How about a magazine about their favourite hobby? Although we don’t have a TechRadar magazine, that’s because our fellow Future titles have got the world of print covered, so we’re over-the-moon to offer up a brilliant offer for some of their key offerings. From the amazing Total Film, a film magazine for the more discerning movie fan right through to the fantastic How It Works, we’ve got great tech mags for you. And if you call it an early Christmas present for yourself , who are we to judge? F

Lego has released an Apple ARKit-powered app – called Lego AR-Studio – that brings your Lego sets to life using augmented reality. What that means is that after you’ve built certain Lego sets, you’ll be able to point an iOS device (running iOS 11) at the wonderful collection of bricks, and a fire-breathing dragon will magically appear on screen and set fire to your building. The app will allow you to interact with the action on-screen so you’re not just a passive participant, and you can even re

More streamlined workflowYou can add annotations and graphics as overlays to images before exporting them as PSD files as separate layers. Performance has been optimized, with improved color handling thanks to re-engineered color tools helping to ensure optimal layered color adjustments. Color readouts can now be viewed in LAB mode, while improved performance in Catalogs should make for an overall better experience. Capture One 11 is available now for both Mac and Windows, and can be downloaded

The biggest event in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is almost upon us, with Avengers: Infinity War (and its as yet untitled sequel) acting as the culmination of everything we’ve watched over the last 20-odd Marvel films. First teased during the end credits of 2012’s The Avengers, the ultimate supervillain Thanos (Josh Brolin) is finally stepping out of the shadows, ready to take on Earth’s Mightiest Heroes with an almost completed Infinity Gauntlet. It just keeps getting more and more epic. With

The next time something fishy is going on with your Facebook account, don’t be surprised if you get a message from the gargantuan social media company asking to verify your identity with a selfie. Facebook has been using the selfie verification feature to test for suspicious activity for the better part of a year now, judging from posts on Reddit and Facebook’s Help Community forums, reports The Verge . Judging from the accounts of people who’ve had to send selfies to Facebook, it often happens

Amazon rolled out software that makes it easy for its Alexa voice assistant to recognize individual voices last month, and today it announced that it’s going to let third-party developers get in on the fun sometime early next year. The actual feature is known as “Your Voice by Amazon,” reports TechCrunch, and it recognizes up to 10 different voices associated with a single Amazon account. Developers will now be able to use this technology to create different skills, or the voice-operated apps th

The Google Pixel 2 and Google Pixel 2 XL have plenty going for them, including their awesome photography chops and top-notch build quality that’s imbued with impressive and smart software. Google Pixel 2 XL’s blue tintThe larger Pixel 2 XL uses OLED display technology, and while its benefits look good on paper and generally are in practice, the results aren’t as convincing on Google’s latest phablet. One of those steps is giving every Pixel 2 XL (and Pixel 2) user a two-year warranty, which repl

Ripping CDs is, believe it or not, a fine art, and it’s changed massively since the golden age of squeezing 128kbps MP3 files onto limited storage. The aim isn’t ‘small and good enough’ any more – it’s about getting the absolute best quality copy possible. Exact Audio Copy, our pick for best CD ripper does things a bit differently. LegalityA quick note on the law: ripping is, depending where you are in the world, a practice of questionable legal standing. In the UK, despite a brief period of exp

A Turkish software developer has publicly revealed via Twitter that he has uncovered a massive security bug in macOS High Sierra, Apple’s latest operating system. Select the security update (2017-001) then click ‘Update’. The flaw grants anyone using a Mac machine admin access by just clicking ‘other’ on the login screen and using ‘root’ as the username, no password needed. Dear @AppleSupport, we noticed a *HUGE* security issue at MacOS High Sierra. This bug seems to present in macOS High Sierra

The PowerShot G1 X Mark III is the first APS-C format compact camera to feature a zoom lens, making it worthy of interest. And it would be fair to say the outgoing G1 X Mark II, with its unique 1.5-inch sensor, missed the mark, so Canon is throwing everything at the G1 X Mark III. The G1 X Mark III sports a slightly more modest zoom range than the older model, at 24-72mm compared to 24-120mm, and has a f/2.8-5.6 aperture range. To minimize blur caused by camera shake, the PowerShot G1 X Mark III

The initial release of this Automatic Speech Recognition engine has just been unleashed, based on work carried out by the Machine Learning team at Mozilla. Mozilla says that its project initially had a goal of hitting a ‘word error rate’ of less than 10%. And of course the huge strength of this project, its open source nature, means that this honed technology is now open to anyone to use in their speech recognition projects. As Mozilla puts it, the idea here is to “build a speech corpus that’s f

It may be the first iPhone to pack an OLED display, but it’s far from the first phone to do soWhat is OLED? Apple’s cautiousness in adopting OLED is shown to be more than a soundbite by the fact that Samsung merely manufactures the iPhone X display. The iPhone X OLED display can produce a screen brightness of 634 nitsThe results of this hands-on approach appears to have been vindicated. We found the iPhone X display to be “leaps ahead of the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus” in our review. Elsewhere, special

Open it and a live view from your camera fills the screen, which ARKit spends a few seconds analyzing. You need to wave your iPhone or iPad gently around, which is what you’d do naturally. In theory, you point your iPhone or iPad at whatever you want to measure, tap a start point and an end point, and the app draws a line between them in 3D space, instantly calculating its length. We tried out the app on an iPhone SE and an iPad Pro. If you thought wearing a VR helmet looked awkward, just wait u

Apple has promised that it is working on a fix, but until then there is a way to secure your Mac by giving the root admin account a password, and in this tutorial we’ll show you how you can do that by changing the root password. How to change the root password in macOS High SierraFirst of all, open the Apple menu by clicking the Apple icon in the top-left hand corner of the screen, then click on ‘System Preferences’. Next, click ‘Open Directory Utility’, then click the padlock icon in the window

Twisted-tech anthology series Black Mirror started out as a TV show, and has since spun off into a book (out next year), but don’t rule out further brand extensions, according to creator Charlie Brooker. In an interview with Total Film magazine ahead of the launch of the new series on Netflix, Brooker first admits that he’s shifted his stance on an extended Black Mirror universe. It’s its own separate thing, in a way, but it’s got to have shared Black Mirror DNA.”And, when TF asks there are any

Your initial reaction is probably much the same as ours: is this just a rather gimmicky feature, or an accessibility feature that will only be of interest to people who find it difficult to lift the laptop lid when firing up their portable up? On a basic level, there’s something quite cool about a laptop which opens itself, of course. Google’s vision is for a ‘motorized hinge structure’ capable of both opening and closing the laptop lid, triggered by a touch-sensitive area on the surface of the

The SoundLink Micro is the company’s smallest speaker to date and comes with an IPX7 waterproof rating. The Soundlink Micro speaker uses Bluetooth to connect to your iOS or Android device and lets you playback music, answer calls or bring up Siri or Google Assistant. The Bose Micro is waterproof from the inside out and is made to withstand soapy water, chlorinated water, and salt water. Micro also works with Bose Connect app that can sync with other SoundLink speakers for Stereo Mode (left-right

Now one user has found an interesting way around the problem, by building a mining rig into the trunk of their Tesla. In doing so they’d theoretically be able to power their mining apparatus for free, and any Bitcoins earned would be pure profit. As Bitcoin’s popularity has continued to surge, its energy requirements have drawn increasing fire from critics. These intense energy requirements are bad news for both the environment and miners, leading to alternative solutions being developed. Howeve

We all know Luke Skywalker, right? Wide-eyed farmboy turned interplanetary swashbuckler, the new hope that brought the power of the Light Side to that galaxy far, far away? New Star Wars movie The Last Jedi is set to bring us a very different take on the iconic hero – one that disturbed star Mark Hamill when he first read the film’s screenplay. “If I was the same person from Jedi without the trauma, I would be just another version of Obi-Wan, and we’ve already seen that. “You can’t help but feel

Amazon’s drone delivery service isn’t the norm quite yet, so it’s not often that we stop to consider the potential drawbacks of our skies being filled with automated flying machines. Something certainly worth tackling before it happens on a wider scale is what happens when a drone suddenly falls from the sky. No matter how good the technology in Amazon’s drones is they’re going to have to contend with sudden weather changes, software malfunctions, and vandalistic bystanders, all of which could b