Main image: The 22nd century will be about much more than flying cars. The prediction game can soon become more a reflection of ‘us’ in the 21st century rather than ‘them’ in the 22nd century. But AI and computing power are destined to become the enablers for something 22nd society will need a lot of: energy. Credit: JET (Image: © JET)”Our technology aims at small modular fusion power – but one module would produce sufficient power for a small city,” Carling adds. Time machines may be beyond eve

The holidays are an expensive time, so we’re bringing you a special treat: a full, free Windows program to download every day until Christmas. The third program in our free downloads advent calendar is Steganos Safe 18 – a secure digital vault to protect all your more important and personal files. This incredibly hand program can create safes up to 2TB in size, and secure them with 384-bit AES-XEX encryption. Once you’ve unlocked your safe, it integrates seamlessly with Windows and behaves just

Specs and features are all well and good, but when you pull your smartphone out of your pocket, what people are really judging you on is the color of your handset – and it sounds like Samsung could have a surprise in store for the Galaxy S9 device launching in 2018. Incidentally the same color rumor did the rounds last year before the arrival of the Samsung Galaxy S8, though in the end a purple option didn’t appear – so until we actually get confirmation from Samsung, don’t take this as somethin

The ZeroPhone project led by Arsenijs Picugins is no less ambitious but much less expensive. While you’ll be able to make calls and send SMS with Picugin’s ZeroPhone, it isn’t as cutting edge as Purism’s smartphone. Question: The big question is can you assemble a phone from easily available parts, using cheap boards running Linux? Right now there are two people who are trying to assemble the phone independently. There’s a Raspbian Lite distribution and that’s what I’m using and it makes sense t

Amazon has just dropped the price on its brand new Amazon Fire TV 4K streaming media player. Amazon Fire TV 4K | was $69.99, now $49.99 @ AmazonWe were disappointed the new 4K-ready Amazon Fire TV didn’t get a discount on Black Friday or Cyber Monday but this today-only deal is exactly what we’ve been waiting for. This marks the cheapest way to stream 4K HDR content onto your TV as rival 4K-ready Roku/Apple TV devices or 4K gaming consoles are much more expensive. Heck, at this price, it’s only

In 2017 Apple released its cheapest full-sized iPad ever, giving more budget-conscious tablet buyers (think schools and businesses) a lower-cost option to those shiny, feature-packed iPad Pros that support the Apple Pencil and clip-on keyboards and all those other extras. Well, in 2018 Apple is apparently going to go even lower – DigiTimes is reporting that the 9.7-inch tablet will get a price cut to around US$259 (roughly £190 or AU$340). What might actually happen is that the hardware remains

With SpaceX now launching payloads every two weeks, and Nasa ramping up its operations, there are multiple ways to witness the ultimate in tech spectacles: a rocket launch. Florida, Virginia and California all host increasingly regular rocket launches, and it’s also possible to reliably witness a launch from China, French Guiana and Kazakhstan. There’s one undisputed hot ticket in rocket launches: witnessing a take-off of the reusable SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the first stage of which then returns

The holidays are an expensive time, so we’re bringing you a special treat: a full, free Windows program to download every day until Christmas. Look behind the second door on our free downloads advent calendar to find a full copy of ASCOMP PDF Conversa – a fantastically useful tool that takes the hassle out of working with PDFs. Once you’ve downloaded the software, register for a free account using the link at the top right of the program window to unlock the full version. Editing PDF documents i

If you’ve woken up on Saturday, December 2 to find your iPhone or iPad randomly crashing, you’re not alone, as posts on Twitter and Reddit confirm. The problem centers on apps that use daily or repeat reminder settings, which apparently cause CPU use to spike before forcing a reset. Apple hasn’t said anything about the bug, but has put up a new support page on the web. Again, that problem was dealt with via an over-the-air update, so your iOS keyboard should be working fine again. Now Apple has

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If you’ve looked over someone’s shoulder this year and wondered what they were doing on their phone, they may have been using one of the most popular apps or playing one of the most popular games on the Google Play store. With so many people on Android, it takes an enormous amount of downloads to rank among the most popular apps and games in Google Play. So, you can be sure that the Best of 2017 apps on this list will have a chance to pop up in your daily life now and then. Next time you’re out

Cable TV had a good run, but it’s 2017 now. The first thing to consider in switching to streaming services is whether or not your internet connection is fast enough – though, more than likely yours is. Unlike the similarly-sized Chromecast, the Roku Streaming Stick offers a pretty comprehensive operating system, complete with apps for popular streaming services. Other Roku DevicesBut the Roku Streaming Stick isn’t the only option on the table. Apart from the great content, Netflix also offers a

You may not know, though, that one of the consequences of this staggered departure is that some iPhone X units carry Qualcomm Snapdragon X16 modem chips while others have XMM7480 chips made by Intel. According to a new study from Cellular Insights, which specializes in wireless download reports, you’re getting better speeds if you happen to use an iPhone X with one of the Qualcomm chips than one of the iPhone X units with Intel modems. At an especially weak signal strength of -120dBm, for instan

Microsoft seems to creating some kind of new Surface device powered by ARM and featuring the Snapdragon 845 chipset and LTE connectivity, judging from a new job listing spotted by WinFuture . The post doesn’t give much information about the actual device, but there’s a good chance it could be the new two-screen Courier-like device as it, too, is thought to be powered by ARM. The job listing is specifically for a Hardware Test Engineer /Manufacturing Engineer that has experience working with Wi-F

The science behind this process is the science of color temperature, and this is measured in degrees Kelvin, or just Kelvins, after the 19th century physicist Lord Kelvin, who developed the color temperature scale. The upshot for photographers is that you can assign a color temperature to just about any set of shooting conditions. Studio lights come with precisely calibrated color temperature values, color temperature meters quote Kelvin values, and if you shoot raw files and process them later

This article is brought to you by Maximum PC magazine. If you’d like to read more articles like this then subscribe to Maximum PC and save an extra 10% off a subscription – it’s also the perfect Christmas gift for any PC fan. Subscribe to Maximum PC magazine with an extra 10% off2017 has been the year of the CPU – we can’t recall a year when new product launches were so frequent. To recap, Intel kicked off 2017 with the initial Kaby Lake desktop launch in January. And if you’re already rocking a

He (along with a brilliant team of codebreakers and cryptologists) did this by cracking the German encryption system known as the Enigma code. Before we talk about the AI, let’s just focus on what the problem was that it had to solve. While it worked, we were treated to a lesson on the Enigma machine by best-selling author Simon Singh (pictured). The event was admittedly a marketing stunt for the creators of the AI, Enigma Pattern, and the cloud server unit used, DigitalOcean, but it does have s

Jumping straight into the world of Far Cry 5 itself, we asked Hay about the decision to set Far Cry 5 in Montana, America. Cults and controversyThough previous Far Cry games have been set in real locations, the setting for Far Cry 5 is more specific than any we’ve seen before. Though Far Cry 5 stands out as being the most specific Far Cry game in terms of setting, we call Hay’s mind back to a real outlier in the series, Far Cry Primal. What was super cool about Primal was that until that moment

The holidays are an expensive time, so we’re bringing you a special treat: a full, free Windows program to download every day until Christmas. Behind the first door on our free downloads calendar you’ll find ASCOMP Secure Eraser – an easy to use app that ensures deleted files are gone for good. ASCOMP Secure Eraser protects your privacy by overwriting your data up to 35 times. ASCOMP Secure Eraser not only overwrites using random data, it offers the approved standards from the US Department of D

That said, Movie Maker Online is an excellent tool, and it’s only fair that its developers are reimbursed for their work. Movie Maker Online provides fade options for both audio and video too, as well as text overlays, transitions and more. Movie Maker Online is the best video editor for your browser. A free online video editor with echoes of Windows Movie MakerIf you’re familiar with desktop video editing software, WeVideo will look instantly familiar. You can upload content, transfer it from a