Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends Google’s Pixel 3 is one of the best camera phones you can buy, but the competition is stiff. The iPhone XS can take equally great photographs — sometimes even better — than the Pixel 3, while the Note 9 often excels in low light. Can you really tell the difference? See for […]
Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends While both the Huawei Mate 20 and the Mate 20 Pro have three camera lenses, none of them shoot only in monochrome, marking the end of a fantastic era for smartphone photography. Ever since Huawei first partnered with camera experts Leica, a monochrome lens has sat alongside the regular camera lens, giving […]
Today’s businesses want to find out as much as they can about the people who use their services so they can improve their offering with a view to building an even more lucrative operation. Store cards and apps already help retail businesses collect customer data, but Walmart would like to know what you’re feeling when you’re […]
Enlarge Rich Bowen / Flickr Science documentaries face a real challenge when it comes to drawing in an audience that isn’t already committed to caring about science. Finding new ways to say “You should really go see this, it’s not just about science” is often a struggle. Science Fair is a rare entry in the […]
Enlarge rabiem22 / Flickr Cold boot attacks, used to extract sensitive data such as encryption keys and passwords from system memory, have been given new blood by researchers from F-Secure. First documented in 2008, cold boot attacks depend on the ability of RAM to remember values even across system reboots. In response, systems were modified […]
In 2015, the episodic adventure Life Is Strange won over fans with its complicated female heroes and smart take on a branching storyline. Since then, developer Dontnod Entertainment has released a prequel called Before The Storm and the free, short-form spin-off The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit. Now, Dontnod is preparing to release Life Is […]
Qualcomm has upgraded its smartwatch chip to focus on improving battery life. Snapdragon Wear 3100, unveiled Monday, is designed to boost battery life by four to 12 hours over the Wear 2100 platform, which it announced in 2016. The new 3100 chip takes some of the same architecture from the 2100 platform, but adds a […]
Enlarge / Follow the light, Lara. The most recent story arc for Lara Croft has dipped into how she came to be the rough-and-tumble Indiana Jones-inspired adventurer we all met fully formed decades ago. Along the way, though, there have been a fair few examinations of her violent tendencies, creating what is essentially a post-modern […]
Overwatch is one of the games that Humble Monthly subscribers are getting over the next 30 days as part of that $ 12-per-month service. Blizzard’s popular class-based team shooter debuted in May 2016, and it has continued to attract fans regularly ever since. But now more than two years removed from that launch, Blizzard is […]
Perhaps inspired by the Pokémon Go craze, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has teamed up with Facebook to launch an augmented reality experience promoting the Sept. 18 Blu-ray and DVD release of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The new AR experience—available on the day of the release at more than 17,000 US retail stores—will bring dinosaurs from […]
Last year’s HTC U11 Life was a mid-range phone with it all — affordable with an attractive design, good performance, and some water resistance thrown in for good measure. We liked it enough to choose it as the best phone under $ 400 in our list of the best cheap phones. HTC is back with […]
Intel is launching a new batch of 8th Gen Intel Core processors, fueling new line-ups of fanless laptops with at least 16 hours of battery life. The new U-series (formerly code-named Whiskey Lake) and Y-series processors (Amber Lake) are designed for thin-and-light laptops and laptop-tablet combos, or 2-in-1 laptops. The laptops have twice the performance […]
AFP/Getty Images At IFA 2018, Intel announced additions to its 8th-Generation processor lineup with a focus on mobile performance and enhanced connectivity. The 8th-generation additions include the U-series, which was formerly known as Whiskey Lake, and Y-Series, formerly known as Amber Lake. Intel claims that these chipsets are optimized for mobile form factors, including laptops […]
Fitbit has announced its latest exercise tracker wearable: the Fitbit Charge 3. Available for preorder today, Fitbit Charge 3 starts at $ 150 and ships in October. The company’s Fitbit Labs research division also announced a new Sleep Score beta program for Fitbit devices with heart rate tracking. Fitbit has sold 35 million Charge devices […]
Parsec is one of a handful of companies trying to make real cloud gaming happen. It has a low-latency, 60 frames per second interactive game streaming service that allows PC gamers to play their games remotely. And earlier this month, it launched Party Finder, which allows customers to find other people to play games with […]