Apple won’t be making any major changes to its MacBook range of laptops this year, at least according to the notebook rumor mill – although that doesn’t rule out minor refinements to the machines. In other words, all of Apple’s laptops will stay pretty much the same in terms of their chassis and overall design, with nothing big happening, although minor refreshes could well still occur. Indeed, some comments from Apple executives made in 2017 reinforce this line of thinking to a point. Apple spr

The Metal Gear games don’t follow a strict chronology, with 3 and 5 taking place before 1, 2, and 4, so Metal Gear Solid 6’s story could occur at any point along that chronology. The sixth game in the Metal Gear Solid series and the first without its auteur director, Hideo KojimaThe sixth game in the Metal Gear Solid series and the first without its auteur director, Hideo Kojima When’s it out? FeaturesWhile we don’t even know Metal Gear Solid 6 is in development, we can guess at what aspects of

Smart speakers are big business, with about 39 million Americans now owning one according to a recent poll undertaken by US radio syndicator NPR and Edison research. Not to be outdone by the Google Mini, Amazon slashed its prices on a vast range of Amazon devices, and it paid off. NPR’s research found that 7% of all Americans purchased a smart speaker over the 2017 holiday season, with 4% buying their first smart speaker. Alexa, entertain meWhat’s really interesting from the research is that 64%

Enlightenment describes itself as a desktop shell, which means it’s a desktop environment without any applications supplied. OpenboxWe said at the outset of this article that a desktop environment is a tricky thing to define. However, with some configuration, it can be turned into a desktop environment in its own right – which is what the developers of CrunchBang++ have done. XmonadIf there’s one desktop environment that stands out from all the others we have here it’s this one. There are also t

So while it used the show to unveil the first of its 2018 TV sets featuring its excellent current-gen X1 Extreme processor, it’s also been teasing what’s possible from the Extreme’s successor, the X1 Ultimate. What is the X1 Ultimate? The X1 Ultimate is a prototype processor for Sony’s TVs, which Sony says it has been working on for a few years now. Sony says the X1 Ultimate is ready for all of these new features as and when they arrive. Sony gave us the example of that while the X1 Extreme migh

Below you will find a quick how-to guide to help you watch and stream Super Bowl 52 (or Super Bowl LII as some call it) without the need for a paid-for subscription. How to watch Super Bowl 52 live onlineGood news! If you are in the US, that’s a no-brainer, Verizon will stream the Super Bowl LII (as well as a host of other NFL games) live via its vast online properties including Yahoo Sports . It is not known whether NBC will allow anyone to view the 2018 Super Bowl without registration or exist

The latest Star Wars movies have been among the most hotly-anticipated films of all time, and that means there are plenty of people who could profit from finding out their secrets ahead of release. And that in turn means some pretty drastic measures have had to be taken in order to keep the details of their scripts from leaking, right down to the tech used to write and share them. Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson revealed the extreme lengths taken to keep his script from being seen

According to a presentation and subsequent tweet from Stephen Rose, senior product marketing manager for the OneDrive team, the ‘Files Restore’ feature will allow you to roll your OneDrive storage account back to any point you want, and it should be arriving in the next couple of weeks. Files Restore in #Onedrive coming in the next couple weeks. Restore the files from any point you want. Although note that at this point, it’s not clear if the feature will be enabled for all OneDrive users, or ju

When the original Xbox was released, it was widely criticized for its massive controller (nicknamed the ‘Duke’), and critics and fans alike were delighted when Microsoft replaced it with the smaller ‘Controller S’ just a year into the console’s life-cycle. The remade controller, manufactured by Hyperkin, has the blessing of Seamus Blackley, the controller’s original designer. #NewDuke has gone to tooling and is approved by @Xbox THIS IS HAPPENING! pic.twitter.com/zSVA4TFh08September 20, 2017Rose

With Apple having confirmed that it’s slowing down iPhones with aged batteries you might understandably be worried that the same thing is happening to your iPad, MacBook or Apple Watch, but you can rest assured that it’s not. On a support page detailing the ‘feature’, Apple has confirmed that “This power management feature is specific to iPhone and does not apply to any other Apple products.”So why is the iPhone affected and nothing else? Well, we don’t know for sure, but Apple is slowing older

If you’ve got smaller wrists, Tag Heuer may have just made the perfect luxury smartwatch for you. The Connected Modular 45 came out last year and while luxurious in design, it is large and can be a struggle for anyone with smaller wrists, so the company has now shrunk all of its features down for the Connected Modular 41. The new watch comes with a 41mm diameter case, which shouldn’t come as a surprise considering its name. This new version also comes with a brighter screen than the Modular 45,

The fifth game in the main Gears of War series, potentially acting as the middle chapter in a second trilogyThe fifth game in the main Gears of War series, potentially acting as the middle chapter in a second trilogy When’s it out? With Gears of War 5 not yet being announced any suggestion of a release date would be entirely guesswork. News and featuresThe only solid news on a Gears of War 5 comes from a statement Rod Ferguson, studio head of The Coalition, made eight months before the release o

Chrome OS and Android are closer than ever before – many Chromebooks, including the Google Pixelbook – can run Android apps just as well as a phone or tablet, and it looks like the desktop OS is about to borrow another feature from its mobile sibling. Chrome Story spotted that notification badges are on their way to Chrome OS in the near future, based on some hunting around in recent code updates. Chromebooks and Chromeboxes already feature an Android-style app drawer, so presumably these little

In this guide, we’ll explore five of the very best cryptocurrency applications available today for storing your digital wealth. If you are moving large amounts of Bitcoin, consider creating a ‘cold’ offline wallet to store your assets (see our guide to creating a secure cold storage Bitcoin wallet). (We’ve got a handy guide on setting up Bitcoin Core). Unlike the Bitcoin Core client, Electrum offers you the option to encrypt your wallet file during setup, although you can choose to leave it unen

All in all, 2017 wasn’t the greatest of years for smartwatches, but as 2018 kicks off we’re already seeing manufacturers looking to make innovations with their devices – namely Huawei, which has plans to bring out a new watch with touch-sensitive bezels. The documents filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) show a smartwatch bezel divided up into eight sections, each of which can be tapped to launch some kind of action on the wearable. As ever with patent applications, the

Google Duo is Android’s official answer to FaceTime, allowing you to make simple and stable video calls to friends and family. Thanks to a new update just pushed out by Google, you’ll be able to receive calls made by the Duo app on some Android phones, even if you don’t actually have the app yourself. It all happens through something called App Preview Messaging, which works through a background Android app called Google Play Services. Knock, knock, who’s there? Some of the best parts of Google

Las Vegas was hit by CES fever this week, and that usually means a bucketload of new TVs get announced. To help you pick the very best of the TV sets on show at CES, we’ve compiled our picks from the show, the ones that really stand out from the also-rans. It’s a gorgeous-looking and massive TV set. Like the new OLED sets, Google Assistant will be on hand for all your needs and queries. Samsung certainly is, and the Samsung Q9S 8K TV was certainly a sight to behold when we spotted it on the show

Apple typically doesn’t bother attending CES – preferring instead to host its own product launches throughout the year – but according to a report, Apple representatives were at the show in Las Vegas this week, and they were speaking to parts suppliers for AR glasses. In a lengthy report on AR and VR at the Consumer Electronics Show, Bloomberg says Apple was in talks with other companies about building some augmented reality specs. Apple has been rumored to be working on something like this for

If you’ve decided to take the plunge and have bought your own Bitcoin (BTC) mining hardware or mining rig, your next step is to connect to a mining ‘pool’. It works via a simple command line interface and supports multiple mining pools and devices. It’s primarily designed to be used with hardware mining devices but can make use of any GPUs connected to your machine as well. During our tests using CGMiner 4.9.2 on Windows 10, we found that Windows Defender and our antivirus software tried to bloc

The upcoming Huawei P20 (or Huawei P11, as it might be called) smartphone may have a little more information available despite it likely still being a couple months from release. The latest details come from a leaked browser benchmark spotted by PhoneArena that indicates the phone’s screen will have a somewhat unorthodox 18.7:9 aspect ratio. The unusual aspect ratio and screen resolution of 1080 x 2244 suggest that the rumored bezel-less screen is going to be a reality for the Huawei P20. Other