Microsoft HoloLens 2 likely to be more powerful than GoogleAR headsetMicrosoft HoloLens 2 likely to be more powerful than Google’s AR headset

The Microsoft HoloLens 2 is coming, and it will purportedly arrive packing Qualcomm’s powerful XR1 chipset that’s finely tuned for high-quality VR and AR experiences.

This alleged confirmation comes via a source speaking to Engadget who is familiar with Microsoft’s plans. If true, it will not only make the next HoloLens a vast improvement over the f

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Major Windows 10 updates are getting better and faster with AIMajor Windows 10 updates are getting better and faster with AI

Microsoft has revealed that it used artificial intelligence to drive the speed and efficiency of the rollout of its latest April 2018 Update for Windows 10.

In a blog post, the software giant explained that it’s the first time it has used AI (and machine learning) at scale to improve the quality and reliability of an update roll-out (although the A

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Pokemon Let's Go will create a whole new generation of Pokemon players

Since announcing Pokémon Let's Go Eevee and Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu, Nintendo has been quite clear that these new Switch titles are not core releases for the series. Having taken some time to play Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu on the E3 2018 show floor this year we now know just how true that is.

Pokémon Let’s Go is a very stripped back version of the c

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The A to Z of Photography: Underexposure

There are two sides to ‘underexposure’. There’s a technical side, where you can look at a photo’s histogram – a graphical representation of tones in the picture – and see if the darker tones have been cut off, or ‘clipped’. 

But there’s visual side too, where a picture just looks darker than you intended. That’s a creative choice that’s not always t

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Lenovo Legion

Like all of the leading mainstream PC and laptop makers, Lenovo has been chasing the collective muse that is PC gamers for some time now. And, for a while, the firm was doing so in much the same way as its competitors: raw power and extreme gamer style.

However, Lenovo soon realized not only how saturated this end of the PC gaming hardware scene

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The best PC games for couch co-op and multiplayer

The PC isn’t traditionally associated with social, same-screen multiplayer. In fact, the very geometry of a human body hunched towards a monitor with one hand spidering across a keyboard and another on the mouse seems to create a barrier of body language that deflects all social contact.

But times have changed. Today, all major console gamepads are

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