Author: James O'Malley
James is the Editor of TechDigest. You can follow him on Twitter @Psythor.
WATCH: New “Red Awakening” gameplay
A new shooter is coming soon to the PS4, Xbox One and PC but there's a bit of a difference: Rather than outgun your opponents, the focus is instead on stealth. Red Awakening is cell-shaded and apparently takes its inspiration from John Carpenter slasher movies. The new gameplay trailer, which you can see above is…
Google launches Chrome “Data Saver” extension
If you tether your computer to your phone a lot, then you'll know that the full-size web can often be a drain on precious bandwidth - but luckily Google may have found the solution. What the extension does is when you navigate to a webpage, it will send the data to Google's servers and crunch…
YouTube is testing 4K video at 60fps
Want to know how good video is going to look in a few years time? Then check out this video, if your computer is capable of running it. As spotted by Engadget, these volcano videos are the first on the site to work at both 4K resolution and at 60fps. Previously YouTube has supported both…
Hailocab tries to convince people that talking to cab drivers is a plus point
Taxi app Hailocab is worried. Whilst it relies on expensive and well organised black cab drivers for its services, rival Uber (controversially) does away with the formalities, employing cheaper drivers. Worse still, one of the key investors is Google, which is working on driverless car technology, which could conceivably ultimately make Uber even cheaper and…
Xbox One April update bringing voice messaging to the console
Microsoft's Larry Hryb, perhaps better known as "Major Nelson", has revealed what we can expect from next month's Xbox One system update. Here's what to expect: Voice messages – Xbox One preview program members will be able to compose and playback voice messages in the messages app when snapped on Xbox One. Quickly and easily…
Facebook carries out drone test in the UK
Mark Zuckerberg has been flying drones above the UK. Don't worry, they're not like Obama's flying death machines - you won't be getting poked from skies or anything like that. According to E&T, Britain was used as a testbed for Facebook's "Aquila" drone, that the company hopes will one day help get the rest of…
WATCH: The robots in Interstellar were REAL (well… not CGI anyway)
Instellar was one of the biggest hits of last year, and two of the stand-out stars were the film's robots, TARS and CASE. What's surprising though, is that in many cases the two robots were physical puppets and not simply computer generated, like you might expect. Check out the above video to see how it…
DARPA is working on a more robust alternative to GPS
DARPA, the section of the US military dedicated to reverse engineering alien technology research and development is working on a potential replacement for GPS - which it deems unreliable. According to PC World, the US military is worried that GPS could easily be knocked out by an adversary - or unreliable in a number of…
“ALSO shot on iPhone 6” parody adverts appear in San Francisco
You must have seen the adverts by now. Apple's latest marketing stunt for the iPhone 6 is to put up billboard adverts and poster advertisements showing photos purported taken simply using the iPhone 6. Now, it seems some pranksters are helping make things a little bit more... realistic. According to The Bold Italic the people…
Amazon starts offering unlimited cloud storage
Amazon has perhaps signalled the end to worrying about storage space today as it has announced changes to its cloud storage pricing, that will offer unlimited storage for photos and... well... everything else. According to TechCrunch the two plans, which will be available to non-Amazon Prime customers will see unlimited photo storage priced as $11.99/year,…
