Your webcam's microphone can reveal what's on your screen during video callsYour webcam's microphone can reveal what's on your screen during video calls

Ever enjoy a sneaky spot of online shopping during conference calls, or plan a vacation while chatting with your manager It might be time to stop. Security researchers have demonstrated a way to find out what's being displayed on another person's screen during a video call using only the audio from their webcam.

The researchers published their

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Acer's Predator Thronos is a throne finally fit for extreme gamersAcer's Predator Thronos is a throne finally fit for extreme gamers

At IFA 2018, Acer unveiled its remarkable-looking Predator Thronos, which it claims “reimagines the gaming chair for a new level of gamer.”

This 1.5 meter-tall chair comes in a choice of colors – dual tone black with either white or blue accents – and it vibrates according to what’s happening onscreen, giving you an immersive gaming experience as yo

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Beosound Edge

Just in time for IFA 2018, Bang and Olufsen has launched the Beosound Edge home speaker – which, according to the designer, “sits on the edge of consumer electronics and gallery-worthy sculpture”.

The coin-shaped wireless speaker has been created in collaboration with modern designer Michael Anastassiades. The speaker itself is a metallic 3D

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Report: Yahoo and AOL will scan your emails and sell the data to advertisersReport: Yahoo and AOL will scan your emails and sell the data to advertisers

If you’ve got a Yahoo or AOL email address then your correspondence might not be as private as you think, as Oath (the combined Yahoo and AOL business) uses a program that scans accounts, with over 200 million inboxes scanned in total.

That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which reports that these scans are designed to look for information

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Mystery motorola phone with 'waterdrop' notch has been leaked

Images have appeared of a Moto G6 Plus and a Motorola One with a waterdrop notch, suggesting we could be getting an enhanced version of the Moto G6 Plus and the Motorola One. 

First appearing on Chinese microblog Weibo (via GSMArena), the leaked images show a Moto G6 Plus with a smaller waterdrop notch and dual-SIM. 

The G6 Plus released back in May

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Acer Swift 5 announced at IFA 2018 as the worldlightest 15-inch laptop

Acer has unveiled its new lineup of laptops, monitors and peripherals at this year’s IFA 2018 conference in Berlin, including a radically improved Acer Swift 5, which the company claims is the world’s lightest 15-inch notebook.

The Acer Swift 5 (SF515-51T), to give it its full name, weighs just 990 grams (2.2 pounds). It comes with a

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