Since the AirPods first pitched up in 2016, truly wireless headphones (with each earbud separate) have become more and more popular, and now Android is getting new features to improve how these devices connect up. New changes arriving for the Bluetooth Fast Pair feature in Android include individual battery life readings, so you can see …
21/07/2019It’s rare when the extra settings and options available in any car are so numerous it takes an afternoon to test them all. With the 2019 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 performance car, I had to find a private road and test out a series of Track Apps, some of which are so fun to use …
20/07/2019Users of Chrome and Firefox have been warned to check their browser extensions after a number of popular tools were found to be collecting and selling user data without permission. Six extensions have been found to be hoovering up user information, an investigation by the Washington Post found, with data sent to a centralised platform. …
19/07/2019Qualcomm will appeal a €242 million fine handed out by the European Commission (EC) for the abuse of its dominant position in the 3G baseband chip market between 2009 and 2011. A ten-year investigation concluded Qualcomm had sold chips below cost to Huawei and ZTE over a two-year period in order to squeeze then-rival Icera …
19/07/2019Turbo VPN is the mobile VPN service with the biggest growth in the second quarter of 2019 (compared to the previous year). In research created by mobile analytics company App Annie exclusively for TechRadar, the free VPN privacy app had the largest absolute year-over-year growth in worldwide downloads in Q2 2019 despite being released only …
17/07/2019
Feeling refreshed? Then let the Tour de France commence with a stage 11 sprint south west from Albi to the gastronomic city of Toulouse. To see the sights and the cycling from just about anywhere on Earth, be sure to follow our Tour de France live stream guide for Stage 11. The riders certainly earned …
17/07/2019Ubisoft has started releasing some more details about its upcoming mythological adventure, Gods and Monsters. First announced at E3 2019, the game is currently being developed by the team behind Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey. At the time of its announcement, we didn’t get too much information on the game (though there was a tone-setting trailer) but …
13/07/2019
Gadget makers aren’t giving up on the idea of getting Google Glass-style augmented reality specs on our faces, with a recently filed Samsung patent the latest evidence that more of these wearable devices are on the way. Spotted by Patently Apple, the filing shows a fairly standard design for a pair of glasses with added …
13/07/2019Ubisoft is taking action against players who are using Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s Story Creator mode to exploit the game’s character levelling system. Announced at E3 2019 and released shortly after, the Story Creator Mode is supposed to allow players to make their own quests for the game and then share them with other players. It’s …
13/07/2019
The iPhone XS Max is, like the name suggests, big. It’s the largest of the three ‘new’ iPhones of 2018, which makes it something of a successor to the iPhone 8 Plus, even though it has more of the iPhone X’s DNA. It’s a huge phone, but it’s also hugely popular, suggesting we could see …
11/07/2019
After months of rumors, Nintendo has finally announced a new Nintendo Switch console. The Nintendo Switch Lite is a much smaller, solely handheld version of the Nintendo Switch and comes in three different colors: yellow, gray and turquoise. According to Nintendo, the Nintendo Switch Lite is a device “dedicated to handheld gameplay”. The device has …
10/07/2019
Mozilla has released Firefox 68, with improvements for all platforms – but particularly iOS, which has received several major updates. For desktop users, the changes are relatively small. Firefox’s reader mode (which strips away images and formatting so you can read the text more easily) now has an improved dark mode. Check out our ultimate …
09/07/2019