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5 Chicago Restaurants That Will Transport You Around the World

With dirt-cheap taco joints and trailblazing temples of haute cuisine—and everything in between—Chicago has one of the richest, most diverse, most satisfying food scenes in the United States. Of course, the city has hometown staples like deep-dish pizza, Italian beef sandwiches, and Chicago-style hot dogs, all of which are worthy of indulgence, but this is also a town where you where you can taste the flavors of the world. What’s

Review: Bowers and Wilkins P5 Wireless

Introduction Without wanting to sound too much like a disappointed Gordon Ramsey, judging some inept chef… Damn, these are some frustrating headphones. On one ear Bowers and Wilkins’ first wireless headphones sound utterly fantastic and I don’t want to take them off my head, but on the other the vagaries of Bluetooth connectivity makes the experience an often stuttering one. The P5 Wireless headphones are, unsurprisingly, based on its successful

Review: Bowers and Wilkins P5 Wireless

Introduction Without wanting to sound too much like a disappointed Gordon Ramsey, judging some inept chef… Damn, these are some frustrating headphones. On one ear Bowers and Wilkins’ first wireless headphones sound utterly fantastic and I don’t want to take them off my head, but on the other the vagaries of Bluetooth connectivity makes the experience an often stuttering one. The P5 Wireless headphones are, unsurprisingly, based on its successful

Review: LG PW800

Introduction The LG PW800 ($599.99, £385.24, AU$738.45) is small, lightweight and attractive. But, unlike other projectors that compromise image quality for hardware aesthetics, the PW800 is an ideal combination of brains and beauty. It is a great tool for the traveling businessperson or for the consumer who wants a small projector that can perform very well in a small room. It weighs an amazing 1.3 pounds (0.59 Kg) – much

Review: LG PW800

Introduction The LG PW800 ($599.99, £385.24, AU$738.45) is small, lightweight and attractive. But, unlike other projectors that compromise image quality for hardware aesthetics, the PW800 is an ideal combination of brains and beauty. It is a great tool for the traveling businessperson or for the consumer who wants a small projector that can perform very well in a small room. It weighs an amazing 1.3 pounds (0.59 Kg) – much

Qualcomm feels pinch from Mediatek and Intel as it ponders restructure

Qualcomm is ready to cut 15% of its workforce following a shocking set of results for the third quarter of 2015 that affirm the fact that competition in the mobile processor market continues to bite. Qualcomm’s quarterly earnings report revealed a 14% revenue drop to $5.8 billion (about £3.73 billion, AU$7.87 billion) from $6.8 billion (about £4.37 billion, AU$9.23 billion) in 2014 – and that’s just the tip of the

How to block Android Wear notifications

Adjusting settings on your smartphone As much as companies try to convince us a smartwatch is going to change our lives, a big part of their appeal is the ability to see who just called/SMS’d/Whatsapp’d you without removing your phone from your pocket. Android Wear smartwatches are pretty great at that. However, it can take over, and before you know it, that racing game you downloaded keeps complaining you’re not