is easily the best phone at the show here – Samsung might not have brought a huge upgrade to its previous models, but they were already so far ahead of the pack in many ways that it didn’t need to. Still, with dual cameras that really push the envelope in performance combined with slick design, the S9 Plus was an easy winner. Best in S

Last week, Intel released overhauled Spectre fixes for all its newest CPUs – from Skylake onwards – and now the firm has pushed out fresh patches for many Broadwell and Haswell processors too (5th- and 4th-gen models). These are working Spectre patches that don’t cause the instability problems which the previous fixes did, which led to Intel recommending that folks don’t install them. As the Register reports, on the Broadwell front, patches are now done for processors with these CPU IDs: 50662,

Netflix plans to add around 700 original movies and TV series to its line-up this year, totalling a spend of $8 billion. These plans were detailed by Netflix CFO David Wells at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco. Originals worth watchingNetflix streaming exclusives we’ve already seen in 2018 include Duncan Jones’s interesting but critically panned Mute and sci-fi TV series Altered Carbon. As of January 2018, Netflix had 117.6 million subscribers worldwide.