Hidden within the hustle and bustle of CES, everyone’s favourite video player is gearing up for a major milestone achievement, as the addition of new features. Videolan, the development team behind the popular open-source video player application VLC, announced yesterday that the app would soon hit 3 billion in downloads. The team expects the app to hit that number sometime …

Streaming services are where the big money is for entertainment companies which is why everyone and their uncle is trying to build their own to get a piece of the already bloated pie. There are already many players like Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, YouTube and our own local ShowMax who are all offering loads of content for viewers to stream, …

Whether we like it or not, game streaming is coming. Google is busy beta testing its own Project stream, letting players beam games to a browser in real-time over the internet. By all reports, it works incredibly well, provided there’s proximity to the servers the game is streaming from. Amazon might be launching its own service.

They’re a flawed, but still impressive set of desktop speakers for those who like the minimalist approach. They’re sleek, clever and sound quite good. It just feels like there might be better options available for their R1999 asking price

Gone are the days where we needed to memorise a whole slew of information or dig through hundreds of pages in Encyclopaedias to find the answers we were looking for. Now we simply Google it and the magic of the internet gives us all that we need to know. That is if we would stop Googling stupid things and use …

How much memory is enough? Well, if you had asked me 10 years ago I would have said I only need about 40GB. It’s is more than enough for all my photos, music, applications and extra. Now 40GB is too small for my phone, let alone my computers. These days we are even starting to push past the GBs and …

Amongst all the gaming components, laptops, and roll-up TVs that made their first appearance at this year’s CES, car makers have also seized the event to showcase their latest offerings too. Their presence at CES, though perhaps seen as unconventional, comes in the wake of automobile manufacturers choosing to snub traditional specialized events in favour of more consumer-oriented ones. Case …

As an individual who remains unconvinced by the concept of a gaming laptop (never enough RGB lighting), Hewlett Packard is further enticing gamers with the debut of the new Omen 15. The headline? In an apparent shift in priority towards refresh rates over display resolution, the Omen 15 now sports a 15.6 -inch 1920×1080 TN display with a refresh rate …

Screen technology is progressing rapidly with LG not only hitting an incredibly 8K technology, but also creating a screening that rolls up as well. The remarkable thing behind all this technology is just how thin screens are becoming where there is almost little different in a width of screen to several pieces of paper. Something which is evident in this …

If you do need one though, Logitech’s MX Vertical Mouse is undoubtedly the best of the lot. A combination of flawless wireless performance, intelligent features and solid design make it a worthwhile vertical mouse. Still I can’t help but feel that money would be better spent on Logitech’s own, superlative MX Master 2S.

The Xbox One has official mouse and keyboard support, allowing those who favour that combination of inputs to play on consoles. Though many USB mouses and keyboards will be supported, the first official set comes via Razer. Released at this year’s CES, the Razer Turret is a mouse and keyboard combo that’s designed for couch play. There’s a slider mousepad that extrudes from the keyboard, while the whole set up is designed to be comfortable sat upon your lap. Razer has also released a list of existing and upcoming games that have full support for the pc-centric inputs.

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