Following on from its original announcement at E3 2016 , Microsoft has finally bought its Xbox Design Lab service to the UK after originally launching it as a US-exclusive. Thanks to the all-new Design Studio section of the Xbox website, you no longer have to use the same ol’ monocolor gamepads everyone else uses – Design Studio allows you to customize your Xbox One controller with over 8 million color combinations. We took Microsoft’s new customization tool for a spin and created a guide to cra

From The Matrix to Snow Crash, Neuromancer to Ready Player One, getting out of meat space and living in digital, ignorant VR bliss has always had an appeal. It all gets a bit weird though when, like myself over the weekend, you pop on a virtual reality headset, and enter a virtual recreation of the so-called ‘Metaverse’ which is meant to contain these fantasised experiences. The game which gave me this VR-equivalent of the Inception mind-shag is the cyberpunk-inspired TechnoLust, which takes the

Last October, a study published in the journal Nature concluded that the upper limit of human age seems to be stuck at about 115 years. But now a rival group of researchers have presented evidence of the opposite – that there is no detectable limit to human lifespan. The conclusion of their research is that there is no evidence of any hard limit to human lifespan. Technology, medicine and improvements in living conditions could all increase the upper limit. If we would have told them that one da

Greenpeace has produced a new report condemning some contemporary ultra-thin laptops – specifically Apple’s MacBooks and Microsoft’s Surface devices – for failing in a big way on the design front when it comes to being environmentally friendly. The study compiled by Greenpeace East Asia, which uses the ‘repairability’ ratings from the teardown experts at iFixit, looked at electronic waste (e-waste) – laptops being chucked in the bin because they aren’t designed with being upgraded or repaired in

Launched: September 2014After the smaller changes that came with the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S, Apple was back to its revolutionary best with the following generation, as the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus brought the biggest alterations in design and features since the leap from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone 5. The most striking change the eighth generation iPhones ushered in was undoubtedly the screen size, with the iPhone 6’s display leaping from the iPhone 5’s 4 inches to 4.7 inches. With a pixel de

The official Amazon Prime Day 2017 date is Tuesday, July 11, 2017, just as we had suspected in the lead up to today’s official announcement. But, remember, Amazon Prime Day 2017 only available for Prime members. Amazon Prime Day 2017 start timeWhile the Amazon Prime Day date is Tuesday, July, 11, the actual deals start rolling out on Monday, July 10 in both the US. Amazon Prime Day UK begins at 6PM in the UK. You should continue to read TechRadar the lead up to Amazon Prime Day on July 11.

Smart speakers, virtual assistants or smart home speakers, whatever name you decide to call them, they’re pretty frickin’ cool. Everything we just mentioned is done with some help from the AI and, without it, the Amazon Echo, Google Home and Apple HomePod would just be, well, regular speakers. While there’s no doubt that each of the aforementioned speakers are capable in their in own right, you’re here because you want to find the absolute best smart speaker – the one that syncs up to the most s

Canon EOS Rebel SL2 / EOS 200DCanon has also refreshed its most junior DSLR proposition with announcement of the EOS Rebel SL2 (known as the EOS 200D outside the US). Designed with the smartphone generation in mind, the EOS Rebel SL2 / EOS 200D updates the EOS Rebel SL1 / EOS 100D that was announced back in 2013. In addition to handling image processing, the DIGIC 7 processor also enables the Rebel SL2 / EOS 200D to shoot at up to 5fps – a 1fps improvement over the EOS Rebel SL1/ EOS 100D. Thank

It comes as no surprise that Canon’s Guided UI, which popped up in the recent EOS Rebel T7i / EOS 800D, has also been included here. Canon cites the EOS Rebel SL2 / EOS 200D as “the perfect replacement for the avid smartphone photographer looking to step up to their first camera”. Overall focusing performance is boosted by two key additional factors over the EOS Rebel SL1. In fact, a side-by-side comparison with the EOS 6D Mark II, which uses the same processor, showed the EOS Rebel SL2 / EOS 20

Twitch today announced several changes are coming to its mobile app, including the ability to livestream directly from the app and a brand-new interface. Twitch on mobile is also receiving a major overhaul to its UI, helping it function more like its big-brother desktop counterpart. Today’s app update is just one of many initiatives undertaken by the Amazon-owned streaming service to boost its audience. Twitch’s updated app rolls out starting today for iOS and Android devices, but isn’t expected

Rumored iPhone 8 screen specsThis iPhone 8 was manufactured based on leaked information more than it does confirm any new specs. The bigger iPhone 8 screen size won’t actually make the phone bigger, sort of like the Samsung Galaxy S8. iPhone 8 cameraThe iPhone 8 camera will also give us a big upgraded, according to the video, with another dual-lens camera. Much smaller than an iPhone 7 Plus The iPhone 8 camera looks ready for its very close-up (Credit: Onleaks/Tiger Mobiles)The mockup in this iP

Google Photos is rolling out two new features that will make getting your favorite snaps out to the world a, well, snap. The first of the features, Suggested Sharing, uses machine learning to look over your Google Photos library and identify images that your friends and family may enjoy based on faces, location, or other bits of context. Suggested Sharing also picks out photos from multiple Google Photos accounts that might belong in a single album, like a camping trip or family gathering, and a

The Linux Foundation offers a number of online courses via its website, with offerings which are both instructor-led and self-paced. Essentials of System Administration (code: LFS201) is designed for people who are interested in developing their Linux admin skills. Payment of the $299 (£235, AU$400) fee will give you access to the Essentials of System Administration course itself, along with learning materials. As the course is self-paced you can go through the sections in any order, although th

Intel’s solid-state drives have been the cream-of-the-crop for a long time, but they haven’t always been affordable and so now the chip maker has announced a new budget line that should be more approachable. The chip maker claims it was able to lower prices by implementing a new 64-layer TLC 3D NAND technology, which packs more digital space into fewer chips. Here they are: the best computers you can buy in 2017In terms of transfer rates, Intel promises 550MB/s sequential reads and 500MB/s seque

From now until July 11, the PlayStation Store is holding a sale on a massive swath of games spanning not just the PS4 and PS3, but also the oft-forgot PS Vita and even the ancient PSP. The deals cut prices by up to half-off on dozens upon dozens of different titles, though subscribers to PlayStation’s premium PS Plus service can boost some of those savings to up to 75% off. Game saverYou can check out a detailed roster of discounted games on the PlayStation Blog . While there’s certainly a littl

LG has officially announced the pricing for the 77-inch version of its Signature Series W7 OLED. It costs more than the average in-state tuition for a four year college – which, according to CollegeBoard.com, is around $9,650. They’re two of the best TVs of 2017 and some of the best 4K TVs on the market, but is the LG OLED77W7 worth $20,000? TVs for the proletariatsOK, so what if you can’t afford a new W7 OLED but you still want amazing OLED picture quality? Both the C7 and B7 use the same panel

When Nintendo officially announced the SNES Classic Mini, a shrunk-down version of its classic games console, my heart simultaneously rose and sank, tearing itself in half and killing me instantly. Nintendon’t botherThis was a rather baffling decision, which meant prices on eBay for the NES Mini remained high. The silly thing is, I have a working SNES, slowly yellowing in the loft, with many of the games the SNES Mini comes with. I also have a number of other devices that can run SNES games – ei

The premium tier is called Tinder Gold, and includes all the features of Tinder Plus which is the current paid-for version of Tinder. Swipe rightOn top of all that is the new feature Likes You which, you guessed it, shows you who likes you. Tinder Gold will be more expensive than Tinder Plus, but Tinder is still in the testing stage where it’s figuring out how much people will pay so we don’t have a price yet. According to TechCrunch it will be a similar deal to Tinder Plus that if you pay for a

Back in the 50s, people would keep their TVs for 10 or 15 years, then suddenly the TV business witnessed a huge amount of evolution,” Biver told us. That’s our life today and with technology, people will get used to change.”When is a watch, not a watch? It’s not been an easy ride for TAG though, and being one of the first Swiss watch makers to get into the smartwatch business put it in the cross-hairs. “In Switzerland we were highly criticized [for entering the smartwatch business], but I believ

Netflix has announced it’s joining the very short list of streaming services that currently support Dolby’s Atmos 3D sound technology. The initial lineup of Dolby Atmos supported films on Netflix is short. It’s only one film: Netflix Original, Okja, which recently made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival. Wheelman will also receive Dolby Atmos support this year, but an exact date for this has yet to be decided. With Dolby Atmos you’ll hear a film’s sound not just to the rear and sides, but als