Thankfully, Google will start stuffing its popular Chrome browser with new protections against such nefarious practices over the course of the upcoming winter. Beginning with the release of Chrome 64, Chrome will stop letting sites automatically redirect to new sites when you haven’t clicked on anything. As Google rightly sees this is as a “circumvention” of Chrome’s pop-up blocker that has gone unpunished for too long. Maintain your focusGoogle won’t actually start blocking elements like these

Intel and AMD may be processor rivals, but as we saw at the start of this week, they’ve got together to produce a new Intel Core H laptop CPU which will feature Radeon graphics – and benchmarks have just leaked showing the power of Intel’s chips which have integrated AMD GPUs. The reported benchmarks spotted in the wild – and remember, nothing is confirmed at this point – show a pair of quad-core ‘Kaby Lake G’ processors with integrated AMD graphics, the Core i7-8705G and i7-8809G, both of which

So terrible that more than 35,000 people died on US roads alone last year as a result of mistakes that we made. But there’s a problem – people expect perfection from their autonomous chauffeurs, and this pursuit of perfection could actually stand in the way of saving lives. In tests involving 500 different future scenarios, permitting autonomous vehicles onto the roads sooner saved lives in the long term. In most scenarios they saved lives in the short-term too. “It helps us ask a better questio

You will not find a better bargain than this if you have your heart set on a big screen tablet. If that idea offends you, pay an extra $15/£10 and you can get the Fire HD 10 (2017) without adverts. The 64GB version of the Amazon Fire HD 10 (2017) costs $190/£180. With or without ads, the Amazon Fire HD 10 (2017) has few, if any, easy to recommend competitors at this price point. Design and displayChunky plastic build10.1-inch 1,920 x 1,200 displayLet’s be honest – the Amazon Fire HD 10 (2017) is

We’re almost certainly going to get a Sony Xperia XZ2 in 2018, although not much is yet known about it. Likely at least $699.99/£599 (around AU$900)The Sony Xperia XZ2 will probably launch in or around September 2018, given that the Sony Xperia XZ1 landed in September 2017 and the Sony Xperia XZ was announced in September 2016. Sony Xperia XZ2 news and rumorsThere aren’t really any Sony Xperia XZ2 rumors yet, but a company exec has said that a completely new design is in the works for a new gene

The home button on the display of the Samsung Galaxy S8 makes one thing very clear: the company had fallen just shy of implementing a futuristic fingerprint sensor under the glass. Unfortunately, the latest word from the rumor mill suggests that we won’t see the innovation in the Samsung Galaxy S9, either. But there appears to be a silver lining in this development that, at the very least, Samsung is adjusting the location of the sensor, according to TechnoCodex . Shifting the fingerprint sensor

Iain Wright, Sony London Studio“People seemed to really love The Heist and we loved making it,” says Iain Wright, Design Director for Sony London Studio. We really want to push that as well this time with Blood and Truth,” says Wright. London Studio is squeezing the PlayStation platform for all its worth and loving it, if the enthusiasm of the team is anything to go by. But I’m incredibly unfit so perhaps that’s why!”But in the here and now, Blood and Truth looks like a system seller in the maki

The world of cryptocurrency can be a volatile place, and not just in terms of the value of virtual coins, as a fresh blunder with Ethereum has illustrated, leaving hundreds of millions of dollars in limbo. The problem occurred thanks to a vulnerability in the multi-sig wallets introduced when a new version of the Parity Wallet library contract was implemented back on July 20. Apparently this flaw was triggered thanks to a mistake made by an unidentified code contributor. In yesterday’s statement

Original article continues below…Sony’s PS4 Pro enjoyed one year as the most powerful games console on the market. This is something that was made possible on PS4 Pro via the PlayStation 4.5 firmware update, which introduced a Boost Mode to PS4 Pro consoles. According to Digital Foundry, there are some seriously notable differences between the textures on the Xbox One X and PS4 Pro. In terms of pure on-paper power, Xbox One X absolutely wins out over PS4 Pro. At $499, the Xbox One X is $100 mo

We previously heard the company had sold 150,000 pairs of Snapchat Spectacles, which at the time CEO Evan Speigel said had exceeded the company’s expectations, but that’s no longer the case. Snap – the company behind Snapchat – has posted $207 million revenue in Q3 2017, which means a loss of nearly $40 million for the company. The Snapchat app is also set to undergo a major redesign on Android and iOS too, which Snap hopes will encourage more new users to be able to use the platform easily. The

In layman’s terms, mining Ethereum involves using computer hardware to run ‘proof of work’ algorithms. In this guide you’ll learn how to purchase a two-year Ether mining contract from Genesis Mining, which owns Engima, the world’s largest Ethereum mine. Choose payment methodGenesis accepts a number of payment methods for Ethereum mining. You’ll receive an email from Genesis Mining once the order is processed. Manage payoutsOnce you’ve purchased your mining contract, you need to supply Genesis Mi

We’ve already seen iPhone X teardowns, but a recent one captures the whole process on video, showing the removal of the screen and the battery. Made by JerryRigEverything, there’s nothing especially new here but the findings are nonetheless interesting. Don’t try this at homeWe still wouldn’t recommend attempting to replace the iPhone X screen or battery yourself, but this teardown suggests that it might not be too tricky for repair services. However, thanks to the expensive nature of the iPhone

Step 1: Pre-download your Xbox One X patches to your existing Xbox OneIf you’re moving from an old Xbox One or Xbox One S, then you can pre-download a lot of the patches that the Xbox One X is going to need later. Step 2: Transferring your dataBy now you’ll either have an old Xbox One with a number of games installed with their Xbox One X patches waiting in the wings, or you’ll have an old Xbox One with just your old games on it. You should have finished Step 1 of this guide with an old Xbox One

The rumor mill surrounding Apple’s augmented reality glasses is churning again. This time, Apple supplier Catcher Technology has been talking about the development of AR products, leading to speculation that it is creating frames for the tech giant. Catcher Technology supplies Apple with the metal casings for iPads, iPhones and Macbooks, and while the comments made below aren’t explicitly about Apple, given the rumors already circulating about ‘Apple Glasses’, it would be a natural fit. While no

Microsoft has posted an article which stipulates the requirements PCs or laptops must conform to in order to be considered ‘highly secure’ by the company, and interestingly, the Surface Pro 4 does not meet those specifications. These details are for OEMs (hardware manufacturers) and show what these vendors need to achieve in order to make a ‘highly secure Windows 10 device’, with Microsoft clarifying that the standards are for ‘general-purpose’ PCs, laptops, tablets and hybrids (running the Fall

Call Of Duty has returned once again, but this time it’s turning back the clock to the war-torn era of World War Two. The shift back to the period that put COD on the map a decade ago isn’t just for looks – developer Sledgehammer Games has reintroduced classic features such as single-player medkits as well as bringing in a new class-based set of Divisions for multiplayer. Even Zombies has been given a healthy dose of horror to pull the mode back from the silly slapstick of previous iterations. A

The Panasonic Lumix G9 is the brand’s new flagship mirrorless camera designed to appeal to stills photographers, and will sit alongside the Lumix GH5 in the Lumix range. With the Lumix G9, Panasonic hopes to changes this. You can read our hands-on Panasonic Lumix G9 review to really get under the skin of the new camera, but here’s our quick overview to get you up to speed. New designThe Lumix G9 features an all-new design, with the most notable addition being a status LCD display on the top plat

Alongside the new Lumix G9, Panasonic has also announced the Leica-branded DG ELMARIT 200mm f/2.8 Power OIS telephoto prime lens. On a Micro Four Thirds camera, the lens delivers a focal length equivalent to 400mm. And if you need to fill the frame even more there’s an optional 2.0x teleconverter (DMW-TC20) available, which delivers a focal length equivalent of 800mm. With a fast f/2.8 maximum aperture, the Leica DG ELMARIT 200mm f/2.8 is made up of 15 elements in 13 groups. Featuring a rugged,

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After failing to deliver on the advertised speeds of its high-end NBN plans, Telstra will be compensating roughly 42,000 of its unhappy broadband customers. According to The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Australia’s biggest telco has offered to reimburse NBN customers who were promised speeds that were simply unattainable on their fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) and fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) connections. “In essence, people were paying more to get higher speeds that they jus