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It’s Boxing Day and Microsoft’s well-received Surface Headphones are now on sale at Amazon with a big discount. The headphones, which are appealing especially to developers and other office workers w...

It was revealed in November that Google was working on a new Tab Group feature in their Chrome browser, with a code change requestin Google’s Chrome repository saying: Users can organize tabs into ...

March’s sales numbers have been revealed by the NDP Group and though it didn’t feature as many blockbuster releases as last March, it still saw the impressive launches of both Far Cry 5 and Sea of Thieves. The NPD Group also revealed how well the gaming industry is doing overall, and things are looking good for Xbox.The game industry generated $1.32 billion ...

Microsoft is aouncingits support for a new UK campaignthatwants to tackle online child sex exploitation by raising awareness about the issue.the campaign is lead by the UK Govement, the Marie Collins Foundation and the Inteet WarthFoundation. It is to educate18-24-year-olds about distributing or making sexual content featuring under 18-year-olds i...

Update: You can pre-order the Xbox One Hyperkin Duke controller from GameStop right now for $69.99.Original: Seamus Blackley, one of the men who designed the original Xbox, has aounced that the Duke controller is coming back at the end of March for $69.99, close to the price of a standard Xbox One controller.Back in September, Blackley aounced that Microsoft had partnered with accessory manufacturer Hyperkin to bring back this misunderstood beast. No release date was revealed at the time, but now we know you can get your hands on one of the new Dukes in a few short months.As described by Hyperkin, the new Duke “sports a faithful recreation of the original controller’s form-factor with some u...

Seamus Blackley, one of the men who designed the original Xbox, has aounced that the Duke controller is coming back at the end of March for $69.99, close to the price of a standard Xbox One controller. Back in September, Blackley aounced that Microsoft had partnered with accessory manufacturer Hyperkin to bring back this misunderstood beast. No release date was revealed at the time, but now we know you can get your hands on one of the new Dukes in a few short months. As described by Hyperkin, the new Duke “sports a faithful recreation of the original controller’s form-factor with some updated features: a logo display screen, left and right bumpers, and a 9 ft. detachable cable.” It will be...

With a move to a digital marketplace taking place at an increasing speed, physical software sales on consoles have found their numbers dwindling. While Call of Duty: WWII, for example, has held strong on the UK charts for the past 9 weeks, and other games have respectable physical sales as well, it appears this didn’t benefit Xbox much. MCVUK reports that physical sales on Xbox One actually fell compared to last year. Year over year, Xbox One physical software sales dipped by 11.1% in the UK. This number is being attributed to the console’s weak exclusives lineup, which has become a point of contention among Xbox players. Xbox’s main competition, the PlayStation 4, saw physical sales on it ...

Call of Duty: WWII’s staying power should come as no surprise as it’s retained the top spot on the UK charts for the 9th consecutive week. A retu to the series’ roots was undoubtedly the right call for Activision, which saw the latest Call of Duty entry top NPD sales as well. Over the Christmas holiday, the top 5 games on the UK charts didn’t even move places from the previous week (via GFK Chart-Track). Following Call of Duty: WWII in the UK is FIFA 18, a popular title across European territories. The subsequent three games on the list are Star Wars Battlefront II, Assassin’s Creed Origins, and Grand Theft Auto V. It will be a tough pill to swallow to see Star Wars Battlefront II so high u...

If you’ve been holding your breath for a group chat app on your console, Microsoft has your back. Skype has now released the GroupMe app for Windows 10 devices on the Xbox, so users can now download and install it on their console, for whatever reason (via Windows Central).Microsoft bills GroupMe as a “he free and simple way to stay in touch with friends and family”, and has it available for all major platforms, including Windows, iOS, Android and the web. The introduction of GroupMe to the Xbox comes months after Skype made its debut on the Xbox One for avid gamers to keep up with theirchats.GroupMe isn’t exactly an app one would view as being useful for an Xbox, and there’s hardly reports ...

Microsoft has already discounted the AlcatelIdol 4 Pro in the USA and now that deal has reached the UK.Previously £419.99, the Continuum-capable handset is now available for only£293.99, more than £120 off.In terms of the specs, the Idol 4 Pro is a pretty solid device. It packs a 5.5-inch AMOLED Full HD display, protected by the Asahi Dragontrail Glass. Powering the device is a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and 4GB RAM. For the storage, you’ll get 64GB of inteal storage, as well as a microSD card slot to expand the storage up to 128GB. As for the cameras, you are getting a 21MP sensor on the back and an 8MP camera on the front. The device also comes with a fingerprint scaer and a 3000mAh...

You can now save£380 on the new Surface Pro plus Type Cover bundle in the UK. Amazon UK is now offering this deal as part of their boxing day sale. Microsoft Surface Pro with Intel 7th Gen Core m3-7Y30 2.6 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD, and Windows 10 Pro can be purchased for just £569.99. In addition, you can get the Black Type Cover for free.Surface Pro highlights:A Laptop with the versatility of a studio and tablet with 2.5 times more performance than Surface Pro 3Up to 13.5 hours of video playback – 50 Percent longer battery life than Surface Pro 4Even quieter – with a fanless cooling system. Wi-Fi- IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac compatible Bluetooth Wireless 4.1 technologyCreate, study, work and pl...

In the summer Oculus aounced a price drop for their Oculus Rift headset taking it to an astonishing $399 for the headset and controllers, around half the launch price of the bundle before the discount.Now that great price has come to UK, with Amazon offering the headset and controlled bundle for only £349, down from around £600 a year ago.The Oculus Rift headset offers advanced display technology combined with its precise, low-latency constellation tracking system which enables the sensation of presence.Oculus Touch controllers with support for natural gestures and finger movement create a sense of true hand presence for more realistic, memorable, and tactile VR.Remember however that you sti...

For the fifth week in a row, Call of Duty: WWII has retained the top spot on the UK sales charts. While its sales are going strong, they still fell following Black Friday.According to GFK Chart-Track, which tracks physical sales in the United Kingdom, Call of Duty: WWII’s sales fell 40%, and entertainment software sales overall fell 24% after Black Friday. Still, the numbers are a testament to how well Call of Duty is doing to once again reign supreme, beating out even FIFA 18 which stayed at number two.Despite its terrible negative publicity, Star Wars Battlefront II held on to the fourth spot, with Assassin’s Creed Origins and Super Mario Odyssey following at number five and six, respectiv...

Despite repeated vigorous denials, it seems anti-virus company Kaspersky is unable to convince anyone that matters that they are not in league with the Russian govement.Reuters report s that UK’s National Cyber Security Centre chief Ciaran Martin sent a memo to other govement departments waing them that as Russia is“a highly capable cyber threat actor which uses cyber as a tool of statecraft,” that has the intent to target the UK and its critical infrastructure, computers with info that could harm national security shouldn’t use an anti-virus software developed by a Russian company.In JulyKaspersky was similarly been removed from the US govements approved vendors list after concer...

The UK chael partner ITPS has deployed Microsoft’s hybrid Azure Stack infrastructure in its data centre, the first firm to do so.“A large proportion of IT managers are still reluctant to move to public cloud due to confusion over the location of their data.“With GDPR set to come in next year, this conce is growing. Azure Stack overcomes the problem by providing a consistent experience between public and private for a true hybrid experience.“This allows us to offer a comprehensive cloud solution on a subscription basis to meet a substantial customer demand.” Paul Anderson, operations director at ITPS explained (via Chael Web)Microsoft debuted its hybrid Azure Stack earlier this year, de...

Sway is Microsoft’s future replacement for Powerpoint, making it easy to collate media and present data attractively.Microsoft says Sway makes it quick and easy to create and share polished, interactive reports, presentations, personal stories and more. Users simply need to add their content, and Microsoft will do the rest. That is of course unless those users use Windows Phone, in which case Microsoft no longer consider them worth supporting.When Sway was introduced Microsoft was quick to support the iPhone, but promised clients for Windows Phone was on the way.It seems over the course of the last 18 months plans have changed, and the app is no longer on the cards, accordingto a Microsoft ...

The Xbox One X launched a few days ago, and according to the head of Xbox in UK and Ireland things are going really well.“Demand for the Xbox One X is really high,” said Harvey Eagle . “It’s great to see such enthusiasm from our fans for the new cons...

Following the aouncement about Surface Book 2 earlier this week, Microsoft Store UK is now offering £250 discount on the entry-level Surface Book model. Surface Book Intel Core i5/8GB RAM/128GB model is now available for £1,199.Surface Book weighs ...

Microsoft’s Surface Book 2 is definitely an improvement over the Surface Book and Surface Book with performance base. While we don’t know what the broad range of reviews due next month we conclude, we do know that Consumer Reports at the very least w...

GroupMe app for iOS was updated in Apple App Store yesterday. This Version 5.12.4 update includes several improvements. New users can now change their profile picture during registration process. And whenever users are mentioned during a conversation, GroupMe will now render the entire message as bold. This update also improves Group editing process. It is now more straight forward and easier.When users were trying to share an image thathas not been fully downloaded, the app was crashing. Microsoft has now fixed this issue, users can no longer confirm to use an image that has not been fully downloaded.You can download the updated app from Apple’s App Store....