Last year, Google wanted to reinvent itself in the mobile market, ditching the Nexus in favour of the Google Pixel smartphone. While the device has been reviewed well, it seems that the first bump in the road has been hit, with customers complaining of poor speaker quality, which appears to …

It looks like we may not need to worry about exploding lithium-ion batteries in the future as a group of researchers have developed a new battery with a built-in fire extinguisher, cutting off the possibilities of fires right at the source. Exploding batteries have been a bit of a hot …

While Steam Machines aren't necessarily a thing these days, PC makers are still working hard on delivering tiny systems that can provide some serious gaming horsepower. This year, Zotac is launching its most powerful Zbox mini-PC yet, the Magnus EN1070K, packing in a new Intel Core i5 Kaby Lake processor …

There is a lot of buzz surrounding future high-end graphics cards at the moment, the GTX 1080Ti is being teased for a launch soon, meanwhile AMD is gearing up the marketing machine for Vega. AMD has been giving us sneak peeks at Vega since late last year and while the …

Things have been quiet on the wearable front for quite a while now, the Apple Watch series 2 hasn't generated much buzz and things appear to have come to a standstill with Android Wear. However, that could change later this year as reports indicate that Google is preparing Android Wear …

Last week, we heard a little bit about Samsung's lofty sales expectations for the Galaxy S8 this year, hoping to sell more than 60 million units, the highest of any Galaxy flagship in several years. Now, it looks like the company is keen to give us an early peek at …

While Windows 10 has managed to round up a few hundred million users at this point, there is still more work to be done on Microsoft's end to get people to upgrade. This week, the company began targeting enterprise users, urging them to upgrade from Windows 7 as the ageing …

It looks like there may still be some life left in the 3DS, even with the Nintendo Switch on the horizon as this week, Reggie himself set out to clear up any confusion, stating that the Switch is a home console at heart and is not intended to take over …

The Zenimax VS Oculus case has finally made its way to court, with the former defending itself from a slew of accusations including the theft of trade secrets, breaking of NDAs and the destruction of evidence. According to Zenimax, Zuckerburg may have even known about all of this prior to …

As interesting at CES was this year, it ended on a somewhat sour note for Razer as the company had two of its Project Valerie triple screen laptop prototypes stolen from the press room at the show. Since then, the company has offered a sizeable reward for information leading to …

Update: Last week, the trial for Zenimax's $2 billion lawsuit against Oculus kicked off. This lawsuit has been brewing for a couple of years now and while Oculus has tried to brush it off as a wasteful attempt to try and cash in on VR, Zenimax has remained persistent in …

It looks like Samsung and LG aren't the only ones working on flexible display technology as it appears that Microsoft has also been experimenting with new designs. This week, a new patent from Microsoft was discovered, detailing what appears to be a Surface device with a foldable display, allowing you …

Way back in 2014, the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched its first Compute Module, based on the original Raspberry Pi hardware but combining it with a SODIMM module. However, since then we have had two more generations of Raspberry Pi hardware, so it was time for the module to get an …

The trend of celebrities trying to sue game developers for using their ‘likeness' seems to be continuing this year. However, this time around it is not Rockstar in the hot-seat, instead, it is Microsoft and Epic Games. Late last week, former NFL player and professional wrestler Lynwood Hamilton came out …

There has been a lot of news coming out of Nintendo this week and while the new Switch console has been getting plenty of praise, there is still some room for criticism. The launch line-up is a tad underwhelming but on top of that, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of …

While we didn't get the GTX 1080Ti launch that rumours had led us to expect at CES this year, it looks like there may have actually been one at the show hiding in plain sight. At the Gigabyte booth this year, the company began showing off a mysterious new ‘Aorus' …

It looks like current PCs based on specific Intel Skylake and Kaby Lake processors are vulnerable to a USB debugging exploit. Security researchers began openly discussing the vulnerability this week, which allows attackers to bypass security mechanisms and run malicious code via the USB debugging interface. This specifically affects Intel's …

Apple is once again heading to court. However, the company won't be arguing over patents for a change, instead Apple will need to fight off allegations of price-fixing in the iOS App Store as part of a new anti-trust lawsuit. This isn't the first time Apple has been brought up …

Late last year it was announced that Samsung would be acquiring premium audio systems maker, Harman, responsible for Harman/Kardon speakers and connected cars. Samsung was looking to buy up the company for a cool $8 billion but it turns out, Harman shareholders aren't happy with the deal and are looking …

Update: Consumer Reports has finished re-evaluating Apple's latest MacBook Pro, changing its verdict to recommend the laptop. Initially, the laptop received a poor review due to battery issues that only really kicked in under specific circumstances. However, after Apple pointed out the ‘obscure bug' and patched it out, the magazine …

Microsoft has officially begun testing its new ‘Game Mode' feature for Windows 10, which aims to boost game performance for Windows users by freeing up resources and ensuring other processes aren't taking up too much memory or CPU usage. There are programs that have aimed to do this in the …

WhatsApp has been trying to improve its stance as far as privacy and security go since last year, when the messaging service introduced end to end encryption. Unfortunately, it turns out that WhatsApp's encryption isn't keeping messages as secure as one would hope. Several months back, security researchers discovered a …

Google may have initially begun rolling out Android Nougat back in August but it usually takes a few months for some smartphone makers to catch up. If you happen to own a Samsung Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge, then you can look forward to finally getting the new update soon, …

Apple received a lot of criticism when it first abandoned the traditional headphone jack last year but unfortunately, it looks like the trend has now been set in motion. Not only are there reports that Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S8 may abandon the feature but this week HTC announced the HTC …

Back when Nintendo officially announced the Switch we were still left with quite a few questions, we had no idea when the console was releasing, what games would be available at launch or even how much the console would cost. However, all has been revealed today as part of Nintendo's …

We are expecting AMD to bring its first eight-core/16 thread Ryzen CPU to market in just a little over a month and with all of the talk about it, it may be easy to forget that there are more Ryzen CPUs to come. Aside from the upcoming octacore, AMD will …

It looks like things in the GPU world are going to get very interesting over the next few months. Not only is there a rumour going around that the GTX 1080Ti may be revealed in March but it turns out we may finally see the launch of AMD's new Vega …

Intel has officially launched its Kaby Lake desktop CPU lineup, we've already had a chance to review the Core i7 7700K and Core i5 7600K but there are lower end CPUs coming down the pipeline too. However, with Kaby Lake Intel is shaking up its Pentium-class processors a bit by …

If you have updated your version of Windows 10 recently and you happen to run multiple monitors, then you may run into issues while gaming. Microsoft has revealed this week that its latest update has brought along some problems when running 3D apps with more than one monitor connected to …

Back in 2014, Google acquired the team behind Project Titan, which ended up becoming part of the company's experimental Google X division. At the start of 2016, the company unveiled plans to develop drones that could deliver 5G internet connections to developing countries and rural areas in an effort to …