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When Samsung decided to name the successor of the Galaxy S10 as the Galaxy S20, it was obvious that this wasn’t a small generation-over-generation upgrade. The Samsung Galaxy S20 series that is made up of the Galaxy S20, the Galaxy S20+ and the Galaxy S20 Ultra takes a huge leap with mobile photography setting itself up as the phone camera to beat for 2020. All the models in the Galaxy S20 Series feature wide, ultra-wide and telephoto lenses allowing the user all kinds of creativity when it comes to framing their shots. Samsung has paired its flagship series with its best sensors with the Galaxy S20 Ultra going up to a whopping 108 megapixels on the primary camera and 40MP on the selfie camera. Here are some of the exceptional camera qualities on the S20 series. Record videos in 8K The Galaxy S20 series is the first phone we’ve seen that is capable of recording 8K video that can easily be streamed to your Samsung QLED 8K TV. The resolution of 8K is four times higher than 4K and ...

The Photo and Graphic designer package by Magix and Xara is a capable alternative to Adobe’s Photoshop Elements and has a suggested retail price of $60. However, if you purchase it via Fanatical, for a limited time you can get this offering and a truckload of other applications thrown in for free. The package is made up of three separate bundles: photos, movies and music. We've curated the best laptops for photographers on the market Check out the best PCs for photo editing out there Here's our shortlist of the best PCs for audio editing right now The Photo bundle includes Photo story deluxe, Photo manager deluxe, Xara Page and Layout Designer 11 and Xara Web Designer.  The Movie bundle boasts Vegas Movie Studio 15, Vegas DVD architect, Video Sound cleaning lab and VR studio 2.  Finally, the Music bundle includes Music Maker, Acid Pro, Sound Forge audio studio, MP3 Deluxe 19 and a voucher worth $40 to be used in the Magix In App Store. The total price of these...

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Disney Plus UK is almost here in the UK. The final Disney Plus release date in the UK and Ireland is March 24 , a week earlier than March 31 as was originally announced. In just a few weeks, you can stream all the Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars content available on the service. Pre-orders have gone live, and you can save £10 if you want to buy a year's subscription now. The regular Disney Plus UK price is £5.99 per month or £59.99 per year. But Disney is also running a limited time offer when you pre-order now, of £49.99 for a whole year ( sign up here ). Subscribers to the UK-only Disney Life service will be migrated over to Disney Plus, but we still don't know exactly how that'll work.  Below, save £10 on a Disney Plus UK year-long subscription: Disney Plus previously launched back in November in territories like the US and Australia, but if you were hoping we'd get every episode of The Mandalorian at launch in the UK, episodes will only start to ' roll ...

EA surprised many with the sudden announcement of Apex Legends back in February 2019, a free-to-play battle royale shooter that sees the publisher going toe-to-toe with genre mammoths PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite Battle Royale . Developed by Respawn Entertainment and set in the Titanfall universe, Apex Legends is a squad-based battle royale shooter where teams of three go up against 57 other players to try to gather loot and be the last person (or squad) standing. However, unlike Fortnite and PUBG, Apex Legends sees players take on one of eight classes, each represented by a unique character (imagine Fortnite mixed with Overwatch and you’ll be on the right track.)  Apex Legends has now celebrated one year of play and is into its fourth season, Assimilation, which began on February 4 2020.  If you're new to Apex Legends and looking to see what you're missing or you've dropped off the map for a while and you'd like to catch up on the latest, we'...

Quite simply, it has never been easier to watch PGA Tour golf online. Wherever you are in the world, you can find a reliable 2020 PGA Tour live stream that's easy to access and allows you to follow all the drama as it unfolds. Our guide explains how to do just that, so you don't have to miss a single shot of this season's action. So far, Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy has gotten off to a hot start and currently tops the world rankings, but he's being closely chased by Spain's mercurial Jon Rahm and a trio of supremely talented Americans in Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas and Dustin Johnson. A resurgent Tiger Woods also prowls dangerously at number 10 in the world right now - all it would take is one strong performance from the legend to see him climb the table and deliver a record 83rd PGA Tour win. With September's Ryder Cup showdown between Europe and America already looming large, it's perhaps a taste of what's to come at Whistling Straits this au...

Choosing the best music streaming service for your needs can be a little tricky; while streaming is still relatively new in the grand scheme of music-listening, there are so many platforms to choose from these days, two of the biggest being Spotify and Tidal .  Spotify is currently the world’s most popular streaming service, hitting 113 million subscribers in October last year, and continuing to grow; and that’s in spite of mounting competition from the likes of Apple Music .  However Spotify isn’t perfect as a service, and its lossy audio streams have left audiophiles craving a little more fidelity – which is where Tidal comes in.  With a focus on providing Hi-Res Audio at a CD-like level of quality, the platform was acquired in 2015 by hip-hop star Jay-Z, becoming the first major music service to be owned by the artists themselves. As such, Tidal claims to pay higher royalties than its competitors to artists and songwriters. It’s not just about ethics and audio ...

The rumbling controller, the pressure-sensitive analogue stick, the 4 built-in controller ports on the console’s front – the N64 had some incredible ideas which would evolve to become mainstays of modern gaming. But when we look back on the history of the Nintendo 64, it’s the games themselves that live most fondly in our memories. From Super Mario 64 to Perfect Dark, what the console’s catalogue lacked in breadth (only 296 games were released for the N64 in North America) it made up for with quality. Some of the greatest gaming adventures of all time, like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Banjo-Kazooie, flourished on what was in its day an incredibly powerful console. Nintendo Switch review : how does Nintendo's current machine fare? SNES Classic Mini review : excellent pint-sized 16-bit retro fun The commitment to 3D gaming and to (usually, at least) colorful, impactful characters and game worlds mean that, though now some titles are approaching 25 years old, they’re...

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a  record 204 billion downloads in 2019 and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019, according to App Annie’s recently released “State of Mobile” annual report. People are now spending 3 hours and 40 minutes per day using apps, rivaling TV. Apps aren’t just a way to pass idle hours — they’re a big business. In 2019, mobile-first companies had a combined $544 billion valuation, 6.5x higher than those without a mobile focus. In this Extra Crunch series, we help you keep up with the latest news from the world of apps, delivered on a weekly basis. This week, we’ll look at the coronavirus outbreak’s impact on the App Store, China’s demand for App Store removals — and soon-to-be-removals, it seems. We’re also talking about Facebook’s lawsuit over a data-grabbing SDK, Tind...

A third EFL Cup triumph in-a-row seems to beckon for Pep Guardiola's men, but could Wembley witness a historic shock on Sunday? Read on for a full Aston Villa vs Man City live stream guide and learn how to watch the Carabo Cup final 2020 wherever you are. The omens certainly don't seem good for relegation-threatened Villa, who have lost their last three Premier League matches in the run-up to this showdown at Wembley. Their chances look even bleaker when factoring in how much of a boost City will have following their superb 2-1 win against Real Madrid in the Champions League on Wednesday. By way of contrast, Villa put forward an insipid display in their crucial last Premier League outing against Southampton. This may mean Villa boss Dean Smith rings the changes on Sunday, with suggestions that half of his outfield players from that game could be dropped. City therefore will go into the match as clear favourites to pick up their first silverware of the season, and will be ke...

The biggest match on the Spanish football calendar arrives on Sunday - the brilliantly named El Clasico! And this Real Madrid vs Barcelona clash is looking as important as ever, with the teams battling things out at the top of La Liga table. Thankfully, watching it is super easy, thanks to Sling TV's current offer. For $10, you can choose between either of Sling TV's World Sport or Best of Spanish packages. Both include subscription sports channel beIN Sport which is hosting this weekend's huge game. And because with Sling you only have to pay one month at a time, you don't have to feel like you're having to commit to a lengthy contract. Once the dust has settled on El Clasico and you decide that there isn't enough content to warrant any further payments, you can simply cancel at any time. Read more: How to watch a Real Madrid vs Barcelona live stream from anywhere Your Real Madrid vs Barcelona options in full: What else does Sling TV have to offer? ...

Back when Baldur's Gate 3 got that way-too-short teaser back at E3 2019 , I was already sold. While the trailer was very body horror-esque, the idea that mindflayers would be at the forefront of an RPG on PC was really exciting to me.  But then Larian invited me to go see the game actually played in front of me in the basement of some fancy hotel in New York, and it was there that I really fell in love with the game, and now I can't wait to actually get my hands on it. In short: I'm incredibly biased and you should take all of this with a grain of salt.  On the other hand, there's a giant tentacle airship in the intro cinematic, and if that doesn't immediately sell you on it, you just have to live with the fact that we just have inherently different tastes.  I stan Let's talk about that cutscene Larian gathered up a bunch of people in that dark New York hotel basement and showed all of us Baldur's Gate III. And after doing some brief character cre...

I bought my PS4 in 2014, and by 2018, it started auto-ejecting discs. I bought my precious backwards-compatible PS3 (secondhand) in 2007, and by 2009, I got the yellow light of death. I got my PS2 for Christmas 2001, and by the end of 2002, it'd stopped playing blue discs. By 2006, it stopped playing discs altogether, and I bought a Slim model to replace it.  Look, I'm not saying all PlayStation consoles break – my Vita and PSP are still going strong – but I've always had bad luck buying home consoles early in the machine's lifespan. With the PS5 , I'm unclear on whether I want to rush into buying one, especially since I own a gaming PC that'll keep up with third-party games. If I wait a year or two, they might release a model with a bigger SSD, or drop the price, or iron out any issues the launch units might have.  With Microsoft and publishers like Ubisoft and Square Enix committing to cross-generation games in the early part of the machine's lifes...

Windows 10 is a mess these days thanks to a series of faulty updates that have been introducing more problems than they’ve solved , which means it’s been the perfect time for me to fall in love with a Chromebook… the Pixelbook Go , to be specific. I’d been increasingly annoyed by Windows 10 recently. Not only have recent updates been causing problems - for example I lost the ability to search for files and apps for a day a while back, which was particularly frustrating - but there have been some long-running niggles that have been getting to me as well. My trusty Dell XPS 13 , for instance, has been bugging me with its awful battery life. Not only does it only last a few hours, but it doesn’t hold its charge well either. So, more often than not, if I pick up the XPS 13 to work on it, the battery is dead. Windows 10 laptops have never held their charge as well as MacBooks or Chromebooks, and I’d had enough. So, one day on my way to work, rather than taking the Dell XPS 13, I though...

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite could be launched shortly, based on the growing number of leaks and rumors surrounding it, and it could offer much of the appeal of the full-fat Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 at a lower price. In fact, if leaks are to be believed it both sports a similar design and comes packing a stylus, which could give it a boost over other budget slates. Below you’ll find everything we’ve heard about the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite so far, along with a wish list of things that we want from it.  We’ll also be updating this article as soon as we hear anything new, so make sure to keep checking back if you’re interested in Samsung’s next slate. Cut to the chase What is it? A cheaper alternative to the Galaxy Tab S6 When is it out? Probably very soon What will it cost? Maybe around $399/£379/AU$649 Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite release date and price While there aren’t any release date rumors for the Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, the fact that we’ve seen it mentioned...