Amazon Fire TV Cube, ‘Fire TV Edition’ Soundbar, TVs Launched at IFA 2019 At the IFA 2019 in Berlin on Thursday, Amazon unveiled a bunch of new Fire TV products aimed largely at the European market. The products include an all-new Amazon Fire TV Cube, as well as a whole host of smart TVs as part of its ‘Fire TV Edition’ lineup. There’s also a number of audio products with built-in Fire TV with Alexa voice control....

Android 10 Adds Warnings For USB Port Contamination, Overheating Released this weekfor all eight of Google’s Pixel smartphones,Android 10comes with a number ofnew features and functionalities, many of which have already been discussed, debated and dissected in public. However, while digging through AOSP source code, XDA stumbled onto a couple of quaint new safety features that add warnings for contaminated and overheated USB ports. The first feature is‘USB port contamination’, which will disable the USB port on phones if it detects liquid or debris....

Asus Vivobook 14 X403 Review: Insane Battery Life, Impressive Performance Whenever we get a new laptop in to review at the Beebom office, I’m usually fairly excited. Sometimes, I’m too excited, and sometimes I’m not, but Iamexcited to a certain degree almost every single time. So when Asus sent us the Vivobook 14 X403 for a review a while back, I was definitely looking forward to using it as my primary laptop for a few days to see what it’s like....

Asus will Release a Gaming Laptop with a 300Hz Display in October At IFA 2019, Asus is showing off a bunch of prototype gaming laptops that the company has fitted with displays with a whopping 300Hz refresh rate. These prototypes are mostly from the company’s ROG Strix and Zephyrus line-up of gaming laptops. However, if you’re thinking this is just another showing-off from a company at a tech event and will likely never culminate into an actual product, well, Asus would beg to differ....

Electric Car Charging Ports are Now Mandatory in Every New Home in England When it comes to vehicles, more and more countries are trying to increase the adoption of electric cars by consumers. This includes offering tax benefits, subsidies, and more. Now, England is making it mandatory by law, for every newly built house in the country to have an electric car charging port installed. The country has been trying to get more people into electric vehicles, and has reportedly subsidised the installation of over 100,000 home electric car chargers, or wall boxes as they are reportedly called in the UK....

Facebook Rolls out Facial Recognition to All; Will Be Opt-in Feature Facebook’sprivacy scandalsare well-known to all of us. The social media giant has been less-than-forthcoming in its practices, but an FTC inquiry into Facebook is now leading to much more transparency and feature improvements. The latest is theexpansion of facial recognitionto all of its users, killing the previously well-known tag suggestions setting. Facebook isn’t putting an end to the tag suggestions feature instead, the setting for this feature (which also uses facial recognition) that’s available to everyone is being merged into a single ‘Face Recognition’ setting....

Galaxy Fold Launching September 6 in South Korea, Confirms Samsung Confirmingrecent rumors, Samsung has announced that the Galaxy Fold will be officially available in Korea on September 6, followed by France, Germany, Singapore, the UK, the US and a few more regions in the coming days. In an officialpress releaseon Thursday, the company said that the device will be launched in Cosmos Black and Space Silver color variants, with 5G models available in select countries....