Popular system maintenance tool CCleaner has been compromised by a serious malware infection, which is a particularly embarrassing incident given that the app was bought up by antivirus giant Avast back in the summer. According to security outfit Cisco Talos, if you downloaded CCleaner version 5.33 from Avast (or used CCleaner Cloud version 1.07.3191), then it was blighted with a multi-stage malware payload. Another worrying point was that this infection apparently went undetected by the vast ma

Venus’ winds blow around the planet 60 times faster than it rotates. It’s clear we’re missing something, and it’s probably hiding on the planet’s mysterious night side. Glimpse at the night sideNow, thanks to the European Space Agency’s Venus Express probe, we’re finally getting a glimpse at that night side. Irregular and chaoticThe pictures they were able to obtain with Venus Express, however, reveal phenomena that have never been seen on the day side. “This study challenges our current underst

Digital steganography is the technique of hiding one file inside another. If, for instance, you have a buried chest of treasure, you can store the coordinates inside a harmless looking picture. To the naked eye, the file would seem to be an image like any other, but you and those you trust can extract the secret data with specialist tools. This handy free and open source app can be used to take any files you want and keep them secret by disguising them as random digital ‘noise’ inside a larger o

If you’re a Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8 Plus or Galaxy Note 8 owner, then one of the most irritating things about your phone has just been addressed by Samsung: you can turn off the physical Bixby button on the side. Early versions of the Samsung Galaxy S8 pair allowed users to re-map the key to perform other functions, but that function was removed because Samsung wanted to make sure users got the ‘full Bixby effect’, and so ensured the button could only be used to launch its smart assistant. How to t

The hugely successful battle royale multiplayer PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has taken the title of most concurrent players on Steam. It knocked Valve’s own game Dota 2 off the top spot with over 1.3 million players. Highest peak player count on @steam_games! As it hasn’t released exact numbers, we don’t know which had the higher player count this weekend. However, when it comes to raw numbers, both are dwarfed by League of Legends, which (if its blog is to believed) achieved concurrent numbers

If you happen to frequent the dicier corners of the internet, specifically the well-known copyright trampling website The Pirate Bay, then beware that the latter has been testing a new method of making money – using the PCs of visitors to mine cryptocurrency. Torrent Freak discovered that the piracy website had implemented a Javascript cryptocurrency miner which employs the resources of the user’s PC to mine Monero coins. And this was happening without the user’s knowledge, of course (unless the

Since the Wii, every Nintendo console has included a Virtual Console, which lets you buy and play retro games from old consoles. However, code unearthed by SwitchBrew has produced a NES game running on the Nintendo Switch, and interestingly the game appears to be included on literally every single console. More interesting than the game being included on every console is the fact that it also appears to include motion controls, a first for a virtual console title. The latest rumors suggest that

Xiaomi has been expanding its official partners network over the last few months, thus widening the scope for customers to get the best deals on Xiaomi phones. Xiaomi Mi Max 2The Xiaomi Mi Max 2 is phablet from Xiaomi and comes with a huge 6.44-inch display. Xiaomi Mi A1Coming to the recently launched Android One device from Xiaomi, the Mi A1 has been priced at Rs. Buy Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 (32 GB) @ Flipkart @ Rs 10,999Buy Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 (64 GB) @ Flipkart @ Rs 12,999Xiaomi Redmi 4The Xiaomi

Best Turntables Buying Guide: Welcome to TechRadar’s round-up of the best turntables (also known as record players) you can buy in 2017. Belt drive? What’s the best turntable? Newbies also won’t have to worry about getting a separate phono preamp, as one is built in. And for newbies, the Rega Planar 1 is still easy to setup, though you’ll have to provide your own phono preamp.

It can be hard to tell fact from fiction these days, but to make the job a little easier, Microsoft is adding new tools to its Bing search engine that should spot the worst fake news stories before they have a chance to be widely reported as genuine. With so much information out there, how do you know who you can trust (besides TechRadar of course)? In Bing’s case the search site will throw up what it calls “fact check labels” next to stories of a dubious nature – in practice that means you migh

Eben Upton, founder and CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, is trying to illustrate how huge the Raspberry Pi phenomenon has become: “In 2011 I had a spreadsheet that told me where every single Raspberry Pi prototype was (there were 50). The Raspberry Pi Foundation was born out of a problem. These concerns resulted in the 2009 formation of the Raspberry Pi Foundation whose aim was “to develop and market a $25 microcomputer for education” and in 2012 that microcomputer, the Raspberry Pi 1 Model B

We’re used to seeing plenty of leaks in advance of major smartphone launches, but it seems even action cameras are getting in on the act now – a few days ago we heard a few details about the upcoming GoPro Hero6 range and now some extra information has spilled out on the web. According to a source in Canada reporting to The Verge, the Hero6 Black will indeed feature 4K recording at 60 fps (double the rate of its predecessor). The Verge is quoting a CA$649 price in Canada, which lines up with aro

Now well-known KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says it won’t be until well into next year that Apple manages to churn out enough iPhone X handsets to keep up with demand, based on an investor note seen by MacRumors. Set your iPhone pre-order alarmThe KGI Securities analyst does say that he expects around 40 million iPhone X units to be sold and shipped before the turn of the year, with that full-screen design and facial recognition the key features driving Apple loyalists to upgrade their ha

Our personal digital assistants are getting smarter; Amazon and Microsoft recently announced that Alexa and Cortana will be able to talk to one another. But what happens when our personal digital assistants become smarter than we are, and know more about us than our nearest and dearest? Lenke believes the personal digital assistants of the future will be much smarter than the ones of today, but only in specific scenarios. What the future holdsThe good news is that our digital assistants probably

Depending on where you rest your hat, the words “AR battle” could mean some very different things. As, while the consumer world waits patiently for the giants of Cupertino to lift the covers off the rumored Apple AR glasses, the military has been dabbling in augmented reality interfaces for years. All the while, the transparent nature of AR glasses (as opposed to the all-encompassing view of a virtual reality headset) lets the wearer maintain situational and environmental awareness. BAE was demo

Questions have been raised about just how well that Face ID system is going to work, but Apple is promising people will soon grow to love it. Speaking to TechCrunch and John Gruber’s Talk Show, Apple SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi answered a few questions on how Face ID works and why it’s an upgrade over Touch ID. He confirmed that you can squeeze your phone to disable Face ID if needed, and said once people get to try the tech, their doubts will fade away. Now everyone’s worried be

Best MP3 Player: Welcome to our guide to the best portable MP3 players. Audiophile-level MP3 players, however, are built to offer high-quality digital-to-analog-converters, ensuring that you can get a great listening experience. If you use iTunes, you’re probably downloading music in Apple’s AAC format – and thankfully many MP3 players support that format. We’ve organized our list of the best MP3 players by use case. Here are some of the best MP3 players out there.

Thankfully, if you don’t want to watch on traditional TV, there are plenty of ways to watch the Emmys online in the US. Watch the Emmys on CBS All AccessTo watch the show Emmys online, one option is to subscribe to CBS All Access, which is CBS’ TV streaming service. The Emmys won’t be broadcast in the UK, unfortunately, so there’s no legal way to watch or stream the awards show. For starters, you can watch the Emmys through PlayStation Vue, YouTube TV, Hulu Live TV, or Sling TV. Over the course

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is now available in stores and online in the US and UK. US carriers with the Galaxy Note 8 on sale today include AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular and Verizon. Supersize meets super-supersize: iPhone X vs Galaxy Note 8The Galaxy Note 8 price is $929 / £869 / AU$1,499, though some carriers are selling the device for $40 a month for 24 months. Samsung is offering a trade-in for eligible devices when you purchase a Galaxy Note 8, Samsung Galaxy S8 or Samsung Galaxy S8 Pl

Sometimes it takes a while before technology catches up with ideas: for example, Microsoft was pushing tablet computers and smartwatches nearly a decade before the iPad and Apple Watch respectively, but the tech wasn’t quite up to the job. Other bright ideas fell by the wayside for more prosaic reasons, whether that was industry lobbying or just good old-fashioned incompetence. In fact, some of the best ideas we have in technology didn’t become successful products in their first incarnations – s