By using a VPN to connect to the internet, your devices and personal data will remain secure even while you’re working from the likes of public Wi-Fi hotspots. Most VPN service providers offer services globally and thus charge in US Dollars rather than in local currencies, so we’ve listed pricing in Dollars for the sake of simplicity. NordVPN has 739 servers across 58 locations with support for up to six devices in use simultaneously. This easy-to-use VPN is an excellent option for novice users

The feature is going live now for VR videos with more than 1,000 views. The bigger pictureSurprisingly, according to YouTube many viewers don’t turn their heads when watching VR content, and an average of 75% of viewing time is spent looking forward at the front 90 degrees of clips. The more engaging a scene is, the more likely people are to explore the full 360-degree view, YouTube says. Content creators should also consider catering for different devices, YouTube advises, as those using viewer

Wireless phone chargers like those rumoured to be included with the next iPhone are great and all, but they have some pretty major drawbacks. The most notable is that the transmitter and receiver have to be sitting pretty much still for the charging to work. The reason is that the frequency of the signals in this form of wireless power transfer – known as magnetic resonance coupling – needs to be tuned to the right distance. “We still need to significantly increase the amount of electricity bein

Microsoft has gone ahead and released an official system image for the new Surface Laptop which allows users who have upgraded the device to Windows 10 Pro to revert back to Windows 10 S, the lightweight version of the desktop OS which comes installed on the machine by default. But what about if you do this, and subsequently decide you don’t like Pro, so you want to switch back to Windows 10 S? Well, that’s exactly what this official Surface Laptop recovery image allows for – resetting your note

An image shared by MyDrivers seems to show part of a description of the battery, possibly taken from the manual or promotional material, and it says there’s just a 3,300mAh one. That would actually be smaller than the 3,400mAh juice pack in the OnePlus 3T, and while most battery rumors have only emerged once, this would now be the second time we’ve heard this one, suggesting it might well be true. Given that the overall size of the handset is possibly going to be smaller it would make sense for

There are two main upgrades on the G6 Plus, with 128GB of storage squeezed inside which is an improvement on the 32GB in the standard LG G6, while a 32-bit Hi-Fi Quad DAC has also been incorporated into the headphone jack providing hi-res audio support. You’ll also find a pair of B&O Play earphones in the LG G6 Plus box and it will be available in Optical Astro Black, Marine Blue and Terra Gold color variants. It means the LG G6 Plus still boasts the same (and older) Snapdragon 821 processor and

In fact, things are that bad with Microsoft’s new notebook, iFixit said that “if we could give it a -1 out of 10, we would”. Much like the new MacBooks, one of the reasons the Surface Laptop fares so badly is the heavy use of glue in the machine – iFixit describes it as a “glue-filled monstrosity”, in fact. And indeed it’s a hell of a task to even open the Surface Laptop, with the teardown experts saying that the notebook can’t actually be opened without ‘destroying’ it, more or less. So while t

Google has revealed today an additional four steps it will take in order to tackle online terror. The pledge came via a post on the company blog written by Kent Walker, Google’s General Counsel, acknowledging the scale and scope of its YouTube and Google platforms, and the “uncomfortable truth […] that more needs to be done. The stepsThe first step is to devote more engineering resources and advanced machine learning to improve Google’s identification software. This is the software that will ide

Finding last-minute father’s day gifts is no longer a problem in 2017 thanks to the fact that we have Amazon Prime Now in most US cities. Many of the 5,000 Amazon Prime cities and towns can still access Same Day Delivery by 9pm if you order your Father’s Day gift by 12pm. Google Wifi system (set of 3)Sometimes Father’s Day gift idea turn into presents for the whole family, and that’s exactly how we feel about Google’s new router replacement. Amazon Echo DotThe Amazon Echo Dot is one of the best

Are you ready for everything the Galaxy Note 8 is going to bring with it? Posted to Chinese social network Weibo and picked up by Phandroid, the images and clips show the now-familiar, bezel-crushing curves of the Infinity Display, though in this case the size goes beyond even what the Samsung Galaxy S8 Plus can offer. The Note 8 is expected to show up with a 6.3-inch or 6.4-inch display, to beat the 6.2-inch one on the Plus. We don’t know too much about the leaker in this case so adjust your ex

The growing popularity of consumer VR headsets is presenting content creators, educators, app developers and travel companies with a great opportunity to let audiences experience parts of the world they’ve never seen – and which they might never get the chance to see – without leaving their living room. It’s easy to turn your nose up at VR travel, writing it off as something that’s solely a tool for travel agents to flog holidays or a cheap thrill for the unadventurous. But it opens up fantastic

For this edition of Talk Radar we are talking to Tim Varkalis, who worked as an ethical hacker for cyber security firms Portcullis and PwC. The general things are obvious: Don’t use s****y passwords, don’t use the same password in loads of different places, do use antivirus. It’s incredible that ‘password’ used to be the most common password. ‘Blank’ is also an incredibly common password. You can find lists online of common passwords.

For a long while now, Microsoft has been trying to get users to install its apps for iOS and Android rather than pushing Windows Mobile as an OS, and the latest update to Cortana for Android means the digital assistant app can now take the place of Google Assistant (or Google Now) as the default smart AI on your phone. As spotted by Android Police , the app can now walk you through the process of associating Cortana with a long-press on the home button. That screen lets you change the default ap

Your Wi-Fi is about to get a lot fasterThe Wi-Fi Alliance adds new features to its Wi-Fi CERTIFIED ac specs, which means your next router will be much snappier.

Hosts also have to trust guests to leave everything as they found it. With that in mind Airbnb is planning to make it harder for both hosts and guests to get scammed – Bloomberg reports the company is buying the startup Trooly, which specializes on running background checks through social media and other sources. In other words, it looks like you’ll be able to vet other Airbnb users more easily in the future, once the Trooly technology gets integrated into the main service. Trooly has actually b

AI forecasts that a suspect were at a high risk of offending were accurate 88% of the time. Your moneyThe road to fully-automated AI control of your wallet is likely to be a long one, but even today there is a considerable amount of semi-autonomous AI tech operating on the open markets. The IT security industry has spent big on AI and machine learning in recent years, and there are a host of companies that claim to use it everyday. Rachel Jones, Senior Strategy Designer at Hitachi Europe, commen

Well, it turns out the YotaPhone 3 is now official, based on noises made by its maker at a trade show in China. Like its predecessors, the YotaPhone 3 is going to have a full-color, standard phone display around the front and a second, low-power, grayscale e-ink display around the back. Third time luckyThe phone will ship in China in September, apparently, and in Russia some time after that. Yota makes other handsets besides these eye-catching e-ink ones, but after the first YotaPhone, which fel

Sonos is offering a $50 discount on two Play:1 speakers , giving you multi-room speakers that can in fact fill two rooms, according to the speaker company. More Sonos speaker dealsThere’s also a $100 discount on the Sonos SUB , which delivers deep bass for $599 instead of the usual $699. There’s a $100 discount on the 5.1 Sonos Surround Sound Package with Playbase or the Package with Playbar. In Canada, you can save on two Sonos Play:1 speakers ($69 CAD off), too, and also act on a similar Sonos

Picked by Jon Porter, UK Home Technology Writer”I was entirely prepared for Insomniac’s Spider-Man to steal the show for me. Although the Batman Arkham series is often cited as the series that showed us all how good superhero games could be, I always had a soft spot for the Treyarch-produced Spiderman 2 on the PS2. Away from the grim gothic world of Batman, Spiderman’s colorful cast of characters and web-slinging open-world freedom was always going to be way up my street. From the charming art-s

We’re still waiting for Samsung’s Bixby Voice to officially release, but the tech giant is offering a consolation prize of sorts for Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus owners in the US. Data gathered from the tests will be used to improve the quality of Bixby, Samsung says, and help develop new services. Bixby has been somewhat of black eye for the otherwise excellent Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus from the start. Even though the phones launched with a dedicated Bixby button, the lack of voice support a