Author: James O'Malley
James is the Editor of TechDigest. You can follow him on Twitter @Psythor.
Dying Light retains the top spot – UK games chart for 7th March
[nextpage title="Next"] This week's games chart is in and Dying Light, the first person zombie game from the creators of Dead Island has retained the number one slot. Perhaps most interesting is the continued fall of The Order 1886 and Evolve - both hugely hyped games, both hugely flawed, so clearly word of mouth is…
Is the iPad Mini about to get an upgrade?
There's a big Apple event happening tonight, which we're expecting to be all about the Apple Watch... but could the iPad Mini get a look in too? There was some disappointment at Apple's keynote last November. Whilst the company announced the iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3, the Mini 3 was a bit too…
Battlefield: Hardline to only run 720p on Xbox One and 900p on PS4
Surprising news this morning about the hotly anticipated cops-n-robbers-em-up Battlefield: Hardline. It'll be running at a much lower resolution than expected on both major consoles. Let's start with the good news: It'll be running at 60 frames per second on both - so will probably look nice and fluid. The bad though, is that on…
Unboxing videos reach their inevitable conclusion with the unboxing of a hibernating tortoise
For a few years now "Unboxing" videos have been a bewilderingly successful thing on the tech scene. For any new gadget, it is de rigueur to post videos to YouTube of them being unboxed - with some companies even making their own rather than relying on tech vloggers to do it. With this video though,…
WATCH: The greatest sniper shot in Halo history?
Check out this video above - which shows possibly the luckiest shot in Halo history as a fluke snipe manages to ricochet off several walls and kill the opponent... ...Or was it really luck? According to the video's description, the shooter knew exactly what he was doing: "Of course the kill was intentional!! I accurately…
WATCH: Apple actually invented “Continuity” in 2002
One of the biggest new features on the latest iteration of iOS and Mac OS is "continuity" - the ability to make and answer calls from your phone on your computer. But it seems the technology isn't as new as we thought. Way back in 2002, which looks like the stone age in comparison to…
Reddit donates a massive wodge of cash to fighters for digital rights
Reddit, the popular aggregation website which is the source of most of the internets viral videos and incorrect terrorist identifications has done something nice with the profits it made in 2014 - donating 10% of them to ten worthy charities. Pic from here. Each of the charities will be getting $82,765.95…
Is there a HTC One M9 *PLUS* on the way?
Less than a week ago HTC finally revealed the HTC One M9 to the world... but we're already hearing rumours of another phone from the company. In this case, the M9 Plus. PhoneArena reports that images have surfaced on China's Weibo service (its a bit like Twitter meets Facebook meets unwavering compliance with China's totalitarian…
Apple Watch apps only designed for “10 seconds” of use
A good spot by The Guardian, citing a Bloomberg report. Apparently, in Apple's lab where apps for the forthcoming smartwatch are being built, guidelines dictate that apps are being designed to be used for a maximum of ten seconds. This perhaps shouldn't be surprising - Apple is clearly wondering why anyone would stare at their…
Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are working together to tackle DDOS attacks
Whilst the three major console manufacturers may be fierce rivals most of the time, there is at least one thing that unites them: Frustration with denial of service attacks, the sort of which took down Xbox Live and PSN over Christmas. Speaking to Game Informer, outgoing Xbox head Phil Spencer revealed that he has been…