No VR system is perfect. PC VR relies upon you buying an expensive headset to sit alongside your already expensive computer, while mobile VR makes use of the hardware you already have in your phone while being limited by that same hardware. Intel’s new system wants to combine the benefits of the two in order to overcome the disadvantages by streaming VR content from a powerful PC to a mobile phone acting as a headset. Called ‘Portal Ridge’, the system makes use of existing hardware from HTC incl

In this post, we will cover some of the best earphone deals on Flipkart in the Big Billion Day Sale. boAt BassHeads 220 at Rs 499 @ Flipkart (save Rs 691)The boAt BassHeads 220 are lightweight in-ear headphones that are available in two colour options. Mi In-ear Headphones Basic at Rs 499 @ Flipkart (save Rs 100)These headphones are from the Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi. JBL T250SI at Rs 699 @ Flipkart (save Rs 1,800)It is an over the head wired stereo headphone and comes with noise cancellat

According to a source spotted by Wccftech.com, the rumored GTX 1070 Ti cranks things up to near-GTX 1080 levels, purportedly boasting 2,432 CUDA cores – almost as many as the 1080 which has 2,560, and far more than the vanilla 1070 which runs with 1,920 cores. It will also allegedly have the same base clock speed as the GTX 1080, namely 1607MHz, although the boost clock will be equal to the vanilla GTX 1070 at 1683MHz. The main difference between the GTX 1070 Ti and the GTX 1080, aside from 128

Well imagine no more because Bose’s new wearable speaker does exactly that. Called the SoundWear Companion Wearable Speaker, it essentially works the same as a pair of Bluetooth headphones, just without the private listening element. Although headphones are great at playing music just for you, they’re also designed to block out the outside world in the process. Headphones like the Sony MDR-1000X have experimented with using their external microphones to mix in the sound of the outside world, but

The phone will be hitting stores and doorsteps across the world, and one site has already got its hands on one, and torn it apart. iFixit, which is known for its teardowns, has opened up the iPhone 8 to show the world what’s inside and for the most part it’s a lot like the iPhone 7, as you might expect, but it’s not identical. Though Apple claims the iPhone 8 will last just as long as the iPhone 7 due to efficiency improvements. Adhesive strips being removed from the iPhone 8’s battery. For that

Despite the huge $1.1 billion HTC and Google merger deal announced this week, the Taiwanese phone manufacturer looks like it’s not out of the flagship game just yet. The latest rumor suggests the phone – long known to be codenamed Ocean Master – will be called the HTC U11 Plus, and as the name suggests be a large-screened version of HTC’s current flagship. For the rear shooter it’s expected to be a 12MP camera – like on the HTC U11 – and an 8MP one on the front. The leak doesn’t show any details

Or you can simply buy Bitcoins for cold, hard cash. In the latter case, the issue then becomes how best to change legal tender into Bitcoins. As Bitcoin is not a physical currency, but a virtual one, it needs to be held in a digital wallet. Users should be wary, though, and only deal with a regulated Bitcoin exchange (which fully displays its credentials on the site). Otherwise, there is little stopping a rogue Bitcoin exchange from taking your money and making off with it.

iPhone X is still over a month away from releasing, but when Apple’s next flagship smartphone does launch, it will have High Dynamic Range (HDR) content from Netflix ready to stream. Netflix pushed through an update to its iOS app today, delivering HDR support to the iPhone X along with the iPad Pro 10.5 and this year’s iPad Pro 12.9. While both iPads are available now, you’ll have to wait until October 27 to pre-order the iPhone X, and it doesn’t officially go on sale until November 3. The Appl

They’re every desktops with integrated displays, frequently complemented by a mix of laptop and desktop components. For these reasons and more, they’ve garnered an unfair reputation of being inferior to their full-on desktop counterparts. Add in the ultra-wide curved screen and this is one of the best and most immersive PC for enjoying movies. It comes with Apple’s sharpest 27-inch 5K Retina display. Read the full review: Apple iMac with 5K Retina display

If they’re old enough, or still 32-Bit, they won’t be compatible with iOS 11. 8. iOS 11 won’t let you seen email with Outlook/ExchangeApple has acknowledged a bug that’s preventing some iOS 11 users from sending emails through certain Microsoft-run servers. Luckily this is an easy fix, as you can customize the iOS 11 Control Center by going to Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls. Older Apple devices are not supported for iOS 11, so the only fix here is to grab a new one. If you’ve upd

Apple TV 4K may be grabbing all the headlines, but don’t sleep on Roku. The AV accessory company is apparently prepping a new streaming stick capable of porting through 4K High Dynamic Range (HDR) content, and at a likely cheaper price than Apple. The new 4K HDR Roku Streaming Stick+ was uncovered by Zatz Not Funny thanks to “a trusted source,” though we don’t have official word from Roku yet. Google’s 4K HDR-capable Chromecast UltraAs for the 4K HDR Roku Streaming Stick+ price, we’re lacking sp

Better looking than a Prius, no questionHybrid in disguiseWe drove Lexus RC 300h F Sport Engine: V6Power output: 178bhpTop speed: 118mph0-62mph: 8.6 secondsFuel efficiency: 56.5mpgPrice: £42,265Enter the Lexus RC 300h, which pairs a V6 engine with an electric EV motor while also sporting some rather dashing design. A ‘90s trackpadOld school input, but surprisingly tactileA novel addition to the Lexus RC 300h – analogue clock aside – is what looks like a ‘90s laptop trackpad below the gear shift.

“Enabling a more streamlined product portfolio.”Hidden in that line of corporate-speak from HTC announcing its new partnership with Google may be a starker reality: no more HTC flagships after 2018. The Taiwanese firm isn’t blind to the challenges it faces, and has significantly scaled back its phone portfolio over the past five years. HTC’s problem hasn’t been making good smartphones – it has a long history of doing just that, but it’s really struggled to communicate why its handsets are worth

Your next car, if it’s a Ford, may have been designed using AR smarts thanks to Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality headset. “With HoloLens, we can instantly flip through virtual representations to decide which direction they should go,” says Michael Smith, Ford design manager. With an AR application like the one Ford is using, you could have it right in front of you, laid on top of a real-world car rather than just checking it on a screen or in a brochure. “HoloLens allows a whole team of pe

You instinctively know that your phone can be picked up, put down, turned on, smashed, even loved. This is a problem that a team working out of Brigham Young university has been working on, using an unconventional method; Wikipedia. “When machine learning researchers turn robots or artificially intelligent agents loose in unstructured environments, they try all kinds of crazy stuff,” said co-author Ben Murdoch. According to the BYU newsletter, the Wikipedia solution “improved the computer’s perf

IPVanish is celebrating being named the best VPN of 2017 by our sister tech website T3 by offering a big discount on its annual plan until the end of the month. Following the provider’s win in the T3 Awards (known as the ‘Oscars of the tech world’), IPVanish is offering new subscribers 30% off its annual plan. That means you’ll now pay $54.59 (£40) for a year’s worth of VPN service, which works out to be $4.54 (£3.35) per month. It’s no coincidence that IPVanish is also top of the table when it

But there are an increasing number of competing standards waiting in the wings including Dolby Vision and Advanced HDR by Technicolor. LG is making some impressive HDR OLED TVsThe Ultra HD Premium hallmark can also be used on Ultra HD Blu-ray players and discs as HDR is a mandatory part of the Ultra HD Blu-ray spec. At the moment, the number of Dolby Vision Ultra HD Blu-rays out in the wild is small, but it should increase over time. Recently, Samsung announced an upgraded HDR10 standard called

Earlier this week I received some startling news – this month The Simpsons: Hit and Run turned 14 years old. To this day I credit it with being my gateway into Grand Theft Auto. It was probably just before the age of 14 when I, funnily enough, first delved into the Grand Theft Auto series with a pre-owned copy of Grand Theft Auto 3. No, it was the promise of more open 3D worlds and joyriding I had enjoyed so much in The Simpsons Hit and Run that drew me to Grand Theft Auto. I was around 10 when

Now researchers from Université Paris-Saclay are attempting to bestow the same benefits onto robots. Adriana Tapus and her colleagues are aiming to develop a humanoid robot that’s sensitive to tactile stimulation in the same way people are. “Giving robots a personality is the only way our relationship with artificial intelligence will survive,” said Tapus. Social interaction strategiesAlongside a team that included Moustapha Hafez, Mehdi Ammi and Pierre-Henri Orefice, Tapus has been investigatin

The “biggest publicly-voted video game awards ceremony on the planet” is back for its 35th year. The venue has been confirmed as the Bloomsbury Big Top in London. The host, the brilliant Danny Wallace. But the most important element of the night is yet to be decided, and that’s where you come in. Here’s Danny Wallace to tell you all about it:There are a number of different categories for you to vote in, including (for the first time ever) Best VR Game.