Technology

The HP Envy 13 has been one of the best lower-cost alternatives to a MacBook for several years. You get a full aluminium shell, MacBook Pro style power and even some low-level gaming skills.

The HP Spectre Folio is an eye-catching hybrid that surrounds its components with leather – and that’s not the only area where it stands apart from the competition. It’s got a unique moving mechanism involving two hinges, for starters, and it has a CPU that promises increased efficiency when compared...

It feels like only last year that Alienware totally revamped its m15 laptop design. Which is, uh, because it was. And yet here we are, not even 12 months later, with yet another design for the m15 and its big brother m17, this time taking design cues from the flagship...

There was a time when a 17in laptop was a 'desktop replacement' device, but that's history with the LG gram 17. A great laptop for those wanting loads of real estate in a chassis you can actually take around with you, as you'll discover in our full review.

Dell's XPS 13 models have been a regular fixture of our best laptops chart, and at the time of writing the 2019 iteration is sitting in the top spot. We haven't always been such fans of the XPS line's convertible versions though, but that might be about to change: the...

Since Theresa May invoked Article 50, there has been a mystifying surge in video games set in Britain. They come in all shapes and sizes, from Nintendo’s Pokémon Sword and Shield, which riffs on the architecture of Oxbridge and London, to PanicBarn’s anti-Brexit polemic Not Tonight. Most began development long...

Drone-maker DJI has pledged to add plane and helicopter "detection" features to its consumer drones, to reduce the risk of collisions.Some of DJI's industry-focused drones already have the feature built in but it has now pledged to add it to all drones weighing more than 250g (9oz).Its AirSense system picks...

Lightyear OnePower SolarRange 450 milesAvailable 2021Reservations £3,600, lightyear.oneWe talk a lot about how ‘clean’ electric cars are and how much better they are for the environment, because they have zero emissions. But, of course, an EV is only as clean as the electricity you use to charge it. What they...

For the first time since a long-time ban was overturned last year, a game featuring Nazi symbols and characters is about to come out in Germany.Wolfenstein: Youngblood will be released on 26 July.Previously, German editions of Wolfenstein games changed Hitler's name and replaced swastikas.But thanks to rules being relaxed last...

Ford GTPrice £320,000Engine 3.5-litre V6Top speed 216mphConsumption 17mpg (if you’re lucky)Next weekend marks the 87th running of the world’s most famous 24-hour endurance race. Le Mans is a test of stamina for both the drivers and the cars, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of fans who flock to...

Two Nintendo mobile games will soon no longer be available in Belgium as the game-maker moves to comply with local gambling laws.In 2018, Belgium outlawed games that used "loot boxes" to reward players with random items.The game mechanic is an illegal form of gambling, the country's gambling regulator says.Animal Crossing:...

Dutton SurfPrice £22,000MPG 30Top speed 85mph On sea 6mph (timdutton.com)Is it a boat? Is it a car? Actually, it’s the best of both – an amphibious vehicle. It’s the ideal solution for anyone who fancies driving to the coast and then… well, motoring out to sea. For the past 50...

An all-female games jam has been set up to try to tackle the "gender imbalance" in the industry.Teams at the Gals that Game event at the University of Suffolk will develop their own game over two days.Heidi Love, one of the organisers, said it was an "amazing opportunity to meet...

Politicians, tech experts and even the NBN itself talked up the arrival of Netflix and other streaming video services years before the government-owned company blamed it for speed issues on the wireless network. But just how responsible is Netflix?On ABC’s 7.30 program on Monday night, NBN’s head of stakeholder relations,...

Major media companies and Facebook are scrambling to come to grips with a landmark ruling by an Australian judge that found publishers are legally responsible for pre-moderating comments on the social media site.On Monday in the New South Wales supreme court judge Stephen Rothman found that commercial entities, including media...

Protests have greeted plans to remove a cap on the price of web domains that end in .org, .biz and .info.This change could hit a lot of charities, many of which use the .org domain for their websites.The organisation overseeing web domains wants to let the companies behind the suffixes...

Nine months since the government unveiled its social prescribing strategy to tackle loneliness, progress is still patchy. One in 20 adults in England feel lonely often or always, according to data from the Office for National Statistics. And two-thirds of disabled people report feeling lonely. Part of the problem is...

A class action filed on behalf of thousands of taxi and hire-car drivers against Uber alleges the global rideshare company operated illegally in Australia.Maurice Blackburn Lawyers says more than 6,000 people have joined the action, covering drivers across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia.It alleges Uber’s operations in...

Huawei should be completely banned from supplying 5G mobile networks in the UK because its operations are “subject to influence by the Chinese state”, according to a report by a Conservative MP and two academics.They argue that a decision announced by Theresa May last month, following a fraught meeting of...

Transport for London has been warned that proposals put forward for a safety feature to make electric buses more audible risk confusing vulnerable road users.TfL has commissioned Aecom to come up with a recognisable noise that will help alert pedestrians and cyclists to the presence of vehicles that can be...

Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google are to give secret evidence to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) as it examines the growing problem of online exploitation.Representatives of the four global tech companies will make part of their submissions in closed sessions of the inquiry, which is being held...