Apple announced at its developers conference WWDC 2017 that it’s partnering with a slew of gym equipment manufacturers that between them produce over 80% of gym equipment worldwide. Now we can exclusively reveal that the first such equipment will be ready to ship from September. Calorie expenditure is a big deal in fitness trackers, with a recent study showing that most fitness trackers are vastly inaccurate in their calorie estimations. That’s normal in the market.”But he was quick to add that

Apple usually launches new iPhones every September, which is just three months from now, but we might be waiting until October or November for the iPhone 8, as apparently the company still hasn’t figured out what to do about the fingerprint scanner. The three possible options apparently include making a pinhole in the glass for an optical or ultrasonic sensor, thinning the cover glass over the sensor area, or integrating a film sensor into the display using either capacitive or infrared technolo

HTC is developing new virtual reality products at different price points and a new Vive virtual reality headset. So, yes,” Marc Metis, Global Head of Vive X at HTC Vive, told TechRadar when asked whether the company is working a new Vive headset. ““We’ll enter different segments at different price points,” he said. One new Vive headset we already know about is a wireless standalone headset that will run on the Google Daydream VR platform. With new HTC virtual reality products – and a new Vive he

“I can say that’s a core part of our mission,” said Marc Metis, Global Head of Vive X at HTC Vive, about bringing the Vive to more sectors. “At Vive X you’ll see the early stage companies that are on the cutting edge in each of these areas,” Metis said. “[With Vive X] we have the ability to commercialize and scale these companies to help change these industries.” ThermoReal brings hot, cold and pain sensations to VR and ARHTC started Vive X to expand the overall VR and AR ecosystem. Getting into

Intel has announced a multi-year partnership with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to bring “new levels of fan interaction” to the Olympic Games. With this partnership, Intel hopes to use its technology to advance how people view the global sporting event, with the first showing planned for 2018’s Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. One way Intel hopes to add its technical expertise to the Olympics is though expanding virtual reality broadcasting of the event, claiming tha

For those that didn’t come up in the professional world during IBM’s heyday, yet work on one of Lenovo’s ThinkPad laptops today, might wonder why the TrackPoint is still around. Better yet, Hill shared his thoughts with us on what else of the original ThinkPad design has survived all these years, and how those features continue to differentiate the line of laptops from the competition. So, even though we’ve squeezed all of this way down, we’ve changed a lot about the keyboard, for instance, it s

Virgin Mobile has announced its newest cellular plan, which provides unlimited talk, text, and 4G LTE data for $50/month exclusively for iPhone owners. Virgin Mobile will also offer other Virgin-branded perks for Inner Circle members, which includes a free night at select Virgin Hotels locations, discounts on the Virgin Wine club, and a free companion ticket for Virgin Atlantic flights to the UK. Seeing redWhile the service claims to offer unlimited talk, text, and data, there appear to be some

If special lenses and geotags weren’t enough, Snapchat is adding a new way to see what your friends are up to across the globe. Snapchat’s new Snap Map (not to be confused with the DOOM level editor by the same name) allows users to zoom out to their neighborhood, city, country, and even continent to see where their other Snapchat friends are located. From there, Snap Map also shows heatmaps indicating popular events happening in your area, should there be a concert going on or a major demonstra

The Cube iWork 1X is a tale of two products. Cube, a newcomer to TechRadar Pro, unveiled the iWork 1X at the beginning of the year. Online Chinese retailer, Gearbest, sent us the sample and sells the Cube iWork 1X for only £151 (around $190) – although a flash sale could bring it to as little as £113 (around $145). DesignThe Cube iWork 1X is essentially a Windows tablet with an optional keyboard at a price point that’s similar to what netbooks were selling for. An 8,500mAh/8.2Whr battery and Win

You can then either use the default settings or tweak them from the New Connection window. During an active connection the client also gives you the option to transfer files to and from the remote server and exchange instant messages. Furthermore, TigerVNC enables you to share the clipboard with the remote VNC server and the application also makes it possible to choose the remote session screen size. You’ll have to manually enter the IP address of the remote VNC server since the client cannot de

Asus has announced that its ZenScreen MB16AC portable monitor is now on sale over in the US, where it will set you back $250 (around £200, AU$330). The ZenScreen runs with a 15.6-inch display that offers Full HD (1,920 x 1,080) resolution, with Asus promising ‘outstanding’ color reproduction, no less. Asus provides DisplayWidget software which allows the screen to detect its orientation and automatically switch between landscape and portrait modes. The ZenScreen further benefits from a pair of e

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There’s been something of a retro resurgence in video games recently; remasters are popping up everywhere and Nintendo took things one step further with its NES Classic console. Now, Sega is getting in on the action with the announcement that it’s bringing a collection of its classic games to mobile for free. Smart(phone) SegaFollowing this initial release, the library will continue to grow and Sega plans to add a new game every two weeks. To play for free you’ll have to put up with ads but thes

Bumblebee bagsManfrotto has also announced the Pro Light Bumblebee camera bag family. Pro Light Bumblebee messenger bagsThe Bumblebee messenger bags provide a body-gripping fit alongside a three-point AirSupport harness system. It can alternatively carry a DJI Mavic setup and the Osmo gimbal camera. All Bumblebee bags come with a DuoFace sun/rain cover. Prices for the new Bumblebee collection starts at £109.95 for the Bumblebee M-10, with the top-of-the-range Pro Light camera backpack Bumblebee

Lenovo celebrates the 25th anniversary of ThinkPad early this year, kicking it off with a Transform Event in New York City, pulling several of its older laptops out of cold storage. From the first ThinkPad that started it all to the latest and greatest Ultrabook from the company, every important milestone was on display. Join us as we guide you through the showcase and display just how far Lenovo’s – or, before 2005, IBM’s – little black boxes have come.

This “original kilogram”, as it’s known, has lost a little weight over the years. But as all of the world’s scales refer indirectly to this kilogram, that means they now weigh ever-so-slightly incorrectly. Instead of being based on a lump of metal in a vault, the new kilogram will be based on a universal constant. The weight of the new kilogram will balance out a very precise amount of electromagnetic force, which won’t change over time. Since then, however, a lot of work has been done, and it’s

Yep, it’s that time of year that PC gamers love and fear in equal measure – the Steam Summer Sale 2017 is almost upon us. With that in mind, here are our tips for to make the most of – and survive – the Steam Summer Sale 2017. When does the Steam Summer Sale 2017 start? As is almost becoming an annual tradition, the money handlers at PayPal lifted the lid on this year’s Steam Summer Sale dates. Tweeting from the official PayPal account, it revealed the Steam Summer Sale for 2017 will kick off on

One of the ways in manufacturers are constantly trying to outdo each other is with the effectiveness of their image stabilization systems. In the past few years manufacturers have also started to offer image stabilization built into camera bodies as well as in lenses. CanonCanon has traditionally used lens-based image stabilization rather than applying the effect at the sensor level, and this is the case across its mirrorless cameras and DSLRs. Many of its EF lenses designed for action photograp

Back at the start of the year, the compelling stealth action-adventure title Hitman made its way from Windows onto Linux, and now the same developer has brought the game to macOS. You can thank Feral Interactive for this port, with the Mac version of the game now on sale via the developer’s store, or you can get it on Steam. If you want to give it a whirl before you commit to a purchase, there’s a demo for the Mac available to download on Steam. Interestingly, the PC version of Hitman has just w

Cisco calls the new system an ‘intuitive network’ that can evolve over time driven by machine learning insights and capable of interpreting data in context. That includes Cisco’s Encrypted Traffic Analytics which, as the name suggests, is capable of detecting threats and attack signatures hidden in encrypted traffic, using machine learning to analyse traffic metadata. That’s important because, as the company notes, coming on for half of all cyber-attacks are hidden within encrypted traffic. Over