Microsoft deployed a pretty swift fix for the flaw which affected the new Surface Pro that meant the device randomly went to sleep, but there’s another issue with the hybrid which has reared its ugly head: excessive backlight bleeding with the display. Now, first off we should point out that LCD screens will, generally speaking, have a little light leakage at the very edge of the screen, but some buyers are complaining that their Surface Pro has a seriously off-putting amount which becomes a rea

Can you tell when an image has been digitally manipulated? Only about two-thirds of the time do people manage it, according to new research from psychologists at the University of Warwick. Some of them were digitally altered in subtle, plausible ways – airbrushed slightly, or with items added or subtracted. The participants were then asked: “do you think this photograph has been digitally altered?” For instance, fake images often contain tell-tale signs that they have been manipulated, and we’re

If, for whatever reason, you’ve still got a dormant Myspace account, now may finally be the time to put it out to pasture. A serious security flaw may have left your account and details critically vulnerable. But it’s still probably best to now lay your Myspace account to rest. “It seems Myspace wants us all to take security into our own hands,” said Galloway. “If there is a possibility that you still have account on Myspace, I recommend you delete your account immediately.”

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With Xbox One S consoles at their most reasonable price point ever and selling like hotcakes as a result and the 4K power play that is the Xbox One X ready to hit shelves in November, we’re wondering if we’ll ever see an all new Xbox in the way we used to. This makes sense since Microsoft’s first foray into true 4K gaming hasn’t even hit store shelves yet. If it’s a brand new console generation it’d make sense to call it Xbox Two, but Xbox 720 made sense at one point so let’s not be too confiden

When the Essential Phone was announced, only a US release was confirmed, but now the company has revealed that the handset will be coming to the UK this year, with launches in other parts of western Europe and Japan also planned. It hasn’t said when the Essential Phone will land, but when it does it’s likely to be a network exclusive, as according to the Financial Times talks were held with UK networks over an exclusive deal. That would make sense, as in the US the firm has signed an exclusive d

Samsung has announced today that it is planning on recycling parts from recovered Note 7 phones to re-use in the Galaxy Note Fan Edition. The Note Fan Edition is essentially the same phone with a smaller battery, so it makes sense to reuse Note 7 components to make it. The Note Fan Edition is currently only available in Korea, for a price of 699000 KRW ($610). Samsung has said that “overseas sales will be decided later”, but given that the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is rumored for an August release,

Scammers are cashing in on the popularity of AMD’s new Ryzen processors, with reports of fake CPUs being sold on Amazon. The fake Intel CPU comes in AMD’s correct packaging and has the Ryzen logo on it, but a closer inspection of the product reveals that logo is just a sticker. Such fakes – which have also been reported elsewhere on the net – may have been purchased from third-party sellers on Amazon Marketplace, or may have been bought directly from Amazon itself. So, if you are buying a Ryzen

Really, all of this would cost you $1,449 in April, and back then there wasn’t even an unlocked Samsung Galaxy S8 as an option. Expires Thursday: Galaxy S8 deal of the weekThe Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus price drop is similar until Thursday, with the obvious caveat that it’ll cost you $100 more this the phone with a massive 6.2-inch screen. Apple users can switch to the Android side, too, if they turn in an iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus. This Samsung Galaxy S8 trade-in deal is

Sometimes a smartphone comes along that will see people queue for hours on the hottest day of the year just to get their hands on it first – and that’s what happened with the OnePlus 5. And both sets of of fans lapped up the opportunity, travelling from hundreds of miles away and queuing for hours just to get their hands on the OnePlus 5. With so many identikit smartphones on the market right now, the new OnePlus phone offers incredible attention to detail where it matters the most, and that’s w

If you don’t know what you’re doing selling your iPad, you’re in luck – we’ve put together this guide to help you through each step to make it easy to sell on your iPad by a number of different ways. If you’ve got a reasonably recent version of the Apple iPad, it’s more likely to be worth a higher amount of money. It’s a good idea to keep an eye on the latest rumors so you can know when to sell your iPad at the best time. If you’ve got a recent iPad Pro model, it’ll be worth more than say the iP

Today, it’s already possible to mentally control prosthetic limbs, helping the disabled make their way in the world. Both wheelchairs and drones have been mind-controlled and you can even control what you watch with your mind these days! Now, using the existing technology of electroencephalography (EEG) – an interface that measures brain signals – neurologists at the University of Washington have created what they’ve christened the Encephalophone. Simply put, the Encephalophone is a cap-like dev

Just three months after Netflix announced it was on the cusp of 100 million subscribers, the streaming giant revealed today it’s met – and surpassed – that symbolic figure. Netflix now counts 104 million members, up from 99 million the quarter previous, according to its latest shareholders letter. Netflix added 5.2 million new members overall. Streaming strongFor general comparison, though Amazon doesn’t publicize Prime subscriber figures, which includes the Amazon Prime Video service, it was es

You’ve come to the right place, as we list the very best SSDs you can buy in 2017. Sandisk’s Ultra II has the second cheapest per GB price at just £0.18, offering sequential read/write speeds of 550MBps and 500MBps as well as random read/write speeds of 99K and 83K IOPS respectively. It does come at a price, however, but the Crucial MX300 SSD 1050GB’s price tag is actually relatively low compared to other high-capacity SSDs. The former uses 3D V-NAND memory to deliver some of the best performanc

Following Amazon’s massive purchase of Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, it looks like the next step in the retail giant’s scheme involves prepared meal kits. Amazon has filed for a trademark using the phrase “We do the prep. The trademark describes a service that provides “prepared food kits” that can be ready-made into a meal out of the box. You cook” and “No-line meal kits” were also applied for trademarking by Amazon. This makes it all the more likely the big box behemoth is cooking up a meal d

Lucky for you, then, that it’s our job and our passion to test out all sorts of laptops and suss out which are best for you. These are the best laptops overall in every categoryThe best budget laptop makes the right priorities. Knowing that they can’t compete with the big leaguers in power, longevity and design, the best cheap laptops make smart compromises. It’s even mastered pen input on the first try, more than we can say for even some of the loftier Windows laptops. Even picking this laptop

Meizu’s next smartphone aim to change the way that you look at your phone. By that, we mean that it wants you to look at the back of it. The Meizu Pro 7 is confirmed to launch on July 26, but while most companies rely on the front of its phones to grab your attention, Meizu’s putting its focus on the rear of the Pro 7. The tale of two screensTalk of a second display quickly loops in several other Android smartphone manufacturers who have tried something similar. The HTC U Ultra, LG V10, LG V20 e

Samsung Pay is syncing up with PayPal, giving you one more way to pay when you make your next purchase. You’ll need to add your PayPal account to Samsung Pay in order to get going, but once you’ve done so, any PayPal funds you have stored can be used to make purchases. Samsung says Samsung Pay is the most widely-accepted mobile payment platform on the market, and by adding PayPal, it’s giving users yet another option to pay. Samsung also announced a new partnership with Braintree, a PayPal servi

The Nokia 8 is now far less of a mystery, as its purported final design has been leaked in full. As seen on VentureBeat , Nokia’s 5.3-inch Android Nougat flagship bares all, including its 2.5D curved glass front, the nearly bezel-free display and (surprise!) its Zeiss-powered dual-lens camera system, reportedly featuring two 13MP sensors. Last month, TechRadar reported on Nokia’s partnership with Zeiss , a power play to put its foray into dual-lens camera tech a cut above the others. Of course,

MyZone’s MZ-3 Physical Activity Belt takes an unusual approach to fitness monitoring, as it tracks your effort as well as the likes of heart rate and calorie burn. That’s been around for a while, but now it’s being joined by the MyZone MZ-60, a watch which collects all that data in real-time, so you can see it at a glance while you’re working out. Rewarding effort, not achievementThese points, along with a color rating, are how MyZone rewards your effort, a metric which it estimates based on you