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What is the Echo Look? Echo Look can take full-length selfies and video at request, allowing you to show off your wardrobe to your heart’s content, or for personal use quickly and easily scroll through your outfits and pick out one to wear. The depth-sensing camera has built in LED lighting and computer vision-based background blur. A dedicated companion app lets you see yourself from every angle, while Style Check can use a combination of machine learning and advice from fashionistas to let you know which outfit looks best....

Alexa can answer your questions like Siri or the Google Assistant in Google Home, as well as giving you a news and weather briefing. If you have some smart home equipment such as a Nest thermostat or Philips Hue lights, Alexa can often control these too once you’ve enabled the appropriate Skills. Note: The Echo has now been discontinued and replaced by a second-generation version: see our Echo 2 review for more....

What is the Echo Spot? It has a 2.5in display, which usually serves for telling the time, but the Echo Spot can also be used for making hands-free calls and video calls. Audio quality from the Spot won’t be amazing, but you can hook up an external speaker via Bluetooth or AUX. When is the Echo Spot release date? The Echo Spot is now available in the UK as well as the US....

The lineup gained a new compact (extremely nano) charging option in addition to a few plant-based Lightning cords that we tested for you. Anker USB-C GaN Charger 30W The newest product from Anker, the Nano 3, can provide 30W of power. Anker is using GaN technology in its most recent product, which is housed in a form factor that fits comfortably in the palm of your hand. The new product 511 Charger (Nano 3), which can supply 30W of juice from a single USB-C connector, is claimed to be able to charge Apple’s newest iPhone14 far more quickly than the company’s options....

The worry is that these four goliaths of modern technology are exerting monopolising behaviour on the sector that is harming industry competition. This can affect many different areas such as the price of products for consumers and the way companies hire. Mark Zuckerberg will be familiar with the proceedings after his much-publicised Senate hearing in April 2018 following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In a statement, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline said: “Since last June, the Subcommittee has been investigating the dominance of a small number of digital platforms and the adequacy of existing antitrust laws and enforcements....

iPhone 6 review: UK price The iPhone 6 is the smaller of Apple’s two iPhones released in 2014. It runs the latest Apple mobile operating system: iOS 9. Originally, the iPhone 6 started at £539 for the 16GB model, but now that it’s a year old and a newer iPhone is available, Apple has reduced the starting price to £459. You will likely need more space than 16GB (the actual usable space is closer to 12GB which will quickly fill with apps, photos, videos and music), and the 64GB will set you back £539, but you’ll thank yourself for spending the extra for that superior stoarge capacity....

One of the most interesting points to come of this is that when these machines eventually ship (Apple says the first one will be this year), they will be able to technically run iOS apps natively within macOS. Apple said that from the off, people using ARM-powered Macs will be able to install iOS apps directly from the Mac App Store. This is possible because iPhone and iPad apps were built on the same silicon used in the new ARM for Mac architecture....

Note: We have yet to receive an Apple Watch Series 2 and we are basing this comparison on specs and features. We will be basing this article on the Series 2 version. If you’re looking for an Apple Watch buying guide, see Macworld UK for an in-depth comparison of Apple’s range. Apple Watch vs Sony Smartwatch 3 and Moto 360 Sport: Compatibility Compatibility will arguably be the biggest factor in your purchasing decision....

Persistent malware is a game changer inside the smart home Today, several IoT botnets are fighing each other to amass armies of devices to launch devastating DDoS attacks against various targets. The competition is fierce, as one major drawback of IoT malware is its lack of persistence. A bot infection can only be exploited for as long as the malware’s code is loaded into the memory, which means that device reboots and power loss are enough to clean the device up....

See also: Best Chromebooks 2016 Asus Chromebook Flip C100PA Review: Price With the C100PA still being a new product, there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of discounts off the recommended £249.99 price. The best deal we could find was from Littlewoods, which had the device on sale for £239.99, which would save you £10. For a touchscreen laptop with solid performance and a long battery life we think the price is justified, but if you want something a little cheaper, and with a bigger screen, the Acer R11 currently available at Currys for £209 is a good alternative....

We’ve all sat in meetings and experienced that awkward pause in proceedings, often punctuated by a desperate cry for IT help, whenever a new laptop needs to be hooked up to a display. What we have here is a plug-and-play antidote to all that. Anyone that wants to present simply plugs the Clickshare USB dongle, known as a Button, into their laptop and connects with a single click. ClickShare supports everything from Windows XP Pro to 8....

With content such as Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK, Fleabag, This Country, and Normal People, it is easy to see why there is a demand for the return of BBC Three. If you would like to know how to tune in and find out what is available at launch, then we have everything you need to know. What time does BBC Three launch? BBC Three will begin airing new shows from 7pm GMT today – 1 February 2022....

WhatsApp is used for sending texts, images, videos etc. that can be sent via the data connection of the mobile phone without relying on the traditional SMS/text, MMS services along with the recently introduced voice call feature. We may not believe that WhatsApp introduced in 2009 for iPhone without much features and it was like plain texting service with lot of bugs and crashes in the initial days. Gradually all the services are introduced in the updates like image & video handling, read receipts and voice call feature....

Many people install an SSD on their Mac to increase its speed and give it a boost. SSD offers new technology and fast copying speed. An SSD drive is a worthwhile purchase. The laptops and desktops coming on the market currently come with SSD. The manufacturers want to give the consumers the speed that is crucial for today’s life and SSD fulfills it completely. However, if they are treated poorly the speed of an SSD will reduce at a rapid rate....

It’s a first-world problem, but a problem nevertheless: How do you navigate an indoor space when GPS does not work? While it may not yet be ideal, as with everything these days, there’s an app for that – or rather several apps. President of the Royal Institute of Navigation, Dr Roger McKinlay, explained why GPS does not work for indoor navigation: “The stumbling block with indoor GPS is normally the rather unhelpful and superficial comparison with phone signals....

We’re going to put together a list of the best budget motherboards. They may not have all the features of their higher priced bigger brothers but they’re solid and dependable components that will serve you well. We’re going to define ‘budget’ as under £100 here, recommending boards that can house the latest and greatest processors without compromising on build quality and reliability. If you’re unsure about weather to go with AMD or Intel have a look at our breakdown here....

That doesn’t mean it’s the only digital PC game store though. You may not realise it, but Steam actually has plenty of competition – from AAA rivals like Origin, DRM-free alternatives like GOG, and indie darlings like itch.io. All of these services (and more) vary in which games they offer, how they sell them, where the money goes, and more, and it can be a bit daunting to decide where to buy your next game....

That’s because the free versions use exactly the same ‘engines’ as their paid-for counterparts. It’s not a scam, either. When you pay for antivirus software, you tend to get extra features beyond protection from viruses and companies seem to be happy to give away the antivirus part for free. This is why using the term ‘antivirus’ can be misleading. Antivirus is just one component of a comprehensive security product, which can also include specific protection from ransomware as well as spam filtering, parental controls, password managers, VPNs and cloud storage....

You can go direct to Google, but there are also alternatives. Here are our favourites. Fabric case This lovely official case from Google is a textured fabric shell for your new Pixel 2. Snap in the phone and gain a snug fit that’ll keep it free of dents while making the back grippier to hold. A couple of the cases can give your phone a bright punchy look or you can opt for a more muted design....

Have a look at our best gaming graphics cards for 2018. There are other ways for cryptocurrency transactions to be validated, such as the proof-of-stake method, which is seen as a more green alternative as it doesn’t require such a large amount of energy to operate, as well as being more resilient against attacks. While proof-of-work may lose ground to proof-of-stake at some point, there will always be projects that deal in the commodity of decentralised computing power – such as DeepBrainChain, which will use nodes all over the world to help AI startups process the massive amount of data required when researching, without having to shoulder the massive upfront cost of buying all the hardware themselves....