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According to a report on The Telegraph, Google chairman Eric Schmidt will reveal plans to bring the Google TV to the UK when he gives the MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh Television Festival this evening. Google TV lets viewers switch between TV broadcasts and the internet on the same set, allowing users to watch iPlayer, for instance, or a high definition version of YouTube. The service is accessed via a set-top box or adapted telly, and also allows you to search the web from your TV, and use smartphones and tablets as your TV remote....

GoPro Hero Session review: Price You’d be forgiven for being slightly confused about the Hero Session. It was originally launched a year ago, called the Hero4 Session, at £329. Today, it’s called simply the Hero Session and costs £149.99. Yet it’s the same camera: GoPro slashed the price after poor sales. It’s also had a fair few firmware updates which addressed much of the criticism at launch. We’ll get to that shortly....

Its digital Bluetooth Smart Scale (also sometimes called the Body Fat Scale) looks a lot like Fitbit’s Aria Scales… a lot like it. Fitbit is used to cheaper copies on the market, but do these scales measure up? The Bluetooth Smart Scale measures weight, body fat, muscle mass, water level, bone mass, BMR, BMI and visceral fat, where the Fitbit Aria 2 sticks to weight, BMI, lean mass and body fat percentage....

We spent about an hour playing the mobile game on the streets of London, accompanied by some of the game’s creators. We bombarded them with questions while we had the chance. We were strictly forbidden from taking any photos, screenshots or video as we played, so those you see here are assets provided by Niantic and WB Games themselves. We can, however, share plenty of first-hand hands-on experience of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite to give you an idea of what to expect when the game lands in app stores....

By 2020 we’ll all have smart meters installed which will send the information back to your energy company, thereby doing away with the need to ‘read the meter’ and estimated bills. If you want to measure how many watts a device draws when charging (or in use) you can buy a power meter for around £10 which plugs into the mains socket and has a passthrough socket for the device in question....

In this guide, we will be using the Intel Core Haswell i7 4770K and the Intel Desktop Board DZ87KLT-75K for demonstration purposes. You can use the ‘vertical line’ method for other generations of Intel CPUs, though. We will also explain the best thermal application for AMD CPUs, as the ‘pea-dot’ method yields different results. We would like to thank Overclockers UK for sending us the Thermal Grizzly Hydronaut Paste, which costs £10....

On the right-hand tab is Special Research. This is given by Professor Willow who, thus far, hasn’t really been present in Pokémon Go aside from his very basic guide for beginners. Special Research is much more involved than Field Research, and is the only way to catch Mew. Note that the progress bar at the top of the screen is nothing to do with Special Research – you get a stamp for completing Field research....

While some can be a perfectly beautiful fit with your phone, not all wallpapers on Android are great and there’s a good chance you’ll want to change the lock screen on your Android device. It’s easy to choose a different one or even a photo you’ve taken, as well as having separate wallpapers for the home and lock sreens. As with any Android tutorial, the experience and exact method will vary between phones since they all use different skins/user interfaces....

There was even a hashtag trending on twitter back in January, #deleteUber, about how Uber cut surging during a union strike over President Trump’s immigration ban. It urged users to delete their Uber application. First of all you want to either go to Uber’s help website on your mobile device or desktop. Here will be a page with a number of different options, but first you will want to sign in to your account....

See also: Quick fixes for common Windows 10 problems Disabling the Lock Screen in Windows 10 Turning off the lock screen involves creating, or editing, a file in the registry. While this might sound a bit intimidating, in reality it’s actually a straightforward process. To begin hold down the Windows key and press R, then in the box that opens up type regedit and press enter. Now you’ll see a file tree appear....

Fortunately this can be done without buying an expensive PDF editing package such as Adobe’s Acrobat DC, although Acrobat does include excellent editing capabilites that you can’t get for free. All you need is your web browser, ideally Google Chrome. However, any browser that can open a PDF file will do the trick as long as you’re running Windows 8.1 or later, or you install a PDF printer. Anyway, things are simplest if you fire up Google Chrome and open the PDF you want to work on....

What is an IMEI? All phones feature a unique IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity), which is a string of 15 or 16 digits that identifies the device on a mobile network. It is transmitted to the mobile operator as soon as you switch on your phone. How to tell if a phone is lost, stolen or blocked before you buy If your IMEI has been reported lost or stolen, or the IMEI is blacklisted, you won’t be able to register it on the mobile network....

When a process, or a combination of processes, demand too much of your computer’s hard disk everything can slow to a crawl. It’s probably the unresponsiveness that’s led you to check Task Manager where you’ve discovered that your disk is maxed out. Finding the problem is just the start though: you still need to fix whatever is causing it to get back to normal. Method 1. Restart your computer The first thing to try – as with most Windows problems – is to turn it off and on again....

We’ve all been there. While it might make you want to turn off your computer and start again, that’s often not necessary. If there’s just one app causing the problem, you can force it to quit instead. Even if the issue is more widespread, this should be your first port of call. Microsoft makes it really easy to force quit apps in Windows 11 – there are three different methods....

We’ll focus on guitar and piano, but many of the services here also teach other instruments such as bass and drums. For others, you’ll be able to find many similar resources online. How to learn guitar online During lockdown, many people decided to learn to play the guitar. So much so that companies such as Fender and Gibson reported record sales of the instruments. One of the reason for this (apart from the fact that guitars are so popular) is the wealth of free and affordable training available to new and improving players....

Also see: How to download video from YouTube, How to download music from YouTube and Is it illegal to download YouTube video? Adding the playlist To create a Christmas playlist simply log into your YouTube account and browse to a song you wish to include. Click the + Add to button below the video, then select Create a new Playlist. Enter a name for your playlist, such as Christmas 2017, then decide whether you want it to be a public, unlisted or private playlist....

Track your data usage Some smartphones are more efficient than others when it comes to mobile data. Apple provides plenty of settings to restrict mobile data on your iPhone, but doesn’t make it easy to see how much of your allowance you’ve used. If you go to Settings, Mobile, then scroll down to Mobile Data Usage, you’ll see two counters: Current Period and Current Period Roaming. This shows the amount of kilobytes or megabytes used since you last reset the statistics (an option at the bottom of this particular menu)....

So, you may well need an alternative. Luckily, there are many free (and ad-free!) downloadable alternatives and the best of the lot is VLC media player. It’s an open source platform and framework that’s upheld by many developers and programmers worldwide. It supports anything you can throw at it, from CDs and DVDs to the most obscure of file formats, both audio and video. How to play any video file format on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch: the best media players for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch The iPhone, iPad and iPod touch are all great for watching videos, but Apple’s devices don’t support most video formats....

We show you the simple steps to take if you want to record calls on Skype for desktop or mobile. Let people know you’re recording There are various legal entanglements when it comes to recording people. Usually you’ll need their permission, but Skype has made this elementary by warning all parties whenever someone begins recording. This is a feature that can’t be disabled, so you’ll know that no-one is surreptitiously capturing any footage....

If you’re running the iOS 14 beta and want to declutter your Home screen without actually deleting any of your precious apps, here’s how to do it. How to remove apps from the Home screen Cleaning your Home screen is a cathartic experience, especially when you’re not actually deleting the app. A decluttered Home screen allows for a decluttered mind, after all. Okay I might’ve made that up, but still, it’s nice to have a spacious Home screen – especially with the addition of widgets in iOS 14....