From the way Google and Amazon have been pushing smart speakers it’s clear the two companies won’t be satisfied until you have a Google Home or Amazon Echo in literally every room in your house. Enter a new wall mount for the Google Home Mini. Produced by Incipio, in partnership with Google, the mount should make it easy to blanket your home in Google Assistant coverage. Blanket coverageHowever, while making sure a smart speaker can hear you no matter where you are in your house is one thing, if

The Moto E4 is one of the best budget phones you can buy, as its appearance in our best cheap phones list attests, but a new model likely dubbed the Moto E5 could be landing soon, and we may have just seen the first image of it. The E5 might look a lot like the E4 other than the scanner position. We do however have an idea of when the Moto E5 might launch, as this render includes the date April 3 on the screen, so that could be when it’s being announced. That would be slightly under a year after

The application of blockchain technology could eliminate voter fraud, providing a clear record of the votes cast, and preventing any chance of a rigged election. Follow My Vote promises an ‘online voting solution for the modern age’ via blockchain technology. Applying blockchain technology to healthcare records promises improved data security, with better access for healthcare professionals and patients alike, and greater transparency for healthcare transactions. IBM has partnered with Axoni and

On of the most glaring details that was absent from the Samsung Galaxy S9 box leak last week (and there were a few) was any information regarding the upcoming handset’s battery. Now, thanks to Brazil’s telecom regulator Anatel, the S9 and S9 Plus’ that particular detail may have been revealed. According to the certificates obtained by SlashLeaks, Samsung’s next flagship handsets will have the same sized batteries as their predecessors, with the S9 packing a 3,000mAh unit and the S9 Plus sporting

It’s been about a month since Apple confirmed the slowing down of older iPhones , and despite apologizing for the fracas and promising to replace old batteries for cheaper, the storm that’s been dubbed ‘batterygate’ hasn’t blown over for the Cupertino-based giant. Now Apple faces a plethora of lawsuits filed in the US (45 at the last count) and, earlier this month, France announced that the country’s consumer watchdog would be investigating the “deception and planned obsolescence” by the company

If you’ve been experiencing Wi-Fi dropouts and slow speeds on your home network recently, certain Google devices might be to blame according to several users in the Google Home Help Forum, as reported by Android Police. One anonymous user in the forum started a thread after noticing that their Wi-Fi network had started dropping out with alarming frequency upon returning home with an Android device. As an experiment, the user disconnected their Google Cast-enabled devices from the network, includ

When asked to bow down to China’s strict censorship laws in 2010, tech giant Google made the decision to pull its most popular services entirely from the country rather than comply. The company has now returned to the Chinese market – albeit in a tentative way – by reintroducing a localized version of Google Maps. The China-specific version of Google Maps is available via desktop browsers and as an iOS app (China doesn’t have the Google Play Store, so there’s no Android version), which both allo

The Nintendo Switch might be a popular gaming console, but unlike the PS4 and the Xbox One , users of the handheld still can’t stream Netflix as there’s no official app. Gaming website Polygon has reported that Netflix is “exploring the opportunity with Nintendo, but don’t have definitive plans to share at this time”. The statement is something of a rebuttal of a tweet posted on January 14 by Netflix, where the company said there were “currently no plans for Netflix on Nintendo Switch” in respon

The Samsung Galaxy X, one of the world’s first fully-foldable phones, has reportedly been shown off to prospective customers at CES 2018. According to a report in The Investor , Samsung had prototypes of the foldable screen in a variety of forms and is intending on bringing the device to market in the next 12 months. Gaining tractionThe meeting is said to have drawn more people than previously, as interest in the foldable display grows. The Galaxy X – which is unlikely to be the final name of th

Samsung has trademarked a new material called ‘Metal 12’ which will make its devices lighter while still maintaining strength. The new material – which was used on the new Notebook 9 2018 – offers strength while allowing the devices to be lighter than previously. That’s something that would be a big win in both smartphones and smartwatches – and interestingly both are listed in the trademark application. (Non) heavy metalThe fact Metal 12 has been used on a notebook already hints that it could b

Here’s something you have to respect if true: LG Electronics’ CEO has reportedly ordered a reboot of the forthcoming LG G7. The flagship smartphone was expected to debut at or around MWC 2018, as per previous G series phones, but it appears that won’t be the case. According to The Investor, who quoted an ‘anonymous company official’, the development team was ordered to halt the work it was doing and start over again. LG’s smartphone business has posted losses regularly as it struggles to compete

Apple watchOS 5 news and rumorsSo far not much of anything is known about watchOS 5, but we’ll fill out this section as and when we start hearing things. There are plenty of different ways to customize the hardware of an Apple Watch, but the software is – unsurprisingly coming from Apple – very locked down. Improved on-watch settingsThe Apple Watch 3 LTE should be a truly phone-free smartwatch, but even that model requires you to head to the Apple Watch app on your iPhone to change many of the s

The Yi Technology 4K+ Action Camera is just as good as the GoPro Hero6 Black, but it’s not identical. However, the Yi Technology 4K+ Action Camera is more affordable than its rival, and that comes with a few cut corners. Almost as good as its more famous rival in almost every way, the Yi Technology 4K+ Action Camera is nevertheless not natively waterproof. However, this follow-up to the Yi 4K Action Camera is more tweak than overhaul, with the main improvement being that the Yi Technology 4K+ Ac

But that was 2017, and CES 2018 saw Sony unveil the first two models in its upcoming 2018 range of TVs. Although the title of ‘flagship LCD’ still belongs to Sony’s 2016 ZD9, the X900F is a premium addition to the LCD lineup. Sony 2018 TV technologySo far, it looks like 2018 isn’t a massive step forward compared to what Sony offered last year. Sony’s X900F is the sole LCD Sony has shown off so far in 2018It’s a similar story elsewhere in the lineup. Sony’s AF8 features a redesigned stand that me

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The web is awash with SEO tools and resources, but it pays to do your homework first and pick your kit carefully. Just like the practitioners within the search marketing industry itself, there’s the good the bad and, well, the ugly. Here is our list of five of the best free tools around today. The toolbar includes buttons for a site’s Google index update, backlinks, SEMRush ranking, Facebook likes, Bing index, Alexa ranks, web archive age and a link to the Whois page. Optimise is not for the fai

But this is only partly true… A full-frame sensor camera just takes different – not necessarily better – shots than DSLR and mirrorless cameras with the more standard APS-C-sized sensor. This means, a full-frame sensor has over 2.5 times the surface area of an APS-C sensor. These all offer full-frame sensors, but don’t have quite the same ultra-rugged build and top-line performance as their stablemates offer. Although APS-C and full-frame cameras can share many of the same lenses, the visual eff

The method used to allocate rewards and the final amount you’ll receive will depend on the mining pool in question. The biggest mining pool in the worldEasy-to-use dashboardChoose your own mining rewardSmaller pay-outsAntPool is currently the largest mining pool operating today, representing just over a quarter of hash power worldwide. Whichever method you choose, remember that individual pay-outs are generally smaller for larger mining pools. BTC.com operates one of the most popular mining pool

This coming March, the Nintendo Switch will turn one year old and what a first year it’s had. The sales goal for the Switch’s second year is now 20 million which is a high target to set. More than any other Nintendo console in recent years, the Switch has a reasonably wide range of games to play. Maintaining momentumAt TechRadar we’ve already acknowledged that the console’s more mature games are a huge improvement for Nintendo. These are the best Nintendo Switch games you can play right now