As Chromebooks grow in popularity they are also growing in screen size. Acer’s Chromebook 13 joins a growing market of large-screen Chromebooks that make working on Google’s OS much simpler. We review the Acer Chromebook 13 laptop. Also see: Best Chromebooks 2015. While Chromebooks continue to grow in popularity there’s also been another area of expansion worth noting: screen size. The majority of the Google-powered laptops have, until now, defaulted to the highly portable, but somewhat diddy, 11....

But how does it perform in real life? We’ve spent some time with the Alienware 17 R4, and here’s what we think. Interested in other gaming laptops? Take a look at our roundup of the best gaming laptops of 2017. UK pricing and availability The Alienware 17 R4 2017 range starts at £1,549 packing a 17.3in Full-HD IPS display along with a Radeon R9 470 with 8GB GDDR5 VRAM, 8GB of RAM and a Core i7 processor, a little expensive compared to other 17in gaming laptops like the MSI Apache Pro....

You can read our comparison of all the current Echo devices if that’s what you’re looking for. Originally designed as a smart speaker controlled by voice, Echo products have transformed into a hub for managing more than 12,000 home appliances and products. Alexa, the virtual assistant that powers Echo products, was the technology consumers were searching for in that its long-range microphone and voice recognition properties allow you to easily control a variety of smart home equipment – all by simply speaking to the device....

The biggest bargain on the list goes to the Xiaomi Mi 10, which has slashed its price from £699 to £579, giving a saving of £120. The Xiaomi Mi 10 is a strong mid-ranger that boasts 8GB RAM, 128GB and a 108Mp camera. It also comes with an elegant design and a 4,780mAh battery with quick-charging, meaning you can use it all day for social media and watching videos and not have to worry about it running out of juice....

£15 off Fire 7 tablet with Alexa £20 off Fire HD 8 tablet £30 off All-New Fire HD 8 Kids Edition £30 off Fire 7 Kids Edition £40 off Fire HD 10 with Alexa £50 off Fire HD 10 Kids Edition You can find discounts on Echo and Kindle devices too, we’ve outlined a couple below, but you can see all deals here. Other Valentine’s Day Tech Deals: Xiaomi & Fitbit Xiaomi has its Valentine’s Day phone sale with up to £80 off phones like the Redmi Note 5 (discounted to £119 from £199) and the Mi 8 (discounted to £429 from £489)....

The benchmarks can be found here on the 3DMark website and appear to have been uploaded prematurely. While the card on these benchmark results is displayed as “Graphics card is not recognised”, the card configuration and results suggest it’s AMD’s brand new Radeon flagship GPU. The result in Fire Strike Extreme 1.1 for the suggested Radeon VII was a score of 12,224 when coupled with a Core i9-9900k processor. The same benchmark using a Ryzen 7 2700X scored 12,141, while the results in other tests were 6....

For the unfamiliar, Cozmo is a dinky little robot toy you control with a smartphone app. It can play games, recognise people’s faces, and help teach basic coding – all in a charmingly characterful way, thanks in large part to work from a team of animators including former employees of Pixar and Dreamworks. At first glance, Vector is much the same. It looks a lot like a slightly larger Cozmo in a slick black and grey colour scheme, but under the hood things have changed a lot more....

Dr Joseph Wiesel filed the suit in Brooklyn, saying the Apple Watch uses technology that copies his own invention – one that Wiesel claims took “pioneering steps” to improve arterial fibrillation detection and can spot “irregular pulse rhythms from a succession of time intervals.” Every Apple Watch except the very first model can alert wearers to potential irregular rhythms in their heart rates and the feature has become something of a cornerstone of the Apple Watch’s appeal....

At the moment, Apple’s two methods of biometric authentication are only widely built into app sign in. If you access services via the web, you still have to tap in the search field and either type in your username and password or rely on an autofill service or password manager. These can be authenticated with Face ID or Touch ID but are at the end of the chain of a process rather than just being the authentication process itself....

This suggests that without these specific software tools, third-party repair services will not be able to fix several issues with these Apple products including the display assembly, logic board, the keyboard, trackpad and the Touch ID board according to Motherboard. Make sure you take a look at our latest MacBook Pro review Specifically for iMac Pros, this lockdown will come into force if you replace the logic board of flash storage and will render the machine unusable until the Apple Service Toolkit 2 is used by a member of Apple’s Authorized Service Provider program....

For more details read our Apple Watch UK release date, price and specs and Motorola Moto 360 hands-on review. Apple Watch vs Motorola Moto 360: UK price and availability The Apple Watch does not yet have a firm UK release date, with Apple merely quoting “early 2015”. When it launches prices will start at $349 and likely go sky-high, given the 18-carat rose- and yellow gold options in the Apple Watch Edition collection....

When is the Artifact release date? Following a period of silence after the initial reveal of Artifact, Valve confirmed that the card game made by Richard Garfield will be released on Steam on 28 November 2018. Will Artifact be free-to-play? No, the best game will cost £20 / $20. However, this will include two starter decks and 10 booster packs of cards. Additional packs from that point will be $2 each....

Price & Availability Chromebook prices have been creeping up in the past few years, so while you might expect one to cost £200/$250 they now regularly push past that figure by some way. The Asus C433TA is no exception, mainly due to the higher display quality and components than the initial cheaply-made devices that started off the whole Chromebook craze. Customers in the USA will have to wait to get their hands on the new Chromebook, as the device is still to be released in North America but should appear soon....

See also: What’s the best graphics card? By taking the Titan X Maxwell G200 architecture, trimming down the number of cores by a little less than ten per cent, and then halving the amount of available memory to a still-spacious 6GB, Nvidia has managed to produce a graphics card close in performance to the Titan X, yet with a price point nearer to the standard GTX 980. The 980Ti also retains the same memory and core clock speeds as the Titan X....

The more you think about it in its real-life context, the more the Asus ZenBook Flip UX560 makes sense. It can handle a bit of everything. There are a few issues that stop us from recommending it unconditionally, though. The screen is very reflective due to its dated touchscreen construction, it may not be as powerful as you may expect and build quality in certain areas could be better....

Asus ZenFone 4 review: Price & availability The ZenFone range was originally unveiled during CES 2014 in January, but have only just been introduced to the UK. The ZenFone 4 is available to order from Asus now for a bargain £99. That puts it in the budget smartphone category, with rivals including the EE Kestrel and the Motorola Moto G. Asus Zenfone 4 review: Design & build We really like the sleek, sophisticated and not overly plasticky look of the ZenFone 5 and 6, but compared with those bigger smartphones the ZenFone 4 looks like a chubby cousin rather than an equally slim and eye-pleasing sibling....

There are some good reasons to invest in an air fryer. They cook more quickly than an oven, give crispy results without the need to add extra oil and, perhaps most importantly now – when bills are skyrocketing – they’ll use significantly less electricity than oven cooking. An air fryer isn’t really a fryer at all. It’s essentially a mini convection oven, so you can use it to cook anything you would in a conventional oven....

Since a smartwatch screen is very small, the better games tend to be simple with easy controls. The ones we’ve listed below should work with most Android Wear devices. Check out the best smartwatches you can buy and the best general apps for Android Wear. 2048 The game you’ve probably played at some point is available on Android Wear. If you haven’t played it then it’s definitely worth a try....

Despite that, the best fitness trackers still pack all the same activity tracking tech as their more expensive cousins. Any fitness tracker will record your steps, check your heartrate, and track your exercise – while the latest models can monitor your sleep and stress levels too. The big brand is obviously Fitbit, but we review fitness trackers from a variety of companies – and in fact often find that rivals deliver better value, with similar tracking prowess for a lower price....

For all of the best games coming up over the next year or two, regardless of whether they’ve been announced at E3 2017, visit our article on the best upcoming games and best multiplayer games. We’ve now seen all of the major press conferences at E3, but the show continues this week as gamers flock to play demos of new games for the first time. We saw press conferences from Nintendo, Bethesda, EA, Microsoft, Ubisoft and Sony....