Amid an endless string of holiday parties and food-filled celebrations, it can be all too easy to veer off course with regard to diet and nutrition. But in order to avoid the post-holiday bulge, it’s important to make sure you don’t overindulge. The average person puts on about a pound from November to January. While it might not seem like ...

What is the Amazon Echo Plus? With the Amazon Echo, we got a neat body for the Alexa digital assistant. It provided a way of controlling all of our smart home devices by voice command, as well as being a wireless speaker. Since the Echo first launched, the range has expanded. We’ve got the miniature Amazon Echo Dot, the touchscreen Amazon ...

What is the Amazon Echo (2017)? After launching the first – and most successful – personal assistant smart speaker, a follow-up was always going to prove a tough job for Amazon. Yet, a lower price, neater look and smaller body are all a great start for the 2017 version of the Amazon Echo. But with tough competition, both externally and ...

UPDATE: Amazon has since launched a new version of the Amazon Echo for 2017, alongside a new Amazon Echo Plus smart home hub and the screen-toting Amazon Echo Show. What is the Amazon Echo Dot? AI assistants are the future, and every home ought to have one right now. They are capable of making your life so much easier, and al ...

What is the Amazon Echo Show? Smart speakers are all the rage right now, and it was the Amazon Echo that started it. Now there are countless other voice-activated AI assistants, in all shapes and sizes, with slightly different skill sets. The Google Home series is facing Amazon head-on, while others like the Sonos One are going for the audio angle. Even Apple ...

What is the Huawei Mate 10 Pro? If you’re on the market for a new phablet, but don’t want to spend the small fortune required to get a Galaxy Note 8 or iPhone X, then the Huawei Mate 10 Pro may well be your next phone. The Mate 10 Pro is the only phablet the company’s currently selling in the ...

Available on Xbox One, PS4 (version tested), PC, Nintendo Switch I’m not alone in thinking that TT Games and its Lego series don’t always get the respect that either deserve. For all the talk about the games being formulaic, each maintains a tricky balance between staying true to what fans expect from the brand and bringing in enough new features ...

What is the Amazon Fire 7 Kids Edition? This is the smaller of Amazon’s two tablets aimed at kids. But the Fire Kids Edition models are about much more than just a case that looks like an accident with some expanding foam; the real draw here is a year’s free access to an absolutely enormous amount of child-friendly apps, games ...

OnePlus 5T hands-on: Enough of an upgrade? Despite the OnePlus 5 being out for barely 5 months, it now has a successor: the OnePlus 5T. This quick release cycle shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who is familiar with OnePlus, but it’s still in many ways a kick in the teeth to those who recently picked up a OnePlus ...

Editor’s Note: Windows Mixed Reality is still very new and most of its key features haven’t launched, so we’re holding off giving it a final score. Below you can see our impressions of the platform in its current state at the time of writing. What is Windows Mixed Reality? Windows Mixed Reality is Microsoft’s pitch to take virtual and augmented ...