The Pirate Bay is again using the PCs of visitors to the site to collectively mine cryptocurrency, without any consent or informing the user that this is happening. And this sneaky implementation is what’s going to really rub people up the wrong way, big-style. But you would think that an official source would have cleared this matter up by now if this is the work of third-party ad outfit. The Pirate Bay isn’t alone here, as a number of websites have begun to operate similar cryptocurrency minin

Right now, outside of sporadic refurbished model sales, Apple only stocks the iPad Pro 10.5, iPad Pro 12.9 (2017), new iPad and iPad Mini 4. iPad Pro 10.5 or iPad Pro 12.9 (2017) have barely warmed their seats on the Apple store shelves, so they’re going to remain close to the top of their price tags. As a result, a few years later it’s still fantastic, with its A8X chipset outperforming the pint-sized iPad Mini 4. As with the iPad Mini 4, the things to consider are storage and the tablets age.

Building an AI assistant to compete with the likes of Google Assistant and Siri is sure to be a challenge, and Samsung’s attempt, known as Bixby, hasn’t been entirely successful so far, but it’s set to improve with version 2.0, which will apparently be unveiled on October 18. According to The Korea Herald, Samsung will unveil Bixby 2.0 at its annual developer conference on that date, and the new version will apparently expand into third-party services and products, so it won’t be limited to Sams

These VPN protocols – including PPTP, L2TP and SSTP – all draw upon the mechanics of the original Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP). So, which are the best VPN protocols, and which are best avoided – and why? Unlike the previous proprietary VPN protocols, OpenVPN is open source and published under a GNU General Public License. OpenVPN comes in two main flavors: OpenVPN TCP and OpenVPN UDP. OpenVPN UDPThe alternative protocol to OpenVPN TCP is OpenVPN UDP.

“With Minecraft on PlayStation, we have to be one of the biggest games on their platform in terms of sales and gameplay,” says Spencer. But I think Sony’s view is different. “I’m never going to call anything a lost cause,” he adds on the topic of crossing the ecosystem streams. “But I think some of the fundamental reasons and certain scenarios, they’re not really going away. For now though, we’re just going to have to keep waiting.

Face ID, Apple’s advanced facial recognition system, is debuting this year on the iPhone X, and is exclusive to that top-end handset – but next year it could be a feature of every new iPhone. According to well-known analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities, Apple will abandon its Touch ID fingerprint scanner completely in favor of the Face ID system, enabling Apple to capitalize on the lead it has with the technology. Leaving fingerprints in the pastApple’s push for Face ID could also impact Andro

About a year ago, Chinese officials confirmed that they’d lost control of their Tiangong-1 space station, and that it would re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere in late 2017. Tiangong-1 ,or ‘Heavenly Palace’, was launched in 2011 and has hosted both unmanned and manned missions. As the space station falls it will begin to break apart and burn up in the atmosphere, but it’s large enough that parts weighing up to 100kg may survive the descent. The most probable outcome is that they’ll hit the ocean (wh

Around 11,000 Tesla Model X SUVs are being recalled by the electric car maker after it found that a badly fitted cable, connected to the driver’s side rear seat, means the seat might not lock in place, and could be pulled forward in the event of a crash. Any affected vehicles would have been made between October 28 2016 and August 16 2017, though Tesla reckons only about 3% of the thousands of cars being recalled will have the issue. Better safe than sorry though, of course. The recall affects T

You may believe that Chrome is top dog for security – it was certainly the undisputed champion of browsers at Pwn2Own earlier this year – but Microsoft’s Edge has just been rated as the best browser for defending against phishing websites. Edge dealt with the vast majority of these phishing sites and came top by a country mile, blocking no less than 92.3% of the dodgy links. freshly unleashed online) phishing threats, blocking 81.8% compared to 58.6% for Chrome, and 50.7% for Firefox. Obviously,

The new, updated Pi-top is hoping to inspire students to get into computing by taking a ‘learning by doing’ approach. But according to Pi-top CEO Jesse Lozano, this push isn’t turning into people with STEAM skills in the workforce. The Pi-top is essentially a laptop that is powered by the remarkable Raspberry Pi. This is managed by having a keyboard panel that slides down, exposing the Raspberry Pi, the Cooling Bridge and the modular track that other elements can be plugged into. And because it’

Ever wanted your dining room table to become a big touchscreen tablet computer? That’s now possible, sort of, now that Sony’s Xperia Touch projector is finally available in the US. Quality obviously suffers the larger you make the display, though, as it’s only capable of a 1366 x 768 resolution. Remarkably, you don’t even have to touch the wall’s surface to interact with the projection, as holding up your finger in front of the camera usually suffices. Clearly someone doesn’t mind slinging aroun

Not only does this mean you can get Target products through the Google Express website on your smartphone, but you’ll also be able to ask your Google Home device for a product and it’ll provide some results from Target. Walmart already beat Target to the punch , as “more than 2 million” of its products became available through Google Express in August. To compete both through its Google Express website and on Google Home, Google needs to partner with retailers like Target and Walmart for mutual

Earlier today, PhoneRadar came across a GFXBench listing referencing a ‘Razer Phone’ that’s almost certainly what we’ll be seeing next month. Ironically, the smartphone isn’t all that surprising, particularly for a device coming from a company that’s dedicated to making high-end gaming hardware. The phone is also said to come packed with a 12-megapixel (MP) rear camera and an 8MP camera for selfies. Hopefully, Razer will have a few more surprises for us apart from what we see here during its rev

Regardless of whether you’re on the side of the Empire or the Rebel Alliance, this slick laptop deal is bound to pique your interest. Lenovo is offering the Star Wars edition of its Lenovo Yoga 910 for a whopping $370 off its list price. No matter whether you choose the gray-on-black Empire version or the red-on-white Rebellion version of this sweet 2-in-1 laptop, you’ll get the discount. This will bring the price of the Star Wars Yoga 910 down to a much more palatable $929 before you hit the ‘c

An on-board GPS tracker, as well as speed and upcoming red traffic signal warnings make this a very accomplished piece of kit. The 2MP CMOS sensor and 129-degree lens capture excellent-quality HD video footage from the front camera, while a smaller unit at the rear records in 720p, with incident detection technology automatically flagging the appropriate video footage. Above all else, the extra-wide 150-degree lens does an excellent job of capturing the action, while a high-performing sensor ens

I’m sitting in the passenger seat of a Nissan Qashqai, PS4 controller in hand, while we follow an expensive sports car nervously creeping round small plastic cones on the UK’s legendary Silverstone motor racing circuit. That’s because, with every squeeze of the R2 trigger, the exhaust of the modified Nissan GT-R roared and the car sped away from us down the track. There’s a moment of panic as the car starts to get away from me, and a scrambled press of L2 brings it to a stop. Sitting in the pass

Windows 10 might have a major new help feature in the pipeline according to the rumor mill, with news that Cortana is set to give clear step-by-step instructions on how to do certain things within the operating system. This comes courtesy of a video spotted by prolific Microsoft leaker WalkingCat, showing a new feature called ‘follow me’ in action, in which Cortana provides detailed guidance on connecting a Bluetooth device. The digital assistant shows the user exactly what to do, from hitting t

The onward march (or rather drive) of autonomous vehicles shows no signs of slowing down, with proposals under consideration in California to allow cars without any human passengers or drivers on to public roads for the first time. Dozens of companies are busy testing their self-driving tech in the Sunshine State, which has regulations favorable to the fledgling industry. So long, steering wheelThe revised regulations put forward by the California Department of Motor Vehicles would also allow or

Along with that big, bezel-free screen, Face ID is the standout feature of the iPhone X. It lets you unlock your phone just by looking at it, but it also does other things – including, apparently, hiding your notifications from unknown faces. According to Phone Arena, a setting on the iPhone X will ensure that lock screen notification content will only be shown if Face ID recognizes you as the owner of the phone. If it works well this could be a useful feature, though it remains to be seen how s

The Nokia 9 is rumored to be the next Nokia flagship, and it could arrive this year, yet we haven’t seen many images of it – until now, that is, because numerous renders of the phone have just been shared. Credit: @OnLeaks / CompareRaja Image 2 of 5 The bottom edge of the Nokia 9 has a USB-C port. Credit: @OnLeaks / CompareRaja Image 3 of 5 The Nokia 9 is shown here with a dual-lens camera. Credit: @OnLeaks / CompareRaja Image 4 of 5 The right edge of the Nokia 9 appears to house the volume cont