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The 10 best Apple Watch games

The ten best Apple Watch games So guess what? A screen 42mm across and with a resolution of 312 x 390 pixels isn’t natively the world’s best platform for games, nor will it be offering Skyrim levels of life-hobbling immersiveness. Nope, like everything else on the Apple Watch, its games are all about stolen moments – a few seconds of furious activity before you pull your sleeve down to catch

Versus: Samsung Galaxy S6 vs Samsung Galaxy Note 4

Introduction and key features The Samsung Galaxy S6 is undoubtedly the best phone in the S range, but the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 represents the best of a premium line that runs parallel to it. Released at a different time of the year, and marketed to a slightly different “power” user crowd, the Galaxy Note series has always been able to avoid treading on Galaxy S toes by keeping its

Use antivirus? Our research shows you probably update it manually

In light of stories about hacking, malware infestation and millions being lost to scam and phishing, TechRadar carried out its own investigation about the state of PC desktop security with the help of you – our readers. We carried out a randomised, non-scientific survey that got more nearly 50,000 responses. Two questions were asked: Do you update your software on a regular basis? (software referring to your operating system, Java

Still an underdog, but China government deals help Alibaba's cloud ambitions

By Paul Carsten and John Ruwitch SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is an underdog in the global cloud computing industry, but it has one thing going for it: it’s Chinese. Alibaba this week scored a minor deal with China’s northeastern port city of Dalian to build a cloud computing center and provide online government services such as bill payment. The pact is a small part of

Volume, variety key for Adobe's stock-image service to click

Adobe Systems Inc is leveraging its popular Creative Cloud software suite for its new stock-image service, but will have to dig deeper to woo designers and take on established players such as Shutterstock Inc and . Launched on Tuesday, Adobe Stock is a repackaged version of Fotolia, which Adobe bought in January. The company is offering the product at a significant discount to users of its Creative Cloud suite, which

Traders bet on Twitter near-term gains as takeover chatter persists

By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dick Costolo’s decision to step down as Twitter Inc’s chief executive last week failed to stem the weeks-long slide in the company’s shares, but options traders appear to be betting on a near-term rebound. The stock has shed more than a third of its value since Twitter reported first-quarter results in April. On June 11, Costolo said he would resign as CEO

Twitter to let users follow live events, not just people

Twitter Inc will start curating tweets on live events, the microblogging service said, as it plans major changes to make its real-time news feed more user friendly. Dubbed Project Lightning, the changes will let users follow events instead of just people, and instantly upload photos and videos that can be shared across websites, social news and entertainment website Buzzfeed reported on Thursday. A team of editors will curate the most

Disney exploring virtual reality for video games

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co’s interactive unit is considering bringing Disney Infinity or other video games into the world of virtual reality. Adapting elements of current titles is one option the company is exploring, James Pitaro, president of Disney Interactive, said in an interview. Disney also might create new games specifically for VR or for another emerging platform known as augmented reality, he said.

MacPhun sees the world in black and white with Tonality Pro 1.2

There are two ways to edit your photos. If you use a regular image-editor like Photoshop you need to know the effect you want to achieve and then work out how (the heck) to achieve it. But Tonality Pro, like MacPhun’s other Mac-only photo-editing apps, does it differently. It gives you dozens of possible treatments for your images that you might never have thought of, applies them with a single

Review: Lenovo ThinkPad E555

Introduction and design Lenovo purchased the ThinkPad product portfolio from IBM a decade ago and has maintained the brand ever since. The company refreshed the entry-level enterprise laptop range, the E-series, and dropped the Edge name from it. The latest addition to it, the ThinkPad E555, follows the path of its predecessor, rigorously sticking to the design guidelines of the ThinkPad family. A word here to mention the fact that

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