This year the Tech Advisor team decided to do things a little differently. We’ve still grabbed some hands-on time with the products you want to read about, including the brand-new Sony Xperia XZ, Samsung Gear S3 Frontier, Moto Z Play, Qualcomm VR and Acer Swift 7, but this year we set aside some time to talk to PRs and to really appreciate the show as a whole and the products on display....

The Cinema membership offers just what it sounds like – the best movies Sky Cinema has to offer – and we’ve done our best to pick our favourites here. In case you didn’t know, the Now Cinema membership costs £9.99 per month, and it’s worth pointing out that it’s separate from the TV membership, so you only get access to the films, which means it is pretty expensive if you want access to both....

Sí, como lo oyes. Ya puedes saber cómo continúa la historia de Gilead, el Estados Unidos distópico en el que viven sus protagonistas: las criadas fértiles obligadas a tener hijos, y los comandantes y sus familias. Aunque la primera temporada estuvo basada en la novela homónima de Margaret Atwood, la segunda, la tercera y la cuarta tuvieron que tomarse bastantes licencias. Esto mismo ocurrirá con la quinta, pues la serie va más allá de lo explicado en el libro....

Toshiba Canvio Connect II 3TB review: Price You also get a choice of colours: red, white, gold, black or blue. Toshiba Canvio Connect II 3TB review: Features and design There’s little you can do with a 2.5in hard disk in terms of design, but the Canvio isn’t ugly. The glossy plastic casing has a slightly domed top and an activity LED in the corner. On one end is a microUSB 3....

Prices for the C50 range start at just £229 for a model with a Celeron processor, but even this top-of-the-range C50-B-IIL comes in at just under £350 with an i3 processor running at 1.8GHz, 4GB memory and 750GB hard disk. That’s a decent specification for a laptop in this price range, even if the Ivy Bridge i3 doesn’t have a turboboost option to enhance performance. Its score of 2160 points in the general-purpose PCMark 7 isn’t bad at all for an i3 that is only backed-up by a 5400rpm hard drive....

It makes a good impression straight away, as the brushed metal casing of the M50 measures just 21.3 mm thick, and the laptop weighs 2.2 kg. That’s slimmer and lighter than most 15-inch laptops, and you can pick it up with one hand or carry it around in a backpack without too much trouble. Take a look at the Best laptops. The build quality is good too, with a firm, comfortable keyboard and trackpad, and the M50 certainly doesn’t look or feel like a budget laptop....

Thankfully, the TP-Link Deco P9 has impressive tech under the hood that should help negate the issue, providing a solid, reliable wireless connection throughout the home. It’s a tall drink of water The Deco P9 comes in a pack of two or three, and each unit is identical – there isn’t a ‘main’ unit and other points like some mesh Wi-Fi systems. The cylindrical P9 units themselves are largely nondescript, although we must admit they’re a lot taller than the likes of the Google Nest Wi-Fi and Tenda MW6....

The game is designed to be played in VR but you will also be able to play it on a traditional screen instead. With an experienced set of producers and directors behind the project, this should be a fantastic narrative game, but perhaps not for the faint of heart as this title looks more than a little creepy. Watch the trailer for Transference below. What type of gameplay will Transference have?...

Out exclusively on the Switch from 18 January 2019, the game once again follows assassin Travis Touchdown, but this time instead of working his way through an international league of fellow assassins, he’s fighting through a selection of other videogames, in a seriously meta homage to gaming’s supposed glory days. Travis is drawn into the ‘Death Drive MK-II’, a demonic videogame console (natch) where he has to race through to defeat the bosses of six distinct game worlds before a rival assassin, Badman....

The perks are awarded based on which category you fall into, which in turn is based on your total Uber spending over the last 24 weeks. The more you spend on Uber rides, the more points you obtain, the higher your category and the more rewards you can collect – these include priority pickups at airports, complimentary upgrades, free delivery on Uber Eats orders and even price protection between two favourite locations....

With the new social distancing measures in place, going to the pictures will now involve more rules and regulations to operate safely. In fact, both Vue and Cineworld have made the decision to not reopen until 31 July 2020 to try and pass new safety measurements such as making masks mandatory for both customers and staff. Keeping all these things in mind, is it even worth going to the cinema at all yet?...

According to Which?, Qualcomm is anticompetitive. Its practices breach UK competition law as set out in the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Which? claims the multi-billion dollar chipmaker uses its market dominance to charge phone manufacturers like Apple and Samsung unreasonably high fees for using its technology. Which? says Qualcomm not only denies competing chipmakers licenses to its patents but also refuses phone manufacturers from using its chips unless they buy licenses and pay large royalties....

Ok, so Apple wasn’t the first tech brand to remove the physical headphone port from a phone, but those that went before – the likes of Oppo and Motorola with the Moto Z – didn’t make the same impact. The basics Let’s tackle the fairly obvious first. If your phone (or other device) doesn’t have a headphone jack then you’ll need to plug in via USB-C (assuming that’s the port of choice)....

Here’s everything you need to know about Vampyr, from the release date to gameplay details and a collection of trailers for you to binge on ahead of release (including the latest gameplay trailer, available above!). For more information, check out our full Vampyr review. When is the Vampyr release date? While Vampyr was first announced in 2015, it’s wasn’t expected to come out until late 2017. The game had been confirmed for a November release window, but it was pushed back weeks before, to Spring 2018....

Plus, the fact the M2 hangs off your rear-view mirror makes it harder to spot than a standard dash cam, and these things – plus a few other tricks – make it worth the premium price. Are you ready to ditch your rear-view mirror for a smart one? Then read on. Design & installation The Vantrue M2 is designed to clip onto your existing rear-view mirror and display the live feed from the rear camera – a 21st-century spin on the rear-view mirror, if you will....

VBox XTi 3340 review: what it is, features Vbox Communications describes the VBox as a ‘TV Gateway’. It’s a set-top box, in essence, but also a media streaming device. A media server for live TV reception and streaming over IP, with an electronic programming guide, and broadcasting in both HD and SD. Within this particular box you get receivers that can handle DVB-S/S2/DVB-C/DVB-T/ATSC, and MPEG-2/4. It connects to your existing TV service and uses accepted industry CRM in sharing it around your network....

It’s a brave message to post, and intended to give a sense of the magnitude of the problem. Thus seeing those two little words pop up all over social media – and particularly the pages of your closest friends and relatives – can be rather harrowing. The ‘Me too’ Facebook campaign follows serious allegations made about film producer Harvey Weinstein; the NYPD and Met Police are currently investigating multiple cases of sexual assault that allegedly took place between the late 80s and 2015....

Windows 10 May 2019 Update release date Along with everyone else, we thought this would be called the April 2019 Update, but because Microsoft has decided to do extended beta testing it has pushed the release back a few weeks so the official name is the May 2019 Update. The codename is 19H1, rather than the expected Redstone 6, but it’s no secret that Microsoft’s roadmap is for twice yearly updates to Windows 10, so it makes sense....

That might not be an issue if you always open Chrome or File Explorer anyway, but does every single session need the likes of Spotify or Microsoft Teams immediately? For most people, the answer is a resounding no. Unfortunately, many apps make automatic launch at startup the default setting. To stop this from happening, you’ll have to manually disable it on an app-by-app basis. However, there are three relatively simple ways to do just that in Windows 11....

They’re primarily for education use in schools, where Chromebooks are already a popular choice. Windows 11 SE is specifically designed for students aged 14 and under (K-8). The Windows 11 spin-off will arrive on the new Surface Laptop SE first, but devices from the likes of Acer, Dell, HP and Lenovo are all expected in 2022. Windows 11 SE has the same core look and feel as Windows 11, feeling like the natural evolution of the now-cancelled Windows 10X....